Survived a week without Jon and update

Last week Jon went to Kansas for the SkillsUSA nationals competition. He was the advisor for 3 students from East who made it to nationals. He had lots of fun hanging out with my brother Mike who is out in Kansas working for the summer. I managed to survive the week without him with some help from friends and family. 

On Monday my nieces were staying over because Julia's brother was getting married and they had gone to Oklahoma with Cody for the wedding. That was the hardest day because I had 2 extra kids and we couldn't go anywhere because I didn't have a car that could fit all of us. I think having that day first made the rest of the week easier. On Tuesday the boys had pediatrician appointments down in Provo (we are going to need to get a pediatrician closer to home and I'm bummed because I loved our doctor in Provo). Before the appointment we went and hung out with my friend Laurel and had lunch and played at a park with her and her daughter.

I had asked my mom to come over to the doctors office just in case I needed backup. The kids were pretty good, but it was nice to see her. On Wednesday we went over to Grandma Ware's house and played over there and picked peas. On Thursday we used Jennifer's tickets for Danny and I to see the Kroods in Draper with Melinda and her boys. After the movie Karen and I took the boys to Ikea to get a shelf for the boys toys. 

While we were there we also got a bed with a headboard.

We have been holding off on upgrading from a metal frame to something nicer until we moved somewhere a little longer term and I think that buying a house counts. Karen and I put the furniture together while Kyle napped and Danny watched the Lego movie ( it is definitely his favorite right now). I would not have been able to put it together by myself, so I was super glad that I had help. I didn't tell Jon about the new stuff, so he had a surprise when he came home. That night when I was trying to get the kids calmed down for bed I was reading Go Dog Go with Kyle on my lap when Danny threw the vacuum's crevice tool at my face from across the room. It hit me right in the eye and hurt like crazy. I still have a pretty colorful black eye from it. On Friday afternoon we got together with all the Ware cousins and played at the playground at the school and then went and got an icecream cone. Saturday we just hung out at home until Jon's flight got in about 5 and then went down to visit my parents. We got a whole bunch of cherries from them which my boys have been eating pits and all. Hopefully they make it out ok. 

It's hard to keep these boys out of things because they are good climbers and Danny will leave doors open. Sometimes I hear water running in the bathroom and I have to go pull Kyle off the counter. 

Everyone survived last week and I think my kids were being extra good because we have already had more three year old problems this week than all of last. 

I'm trying to think what else can I update about the last month. I had my birthday and it was a good birthday. My dad got me a composter and I'm exited to see all our banana peels and stuff turn in to dirt. 

The garden is doing great (unfortunately the weeds are thriving too so I need to do something about those). 

We also went on a family vacation to Legoland with Jon's family and had a good time hanging out with the family and going on rides and all the amusement park stuff. 

Kyle seems like he is learning new words like crazy. He is very good at mimicking things he hears and see, because of this he thinks a hanger is called a gun and makes sound effects when he hold one. He likes to climb up on to the play set and announce his success with a dun-dun-dah. Jon says that Kyle needs to get some different cries because every time he cries he sounds like he has been mortally wounded and it's hard to tell if he got hurt or just wants the water bottle Danny took from him. 

Danny is a three year old and I need to remind myself that this is just a phase and there are good times mixed in with the punching and tantrum. Danny's favorite thing to do is watch tv or play on mommy or daddy's phone. He would do this all the time if we let him. Last night I thought ,"wow Danny went to bed really great he didn't come downstairs his normal 5+ times." Jon had his phone upstairs charging and Danny had found it and was playing on it for I don't know how long until he had to go to the bathroom and I heard the music when he was in the hall. On the bright side, he is totally potty trained day and night and he hasn't had an accident in a long time. 

Jon, in addition to holding down the fort with me for the summer, has started working for iCracked fixing iPhones and iPads and stuff. He likes it and it is a nice chance to do something out of the regular routine. 

I'm still doing Mary Kay and I've been on a real knitting kick recently. Those things help me keep my sanity sometimes. Today I went on a jog and I'm hoping to make that a habit again. 

That's probably enough of an update for now. Until next time. 

New House

My photo tour of the new house: we are still moving in, so don't judge the piles of boxes and stuff too harshly. 

First room inside the house is the front room. 

