22 months old

Our 22 month old is definitely a mini-human (as Travis likes to say)! He repeats/copies just about everything we say or do these days. It's really cute. I think I have pretty much given up on logging the words that he often says since he now says so much. Although, I have to mention that he finally started saying 'Tyler!' We have been trying for months to get him to say his name and he hasn't even attempted to try. We would ask him to say Momma, Daddy, Uncle, etc. and he would. When we would ask him to say Tyler, he would just point to himself. It always made for a good laugh! Now, he says his name so well and he says it all.the.time. :-) He also started saying dog, cat and cow as opposed to just making their sounds when we ask him to say the word. While his vocabulary is growing very fast, he isn't putting many words together aside from: Bye whoever or Hi whoever. I'm sure that's coming soon though.

We are still easing into potty training. I am more proactive about taking him to the bathroom since he's shown such a huge interest over the last few months and so far he's doing great with it! I purchased one of those toilet seat inserts (that sit on the big toilet) and he doesn't care for that. He went from standing to sitting on the toilet now and it's so much easier in my opinion. He often tells me that he needs to pee and he always lets me know when he's made a 'poot' in his diaper. haha. He even woke me up at 4:00am to let me know he had to pee! I know we still have a long way to go with this, but I'm very proud of his initiative/interest and how well he's doing so far.

We have also recently implemented time out. I initially thought he was a little young for this, but I still wanted to try a consistent approach and get him familiar with the idea of time out... where it is and why he goes there. That is also working out well! There is no struggle to get him to go to time out, in fact, the few times that I've told him he has to go, he gladly runs to his spot! However, once he sits down for a couple of seconds, he gets up, gives me a hug and tells me he's sorry. Fingers crossed it's always this easy, but who am I kidding??





Up the slide backwards~




And back down again~


Posted against the dishwasher~


A few videos of Tyler saying a few words before I've kinda given up on recording them.





ABC's with not a lot of patience. This was actually taken a couple of weeks ago and he would usually say all of the letters pretty well, but of course, it didn't come out quite as good when I recorded him. He's gotten a lot better at this over a couple of weeks!

Snow Day

It was almost 85 degrees and sunny two days ago and it was snowing today! True story! It's no wonder everyone is walking around sick. Anyway, we bundled up and at least got outside to see the snow coming down, but the temperature was just slightly above freezing, so it didn't stick and we weren't able to play in it. Bummer.





The boys watching the snow fall from the garage~
















We didn't see this stick around at all. Oh well. It was fun for 30 minutes.

Silly face

Ahhhh... what can I even say? I'm sure I have a lifetime to witness these silly faces that my child just discovered was fun to do.

Day at Zilker

Tyler and buddy Trace getting ready to ride the train around Zilker Park-













It's silly, but I'm so impressed with his ability to hold his weight and hang from the monkey bars. He's such a strong little boy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Cupcakes and Valentine's Day = One happy little boy! Hope everyone received extra hugs and kisses today!












Tyler says: Happy Valentine's Day... oh, and Hook 'em!

Ahh...my hubby

From my ever-so-sweet husband on his way to bed: "I just want to tell you that I love my son and I am glad that you gave him to me and take such good care of him. So, no matter how much of a pain in the ass you are, it's okay because I have a wonderful son." Uhhmmmm...... okay. ??

Mini-who?

I always hear, "Tyler is such a mini-Travis!" or "He looks a lot like you... he has your eyes" or "He's such a good combination of you and Travis." Which is it? With Justin hanging around, we've been going through a lot of old photos, so I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of Travis and I when we were little. I personally think that Tyler favors my side of the family more. ;-)

Here's baby Travis:









And here's baby Krista:











Toddler Travis- Awww





And Toddler Krista





Since the day that Tyler was born, I have said that I think he looks like my brother, Brent. Here are a couple of pictures of little Brent.





I want to try and find some more pictures of Brent, but my parents were horrible about taking care of the few pictures they did take of us growing up (you know it's true!). I think it's safe to say that Tyler will never tell me I failed at that. haha. (I still love you, Mom & Dad- just slightly bitter about the lack of childhood photos) ;-)

And just because... I LOVE these pictures of my mom and Grandma. They were both babies here, I can't believe it. My mom was probably 18, my grandma was 33 and I'm 3.





And another favorite of me. :-)