No, this is not a post about Paris Hilton! This really is not funny at all. Beau was burned the other day at the baby sitters. She was making lunch on the stove top while the oven was on. The kids were all playing in the other room but Beau came into the kitchen. He was trying to get Joyce so she stuck her leg out in an attempt to block him from coming to close to the stove. While she did that he reached out and grabbed the door to the oven. The oven was closed but his little fingers fit in the side of the door and he got burned.
So she called to tell me what had happened and sent me a picture of his fingers as they were blistering so that I could decide what I needed to do for him. I called my mom and sent her the picture and we decided that I needed to call the doctor. They wanted to see him, so I went and got the boys and took him in to the Doc. She took a look at it and said that I need to keep it clean and re bandage it everyday. I have to take him back in for a follow up visit tomorrow.
He really is being a trooper considering his hand has to be so bandaged up. He tries to pick the blisters so I have to be creative in my bandaging. I am hoping that his blisters do not pop and get infected.
The Blisters and bandaging click on the picture to enlarge it
I need to write down what the boys are doing so that I do not forget. So for those of you that read this you might not care about this but I know that one day I will regret it if I do not write these things down. And since I am not good and putting it in their baby books, you get to hear about it.
Beau:
Started to walk at 13 months. He took his first steps at 12 months. He is still a bit unbalanced and his face is a testament to that! I guess that a beat up face comes with the falls of learning to walk. But why is it that they always land on the hardest thing around. Just the other day his face found the bed frame of Owen's bed instead of the mattress. He tries to say hi, bye, thank you and I love you but none of them are very clear. He has the rhythm of them down. He is learning to do baby sign and will say more, eat and all done. He has great fine motor skills. He uses his fingers to pick things up. He loves to help pick up toys and of course get all of them out. He also loves to help throw his diapers away. He really wants to be one of the big boys. He is always tagging along. If they go down stairs he does. Of they come up stairs, he does. He loves to play peek-a-poo and patty cake. He also loves to be tickled!
Owen:
He loves to wrestle with his little brother, who he ofter refers to as his bog brother! He loves to play his ABC game (aka. starfall.com). He knows his address and what city and state he lives in. He knows his full name and yes he can say Niemantsverdriet. He can spell Owen and no we have not started with Niemantsverdriet! He knows all of the alphabet and can tell you every letter (not in order) and what sound it makes. He loves to read. He loves to pray. Tonight he thanked God for his eyes, covers, brother, mom, dad, food and fingers. He often thanks God for Jesus and taking away our sins!
This is late by almost a month but late is better then never, right? Beau turned 1 on February 11th. We have a small family dinner with cake and ice cream to celebrate. It is hard to believe that a year has already passed and my baby is 1. He is such a joy and blessing to our family. Beau is our little monkey, he loves to crawl and climb on everything. He has a hard time sitting still and love to follow his bog brother around. Even though he is always on the go he loves to give hugs and kisses and he listens really well!! He loves to follow all of us around the house but if anyone goes down stairs he crawls right up to the edge and stops. For some reason he is a afraid to venture down the stairs even though we have been showing him how to go down crawling backwards. Since his birthday he has been standing up on hos own a lot more and has been taking a few steps. It wont be long and he will be walking.
January 20-25 we went to Florida to visit our friends Steve and Judy Maehl. We flew down with Jason, Steve's brother. Andy, Steve and Jason are all best friends and have been for years now. Two years ago Steve and Judy moved to Orlando and this January was our second time going to visit.
The first day that we arrived we had a nice day dinner, gave the kids baths and played games.
The next day we went to Epcot for the morning and then Magic Kingdom for the rest of the day. Steve and Judy have a friend that is a chef at one of the restaurants in Epcot and he was kind enough to give us free passes! We all love Disney World and all that it has to offer. I think that Andy and I have just as much, if not more, fun then the kids do! Neither of us are a fan of fair rides so we always thought that we would not like Disney but that is Not the case. If you ever have the chance to go you should.
