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Halloween Fun

Our friends Jaime & Rebecca came over this week to carve pumpkins with us. I guess we've made it full circle - first gingerbread houses, then easter eggs, & now pumpkins.

These are our pumpkins !!! ;)Here they are finished. Unfortunately, Pat's pumpkin didn't make it to Halloween. It was FULL of mold by Thursday.

Here is our even cuter pumpkin.
My friend Diona gave Tyler this cute little outfit. It's perfect because it says Mommy's little Pumpkin & Pumpkin is one of my nicknames for Tyler. Trick or Treat! We went Trick or Treating to Grandma & Grandpa's house but we didn't leave with any candy. All that was in Tyler's little goody pail was a pacifier. I guess that's all that he needs. We did score three pieces of candy across the street though. Daddy is already stealing Tyler's candy.:)
I had to buy this costume as soon as I saw it because when Tyler was first born we said he looked like a monkey becasue his arms were so long. Luckily he's grown into them now. He was the cutest little monkey I've ever seen though!
Now on to some pictures from the last couple of weeks.

Here is Tyler with his girlfriend/co-worker Mia. They both get to spend time at work with their Mommies. They like to hang out together. Mia is 10 months old but Tyler has already passed her up in size. That's okay though because girls are supposed to be petite. Tyler is in the back office with me and Mia is out at the counter with her mom but when they both like it when they are together. Tyler always smiles when he sees her.
Here they are holding hands. It doesn't show very well in this picture but when she took his hand he got a HUGE smile on his face. He is definitely a ladies' man. We better watch out - Mia is already calling Tyler on the phone. She was playing with her grandma's cell phone and called us. I'm sure that's the first of many calls Tyler will get from girls. Just give him a few years.

This was Tyler playing in his crib when he was supposed to be sleeping (a very frequent occurance).

Isn't that just an adorable face?

Talk about a cheesy grin! He likes playing in this jumper more than the one that hangs in the doorway. He doesn't do much jumping but he does like to play with all of the toys.

I just finished knitting this little sweater vest for Tyler so he wore it to church today. Unfortunately he's not going to be able to wear it much longer since he's so big. The next size up was 12 months so I thought this would fit him through the winter at least. I guess now I'll just have to make him a bigger one. Doesn't he look kind of preppy? My grandparents bought us a highchair for Tyler yesterday. He doesn't get to start solids for another month but I put him in it today anyway. He thought it was a great place to put his feet up. Hopefully he doesn't do that when there's food sitting there!
Tyler is such a fun baby & he has such a great personality. He is always smiling and laughing. Pat and I were talking the other day and we decided that Tyler doesn't ever cry. He's either happy or he's SCREAMING. He doesn't like to go down for his naps anymore so we have to shut his door now because it is too loud to think with his door open. He usually goes for about a half an hour before he finally takes his pacifier and knocks out.

Sweet Little Kaylee

We absolutely adore our cute little neice Kaylee. She's so much fun and she loves Tyler. Sometimes she has to show him who's the boss though. I know they will have a blast together once Tyler gets a little older and can play with her. He already loves her. Yesterday we went to Quiznos and Tyler was in his car seat on the floor next to Kaylee's high chair. He was just looking up at her talking and smiling away. Who knows what he was saying! (Maybe Kaylee understood him though).

I knit this cute little shirt for Kaylee. I thought I should put my skills to better use than just making scarves and blankets.

It looked pretty cute on her. Believe it or not, she wasn't in the best of moods that day! Just the cutest little cousins EVER! They both seem to be enjoying themselves.She loves playing with Tyler's bouncer. Isn't she sweet?

We love you Kaylee!!!

The Cutest Baby in the World!!!

Okay, so maybe we're a little biased, but we think Tyler is absolutely the cutest baby in the whole world! He is so much fun and we love him more than anything. He's such a good baby now too. I never thought I would say that, but he's almost always happy. There's really no middle ground - either he's really happy or really mad.

This is probably going to be a long post becasue a lot has happened in the past few weeks. Since my last post Tyler got a cold that resulted in him getting his first ear infection. It was so sad. It was awful knowing that he was in that much pain and there was nothing we could do about it. He went on his first dose of amoxicillin but unfortunately that did not get rid of it so he had to go on a second stronger antibiotic. Thankfully after four days of that his ear was back to normal. Unfortunately he was still screaming and tugging on his ears sometimes. The doctor said it is probably teething. SCARY!!! I'm definitely not ready for that yet. I posponed his four month appointment because I didn't want him to get his shots while he was still fighting an infection. So today was the day. He weighed in at an amazing 17 pounds exactly and is 26 inches long. He falls in the 90th percentile for both height and weight. What a big boy. He's going to pass me up before I know it.

These days I'm in the process of trying to get little Tyler on a schedule. I just want to know when he's going to eat or sleep ahead of time so that way I can make plans instead of just waiting for him to wake up or want to eat. He's getting to be pretty good at sleeping now. We usually wake up somewhere around 6:00 or 6:30. Today I actually woke up before him. That was a little weird for me to not wake up to a screaming baby in the other room. I was able to make my bed and eat my cereal by myself. Then I went to go wake him up at 7:00 and there he was wide awake with a huge smile on his face.

Sorry for so much writing...now on to the more exciting things - pictures!!

Tyler was having a lot of fun talking to his monkey.

This was a new toy we brought out for Tyler. He wasn't quite sure what to think about it the first couple of days, but now he likes it a little more.

Isn't that the cutest little face you've ever seen? And look at those BLUE eyes.

I couldn't resist. Church wore him out!

Mommy, what are you looking at? They're just rolls!

Can you believe this hat said size Newborn?

We finally got to put Tyler in the jumper...I don't think he quite knows what to do in it. He really does have arms in there somewhere!

It was way too hot to wear clothes that day!

Sorry Tyler, that's not a phone.

Need I say more? I think the outfit speaks enough for itself.

Last Saturday it was really cool outside and we actually had some rain showers so Tyler got all bundled up for the first time. I think he liked it. I know I did...we've had enough heat lately. I'm ready for some cooler weather.

This is what Tyler did during conference on Sunday. I think he got a lot out of it. :)

I love to see this huge smile! Lately it seems to be pretty slobbery.

These pictures show how big Tyler is and how small he is too.

What a cute hat!

I had to take this picture! Tyler loves his pacifier and he always puts his thumb inside it and this morning his mouth opened while he was sleeping and it fell out and resulted in this cute sight!

I know this seemed like a lot of pictures, but it really wasn't compared to the couple hundred that I had to chose from since my last post!

Sorry!

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted. Things have been pretty busy around here the past month and a half. We moved at the beginning of August and I've been so crazy busy between the unpacking, taking care of Tyler and trying to work. Pat & I had our 3rd anniversary this week and we went out to Claim Jumper tonight to celebrate. It was our first time out just the two of us since Tyler was born. Thanks Grandma for babysitting! Here are some pictures of our little tank of a baby. When he went to his two month appointment he was 13 pounds 8 ounces and 24" long. He was in the 97th percentile for his weight & the 75th for his height! I weighed him at home yesterday with me and he was already 16 pounds! He goes to the doctor in two weeks so we'll have to wait for the official number then.

I have some more pictures I wanted to post, but the computer wouldn't turn them for me. Every time I rotated them they just stayed sideways. I'll have to try again another day.