Today I am going to combine all of the postings into one for simplicity sake. I don’t have a whole lot to write this week but I do want to share several adorable pictures from Sunday.

Tanner Diary

Favorite Tanner Quote of the Week

Last week I got Ty up from his nap and Tanner had some cars ready for Ty to play with. Ty woke up a bit grumpy and didn’t want to play so he started crawling after me crying for mamma. Tanner stood on the chair and peered into the kitchen and said, “Mommy. He’s a little bit istracted right now”. LOL. (“distracted”)

Ty Diary

GREAT NEWS! – Ty is officially walking – not just steps. This week he finally advanced to walking a bit more than he crawls. I still wouldn’t say it is exclusive walking and he doesn’t go great distances but he is choosing to walk more often than he crawls. If you take him outside he won’t walk because right now he is limited by the goals he sets. In other words, he will look at the couch and the couch will be his goal to get to. If he doesn’t have a goal, he won’t try it thus the reason why wide open spaces are still intimidating for him. He still walks with his hands high above his head and his balance is still terrible but I don’t want to knock progress 🙂 ! He continues to struggle with balance and can’t get to a standing position on his own but I would rather concentrate on all that he is succeeding at for today 🙂 !

BHS

On an unfortunate note, he had another bad BHS episode last week. Sweetie had the “nerve” to take Tanner outside and didn’t bring Ty. He started screaming and holding his breath and I didn’t get to him fast enough to get him breathing. By the time I picked him up he was turning blue. I yelled for Jim and Jim took him from my arms. Eventually he took a breath but it was at the point when he was starting to loose consciousness. He leaned his head against Jim and just went absolutely vacant on us. He didn’t go out completely but enough that he lost alertness. When alertness returned to his face he started crying the saddest crying because the whole incident really scared him. I think I hyperventilated for 2 hours after that and my spine went numb that night. I still don’t have feeling back either. Why does stress affect me that way? Weird isn’t it? The neurologist told me that these spells seem to peak at about 18 months and Ty is 17 months corrected age so it may get a bit worse for a little while before he gets better. Under Ty’s eyes went black and that memory is haunting Sweetie because she had not witnessed a blue spell yet. A half inch band around his lips went very very white. I am tired of these pictures of my little Ty in my memory.(By the way, do you know what Sweetie’s solution was? Do everything Ty wants when he wants it. Ya right…like THAT is going to work! Granparents…what to do with them?!!)

Speech

Ty started signing the word “yes” this week and is trying to copy many words. I am noticing that sometimes he holds his tongue on the roof of his mouth when he talks so I am wondering if this will become a problem later. He learned to say “Oh Man” by copying daddy. Too cute! He also made up his own sign for “tickle me”. He starts tickling himself. It’s precious.

DSI

Shayla – THANK you for your comment on the sensory issues! That really helped knowing that Ty is not the only preemie with this little strange idiosyncracy! I really appreciated you writing about that! I am so excited for our trip but I am still a bit concerned for Ty with this.

Music

When Tanner was a baby, if I would turn the stereo on in his room he would cry and point at it until I turned it off. Ty does the opposite. He learned this week to say “Nigh Nigh” and then point to his stereo so I will turn it on 🙂 .

Zandi Diary

Got this email from Aimee this week and thought it was adorable!

Zandi has been fascinated with counting lately. She counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, Zandi, 8, 9, 10. Somehow Zandi must sound like the number 7 to her, or
could it be that she thinks she’s so perfect that her name should replace
the number 7?!!!!!

Kansas Cousins

Ray Zuercher and daughter Kaitlyn came to visit this week. Ray takes each of his children on a special trip when they turn 13 and they decided on Phoenix. Good idea huh? Anyhow, we haven’t seem them in years so it was fun to see some of the Zuercher clan! When Ray saw Zandi, he immediately mentioned that she reminded him of me when I was her age. Funny because my mom, grammy, Aunt Beck, David and I all think that too. I don’t yearn for genetic children – not one bit – HOWEVER – it is fun to see some of my traits show up in my nieces and nephews 🙂 . Some of those traits aren’t being effectively appreciated though;).

Farm Day

Sunday was Sweetie’s 57th birthday (October 16th). We were all over celebrating and I (of course) broke out the camera. Sadly, David and Aimee had already left when I got my act together and Graham was asleep so I didn’t get pictures of all the kids but I think you’ll enjoy the shots I captured. Brooke and Jodi will be happy happy with a few of these pictures! 🙂