We are going to Utah to visit Grandma and Grandpa Jeppson this weekend. Unfortunately we will not be able to visit the Gallands as they are in Washington for Sean's grandmother's funeral.
I thought I would post a picture of the boys playing with this post. It snowed yesterday and overnight, but the sun is out working on melting the snow away. This slide was completely covered a week ago! We're making progress.
r his check up so he was a little older (but not much). Vance weighed 25 pounds 9 oz. (100%) and was 29 1/2 inches long (99%) When I get comments about Tanner's size I just think, "Oh, this is nothing!"
't already know. He is strong, healthy and big! He is still spitting up so we will continuing giving him medicine. It does help somewhat. Tanner weighed in at 21 pounds 3 ounces putting him in the 90% for his weight. However, he has hardly grown longer in the past two months. He didn't even grow a 1/2 inch! He is only 26 inches long putting him in the 30% for his height (he was in the 75% at his last check up). As a result he is looking quite chunky, but still as cute as ever. I predict that in the next three months he will do a lot of growing longer and not much gaining weight. This is my hope anyway! I have a hard time packing around babies when they are over 20 pounds! Tanner had to have shots today. :( Never fun, but he didn't cry much when he was poked so hopefully it won't bother him too much. We shall see!
nner have been interacting more and more. Sometimes it is just Vance bullying Tanner (unfortunately). Tanner will be sitting on the floor playing with a toy minding his own business and Vance will come and take the toy from him. Not because he wants it for himself, just because he doesn't want Tanner to have it. Other times he'll go up and push Tanner to the floor when he's sitting There. I am trying to get these behaviors under control. Sometimes however they will entertain each other and that is when it is fun to watch. For example we were at the store on Saturday and I gave Vance a coupon I decided not to use and he turned around and put it on Tanner's carseat and for some reason that got them both laughing. When Vance got bored of the coupon he gave it to Tanner who decided to eat it (of course) not a good idea as Tanner gagged on it.... Today we picked up Stephen from work for lunch and while we were waiting in the car I turned around and started tapping Tanner's hand on Vance's carseat and they looked at each other and giggled at one another. Tanner loves Vance, but it is nice when Vance shows his love for Tanner as well. We're still working on Vance allowing us to take his picture with Tanner as you can see from yesterdays post, but sometimes I can sneak a shot in like I did here a few days ago. 
Happy Easter to everyone! We gave Vance his Easter basket this morning. He had fun going through it even though he was a bit on the cranky side today! I put Tanner in the outfit that Vance has worn the previous two Easters (yes, that is right he wore that outfit when he was four months old and again when he was over one and Tanner is here wearing it at six months). Vance really didn't want his picture taken today especially with Tanner, but the last picture was my attempt. The file folder matching game ended up being a good idea. I wasn't sure if Vance would get the concept of matching, but he did. We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!
Call me a mean mom if you want, but sometimes Tanner cracks me up when he is mad (not when he is crying however). He can pull some of the funniest faces and who knows why on earth he is not happy. I imagine this time was because he was starting to get tired. I think he yawned a couple of times in the video. I don't know if anyone will enjoy this video as much as I do, but I thought I would share just the same.
s walking. He can get on and off of all of our furniture too which is nice for me. We have been doing a lot of coloring lately. It seemed to be a good activity to do while he wasn't getting around very well. This leg wasn't hurt nearly as bad as his other one thankfully!
Tanner puts up with a lot. Vance had a headband too, but once Tanner was wearing his I guess he decided it wasn't so cool after all. Hopefully we'll have the chance to do some other fun green things today. Happy St. Patty's Day!
He has forgotten that the first 21 months of his life he wouldn't let his Dad put him to bed, it had to be me. Even up until we move he I did it more often than not. Since we moved however it has been Stephen to put him down every night and apparently I was not a very good substitute. I don't think he would have been happy either way, but with his leg bugging him I think that amplified things. Oh well, we got through it. By the way, Tanner has been really good about all of this. I have been blessed with good babies...so far anyway....
Yes, this is my poor Vance. I will explain this in a minute, first however we need to have a flashback to about three weeks before Tanner was born (just over six months ago). Vance was running through the trailer and tripped over himself and hurt his leg. It may sound strange, but that is what happened. He cried and carried on until he fell asleep for the night. I thought maybe he twisted his ankle. We took him to the doctor the next day and he sent us to get it x-rayed. Anyway, long story short they couldn't see a break so they sent us home with basically no advice. They did tell us to have it x-rayed two weeks later to see if their indeed had been a fracture. We did that (Tanner was a week old at that point) and indeed there had been a fracture. Today Vance was doing his usual running around and he slipped in the kitchen and fell. He laid on the floor crying so I picked him up and tried to comfort him. I could instantly tell his leg was bothering him, however it was his right leg instead of his left this time. He cried himself to sleep and when he woke up from his nap he wouldn't leave the bed. To make that long story short the doctor (different one) couldn't see a break, but sent us home with this air splint and told us that if he still isn't walking on it tomorrow to come back and we'll see if we can figure out what is going on. If he is walking on it he wants him to come back in a week. So there you go. My active little boy currently isn't walking. Hopefully he will decide to tomorrow. By the way, can I just point out right now that I have sturdy boys and they are not light! This couldn't be at a more obnoxious time either because Stephen has been planning to go to a seminar this weekend in Boise for work. Oh me, oh my.
This is the most recent picture I have of him. It is from the high school's fall play, The Matchmaker. Glen played Baranaby. I don't think he usually wears those kind of clothes, styles his hair like that, or gets kissed by girls... but maybe I'm wrong. :) Anyway, happy birthday Glen! I can't believe you are seventeen. I remember the day you were born. I thought you were the cutest baby to ever exist until I had my own children of course. :)
