Traditions

I was thinking tonight about how grateful I am each week to always have our traditions. Our life is streamed together by routine and traditions. Things like this: 

Sunday: "The Can-Can Day" aka cereal in the morning & macaroni and cheese for lunch 

Monday: Family Home Evening 

Tuesday: Library with Ty 

Friday: PPQ Night:Pizza, Pajamas, & Questions to each other. One question Jax asked this week was "Daddy what was your favorite part of High School" to which Landon answered, "Basketball." 

Saturday: Family Movie day & Date night

And then there is our every day bed time routine which consists of brushing teeth, saying prayers, reading scriptures, reading books and then doing our many hand shakes with each other. 

And then there are our big traditions--like March Madness! OR General Conference weekend where we spoil our kids(and ourselves) with yummy food & treats, activities, and gifts to go along with all of the talks that we will hear over a two day period. Ive been preparing for a few weeks now. It is my FAVORITE time of the year and luckily, unlike every other holiday, it happens twice a year. 

I LOOOOVVVVEEEE traditions. And i'm always adding more. A lot of them have to do with food: Monday is avocado toast day & Saturday is Banana pancake day. 

And tonight, after a busy, good, hard, happy, sad, stressful, tired filled week i'm grateful for traditions. And date night. Beauty & The Beast was AMAZING

Uh.... Potty Training?

If you had asked me last Sunday what are plans were for the week I would have said, "Our week is completely free, nothing on the agenda!" And then Ty pooped in the potty. And then everything went down hill from there..... hahahaha! But seriously. Thank  you March Maddness for keeping us sane. 

Landon: 

His life is busy right now. He is working so so much and running a lot and getting sick and we miss him. But he is doing good things and he did stop me from going crazy mad once our twice this week. So I'd say, he won this week. 

Becca: 

I only thought of pee and poop all week. Actually, I did luckily get to go visiting teacher to three of my four sisters. And I was asked to speak at New Beginnings which is something for the young women in our church. I think that saved me. Study and thinking about someone else helped balance out the poop and pee thoughts. I feel bad for saying poop and pee so much, but its feeling slightly therapeutic. I also helped my mom get out a Mothers Day Song. Its amazing and saved me this week. Ooooo and I stayed up until 3:30am Saturday morning and deep cleaned the house, because I can get NOTHING done when tys eyes & mouth is open. 

Jaxson: 

Jax has sacrificed a lot this week because of the potty. He is so wonderful. I flew solo at church today and Ty asked to go pee three times within the first 40 minutes of Sacrament meeting. So by the third time, I just decided to stay outside. But Jax was still in the chapel, by himself, in the middle, on the third row form the front. He was there for 25 minutes by himself. I had SOOOOO many people tell me how impressed they were that he just sat there and listened to the speaker for the last 25 minutes. I seriously don't know where he got his pure goodness from, but I assure you it wasn't from me. I was anything but good this week... ha!

Ty: 

Ok i've vented a lot now about ty. Ty, if you ever read this I want you to know three things. 

1: I LOVE YOU

2: You not being able to talk is insanely hard for both me & YOU. Honestly mothering has NEVER, EVER, EVER been so hard and taxing on me. And I think living has NEVER, EVER, EVER been so so hard and taxing on you. You are being stretched so much. WE both are

3:  I am seeing characteristics in you because of this little trial of yours. You are determined. You are creative. You are patient. You are still able to be so happy even though you are constantly so sad that we can't understand you. You are extremely capable. You are extremely smart. You are independent. You are stubborn. You are empathetic. You are loving. You are good. 

I keep reminding myself everyday, "It would be so so so exhausting, lonely, sad, tiring, to have the people you love most and you know love you most not be able to understand you when you were talking. It would be scary. It would be disheartening. It was be frustrating. I would scream too. I would cry too. I would hit too. I would throw things too." 

Ty I LOVE YOU! We will get through this and one day you will be able to both talk and pee in the potty. And in my book thats about as accomplished as you get. 

PS: You might not be day potty trained BUT you are night/nap potty trained. You haven't worn one diaper since Tuesday morning at 10:13am. And you have not peed in your bed once. Thats amazing. 

Okay, this was good for me to write out. I can do tomorrow.... I think!! 

This is how not planned potty training was. 

A Good Week

Landon: 

Had a pretty busy week at the hospital. He is on inpatient pediatrics and really loves working with kids. He was suppose to work until Saturday evening, but a really nice attending let him off around two. That was a fun surprise. He ran another 40+ miles this week, with a 20 mile run mixed in. The 20 mile run was brutal and he said he almost didn't make it home (he did make it home past 11:00pm and then woke up at 5:30am to head to work). On top of that he talked in church about "How the Book of Mormon strengthens your testimony" and he taught in Elders Quorum. Then he crashed for three hours after church. 

Becca: 

I had a really good week and it was because I wasn't relying on Landon, who frankly isn't strong enough for me ;). But it seems I rely on my Heavenly Father much more when Landon is super busy. I love my relationship with my Heavenly Father. I know i'm his daughter and he is cheering me on and pulling me through and pushing me forward. He and Christ are always there. I just seem to be happier overall when i'm talking to them along the way. Also, I had date night to look forward to all week. Looking forward to date night seriously helps me so much. 

Lastly, we talked about Emma Smith in Sunday School today. I love her. I get emotional thinking about her. She did harder things than any woman I know of. She was amazing!!!!!!!! She relied on God and God was proud of her through and through. 

Jax: 

Has a new teacher and really likes her, I really like her! He has been coming home from preschool and wanting to teach his stuffed animals. "Mom its talk time. I need to teach them about Jesus. They don't know a lot about Him because they don't go to church." Haha. I love him. He also has been having me outline pictures he likes and then coloring them in. I've been refining my drawing skills all week. There were moments this week of blue sky and we were outside every one of those moments. Spring is coming. 

Ty: 

He is a cutie. He is the sweetest little guy. Whenever someone is sad he makes sure to give them his blanket and stuffed animal and a pat on the head before he resumes play. He probably ate his weight in snow this week. Any time dad is home, ty is by dad. Today after lunch when Landon finished lunch and went and laid on the couch, Ty IMMEDIATELY stopped eating, ran into his room, grabbed his blanket and pillow and ran back out to snuggle up on the couch with dad. Any chance he gets to be with Daddy he takes it!