Babies Wear Diapers/Poor Sick Luke

 Ty's Potty Time

Tiberias is potty training. He is doing awesome at it. But I read stories about kids learning in just a few days and it's not that way with my kids. Luke took two years to potty train (I started him before he was truly ready). Ty decided to start himself and does great. But he has a day here and a day there where he is lazy and just wets his pants all day long. I try to get him on the potty often but he doesn't always listen. (That's his problem...obeying parents. He has a sticker chart to help him learn to obey his parents. And if he does good 4 days he gets to open a present.)

Two days ago Ty wanted to wear a diaper all day. He was feeling lazy. I wouldn't let him and so it was an accident filled day. But then yesterday when we were leaving the house I wanted to put a diaper on him and he said "No. Babies wear diapers. I'm not a baby anymore." lol He's so cute.

So today I started allowing him to wear underwear out of the house. We went shopping and he wore his underwear. We stopped at the bathroom in the store and he did perfect.

Luke Sick At Night

Two days ago Luke started coughing. I sent him to school the next day even though he was coughing and had a runny nose. It was class picture day at school and I was planning to buy a class photo...his first ever. (He was in a class picture last year but he was so young I did not bother buying one)

Then that night he was much worse. His nose was stuffy and his cough was bad.

That was last night. When I put him to bed he was breathing a little heavy because of his stuffy nose. He does not allow me to give him medicine most of the time. Hates medicine! Even yummy cough drops he won't accept.

At 3:30am I heard someone's little feet walking around. Luke had gotten up to wipe his nose. Ty was laying sideways on the bed, taking up room on Luke's spot. So I moved Ty to his side (usually it's Luke I have to move back to his own side). I put Luke to bed and he started coughing too much. I warned him to be careful or he'd throw up. He has a problem of throwing up...if he gets too upset or coughs a lot. He throws up easily.

As I was ready to leave the room he started throwing up. Only I could tell it wasn't just from coughing. I asked him if his tummy was sick and he said it was. Ty slept through me changing the bed sheets and helping Luke.

I got Luke to eat a Pepto tablet and drink some water. Then I put him to bed and told him he could come wake me up if he needed anything. (Sterling is on a TDY to Spain for most of the month)

I went back to bed. About five minutes later Luke came to me and said "I want a blessing. I'm so sick." I was impressed that he had learned something about the Priesthood. Primary was teaching a lesson on Priesthood this last Sunday (I teach the 7 year olds). Luke is only 4 1/2 years old so I was impressed.

Unfortunately Sterling isn't here to give him a blessing. 

So Luke and I knelt and prayed for him to be able to sleep and feel better. Then I allowed him to sleep in my bed with me for the first time since he was a baby. I could not go back to sleep for a while because of Luke's heavy breathing. I couldn't find any breathing cream.

So I lay in bed remembering when Luke was a baby sleeping in my bed. The first few weeks with Luke Sterling and I loved being parents for the first time and loved sleeping with the baby. Sterling soon found he couldn't sleep with a baby breathing or making any noise in the room. So it didn't happen much after that. But sometimes. 

Eventually Sterling got use to the sound of a baby in the room....with Tiberias.  Ty did not sleep in our bed but slept in a bassinet next to our bed.

This morning Ty is sick too. A really runny nose and a cough starting up. I took both boys to the store anyway...for Vick's Vapor Rub.

Luke stayed home from school today. And this weekend is Stake Conference. At first I was planning to take my little boys and go. I am sure I could have found some friends from our ward to help me watch the kids during the meeting. But then I thought about it...driving up to Venice to the Hotel Russot, trying to get the kids to stay in the seats or allowing them to play of the carpet covered stairs or even up the stairs where they could play but still hear the meeting, having to wear a translator because the talks are in Italian and the kids not understanding the talks. It's just too much. I find it difficult even with Sterling. So this Sunday we are going to stay home. But we will read scriptures, color church coloring pages and have a lesson for Luke and Ty. So much easier. I doubt I would have been able to pay attention to any of the speakers (having two kids distracting me and no husband) if I had decided to go.

Luke is so cute

 It was so funny...a few days ago Luke brought me a book and said he was going to read it to me. I was busy cleaning at the time. He started reciting the words he'd memorized and I was talking or something. Luke said "If you're not going to listen then I'm not going to read it!" He was a little upset. That's what I say to him when he wants me to read then he goes away or starts being noisy during it.  :)