The secomd day we all slept in and then Judy and I went out to Ikea and the mall to shop for awhile. Then we meet up with the boys and the kids to go to another mall. The boys went to see Avatar in 3d while Judey and I took the kids to a play area that is all inflatable. After the boys got out of the movie we all went out to dinner. It was a fun and slightly relaxing day.
The next day we got up and got all the kids packed up to head to the beach! We all stayed in a 4 bedroom condo and a very nice exclusive resort in Palm Coats Beach. Steve is a travel agent and gets amazing deals on places so we were able to stay at a place that we would not other wise be able to. The resort was amazing. Every thing was private including the beach. You acually can not even get into the front desk or on the property with out a reservation. On our way to the resort we stoped at a strawberry pach and pick fresh berries for breakfast! They were amazing. After we got to the resort we went to the beach for a few minutes, to was very windy and cold, and then went swimming. We ended the day with making dinner in the room and playing games.
The fourth day we check out of the resort and headed to St. Augustine. This is the oldest town in the U.S. It was amazing to see and learn all the history of the town. We took a trolly tour of the historic distric that lasted most of the day with the time that we got off the take some more tours. This town really is amazing. You should to some ready about it. We ended the day with a very late lunch on the beach and then drove back to Orlando.
The next day we had to pack up and head to the air port for our long trip home. Owen had gotten sick just before we headed to Florida and Beau got his cold while we were on vacation. The poor little guy had a fever of 102.4 with an ear infection on the way home. He did really well flying even with his ears hurting.
We miss our dear friend so much but really do enjoy our trips to Florida to spend our much missed tiem with them.
Beau has had a lot of new 1st things lately. He has said his first word, stood up by himself, got his first tooth, clapped his hands, waved good bye and got his first hair cut. I was holding on to that baby hair for as long as I could, but I finally broke down and gave him a hair cut. I am sure that if some one would have walked into my moms house and saw us they would have thought that we were torching him! I took me, Andy, my mom and Mitch to keep his hands out of the way and to distract him in order for me to get it all cut. He now looks like such a big boy. I have to admit it was much harder for me to say good bye to the baby locks on Beau then it was Owen. They always look so much older after that first hair cut. beforeafter
Well, today, December 6th, is Owens 3rd birthday! I can not believe that he is already three. God has truly blessed Andy and I with this adorable, loving, calm, fun,pleasant little boy, Owen. O loves Thomas the train and has been talking about having a Thomas Birthday for months now. So I had to deliver. It all started on Friday when I made the cake. I have to say that I am very pleased with the cake. I am not a baker, but I gave it a try. I am now thinking that I would like to get into decorating cakes! I really enjoyed it. Then today Owen came into bed with Andy and I to cuddle and I told him the story of the day that he was born. He thought that I was just so silly! It was nice for me to remember back to that day and what joy it was to have Owen join our family. Then we all headed to church and O got to move up from the nursery to the pre-k class. He is now officially part of the Sunday school program, and he thinks that he is such a big kid now, even though he cried. After church we headed home for lunch. My family all came over to eat at our house, we usually eat at my parents on Sunday's, after lunch everyone else joined us for O's Thomas celebration. He had quite the turn out. Both sets of grandparts came, aunt Lissa and the boys, uncle Mitch, Sara and Maya Kane, anut Jean, and Teresa and Josh Beck. It was a wonderful day to Celebrate Owen!
Owen had a great new first today. He went skiing with his dad! We headed up to Red Lodge today and Andy and Owen went to the ski hill for opening day. Andy taught Owen the two basic fundamentals to skiing, french fries and pizza. What do french fries and pizza have to do with skiing? Well French fries is what you tell them to point their skies down hill to go and pizza is for slowing down and stopping. When they got back Owen was so proud of himself and told me all about how to do french fries and pizza and how he rode on the chair lift! Andy is glad that he has a new ski partner, even if it means that he does not get a good day of skiing in. I am thinking that I will have to pick it up again so that we can all go as a family!
I am a child of God, a wife and a mother. We live in Billings and I work part time for our church. We have two boys Owen and Beau who keep me very busy.
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