We had our first real choking scare today. Ty has had times when he sort-of choked on something, where he was coughing and gagging, but it was always obvious that he could still breath. After breakfast we went in the bathroom to wash his hands and I didn’t realize that he still had a mouth… Continue reading Choking Scare

Tyler and I had a nice time decorating the tree together.  I tried to show him how to hang the ornaments, but he didn’t quite get the concept.  I would give him a ball and tell him to hang it on the tree somewhere, and he would take it and cram it into an opening… Continue reading “Undecorating” the Tree

I really think we are going to end up with an adrenaline junkie on our hands.  Tyler just loves to rough-house and climb, and play games that end up with him flying in the air and whooshing down, only to be stopped at the last second.  He also loves to do things like stand in… Continue reading Dizzy, Dizzy

Boy, do kids ever learn fast.  He showed us that he knows what presents are.  Christmas morning when we came downstairs and he saw them under the tree, he shouted “PRESENTS!” and ran straight for them. 🙂 Oooo, I wonder what’s in here? A new train! C’mon daddy, let me have it already! Trying out… Continue reading Christmas 2009

One of the things I’ve read about in the baby books is how kids learn how to “self soothe”.  They find something that they can do that calms them down, and somehow anchors them.  For some kids it’s sucking their thumb (or fingers, like Tyler), for others it’s twirling their hair or rocking back and… Continue reading The Toe Thing

The hard part wasn’t getting him to wear the antlers, or to keep them on.  The hard part was just getting him to sit still long enough to take the dang picture…

Bolt was on TV, so we watched it with Tyler.  In the beginning of the movie, there is a part where Bolt and Penny are being chased by bad guys in cars, helicopters and motorcycles.  Bolt stops and does his “super bark” that sends all the bad guys flying.  When we got to this part… Continue reading Watching Bolt

We spent thanksgiving with our friends the Sutherlands.  We all had a wonderful time!  We tried several times to get a good picture of the three of us, but Tyler just would not look at the camera.  When he finally did, he looks like he is expecting it to jump out of Barb’s hands and… Continue reading Thanksgiving

When we were at Kathy’s in July, Tyler totally loved the pink, fuzzy chair that was in the room we slept in.  He loved it so much that we almost immediately went out to try and find one for him.  We found one (the very last one) at Wal-mart.  It had a small tear in… Continue reading The Fuzzy Chair