Having Teens and Toddlers

Having teens and toddlers living in the same home makes for some interesting dynamics. Toddlers are so black and white. They just don't understand some of the things teens do.

Not many of us do, for that matter.

Taylor sleeps a lot. He is growing so fast you can almost hear his bones lengthening. When he isn't sleeping, he languishes on his bed listening to his dreadful music choices.

No one around here gets that.

But we love him anyway.

Today, we were in the car and the older girls were asking how Katie-bug got the horrible scars on her head. I explained to them that they are from some horrible bed sores she got when she was an orphaned baby. Then they wanted to know how a person would get bed sores. I explained that when someone lies in bed for long periods of time, they can get sores.

Without missing a beat, Molly piped up from the backseat, "Wow. I'm surprised that Taylor doesn't have a lot of bedsores."

Sixteen Candles

The teenager celebrated his 16th birthday today. It passed rather unremarkably because his best friend is grounded. So he was relegated to spending it with the family. hee...

Jake had an eye doctor appointment today, so the Teen had to babysit--which thankfully, he was not upset about. Side note: Jake's eye tests came out fine! His eye is only affected at the outer layer. His only issue will be some light sensitivity in that eye.

We let the Teen choose a restaurant and then took everyone out to eat. The Teen got a steak and he was a happy camper. The kids made him cards and happily passed them out this morning. It was so cute.

He likes to light his own candles

And even likes to give himself re-lighting candles

Continually re-lighting...it got a bit tiresome after awhile!

He wants to get his driver's license, but we are trying to figure out if we will require him to pay part of the $700 bill for driver's ed.

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In other news, I will be taking Kate back to Children's hospital tomorrow to re-do her echocardiogram that she had last month. Her cardiologist emailed me a few days ago to say he was reviewing her echo and saw a blood-flow issue that they want to re-check. It is near the spot where they did her fontan (the actual heart procedure area). He said he is not overly concerned, although he wanted her to come back in right away. So off we go...hoping that the trip doesn't take me two hours like it has the past few times I've gone. Boston traffic... Urgh.