Well, I finally couldn’t deny it any longer — my little baby desperately needed a haircut!  Kathy had taken this picture of Tyler at daycare, and I realized he was looking a little, uh, shaggy… Tyler’s mugshot We took him to Big League Cuts, and they gave him this nifty certificate (and a baggy with… Continue reading First Haircut

We took Tyler for an appointment with his allergist yesterday.  We have been suspecting that he is outgrowing the milk allergy, but it will be nice to hear what the allergist has to say.  Ty has had a couple of “accidents” at daycare, and drank some milk from another child’s sippy cup.  We all held… Continue reading Allergy Update

As we were leaving the house the other day, Tyler saw a little beetle crawling across the mud-room floor.  He bends over to inspect it, then crooks his finger at it and says in a squeeky falsetto “hey little bug, c’mere.  c’mere little bug.”   Where did he learn that?  How do they pick up these… Continue reading Hey Little Bug

For a while now, Tyler has been able to count to 12.  It was probably about two months ago that I heard him counting out the numbers while walking down the stairs.  For some reason, though, he almost always skips the number “4”.  So this is a post to show a little love to the… Continue reading This Post Brought to You By the Number “4”

This morning, I paused the TV so I could get Ty to go into the kitchen and eat his breakfast.  (Getting him to do anything while he’s watching a show is almost impossible.  We call it being “zombified”…)  Anyway, when I paused the TV, he ran over and started waving his arms in front of… Continue reading No TV Off!

Every now and then, Ty likes to strip his diaper off and run around naked (or half-naked, anyway). He will do laps around the living room, yelling “nakey! nakey!” and giggling like crazy. The other day, during one of his half-naked run arounds, he suddenly stopped beside Panda, picked him up, turned him around (so… Continue reading See? See?

Ty has been having a great time with his new kitchen set.  Yesterday I watched him cooking.   He “cut up” some vegetables, and I heard him saying “more peppers! more peppers! broccoli stew!”   He put the food in the microwave, pushed the buttons, waited a few seconds, then said “all done”.  He took… Continue reading Little Chef

Tyler just loves the snow, and lately he’s been fascinated by snowmen.  Every morning when we leave he says “bye” to the snowman we built. The snowman Giving the snowman a hug The tunnel we dug through the snow pile “Helping” daddy snowblow

We are trying to teach Tyler to be polite. I am a firm believer in good manners. So it is not uncommon to hear an exchange like this: Ty: “cracker! hab it!!” Me: “ask nicely…” Ty: “cracker peeeese!” Me: “here you go. can you say ‘thank you’?” Ty: “tank ooo” Me: “you’re welcome” I guess… Continue reading Politeness

It was so cute the other day when Tyler was looking for Shiner, he was walking around the house the going “shiner, air are ooooooo?  air are ooo, shiner?”.