Wow. It has been awhile. We had a major computer meltdown at home and I was out of work for two months. That really puts a crimp in the blogging.

Kelby is now 22 months old and of course growing like a weed and talking up a storm. The first time he seen it dark outside was when it started getting dark earlier at night (before his bedtime) he looked out the window and got a really worried look on his face and said “outside all gone”. He then took each of us by the hand to the window and pointed out telling us “outside all gone” over and over again. We had to take him outside and show him that it was just dark out and that outside was still there.

He is part monkey and started climbing out of his crib 3 months ago. We had to make it into a day bed so he would not hurt himself. A week after that he learned how to open doors. He would no longer stay in his bed or room when it was nap or bed time. He started waking up an hour after putting him in bed and would come into our room and climb into bed with us and start jump jump jumping around. We had a good week of no sleep before we were able to break him of that habit. Thankfully he is back into his own bed and sleeping through the night.

The learning of how to open doors turned into a problem fast. The first door he heads to is the bathroom door and starts playing in the toilet using my work boot as a cup and scooping out water onto the floor with it. I get him out of the bathroom and while I am cleaning up the water I hear another door, I look all over the house and cannot find him, I look outside and there he is running down the driveway away from the house. I ran out of the house with no shoes on trying to catch him, luckily for me he started laughing so hard he fell down on the ground and could not run any more. There was no way I could keep him in the house or out of the bathroom so I ended up putting latches on both sides of every door in the house.

He is choo choo train and airplane crazy. He calls all toys with wheels choo choo or airplane. He takes all his toy cars and tries to hook then together to make a choo choo and gets frustrated and mad if it does not work. One day I took some string and tied all his wheeled toys together and made a long choo choo. He played and played with it. That night I took it apart to put the toys away and threw out the string. The next day he kept handing me toys and saying choo choo. I was too busy and didn’t have any string handy to make a choo choo so I just told him to go play. Next time I looked over at him he had the dog leash and was trying to tie it to the toys to make his choo choo. We broke down and bought him a “Thomas the tank engine” train set (I got tired of tying toys together) and he plays with it nonstop.  The first day he had played with it for about 3 hours straight when KayLynn told him it was time to eat he said “NO Mommy I don’t want to eat”.

We started his potty training and he is doing very well on the pooping part. He has started telling us when he needs to go (sometimes). He has not told us yet when he needs to go pee but if you stand him in front of the potty he will go. The other day while I had him sitting on the potty and I was sitting on the floor waiting for him to go I farted and he laughed so hard and said “daddy pooped inside”.

The deck is coming along really good. The back deck is complete thanks to dad helping me put in deck screws. I was on the home stretch on the second story deck but as I was putting up long heavy boards by myself (it was a two man job and I’m to impatient to get help). I was holding the board in place with one hand while I was trying to drive a screw in with the other and it dropped unexpectedly and the distal biceps tendon in my left arm snapped. (Here is a cut and paste to explain what that is.) “A distal biceps rupture occurs when the tendon attaching the biceps muscle to the elbow is torn from the bone. This injury occurs mainly in middle-aged men during heavy work or lifting. Often the load is heavier than expected, or the load may shift unexpectedly during the lift. This forces the elbow to straighten, even though the biceps muscle is working hard to keep the elbow bent. The biceps muscle contracts extra hard to help handle the load. As tension on the muscle and tendon increases, the distal biceps tendon snaps or tears where it connects to the radius.”  (end of paste) The short story is it hurts really really bad and I don’t recommend it to anyone. I go in for surgery today.

God Bless

Kirk