Sleepyhead Collection

These were taken over the last couple of weeks. I think sneaking in and catching a glimpse of him snoozing is just as sweet now as it was when he was a tiny newborn. I love my job!















* And my personal favorite*

'Hammer time"

Ruthless...

Update

You may have noticed that I didn't do a monthly update on 6/30. Since Tyler is now two, I don't think I'm going to do a monthly update anymore- it sounds kinda silly to say "25 months old"... "32 months old," etc. Instead, I'll just do an update when there's something to update. :-) And, there's not a lot to report right now, although it feels like we have certainly had our hands full lately.

I think I completely jinxed us by bragging about Tyler being on his best behavior and not expressing tantrums before he turned two. The tantrums we thought he had before are nothing compared to some of the ones we have seen lately. I'm talking about tantrums that are full on with screaming and kicking while laying on the ground. (Thank God they have only happened at the house and not out in public!). And they can occur over anything. For example, I offer to carry him down the stairs and he tells me that he'll do it on his own, so I walk down the stairs while he sits at the top of the staircase and proceeds to scream and cry because he wants me to carry him down. ??? Needless to say, it's been very challenging and frustrating for us. I've had to raise my voice, Tyler has had several trips to time-out and there have been times when we have to just walk away and ignore him. All of that equals NO FUN! He has become very opinionated and I am slowly figuring out how to avoid a lot of the tantrums just by giving him choices on a lot of things: flip flops or shoes, pull-up or diaper, pants or shorts, shower or bath, what book to read, what show to watch, etc., and believe me, he knows what he wants at that moment and I can see a difference in his behavior just by giving him a little freedom to make his own decisions on certain things. And as you can tell by all the posts before this, we've definitely had our great moments with our fun/sweet little boy, but whew, when he wants to be a turkey, he most definitely can be!! Hopefully, the 'terrible twos' are very short lived!

And on to a funny update: with Tyler's rapidly expanding vocabulary, he picked up his first cuss word! "Damnit!" haha~! And he actually knows what context to use it in! It started out as "Damnit flies" when those annoying things were flying around in our kitchen. Then he just randomly started saying it. "Damnit, let's go" at the red light. "Damnit, come on" while trying to buckle his seat belt. We don't want to laugh at it and have him think it's funny and continue doing it and we don't want to tell him not to say it because of course, he'll continue to say it, so for the most part, we're just ignoring it and hoping that it will run its course. Although, we'll turn away from him and get a pretty good chuckle- it's hard not to and it really is hilarious!!

Here's a short clip of him saying this new word while playing with Travis.

Another good-bye

We said another good-bye to Uncle Justin as he headed back to Florida today. We got some good news during this trip and found out that he will potentially be getting a job in Victoria, TX next Spring that will last at least three years, so we'll get to see a lot more of him (which means a lot more babysitting time for us! YEAH!). We're all excited about this!









Tyler was actually taking our pictures with the timer setting on the camera, however, he didn't quite make this one. ;-)

Water Balloon Fight!

Note to self: Water balloon fights with grown men aren't that much fun. It stings... A LOT... when you get hit!

Sprinkler fun!

Tyler received this fun water sprinkler from Poppa and Peggy and I wasn't exactly sure if he would like it because he's been so finicky about getting water on his face and in his eyes lately, but this was a huge hit! He loved it!

More visiting

It's been nice having Justin at the house because everyone is stopping by to visit with him! My mom and Grandma stopped by today to see Tyler.... I mean, Justin. :-)

Fourth of July weekend

We had a very busy/fun Fourth of July weekend with our family. Summary: My dad and Peggy came over to visit on Saturday and spent the night with us. We shot off some pretty big/nice fireworks that evening in the front yard. We all spent the day at Buda's Brew-B-Que and saw Cory Morrow play (he's quickly becoming one of our favorite Texas country musicians) and then enjoyed the Red, White and Buda fireworks display that evening with Travis' mom and sister.

Saturday night~


Sunday~






Cory Morrow~





Sunday night~

To Infinity and Beyond!

We took Tyler to see his first movie at the theater... Toy Story 3! It was a great movie! Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are some of the very few movies that have actually held his attention at the house, so I knew he'd really enjoy this movie and he did! Not to mention he loves his 'Buzz Light Buzz,' so he was especially excited to see him on the big screen. He was constantly laughing out loud during the movie (can I just say cute with a capital C!) and the only real problem we had was figuring out who he wanted to sit by. Uncle Justin came in from Florida today and Aunt Andrea met us at the theater, so he was excited to have both of them there with him. Otherwise, he did really well and we all enjoyed the movie!