Since we have been home, Brian has been busy starting to build the swing set. Austin loves to help Brian with it. Most nights they are in the back yard working on it. They have dug holes together. It rained the other day and the holes got water in them so Austin helped get the water out of the holes. Austin loves to bring Brian any "mouse-ka-tools"
he needs like levels, a tape measure, etc.
On Father's Day weekend, Brian and my dad cut wood and built the first tower. Then on Sunday, they placed it into place. I helped with that since it was so big and heavy. It was a lot of work. I felt so bad that Dad and Brian spent all day Father's day working on it. They did not get a day to relax. My parents stayed at our house until 7 pm helping. Brian continued to work until 10 pm because he wanted to get in concreted into the ground since it was perfectly level. I even put the kids to bed that night. Usually Brian puts Austin to bed every night. They were so busy we never gave Brian his Father's Day gifts. Hopefully we will do that tonight.
Austin is growing up so fast. He has gotten noticeably taller. And his vocabulary has taken off. He can say 5-8 word sentences easily. He can repeat everything you say so we have to be very careful with that. Luckily he has not said a bad word yet. We usually don't curse but every once in a while one comes out. Austin can also ride a tricycle. We have gotten him 3 bikes. One bike we still have not put together, one bike is still too big, and the other bike he can petal all by himself. It is crazy that he can ride a bike already. He's has gotten so big.
Sydney can really move around now. She can crawl fast and even crawl up all of our stairs without any problem. She loves to stand and is starting to furniture walk. She wants to walk so bad but has not figured it out yet. She can stand alone for about 10 seconds now but if she moves her feet she will fall down. She cannot crawl down the big stairs yet because she continue to insist on going forwards. She can go down our 1 living room step forwards fine. She reaches her arms out and does great but she wants to do that for the big stairs too. That will not work too well.
Last week Austin and Sydney both had ear infections. Sydney got her's first. It was weird because she did not really have any cold symptoms. There were 2 sleepless nights so I took her to the doctor and she had a right ear infection. Austin complained of left ear pain one night and would not lay down in his crib to sleep. He wanted to sleep sitting up. So Brian took him out the the car so he could sleep in his car seat. Brian made himself a bed in the back of our Ford Escape next to Austin so he could try and get some sleep too. Brian took him the the doctor and said he had the start of a left ear infection. There were also questions about Austin's ear tubes (whether they had fallen out and were still in the ear canal or not - Brian has seen them in both ears still although one doctor claimed the one was gone and the other was there while another doctor said the complete opposite about which ear was missing the tube). Brian and Austin slept in the car for two nights and then he felt better and began sleeping in his big boy bed again.
We are enjoying summer. We play outside every day that its not raining. The kids have a lot of outside toys. I love that we play outside because it keeps my house clean. :) We have lots of kids in the neighborhood that come to play too. Most of them are older but they still enjoy playing with Austin which is nice.
We have had a birthday party and graduation party this month. We had a lot of fun going to them. I am starting to plan Sydney's first birthday party. I am excited about that. We are going to have it at our house. Since it is summer we can have it outside at our house. We are going to get a tent and chairs too. I really hope it doesn't rain that day! Hopefully Brian will have the swingset done by then too. It will be so much fun.
Last week Austin and Sydney both had ear infections. Sydney got her's first. It was weird because she did not really have any cold symptoms. There were 2 sleepless nights so I took her to the doctor and she had a right ear infection. Austin complained of left ear pain one night and would not lay down in his crib to sleep. He wanted to sleep sitting up. So Brian took him out the the car so he could sleep in his car seat. Brian made himself a bed in the back of our Ford Escape next to Austin so he could try and get some sleep too. Brian took him the the doctor and said he had the start of a left ear infection. There were also questions about Austin's ear tubes (whether they had fallen out and were still in the ear canal or not - Brian has seen them in both ears still although one doctor claimed the one was gone and the other was there while another doctor said the complete opposite about which ear was missing the tube). Brian and Austin slept in the car for two nights and then he felt better and began sleeping in his big boy bed again.
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