Off of the front room is the staircase to goes upstairs. 

 

On the right when you go upstairs is the boys bathroom. The only room in the house that is decorated thanks to my mother-in-law Karen.

I need to give credit to Jon too because he helped with the bathroom and watching kids because I was off having a girls weekend with his sisters while this bathroom project was happening. 

Across the hall on the left is the boys bedroom. 

They do pretty good in the same room, so we are leaving them together for now. Danny keeps getting out of his room and not wanting to go to bed at night. Hopefully it is just getting used to the new house and that we are no longer sleeping in the dark basement so it is still light when we are putting him to bed. 

Next to the boys room on the left is another slightly smaller bedroom that is currently being used to pile random stuff in. Next to that bedroom at the end of the hall is a linen closet (I didn't take a picture. It just looks like a linen closet).

Across the hall from the smaller bedroom is our bedroom. 

You can't tell from the picture, but there are two closets and I'm pretty excited for my own closet. 

This is our master bathroom. Excluding when we lived at my parents this will be the first place we have lived with more than one bathroom. That is the whole upstairs now back down the stairs to the front room to see the rest of the house. 

This picture is kind of dark but from the one front room picture you could kind of see the dining area too. 

Here is my kitchen. I am loving using my stuff again, but I already shattered the glass lid to my rice cooker on the tile floor. Bummer. 

A different angle of the kitchen/dining area from over by the windows. 

From the dining area you go down a few stairs to the family room. From the family room you can go out the sliding door to the back yard. 

Hello my back yard. 

Back inside the house next to the family room is another bathroom and the laundry. Also next to this is the door to the garage and across is a door down to the basement. 

The basement is another place that is just piles of stuff right now. This would be like a second family room or something. 

The basement bedroom is going to be craft room and office eventually. There is also an unfinished room in the basement that is plumbed to be a bathroom. 

That is the house. We are excited for our new adventure, but there are things I will definitely miss about living with my parents. 

Blessed

Tonight I had the most terrifying experience I have had in my life. I was making dinner and Danny and Kyle were in the kitchen with me. Kyle was walking around with his bottle of milk and I heard him fall and then cry a little bit. I looked over and he was sitting on the floor with his mouth wide open in the deep breath before the scream face. I ran over to him and picked him up and called for Jon to come upstairs; I think I was wondering if he saw the fall because what I thought happened from the sound I heard was just a plop on to his behind and that definitely did not warrant this type of reaction. I knew something was wrong when the scream didn't come after a few seconds and then he started turning purple. I tipped him face down over my arm and whacked him on the back maybe twice (and honestly probably not as hard as I needed to if something was stuck in there). I tried to stick my finger in his mouth to see if there was anything in there and his jaw was shut tight and I had to force my finger in. At this point Kyle was very blue and purple and kind of curled up and limp. Jon called 911 and I laid him on the floor ready to do CPR. I tilted his head back and lifted his chin up and again swiped my finger in his mouth to see if there was anything I could feel in there (I think this was wrong I think I was just supposed to look). I put my face down close to him and he started breathing and opened his eyes. This all happened really fast and by the time Jon was giving our address to the 911 lady Kyle was breathing. We had her send the paramedics anyway because Kyle was acting really lethargic and docile after nearly dying and we wanted them to make sure he was ok and that he hadn't aspirated whatever he seemed to be choking on. They checked his capillary refill and listened to his lungs and said everything sounded good. It was around the time that the paramedics and police officer got to our house that I started crying, but up until that point I was running on adrenaline and surprisingly calm. I have cried off and on since then. 

I feel truly blessed that Kyle is ok. A little while after the paramedics left he perked up and wanted to finish his dinner. He has been his usual happy self ever since. When Jon came up the stairs and saw me holding our blue baby face down he asked what he should do I immediatly told him to say a prayer, he quickly prayed that Kyle would be ok, and then I had him call 911. I know that Danny was watched over during this little crisis because he uncharacteristically stayed out of the way until Kyle had started breathing again and then wanted me to hold him. I am so grateful that we are all alive and safe because I can't imagine anything more difficult than losing a member of our little family. This was the first time I have ever used my CPR and first aid training for something major and it made me want to take another class to refresh my memory, but I was glad that I knew what I did and had the clarity of mind to use it.