Christmas Eve Morning

Since we planned to drive to Tyler on Christmas morning, we let Santa come early to our house. Christmas Eve morning we woke Tyler up and gave him his presents from Santa....two books, a push car, a stuffed animal, a ring toy, and the best gift of all, a playroom! We cleared out all the furniture in our den area (stored it in Lamar's office at church) and turned it into a nifty little playroom for Tyler. He was really excited to get in there and play, but he doesn't like being in it by himself. We are still working on the whole, "play by yourself" thing!

A little shout out....

I have to give a little shout out to our friends Nick and Lindsey. Not only have they made our move to Austin easier by being such amazing friends to us.....but they have become another aunt and uncle to Tyler. He just loves them. The other night I got really sick from a new medicine that I am on and Lamar was working late, so I called them and they came right over. Not only did Lindsey help me feed Tyler his dinner, give him his bath and help me put him to bed, (which he gladly let her do) but Nick made me homemade chicken noodle soup. I couldn't have felt more loved.

To add to their amazingness......they brought Tyler his very first Christmas present the other day. It was his very first Truck Book. He loves looking at the pictures while I read it to him. Thank you guys so much for all your love! You are such a blessing to us. We love you too!

Sweet Daddy!

I love giving gifts at Christmas time! As soon as I buy someone a present I want them to open it right then. About 3 months ago I started working on a present for Lamar (from Tyler). It was a story book of pictures of just him and Tyler from the day before he was born, until now. The title was "My daddy and me" and it was written as if Tyler were telling a story about him and Lamar, and all their adventures together. I have kept this a secret for so long and it has been killing me. So...I made Lamar open it early. It was so sweet. Tyler helped him open it (he actually just ate the wrapping paper), and then Lamar read it. I had to show you these pictures because they are just too sweet. And I have to tell on Lamar.....he cried just a little when he read the story....doesn't that make your heart just melt!



And YES, Lamar is sitting in Tyler's bathtub. It's a fun little boat now that Tyler uses the big bath!

Tyler the Incredible!

Tyler has a new favorite hobby. He loves to hang on anything and everything....the monkey bars on the playground, the gate in our house, the stool in front of the computer, even the wrapping paper mommy is holding. He is sooooo strong! (Let's also mention how strong I am for holding him up....just look at my super huge muscles! HAHAHAHA! Ok you can stop laughing now!)

Santa is NOT our friend!

My friend Lindsey and I went to Starbucks yesterday to enjoy a nice warm drink in the chilly weather. To our surprise, Santa was there taking pictures for FREE! All you stay-at-home-moms out there know that anything FREE is GOOOOOD! So, we tried to get Tyler to take his picture with Santa but he was not too impressed. His look says it all!
(This is a picture of a picture...so it's not that great of quality. )

Tyler the orange nosed reindeer!

I don't know why his nose is always orange. We have moved to all green veggies so maybe we will see a change soon. Get off my back!

Let me introduce you to....

Our playgroup.....
We love going to playgroup on Wednesdays. Tyler has made some really good friends and I love the adult conversation. This week was the first week Tyler actually acknowledged that there were other kids there. I was so happy to see that he's not anti-social.
Calvin, Harper and Tyler loved playing in the little house. Tyler likes going in and out of the door over and over and over again.


My favorite part was when they all crawled through the tunnel. Tyler wasn't sure which way to go once he got in there, but he had a blast doing it. So cute!

Tyler wasn't really into posing for the camera, but Calvin and Harper were adorable.

Little Miguelito is all smiles. He is such a happy boy and he has the most beautiful blue eyes. I love to make him laugh. Tyler just loves taking his toys.


Brendan and Patrick couldn't join us this week, but I will post some pictures of them later. Trust me...you want to see these cutie twins.

Fun in the Sun...in December!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE cold weather......but.... I live in Texas! So....we have been trying to make the most of this crazy December Texas weather. Last week we took Tyler to play at the park with our friends Nick and Lindsey. Tyler has so much fun at the park, even though he can't walk around, because he loves playing (eating) all the rocks,

he really enjoys playing in the rocking car,

He loved it so much he rocked himself too hard and fell down inside the car. Don't worry, Lindsey was there to save him. Just a tiny scrape so we just told him, "Be a man, rub some dirt in it!" (Our favorite movie quote)

I quite enjoyed myself as well!

he has a blast in the swing


and he loves to crawl through the tunnels with mommy.

While we were at the park, this little girl came strutting into the rock area in ALL her DIVA glory! She was FAAABULOUS! I asked her mom if I could take her picture and she said it was fine. So here she is....Miss Diva Fabulous herself!

Disclaimer - The boys aren't in the pictures because they were too busy throwing the frisbee and playing basketball! Too bad for them!

My little dare devil!

My 10 month old cutie!

A few cute new pictures of my big boy!

Wearing my shirt from when I was in day care at Green Acres Baptist Church. I love this one.

Story time. Tyler's favorite toys are his books. He makes me so proud!

Snuggling after bath time.

Best Buddies!

"Helping" mommy with laundry. Tyler loves to take things OUT of the dryer as I'm putting them in. It's a little game we play EVERY DAY!