Christmas Time is Here!

It's hard to believe it is almost Christmas! Time is just flying by. Tyler is in the 2yr old class at a local pre-school (they only meet 1 day/week) and this week they put on a little Christmas show for the parents. Tyler must take after his dad because he was a little ham - he was the only kid that did all the dancing and stuff the teacher was having them do.

Tyler's 2nd Birthday

So it's been awhile, oops! About a month ago was Tyler's 2nd birthday! It's hard to believe 2 years have gone by, it has gone so fast (and been so great)! (of course it's also hard to belive I haven't updated this since April :-)

We celebrated Tyler's 2nd birthday by having a family party. He had lots of fun and got lots of great gifts! My friend Jenny helped me make rainbow cupccakes for the party - they were easy and looked/tasted great!

My sister also came over and helped me decorate some yummy sugar cookies. We had lots of good food, and Tyler was definintely on a sugar high by the end of the night.

Tyler had lots of fun opening presents and eating cake!

This has been such a fun age. Tyler is running and jumping and most of all talking. He has just learned so many words lately, it's crazy! His favorite words right now are "daddy" (of course), "what is it?", "blue", "ball", "balloon", "umbrella" and many more. We're trying to get him to talk in more sentances now, and I've made it my mission to get him to say "mommy" more because he just constantly says "daddy", even when he's referring to me. He also has developed this weird obsession (maybe his first crush?) with Dora the Explorer. We watch it almost every night now at 7 right before bed time. He does this crazy excited run around the living room when she comes on and yells "Dora, Dora"over and over.

Well I have many more updates and pictures to post, so I'll try to post more often! :)

Growing up

Tyler is getting so big, it's hard to believe he'll turn 18 months in a week! He has been so much fun lately - learning to talk, running everywhere, climbing everything. Here are some of our recent pictures!

Tyler participated in his first easter egg hunt last weekend - he had a lot of fun picking up eggs!

Here is his new favorite way to eat Cheerios... (I think he takes after Rudi. Also note - we don't normally give him this many cheerios - I left the box out and he stole it and dumped some out before we could stop him )

Tyler loves his pirate bath robe!

First ER Visit

So Tyler had his firt ER visit last week. Before I go on let me just reassure you that he's totally fine! I say first visit because I just have this feeling he's going to take after Ed and do lots of crazy things that might end up hurting him. . . . Anyway, the reason we went to the ER is that Tyler fell down the steps to the basement, all the way from the top. Sometimes our doors don't latch when you shut them, so they kind of bounce back open. This happened to the basement door last Friday. So Tyler saw that it was not latched, I guess, and opened it then went through. But he hasn't learned how to go down stairs yet (only up) so he ended up falling all the way to the bottom. One of those things - you turn away for a second and it happens. He seemed fine, just scared. But he had a bump on his forehead, so just in case we took him to the hospital to be checked out. 4 hours later, we were allowed to leave! They checked him out and said he seemed fine - he was acting normal and hadn't hurt his arms or legs or anything. Just to make sure there wasn't a head injury, we had to stay there for 3 hours for observation. The time actually went by relatively fast, and he did really well, which was suprising since he had no nap at all that day. We are friends with the previous owners of our house. Ironically, their daughter also fell down the stairs in the exact same way (she was also fine!) so they installed a little hook at the top of the door to make sure the door can't be pulled open. Needless to say, we've started to use that! Praise God nothing worse happened then a little bump on his head, it could have been a lot worse!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! Tyler loved his present!

And it starts . . .

Tyler is officially a climber! This is how I found him in his room this morning, when I was trying to get ready to head out for the day - if you can't tell, he knocked his clothes hamper on its side and is standing on it. I'll be honest, this makes me a little worried about what he'll be trying to climb next . . .

SNOW!!!!!

(sorry it's been awhile again!)

We got to enjoy the "white death" a little bit this morning - it was lots of fun!