15 Months!

My baby boy is 15 months old! I can't believe it!

We went in for his 15 month check up yesterday and here are the stats:
Weight - 26 lbs 9 oz (75%)
Height - 31 1/4 inches (50%)

We met with the nurse practioner and she said everything looks great! His development is right on track and she seemed super surprised at how big Tyler is... I mean he's in the 75th and 50th percentiles but maybe he looks a lot bigger for his age... She asked how tall dad was (Chad wasn't at the appt with me) and I said "uuhhhh 5'8", lol, and she's all "there must be tall genes somewhere in the family." True - on my mom's side and on Chad's side too but still... he's in the 50th, so average right? I dunno... just thought it was funny.

Random Day...

Tyler had a Dr's appointment last week to see what his cough was all about... He'd had it for a couple of weeks and I wanted to try and do what I could to get rid of it before taking him to the dr's. It wasn't constant and wasn't keeping him up at night, etc but the things I were doing we're working so to the Dr's office we went. Well it turns out Ty had a sinus infection and an ear infection. Poor guy! With his past ear infections he was NOT happy 24 hours a day and with this one he was acting perfectly fine, except for pulling at his ears a little but that's also a sign of teething... so who knows. Anyways... when we went out to pick up his prescriptions that afternoon after the dr's I decided to stop at the park. It's so much fun to take him now that he's walking all over the place. He chooses which toy he wants to go over to and it's so cute. This was though the first time that he seriously threw a fit when we were leaving. I picked him up to take him to the car and as soon as he knew that we were walking towards the parking lot he started crying, then struggling to get out of my arms, then arching his back when I put him in his carseat. At least he loved and enjoyed the park while we were there and I got some cute pictures :)

* He loves the swings *

* And he LOVES things that spin *

* So much fun! *
* I'm trying to teach him slides are for SLIDING... not climbing * My little monkey *
* And then he became intrigued with this father and son playing basketball. He tried walking over there and up to them like 5 times *

New Years 2009

We headed out to Ocotillo Wells on New Years Eve this year to camping for the New Year. Our friends Justin and Araceli and Mike, Emily and Connor joined us out there for a fun time! Tyler and Connor are 8 months apart but played so well together and it was so cute to watch them interact. The boys went to bed pretty easy seeming there was a lot going on (at least it can be hard for Ty sometimes) and the adults were able to hang out by the fire and enjoys each others company while waiting to ring in the New Year. About 3-4 other campsites around Ocotillo had CRAZY fireworks (like the big, professional 4th of July ones) so we had an awesome fireworks show at midnight! We made smores (of course!), played catch phrase and had a fun time. Tyler decided to celebrate the New Year at 2am (YES 2 AM!) in a trailer with Araceli, Emily and Connor (the boys all slept together outside in a tent, cute huh?) and we were awake until 4... and then up for the day at 6:45... so yeah... not to much fun on my part but what're you gonna do?! Sometime he just has a hard time sleeping out there and sleeping in a pack'n'play. Anyways... all in all we had a great time. Ty and I came home for the second night as I didn't want to even chance having a LOOONNNNGG night again while everyone else stayed out there. Oh and Ty ended up sleeping 14 hours in his crib that night... tired boy!!!

* The boys hiked up to the top of this crazy mountain with the dogs... ya... no thanks! *

* Tyler and Connor playing in the back of the trailer *

* Araceli drinking her hot cocoa - preggers!! *
* The Girls *
* The Boys *
* SMORES - MMMM *
* Group photo *
* 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1! *
* Happy New Year! *
* us *
* Araceli & Justin *
* Emily & Mike *
* Catch Phrase *
* The cute boys sleeping (before Ty woke up that is...) *
* The boys playing...with a box of matches yes... but mom was right there watching - It was so cute watching them pass it back and forth for like 5 minutes, seriously! *
* Connor loved the dirt bike too! *
* My little Ty Man *
* He loves the dirt *
* And grandpa's big toys! *
* The boys are going for a ride *

* Here's a video of Ty's first time riding out in the dirt - so cute *

Ty's Kawasaki!

I know I've been so behind on blogging lately so I'm hoping to get caught up while Tyler's napping right now...

Anyways... here are a couple of videos of Tyler riding his little quad for the first time the day after Christmas. I can't believe this little power wheels quad is ages 12-36 months as Tyler (15 months) can't clearly know when to push the button and start, stop, steer, etc. He LOVES it though and it's too cute to watch how excited Chad gets watching him! Oh and this is definitely an only play while mommy/daddy is watching 24/7 toy... lol!