21 mos old

This has been a pretty fun month for Tyler. Aside from having all of his new Christmas toys to play with, his Uncle Justin has been staying with us for the last 3 1/2 weeks and Tyler has gotten very close to him. 'Uncle' is usually the first thing he says when he wakes up in the morning and from his nap... it's really sweet. I know Justin has enjoyed this time with Tyler too and the past few weeks have been a small preview to what a great relationship those two will have over the years. I wish Justin was always this close by.

Let's see... I've been reminded this month that Tyler can NOT be trusted alone for two seconds (at least not in my bathroom!). We've had three incidents recently. Incident one: Tyler grabbed a black permanent marker and seriously went to town marking up the new tile in our master shower that Travis has been hard at work on. It took Tyler probably 10 seconds to put his artistic touches on the shower bench and it took Justin and I probably 30 minutes to scrub it clean using every chemical I have in the house. Incident two: Tyler decided to spray the mirror, sink, floor and himself with my hairspray. I don't even use hairspray, but it was left out from our attempts to get the marker off the tile. Uggg. Incident three: Tyler decided to give shaving a try after seeing his Daddy do it earlier in the day. I was actually in the bathroom with him (!) and turned my back for just a few seconds to start his bath water when he grabbed Travis' razor off the counter and attempted to shave! He ended up with two good cuts on his bottom lip and a pretty good scratch on his cheek. We obviously have to be more conscious of keeping things out of his reach. (Btw- he recovered fine from his shaving wounds)

He has added a couple of new shows to his TV watching: Barney & Friends and Thomas the Train, although we do limit how much he watches. If he had his choice, I think he'd watch Thomas all day! He went from having a strong interest in trains before Christmas to REALLY loving trains after receiving his Thomas stuff for Christmas to becoming OBSESSED with trains after I introduced him to the Thomas the Train cartoon. It's ALL he talks about. "Choo Choo" all day, even at 5:45AM! He always wants to watch choo choo, he wants to read his choo choo books, he plays with his choo choos, he's very aware of crossing over the choo choo tracks and he has an ear for the train that's a couple of miles away like you wouldn't believe! I usually can't even hear it until he points it out to me. Although it's pretty exhausting, it's still fun to see him take such an interest in something.

I think I will soon give up on trying to keep track of the words that Tyler is starting to say because he says so much now. He repeats something I say everyday or he will surprise me just by naming something. While I can remember, here are some of the new words he often uses: help, share, nice and not nice, no-no and stay towards Cooper, apple, strawberry, feet, mouth, pull, cat, home, diapee, and he will say the various bath toys he has: duck, fish and boat.

He is literally changing everyday into this little boy with spunk and attitude and I just can't believe how fast it is happening.

Our 'photo shoot' didn't go so well this time around. He was absolutely not in the mood to take pictures until he was able to take one with his Daddy. Yeah... yeah... that's sweet, but I had already gone crazy from trying to take 50 pictures prior to Travis coming to the rescue.









And for being a butt head and not indulging Mommy with tons of cute, smiling pictures- take this, Little T! haha. Mommy always gets the last laugh. ;-)