Tanner yelling to his father from the backseat of the car this week:

“DADDY!?? TY KEEPS CRACKING Y’s”!!!!

It took me a minute to figure that one out.?? Interpretation:?? Daddy! Ty keeps wise cracking!?? Now the better question is where??Tanner heard that phrase to begin with??? Who knows.?? I like it though and no doubt, TyJo??IS a cracker of y’s!

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Yes it hurt!?? It hurt bad AND it actually looked WORSE after this picture was taken.?? Posting this for Heidi – I need more sympathy from her.?? It was only indirectly her fault – if I was after true pain and suffering I would go after another party but that is another story that doesn’t need to be mentioned on the world wide web 🙂

Here is how this injury occurred.?? I was teleconferencing with both Heidi and Susie.?? Susie and I had worn each other out with details and conversation and we needed fresh insight so we brought in Heidi.?? Heidi did her job well and turned our frowns upside down.?? HOWEVER, at one point in the conversation she told us something that both surprised me and made me laugh.?? This resulted in me aspirating the tea I was drinking.?? The aspiration caused me to drop my tea.?? Then I slipped in it.?? Then I slid on my back across my kitchen floor.?? I must have slammed my arm into the island on my way down.?? And by the way, Susie and Heidi were continuing their conversation all the while and I had to make them both be quiet and give me a moment of silence.?? Susie has seen this bruise in person and can testify to the fact that I did not photoshop it:)

What do you think of Ty’s tonsils??? They aren’t kissing but they ARE huge.?? Sometimes I wonder if part of his aspiration issues is due to such a narrow throat entry.?? Don’t you think those tonsils look big??? I need to take him to an ENT about this but if they suggest surgery that will scare me so I guess I have been stalling a bit.

I thought my little buddy looked adorable sleeping like this.?? He actually had one leg crossing the other for awhile too.??

If you notice, Ty’s bedroom door is at the head of his crib.?? Last week one morning I went in to get him out of his crib and I peeked over the rail at him and he was wide awake lying just like in the picture above.?? He smiled at me and said “Hi Mommy!?? I am upside down.?? Can you click the right side up button?“?? LOL – compliments again of the Upside Down Shown (played on Noggin).

As usual, he has had me laughing this week.

One day he brought me his pirate pajamas and said “Mommy can you put these on me so I can be the pirates who don’t do anyfing?”?? LOL – only a true Veggie Tale lover can appreciate that.

When we were picking out our homeschool cabinets at Lowe’s recently, I was going crazy trying to contain Ty.?? I finally made him set at the cabinet desk in a swivel chair and told him he couldn’t get up.?? It was pretty funny when I later heard him holler across the aisle to the “Lowe’s Guy” – “WE ARE BEING REALLY GOOD SIR!”?? That silly man didn’t even stop to smile but I thought it was funny.

We FINALLY took one rail off Ty’s crib yesterday!!!?? Big step!!?? We waited so long because frankly we could.?? I think Ty’s depth perception issues kept him from climbing out (he only did it about 3 times in his life) so it was just more convenient to leave the rails up.?? You will notice another BIG step in this picture.?? There is a pillow and blanket in that bed!!!!!!?? Last night I told Ty that big boy beds have pillows and blankets.?? He didn’t like that idea and threw them right out.?? Later though when I checked on him, he had decided to put them back in his bed.?? When I got him out of bed this morning he seemed shocked that the pillow and blanket were there.?? Guess he just needed to control his environment.?? We’ll see if these items stay long term.?? If so, he needs a green pillowcase instead of a purple one 🙂

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