Big Steps

Thus far, Tyler has been somewhat resistant to walking and didn't like it if I tried to get him up on his feet to walk holding my hands. True to his character he'd rather do it on his terms and without Mom's help.
He goes to a play group on Tuesdays with other toddlers between ages 1 and 2. Tyler is one of only 2 babies out of the group of 10 that doesn't walk yet. (The other moms laugh at how Tyler can keep up to their speed doing his "turbo crawl").
Well today he discovered he could walk around while pushing his little cart his Aunt Heather gave him. He walked with the cart around the house for about 10 minutes. Yeah, those babies in the Tuesday morning group won't be laughing anymore. (Mom just better remember the cart).

Babysitting Bella

Bella is Tyler's 6 month old cousin. I watch her on Mondays and Tyler gets so excited to see his cousin and talk to her. She's about half his size but we're hoping she'll be able to hold her own with him soon. I'm including two videos we took last Saturday night while we were watching Bella. The first is of Tyler and Bella talking and laughing.

The second is what happened when I reached out my hand to keep Tyler from touching her face. Needless to say Tyler had not had enough sleep that day and was a little "sensitive."

Teething Tyler

This is a video we took shortly after Christmas. Tyler was getting his second tooth and we wanted to illustrate all of the "side effects" that come with it, including the crabby attitude.

10 Month Photo Shoot

Tyler is 10, almost 11 months old now. He says Mama, Dada, Dog (sounds like Dug), and Soft (sounds like Sa). We're working on getting him to not hit so I always tell him "Soft, Tyler" and then he says "Sa" quietly.

He's very busy all the time, crawling really fast around the house and trying to get into everything he can reach.

He gets very sad when Mom doesn't let him pull out all of her pots and pans to bang (Dad showed him that one). He's more prone to throwing fits but still has plenty of happy cute moments too. The other day he was supposed to be napping but I heard him up stairs in his crib talking to himself so I went to check on him and he'd thrown everything out of his crib and had even taken off his pants and thrown them over the edge too. He was quite pleased with himself!

Andy has a nice camera and takes great pictures of Tyler. We've never had them professionally done. Andy's are better. Tyler also knows how to ham it up for the camera I think. He's a natural.

Don't you just want to kiss that cheek?

Christmas '07

This was Tyler's 1st Christmas. We went to my parents in Maryland and everyone was spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa. Andy and I decided to start some Christmas traditions now that our little family is growing. My dad always read us "The Night Before Christmas" on Christmas Eve before we got into bed. So here's Andy continuing the tradition with Tyler.

Tyler got lots of presents but his favorite part was climbing over all of the wrapped presents and pulling off the bows. Once he had about 4 in his hands he took off and tried to make a run for it. They probably entertained him the most Christmas morning.

Cape Cod 07

Family picture on Cape Cod

Tyler

Tyler is our little guy