It's Warm Today!

Thank Goodness, we have been blessed with a few warmer days this week. Warmer meaning in the 40's, which still isn't warm enough for me, but I've found myself going the last couple of days without a heavy winter coat and gloves. So that's pretty warm compared to what we've seen this winter. --This "snowy" winter has caused a bit of a "ice skating rink" to form right in front of the door to the garage. So there have been several times of trying to open the door (while holding Kayla) that I have just about busted it. Since it has started to melt the last few days, I decided to go out and shovel some of it away. Waylen tried a couple of days ago, but it was still all frozen solid. Hayden decided to go out with me, and jumped on the trampoline for awhile and played with Brinka. Then, I decided to clean out my car, and after we came in to clean the car mats, we started back out and Hayden took his coat off, and said, "I don't need a coat, it's warrrrrm today" Then he started singing this little "jingle" about it being warm today and we're going to do this and that. It was pretty funny. He was pretty excited, we are all starting get a little "cabin fever" from being stuck inside all day. So it was nice to have a warm day, and hopefully the warm days will keep coming, and all the snow will stay away. But I'm sure that's wishful thinking.

Cuddle Time

Last night, I was working on changing my blog, and around 9:30, Hayden comes up to me and tells me "Come to bed with me, to keep me warm." After several of these requests (or demands), I had to pull myself away from all my "blogging", and we went to bed. While trying to go to sleep, I turned my back towards him, and he said, "No, you have to hold me." Whoa, where did that come from? Hayden loved cuddling as a baby (unlike Kayla), but as a soon-to-be four year old, the cuddling doesn't happen very often. Anytime he is in bed with us, if we try to hold him or even accidently touch him, he lets us know that isn't what he wants. So, I had to take him up on his offer to hold him, since these occasions are very rare and I had to do it before he changed his mind. I'm glad I decided to go to bed with him, instead of finishing my blogging and sending him to bed alone, because then I would have missed out on that chance to get "cuddle time".

TOO MUCH SNOW!!

I keep telling my parents that we have gotten a lot of snow this year, but I don't think they really have a clue as to how much. I remember it snowed one time in Georgia ( I was in the 4th grade) and the whole town practically shut down. No church that day, no school the next day, a lot of the stores were closed. Of course, it was only a thin layer of snow, but hey, that's a lot for Southeast Georgia. So, I wanted to show my family in Georgia how much snow is TOO MUCH SNOW!!! Notice how the snow is drifted up to the corner of the fence.

Also, notice how we still haven't taken down our Christmas lights. It's impossible because all the cords, along with our Santa Clause and Bear blow-ups, are buried under all the snow!!

This picture does a really good job of showing how much snow we've gotten this year!! The lowest swing is completely covered up!!!

This is one of the many piles of snow that Waylen has piled up around our yard. He went out on Monday night for over an hour, plowing the driveway and along the side of the house; only to wake up in the morning, with it completely covered again (it was probably close to 14 inches), so he had to do the same thing Tuesday night.


So, that is why I am anxious to get out to Georgia for a couple of weeks to escape from all the snow and cold too. But I was hoping it would all be gone by the time I get back, but I'm afraid we''ll probably be stuck with all this snow (and who knows how much more) until at least summer. RATS!!!

1 Down, 2 to Go!

Hayden had his first of three dental visits yesterday. Thankfully, everything went really good. My friend, Amber, rode over to Pueblo with us, and she was really good about getting him all "excited" to go to the dentist, by saying little things throughout the day. I think it helped calm any fears that he might have had. Then, the hygienist was very nice, and talked to him, and showed him all of the tools again, and what they were called. They have cute little names for each one, like "Mr. Whister", "Mr. Wind", etc. They gave him nitrous, and he put the "clown nose" right on, but then he kept talking to the hygienist, telling her everything he knew. She kept having to remind him to breathe through his nose, and every so often, she'd put her hand below his chin and close it for a few minutes. Then, she'd move it and he'd start talking right away. But she just sat beside him and listened to everything he had to say and would ask him questions about what he was telling her. I think the nitrous started making him a little "silly". He started telling her, "You see this cut on my finger, there is a mouse that lives in there." Then, he told her, "I go to Brian, he checks my ears and nose. And he gets the bees out of my ears." And he kept saying, "I'm funny, huh?" Her and the other hygienist were getting a kick out of him. After they had numbed him, he kept feeling his lip, and they had told him his lip and mouth were going to go to sleep for a little while. And of course, he quickly responded, "But not me, I don't have to take a nap." Then, he started talking about his feet going to sleep. Not sure where that came from!!--While they worked on him, the dentist was really great and he and the hygienists were good to tell Hayden everything that they were doing and telling him what a good job he was doing. Once they got started, it only took them about 15 minutes. He just sat there, and he even ended up falling asleep. I'm just glad that everything went good, although his mouth is really sore today from where he chewed on his cheek. Now we just have 2 more to go.

Click, Click, Click....

Last night, Waylen and Hayden went to bed about an hour before I did. Hayden got up after about 10 minutes, and went to the bathroom, and when he went back into our room, I heard him shut the door. So, when I get ready to go to bed, guess what, the door is locked. I knocked a couple of times, which I knew wouldn't work anyways, because Waylen never hears anything. So, I just curled up on the couch and went to sleep. Waylen got up at some point and put Hayden in his bed, so he came and woke me up, so I went and crawled in my nice warm bed. So, I'm laying there trying to go to sleep, and I hear, "click, click, click" and so we tried figuring out what the noice was. We thought maybe it was the heater, but it wasn't. Waylen said he thought it was coming from the electrical panel (which is oddly located in our bedroom). So, he bangs on it a couple of times, Kayla must have heard it, so she starts to cry. I'm thinking great, now she's up. The noice continued, so Waylen got dressed and went out in the "snow/wind strom" to see if maybe it was a lock that they put on the meter or telephone box. He said he couldn't hear it once he got out there by it, but then when he started to walk away it started, and it was really loud. Well, needless to say, he never did figure out what it was. So, while he had went to watch T.V. in the living room, I sandwiched my head between my pillow and his pillow, so I couldn't hear "click, click, click", plus the wind blowing about a 100 mph. But by then, Kayla was awake and crying, and wouldn't go back to sleep, so I ended up putting her in bed with me. Finally after awhile, I did manage to fall asleep. I woke up at about 3:30 to put Kayla back in her bed because she kept swinging her arms around hitting us right in the face, and by then Hayden had made his way back into our bed, so it was pretty crowded. And of course it took awhile for me to go back asleep because of the "clicking" and the wind, and when I was up I had noticed that the electricity was out and it was still out this morning. The outings were kind of random, spread out here and there all over town, and Waylen's parents and sister had electricity, but some of their neighbors didn't. Well, by morning time, it had gotten really cold in the house, so Waylen's dad came down to get us (since we couldn't get out of the garage). So, we went down there for a couple of hours, until the electricity came back on at our house. When I came home, I did a few things, then decided to finally take a shower. The water pressure was fine when I got in, but right in the middle of my shower, it slowly dwindled down to basically a drop of water. I thought you've got to be kidding me!!! So, unfortunately , I ended up having to get out and use some bottled water from the fridge, BRRR!!, to rinse out all the conditioner from my hair. So, I'm just waiting to see what else is going to occur today that is going to drive me NUTS, and send me over the edge!!!