Independence: Being One

Tyler never fails to entertain us. He's becoming more adventerous and has experimented with climbing. Andy says he needs some reality lessons with gravity and tells me to let him fall. One day while climbing around on the couch he fell backwards into his toy basket. I guess he decided it wasn't such a bad thing because he stayed and played for awhile before trying to get out.

Now that the weather's warming up he also loves to go outside. He still can't walk without his little cart so we bring that out for him to walk around on the sidewalk. He loves to watch the little boys on our block run around and play. He's observant and will sometimes take my keys and stand up and put them on the door knob when he wants to go out and play. Here's a picture of an attempted escape. We're just glad he can't reach the dead bolt yet.

1st Birthday

Tyler's first birthday was March 6th, 2008. (I'm a little slow on the updates). He got to wear this great hat and bib for every meal on his birthday. He had a little banner that went around his tray too but we had to take it off when he started pulling off the flags and eating them.

We had a quiet birthday at home with just Mom and Dad and then my parents on the web cam. Tyler loved smashing his cake and loved his new presents with lots of lights and sounds. We had a birthday party with Andy's family later in the month where he got some great outdoor toys for this summer and some bath toys.

I made his birthday cake. Writing out "Happy Birthday Tyler" was a little too complex for me with the icing pen. So we just stuck to the big number 1.
My mom bought Tyler this hat and sunglasses combo for his birthday. He loves the glasses. Anytime Andy and I are wearing our sunglasses in the car he wants to have his on too. I think he knows he's hot stuff with them on.