Travelling with a baby is never easy, but Conrad definitely made it better. He's really easy going and slept pretty well everywhere we went. He's been eating a lot more food these past two weeks. He still shows no interested in crawling, but has stretched out to all fours a few times. My mom thinks he's waving and saying Mom! We'll see if that's really true. We had a fun Christmas with him, but I'm sure next year will be even better!
Tuesday morning, Ivan woke up with the croup cough! I recognized it right away and spent the day trying to loosen him up. He "slept" in our room that night. Or I guess I should say, I "slept" in our room that night. None of us got much sleep. Mid-way through the night, he started to sound a little less wheezy and I actually slept a little. Needless to say, we took him to the doctor the first thing the next day. His lungs sounded fine and she gave us a steroid for his throat. That night he slept much better! She said some kids are just more prone to develop croup from a cold and Ivan must be one of them.
Silas couldn't wait to get home and jam with Dad on his electric guitar!
The boys went for a hike to practice using their new explorer binoculars!
On Thursday, we loaded up the van once again and headed to Kansas. My parents watched all four of the boys while we spent a night away in Tulsa, OK! Jason planned our outings and they were perfect. The Philbrook was beautiful and fun to saunter through. We had a huge breakfast the next morning!
And then spent several hours with a big pot of coffee and lots of books at Topeca Coffee shop!
We had our last Christmas celebration on Saturday with my Dad's side of the family! The boys were spoiled once again!
That night we started some new traditions with fancy drinks and creating a new year's resolution together with the boys.
Amos wants to ride Powder Keg at Silver Dollar City and ride his mountain bike on the single track trails with Dad.
Silas wanted to learn to ride his bike without training wheels and learn to read books! He already accomplished the first one.
The sweet drink took affect in about 5 seconds and this one was bouncy off the wall.
Last year we spent New Year's Day with the Edens and this year we carried on the tradition! Except we went to their house! What fun we had! However, the only picture taken was Silas accomplishing his New Year's goal and riding a bike with no training wheels! Way to go Silas!
I spent Monday restocking our house after being gone for about 2 weeks! It felt pretty good to do something very productive and tangible!
The boys went to George Washington Carver for an afternoon hike! Amos found a snail and then lost it in the car. Oh goody!
