A face only a Mother could love...

If so, then it is a face I'm proud to love. I think he is completly adorable! His grin is just too cute, but then again I am his mother so I'm probably biased.

Naptime

Yesterday, Tyler was kind of fighting his naptime. I could hear him in there playing after 45 minutes of being put down. When it finally quieted down, I sneaked in to see what was going on and I found him conked out with a book laying beside him. Remind you of anyone, Mom? The picture below is from naptime today. Don't they look like little angels when they are sleeping.

Wedding Reception

This is a picture of Uncle Bubba with baby Deke. Tyler has so much fun with him. He's makes a great Uncle and I think that my boys are going to think he's so cool.

This past weekend we traveled to Ottawa to attend the reception for my Uncle Ricky. He married Dawn on Friday and they had the reception on Sunday. (Top picture is one of the happy couple) It was great to see some of my family that I don't get to see too often. They had a DJ there and Tyler and my niece Destiny had a lot of fun dancing to the music. I kept having to drag Ty away from the very big and very loud speakers. I was so worried about his hearing.

While we were there Tyler blew into an ashtray and got ash in his eye. Fortunatly it wasn't hot ash, but we ended up stopping at Tomah ER anyway. He was still complaining about it on the trip home and it seemed to really be bothering him. We called the on-call peditrician in Winona and he recommeded that we stop at the nearest ER. We had to wait an hour there and finally got in to see the doctor around 9:30 pm. Tyler was such a trooper. He willing laid down for the nurse so she could flush his eye and when she would stop to let him get a big hug from Daddy, he would lie down again to get it flushed again. He faced the flusher 4 or 5 times without a fight even though he would cry every time they did it. They would stop so he could get some hugs from Daddy and then do it again. I was so proud of him. He's such a brave kid.

Playgroup

These pictures are from last week's playgroup. Tyler has so much fun playing with Kaia. We're really going to miss the Loos family when they move.

Smarty Pants Tyler

Tyler is turning into such a smart kid. We've been trying to do more choices for him so he cooperates a little better. For example, I'll ask him if he'd rather put his shirt on first or his pants on first. I thought it was working really well as he was cooperating better. But my little boy caught on to this a little too well. We were at the store and he was holding two footballs. He wanted me to hold one and I didn't want to, so he looks at me and asks me if I'd rather hold this one or that one.

Then yesterday after Joel leaves for work, Tyler was pretty upset and crying. He comes over to me, lays his head on my knee and through his tears asks for juice and tells me that it will make him feel better and make him stop crying. Then later that afternoon after his nap, we make cookies together and I let him eat one then. There really is nothing better than a warm cookie. He is helping me put the rest of the cookies on a plate, but he kept two of them in his hands. I reminded him that he could only have one cookie and he had already eaten it so he needed to put those two on the plate. He tells me they are for his friends.

The things he says just cracks me up and he is catching on to so many things. Joel and I need to be very careful with what we say and do as we could very well see it displayed in public which could be very embarassing.

Oh, one last thing he told me yesterday was that I was a Patriot (football fan) and he was a Packer. You darn Packers turned my own son against me. He then kept going through the house saying "Go Packers!" The little traitor.

Sporting News

Tyler is such a little athlete! He even prefers to read Sporting News over a story book. He sees this magazine and wants us to read it to him.

We tried to get some good pictures of Tyler and Deke together. Tyler gets a kick out of holding him.

Apple Orchard

Friday morning we went on a field trip to the Ferguson's Apple Orchard. It was chilly, damp, and overall pretty miserable weather, but we still had fun. We got to go on a wagon ride up into the orchard and pick an apple from a tree and eat it. That was a lot of fun.

The bottom picture is a picture of Tyler's friends from daycare. Ethan, Lillanna, and Tyler would pick a tractor out of a group of tractors and only share it among themselves. It was pretty funny. Ethan would bring it over and give it to Tyler and then Tyler would ride it for a little bit and then give it to Lillanna. These three are very close in age. Ethan is only a month older than Ty and Lillanna is 3 days older than him. Ethan just had a baby brother last week and Lillanna will become a big sister in February so they'll have even more in common and more to complain about to each other once they're all older siblings.