Bad Dogs

Whenever we are eating or the dogs are being bad (or just annoying) we make them go sit on their bed. Now when we say go get on your bed all three of my kids go running for the dog bed. I think he thinks he's a dog and the dogs think they are human. What a messed up house we have. I love the way Tyler is leaning on Sammy in this picture. Tyler loves Sammy so much.

BOO!!

Tyler has this new obsession with BOO. He will cover his eyes and then wait a few minutes, uncover them and yell BOO. Today I was sitting on the couch and he ran up from behind me and yelled BOO. Then he runs off laughing. I think he knows he is the cutest thing ever.

In this picture he is sort of covering his eyes. I was trying to get him to do it, so I was covering one eye with my hand and in this picture he is copying me. Its funny because when he does it he makes circles with his hands, he doesn't just cover his eyes with the flat part of his hand.

Where's Your Belly?

When you ask Tyler where is your belly, he lifts up his shirt. I know I am biased but this has to be the cutest belly ever!!

Really Big Ball

We got you a really big ball today. You loved it when you saw it in Target and carried it throughout the whole store. When we got home you couldn't wait to play with it. You look so funny playing with this ball, its bigger than you!!

Playtime with Great Grandpa

I guess we have to give Grandpa a break every now and then and let him play with you. He deserves it, he has worked very hard while he was out her visiting.

Hugs for Sammy

My Little Princess, Bailey

Are You Ready For Your Close Up?

Happy Birthday Aubrey

Today we went to Aubrey's first birthday party. Aubrey has one of the coolest toys ever. She has some of those climbing blocks. Tyler loved these. It was so cute to watch Tyler and Aubrey play together until Tyler fell down the slide and plowed right into her. She didn't appreciate it too much and she let everyone know it. It didn't phase Tyler though, he kept playing king of the mountain.

Troy and I have actually thought about getting him some since he loved them so much but they are very expensive and we don't know how much he would actually play on them since they would be at our house. You know how it goes, the toys are always cooler when they are at someone else's house.

Here are some pictures from Aubrey's party today.

Mommy's Little Helper

He is FINALLY earning his keep!! Tyler thinks this new mop that I got for the wood floors is the coolest thing ever. YAY not even 2 and already helping Mommy clean:)

Playtime with Daddy...

And random other playtime pictures.

Stupid Toy

My Grandpa insisted on getting Tyler this really annoying and loud toy. Yep, Tyler is now the proud owner of a popcorn popper. Unfortunatly Tyler loves this toy and gets really really mad when its taken away from him. You should have saw his face when my Grandpa brought it to him in Babies R Us.

Cloth Diapering

I finally did it. I have been wanting to start cloth diapering Tyler snce I started staying home with him at 12 months. Lets just say that Troy was not that enthusiastic about it but he said I could if I wanted. About a week ago I bought several to try. I got them in, washed them and got them ready for Tyler. Today we took the giant leap. After one day of cloth diapering I am impressed with how easy it is and how well they actually contain Tyler's pee. Troy got to be the lucky one to change the first poop diaper:) I plan on doing it at least during the week while I am home with Tyler. On the weekends when we are running around I will probably still use disposables just because he can wear them longer.

I love the how cute they look on Tyler. They make is already big baby butt even bigger!

Happy 16 Months

Wow I can't believe it's Feb 20th already! That means my baby boy is 16 months old today. You are growing up way to fast. I just want to put you in a bottle and freeze time. This is such a fun age, every day you are doing something to make me proud.

Here are some things that you have done this month:

1. You sat on the potty for the first time. I need to get better about having you sit on it but one thing at a time right?

2. You have been paci free for about 3 weeks now. You still don't nap as good as you used to but you will eventually fall asleep.

3. You have rediscovered your love for books. You still won't sit still long enough for me to read them to you but whatever at least you will sit with me a for few minutes. I will take what I can get.

4. You have learned that the dogs like to be covered with blankets and you are constantly trying to put the blankets on them.

5. You are learning to drink out of a new straw sippy cup. Hopefully this will get you one step closer to drinking out of a real straw.

My little angel I can't wait to see what the next month brings. Mommy and Daddy love you!!

Grandpa and Great Grandpa

Tyler's Grandpa is leaving very early tomorrow, so I had to get some pictures of Grandpa and him together before he left.

All the Wood is Down

My Dad and my Grandpa put down the last of the wood today. It looks so good. I am having a hard time getting them completely clean looking but once that happens I know I am going to love it. The color we picked out looks great with the rest of the decor of the house. My Dad is leaving on Sunday, so we were really hoping they would be able to finish and just leave the smaller stuff for my Grandpa to finish before he left. I think I might even be able to get a couple of extra projects out of my Grandpa while he here. I love when he visits he is such a handy man. He can fix almost anything.

Here are some pictures of the floor.

This was taken from upstairs looking down into the living room.

This is the office.

I would post one of the dining room/Tyler's playroom but its a mess right now. So I will wait.

Potty Time

Its time to introduce Tyler to the potty. A couple weeks ago I bought him one of the little chair potties and he didn't want to sit on it. I can't really blame him, it looked like it was squishing his little peepee (ooops I mean really big, sorry Daddy). So I returned it and decided to to try one of the ones that sit on the potty. I thought this might be better because he couldn't get down with out my help and the hole was much bigger. On the other one he kept trying to get up every second. Hopefully he will like this one a little more and stay on it for more than 10 seconds. Today I let him sit on the potty with his sippy cup and he was content for about a minute then he wanted down of course with no peepee in the potty.

Camping Out....

In an indoors kind of way. My Dad arrived on Tuesday. My Grandpa and him have been working really hard on getting my floors installed. Since Tyler tends to want to get into everything we have decided to camp out upstairs. Tyler has discovered a love for the treadmill (I'm glad someone enjoys it). He loves to bring his firetruck up there and play on it. He also likes to look out the stair rails and watch the big boys work. He really enjoys the role as supervisor:) Here are some random pictures from our play time upstairs.

Practicing his new walk. He likes to spread his legs apart really wide and walk around.

Working Hard

Here's proof that I got down and dirty putting these silly floors down. Putting the glue down is ALOT harder than it looks.

Meet Baby Zach

After 11 years of trying Nick and Sue welcomed their little bundle of Joy into this world. Zachary William was born on 2/12/10 at 7pm, weighing 7 lbs and 19.5 inches. He is proof that if you try hard enough for something miracles do happen. He is absolutely beautiful (he takes after his Mommy) and perfect in every way. We got to meet this little guy today he was 3 days old.