Christmas, Family Visit, and Back Issues.

Its been a while!

Weston
Wes is 18 months old! He's growing up so fast!!
He can say about 40 words, and has started to put together small sentences.
His favorite sentence is - "I cant reach!!!"
Or "Uh oh, it broke.."
He's a polite kid.. He says "thank you", "please", "sorry" and "excuse me".. Gotta teach them early!
He says "I love you"!!!!! It melts my heart every time he says it.
Right now, we're going through his third ear infection.. It's his left ear.. again... Its not that he gets them often, its that they stay FOREVER.. It took 2 weeks of antibiotics to get rid of the last one. We're on day 5 of meds.. I THINK he's feeling better... He never fusses, so its hard to tell.
He is one laid back kid.. Weston is the happiest child I've ever met! I keep waiting for him to throw this huge tantrum, or pick up some awful habit.. but it hasn't happened yet.. He's just a sweetheart!
Some things about Wes -
Favorite toy - "night night baby" aka glow worm
Favorite food - He LOVES avacado and pickles. (Not together.. most of the time)
Favorite piece of clothing - His sleepers! He LOVES his footie PJs
Favorite show/book - Both of my kids are obsessed with rescue-bots. We've watched season 1 and 2 at LEAST 3 times. Favorite book.. hmm.. He loves anything by Dr. Suess..  I hear "read book" at least 2-3 times a day. We end every day by reading 3 stories.
Weston LOVES to dance.. If there's a beat, he'll dance to it.. He is too funny! Every time I pull out my phone to take a video of it though, he stops.. laaaame!
Watching his little personality develop is so much fun.

Kadyn -
Kadyn is so much like me.. We've been struggling with some behavioral issues lately..
The hard thing though, is that she's not really WRONG..
I'll fuss at Weston and Kadyn will try to jump in the middle of it and stand up for him.
I know she's trying to defend her brother.. but ugh..
She stands up for ANYBODY who she thinks is being picked on.
That got me in some trouble as a kid.. I did the same thing for my sister.. I've had my butt kicked up and down because of it. I try to explain to her that sometimes when somebody does something wrong, the only way they'll learn not to do it again is if they are corrected.
She's a little firecracker... seriously..
The good things -
We have potty training DOWN PAT. Struggling with that made me worry like crazy.. Its such a relief that she is 100% potty trained.
She learned how to change her own clothes. She gets to mad if I try to help.. "Me me me!!"
She also learned how to do small things like - Get her own drink, get her own snack from the pantry, put her socks and shoes on, turn lights off when she's leaving the room..
She's so smart.. She knows how to say her ABC's backwards.. No joke..  She can also count to 150..
I'm excited (and sad) about her started school this year.. I feel like I'm not challenging her enough here. She already knows most of what I can teach her for now.. "Mom, that is a parallelogram" ... Woa..

Marriage - 

Good.. Stable.. I didn't think we'd survive a visit from his family, but we did! lol

The beard... I wish it would go!!
 

Josh took Kadyn on her first daddy-daughter date. They went to see her first movie.. Big Hero.. She behaved and LOVED it.. I was kinda sad that I missed a "first" but I got to stay home and play with Wes! We have been trying to do more one-on-one time with the kids.

Me -
I'm a damn mess...
On Christmas day, I went to pick up Kadyn and my back did something crazy.. It felt like fireworks were going off in my lower back. I tried to ignore it, thinking I just pulled a muscle.
Friday I went to the doctor.. I couldn't handle the pain any more.. It has been making me snappy..
The doctor looked at it, felt my back, and told it it looked like the muscles were inflamed. (Idk)
He sent me to the hospital to be checked out.
They did some x-rays and all that..
The nurse said that the doctor at the hospital wanted to talk to my family doctor before really talking to me. I thought that was strange, but I'm trying to stay calm about all of it.
I'm hoping by "doctor" she means radiologist. because in that case.. that's normal!
My internist gave me muscle relaxers. an anti-inflammatory pill and told me he wanted me to start physical therapy ASAP.. IDK.. We'll see.. Its hard with 2 kids!
I just keep hoping that I'll wake up, and everything will feel better... maybe?
I also have a monster cold.. Which makes everything ache a little more than normal.. I'm keeping that in mind..
I just want to feel better!!

Other stuff

My mom came up for thanksgiving.. We also did Christmas while she was here. I miss her! =(

Josh's dad came up. This is Phil, Josh's best friend, Josh's dad, and Josh.
They love monopoly.. *cringe*
Josh's brother and his family also came up.. Not really much I can say about that.

Christmas Morning 2014