Christmas

Well here we are only 3 days away from Christmas Day and the Wothers Family is ready. The boys will be 22 months on Wed. so this Christmas will be so much more fun than last year. Joshua has already scaled the playyard and started to open presents and this was all in the time that it took me to go to the bathroom. Since our tree is up we have the playyard around it, instead of keeping the boys in they are now being kept out. I haven't found a star or angel and anything else for that matter that I like to put on top of the Christmas tree so since we have children and they love Elmo we have one of their Elmo buckets that they used for trick or treating as our tree topper.

The boys saw Santa Claus but they were not happy with him at all as you can see.

We are headed up to NY to see my dad over the Christmas Holday and as of this morning they had 3 feet of snow. It better still be there when we get there since Joshua and Jared have boots and snowpants and we haven't had any snow yet for them to play in.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our family to yours.

Wow there is a lot to report here in the Wothers' house. Let's start from the begining, I quit my job and am now a Stay at Home Mommy again. I loved working at Aardvark but was not happy being away from the boys. with Dave working shift work the boys were also missing out on Daddy time and that was hard on all of them. So here I am at home catching up on things that I have missed since I went back to work this summer.
There was a virus going around school and the boys and I spent our last week at school at home being sick and then Daddy got sick too. No one would come over to visit because we were all sooo sick. Grammy said that she would come over but she was leaving stuff on the doorstep and ringing the doorbell.
Joshua still has fluid in his ears so we went to see an ENT (ear, nose and throat) Specialist yesterday. The Dr says that Joshua needs tubes in his ears. In order to make an appointment he has to be cleared by a Cardiologist. Go figure the kid had surgery last year and he didn't need an appointment now he does. Oh well.
Jared and Joshua went to see the Developmental Pediatrician today and they are soo smart. She was amazed at what they can do. They are falling right in sync with typical developing peers and in some areas a little better. Her suggestion: keep doing whatever it is we are doing with them since they are doing great. I love to hear things like that. With the boys being preemies sometimes I wonder if they are doing ok for their age. So far so good.
Grandpa is coming to visit this weekend and we can not wait. The boys helped clean his room and make his bed. They are all ready for a fun weekend with Grandpa.
Wow that was a lot of info in a short time. I will let you go now and I PROMISE that I will be better and keep up with the blog more often.

A Year and a Half

WOW how time flies. It has been a month since my last post and we have done so much since then. The boys are now 18 month old and changing so much each and everyday. They love to walk around the house and get into everything. They like playing in the playyard but it is getting harder and harder to get them to stay in their for very long (just enough time to take a shower). The new thing is pushing things across the floor whether it be a box or a chair it moves. Jared is very good about sharing with Joshua. If Josh leaves his cup somewhere Jared will pick it up and give it to him (whether he wants it or not). They are becoming very loving toward each other but also very boyish. They will hug and kiss one minute and then they are hitting or biting each other the next. I guess it is the age. All and all they are doing well. We tired to get their pictures done last week but they got sick so we will try again this week.
My Dad and sister came to visit the end of July for a long weekend. While they were here we went to the Zoo. The boys loved the animals. We had a BBQ and the boys went to bed for the 1st time with no nighttime bottle (YEAH!!!) and a month later they still don't need one. They get a large cup of milk after dinner and it takes them until bed to drink it since they don't sit still anymore.
We were all on vacation for the rest of the week so we went to Dutch Wonderland with Aunt Cailtyn. The boys loved Dutch Wonderland because there was so much that they could do alone and then with an adult. They rode on little trains that Dave and I pushed around a track, they rode on bulldozers all by themselves. Dave and I took them on big cars and Aunt Caitlyn took them on Monster trucks. It was a nice cool day and we all had a good time.
The day before we were suppose to go back to work I was at the Doctors with Jared, he had a bacteria infection that lead to a really high fever. Antiboitics it was and he was fine. The boys stayed home with Daddy on Friday and I came home early. Josh was next but he waited until Tuesday to spike a fever. Antiboitics for him and a very hectic week of leaving work early and then staying home 1 day. Thank God we are getting better and showing no signs of being sick anymore.
Summer is almost over. We have 4 days of school this week and then it is September and school officially starts. Josh and Jared's schedule won't change that much, a new room and teacher but that is about it. My schedule however changes quite a bit. No more playing all day. I have spent the past week reorganizing my room and making it my own. I am really excited to start teaching again. As I have started to plan I have realized just how much I have missed it. Granted if it were possible to still be at home and get to play with Joshua and Jared all day that is where I would be but teaching is the next best thing. Enjoy your last weekends of summer, I know we will.

2 days of School

Well we have completed 2 days of school and all went well. The boys went trhough a lot of changes in 2 days. Getting dressed right away in the morning, playing with new friends, eating lunch at a really small table and sitting in really small chairs, taking a nap on a cot, eating new foods, playing with new toys and overall adjusting to a new routine. All and all they both did really well. On Thursday we (all the kids in the building eat the same thing for lunch and snack) had french toast sticks and saugage patties for lunch. The boys have eaten french toast before so that was not a problem. For snack it was pretzels, something the boys have not had yet but they are now on our shopping list beczuse they could not get enough of them. Jared had to be removed from the table because he would not stop eating and then taking pretzels from others.
I also had 2 good days. I think it helps that Joshua and Jared are downstairs and I can go and see them whenever I feel like I need to see them. I try not to let them see me but it happened yesterday and I just gave them both hugs and kisses and I left and I didn't hear any tears so it was good. I am very comfortable in my surroundings. I can offer ideas and not feel like I am out of place.
Dave was a little loney yesterday. He worked on Thursday but was off yesterday. It is a big change for all of us but it is a good one. It makes the weekends and dinner time more special for us to spend as a family.

School

Hello I am writing to tell you about the changes happening in the Wothers household. It has come to the time when I have to go back to work. It stinks but I have to. A couple weeks ago I went and saw a daycare setting and loved it. There was a possiblity to work there also. I started to fill out the paperwork and was getting ready to enroll the boys when something else came up. On our way home from Lancaster on Wednesday we passed a Preschool called Aardvark. It is a Child Care Learning Center. I called them when we got home to see if they had any job openings and was surprised to hear that they did. I had an interview Wed. night with the administrator. I absolutely loved the place. It was a friendly environment and the opporrtunities for little ones was amazing. I continued to talk to the adminstrator and she offered me a job. I went back on Thursday to follow a teacher around and see what it was all about. Again I had a great time and I loved what I saw. Today Dave and I took the boys to play. They took a little while to warm up but when they did they were off, playing with new friends. It was then that I knew that this was the place for us. We all start school next Thursday. I will be teaching Pre-K (4 year olds in the fall). For the summer is 1 room for 3-5 olds, so I will be there with another teacher. I can't wait to start but I am also scared. It has been an amazing 17 months, being home with the boys. I would love to stay home and continue but it is just not possible. I believe that everything happens for a reason and for whatever reason we drove past Aardvark and now Josh, Jared and I will start a new adventure. Dave is going to have some changes too, he is used to us always being around. He will now have his time to be home alone but I know he will miss us. After the 1st month or so he can keep the boys home with him on his days off if he wants to. We want them to get into a routine so he will have to wait but the option is always there. Although I will now be a working Mom Aardvark is only 5 minutes up the road. It will be nice, I am going back to work which sometimes I do miss and the boys will be socialized with other people besides Mommy and Daddy (we are the favorites and always will be but they still need to grow too). Well that is all the news here. Hope everyone is doing well.