Artist Alley Weekend

This weekend Wyatt and I went back to Chanute for Artist Alley and we had a blast. I was super excited because he's finally big enough to start enjoying all of the fun things like: bouncy house, train rides, parades, and walking around shopping. Well probably not so much the last one but the others yes. We rolled into town Friday night and hit the sack. We woke up bright and early Saturday and headed downtown first thing.
We took Wyatt to the Masonic Temple for a free program to help make an identity kit for him if he is ever kidnapped or missing. They took his fingerprints, a picture, our info, and then made a video of Wyatt saying his name that we have. They even gave us a swab so we can rub it in his mouth and then put it in the freezer for a DNA sample. That went okay and he didn't really care for everything but did fine.
Then we headed downtown and we were the first ones in line for the bouncy house. He started jumping then decided he didn't want to so I climbed in with him. That didn't work either, he wanted out. I say let's go when he finally decides to jump. I think the extra kiddos that showed up to jump as well were an added bonus for him.

After the bouncy house we had to head to the Train Depot for our train ride. My mom and I went with Wyatt and we met Stacie, Abraham, her mom and dad, sister, niece, and nephew for the train ride. It was a blast and Wyatt loved it. I of course had to buy him a souvenir shirt to commemorate the experience and can't wait for him to wear it.

Nancy and Abraham

Wyatt and Momma (Please excuse the double chin!)

Giving his Momma some love.

Hey friend!

Let me share my hat with you.

Stacie and Abraham looking out the window.

Getting off the train.

After the train ride we watched the parade and then headed to lunch followed by a much needed nap for the boys. Stacie and I headed back downtown for some child-free shopping time. We ran into some old friends and had a blast just walking around.
Today we had to head back home but before we did we had lunch with my mom, dad, and grandma. We took advantage of the beautiful weather and got some photo ops with Wyatt, Poppa Flash and Great Gram.

Wyatt and Poppa Flash

Great Gram and Wyatt

We had an absolutely wonderful weekend and feel really blessed to have such wonderful family and friends!

Playing school

Now I don't normally play "school" with my child because I get to "play" school everyday as my job but this morning we tried it out. My mom bought Wyatt a preschool activity book at Sam's Club several months ago and he really just liked to look at the pictures and comment on them but today he actually wanted to do the activities in it. He was looking at the pages where you had to circle items that were of a certain color. So I read the directions and then he used his marker to circle the correct pictures. I wasn't surprised to see that he could pick out the colors but I was surprised that he actually listened to me read the directions and then followed them.

The second page is where you can tell that he lost interest and just wanted to color the items he liked best.

So we tried one more page and then called it quits.

As you can see from the last two pages he was engaged until then. I was happy with what he did and didn't push him any farther. Even though I'm a teacher I don't try to push Wyatt to do more than what I think he's capable of and WANTS to do. I'm sure this will change once he's in school and it will start being less of what he wants and more of what he should do but we'll cross that bridge when we get there, no rush!!

Week Recap

Well this was another jam-packed week like usual but it seemed to only be compounded by the fact that Wyatt was getting sicker by the day. Wednesday and Thursday were Parent/Teacher Conferences for our school district which meant late nights and no seeing him before he went to bed. Of course on Wednesday I got a call from his school saying that I needed to pick him up because he was sick and had a fever. (Side note: Wyatt has been on Claritan since January and so far no ear infections since starting it.) So I left school with two hours left and picked him up and stayed with him until Mike's dad could come over and watch him until Mike got home. Once Joe came over I sped back to school for my 7 conferences.
Thursday morning came and I took Wyatt to Grandma Audry's for the day because I just didn't want to chance taking him to daycare and then getting a call later on and being stuck with what to do and how to do it in very little time. After a long day of conferences I headed home to Mike and Wyatt and found out that he wasn't getting much better. We thought it was his teeth because he has 3 more teeth breaking through, bringing our count up to 16 teeth, but since it is now the weekend and is still in a very crabby and uncooperative mood I'm going to say that he is officially sick. With what, I don't know but it's not just teeth.
My mom came over on Saturday and spent the night with us and saw Wyatt at his worst. He wouldn't eat anything, crabby, and super tired. Whatever is going on I hope he gets over it before Tuesday because Mike is heading out of town for the week!! Oi!!
Today we spent a majority, 4 hours, outside playing in the wonderful sun and the hurricane-like winds. The winds tamed down this afternoon and we headed to the backyard and got some yard work done. I started cleaning all the dried yucky leaves from around the house and raking the yard. Mike pulled up the garden from last year and burned some brush. Wyatt did great playing in the backyard with Powder running around like an idiot. He helped me scoop leaves and even swept off the slab for me when I was done. He also really enjoyed discovering Powder's dog run and house. In fact he spent more time in her house than she did. We didn't get everything done but we got a good start. Maybe if the weather is nice we can work on it some more later this week.

Finally...

a picture of Wyatt and my mom! It seems like I have very few (literally less than 5) pictures of my mom and Wyatt. This is for Wyatt's entire life! So when she came by for a mini-visit on the first of the year it was a great photo opportunity.

My mom looks great but Wyatt not so much. He was still very sick here.

She did this and he thought that was pretty cool!!