Tyler's Busted Nose!

My poor baby got a busted nose last week. He is doing much better now (and was obviously fine soon after just by looking at these pictures), but it was awful at the time. (And sorry for the mouth full of peanut butter sandwich, it was lunchtime.)



Here is a little play-by-play of what happened:

1. Mommy, daddy and Tyler playing in the living room, laughing hysterically...hahahahahaha.
2. Tyler runs into the playroom yelling, "CARS, CARS, CARS"!
3. Mommy looks over and sees Tyler pull the big, heavy, metal, non-child-friendly car off top of toy box.
4. Big, heavy, metal truck falls.
5. Mommy jumps up in SLOOOOOWWWW MOTION.
5. Truck hits Tyler's face and then Tyler falls on top of truck landing NOSE FIRST!
6. Mommy runs over.
7. Blood starts pouring out of said nose.
8. Daddy runs over.
9. Mommy passes out.
10. Daddy gets a rag, ice and paper towles and saves the day!

YAY for DADDY!

Shooby Dooby Doo

On the way to the baseball game Tyler was perfectly content entertaining himself. He had his bucket, his cars, and a song in his heart! I love listening to my little boy sing. He must take after his dadddy!

Round Rock Express

Even though the first week of school is the most stressful of all weeks, we decided to take Tyler to the Round Rock Express Baseball game Thursday night. (Thanks Pat Abbot for the free tickets!) Pat gave us four tickets so we called our friends Brian and Caitlin to join us. We don't get to hang out with them much anymore and Tyler absolutely loves them, so we were really excited when they said they could come. We weren't really sure how Tyler would do since it was super hot outside and the game didn't start until 7pm, which is after his dinner time and close to bedtime, but he never ceases to amaze me. We were there until 9:30pm, way after bedtime, and Tyler was awesome the entire night!
Soon after we got there we grabbed some dinner, played on the playground and walked around to check things out. Tyler was so intrigued by the fieild, so Caitlin got him as close as she could.


Tyler was in total awe of the Round Rock Express Mascot (not really sure what he is). Tyler watched him for most of the game, pointing and laughing, and making sure we saw him too!

However, he was not fond of THIS Mascot. I tried to get Tyler to take a picture with him, but he screamed and cried and tried as hard as possible to get as far away from him as he could!

Once the game started we found our seats and tried to explain the game of baseball to Tyler. He may not understand the game, but he now knows how to say baseball, or as he says, "b-ball". And we just enjoyed the quality time we had as a family!





And of course, what baseball game is complete without ice cream in a helmet, cotton candy, trying to steal daddy's beer, and the chicken dance? Just FYI: Tyler and I were so good at the chicken dance, we made it onto the big screen! Are we cool or what?





We had such a good time at the game and loved spending time with our friends. So thanks Pat for the tickets and a special thanks to Brian for making googly eyes at the girls on the field and getting them to throw a baseball to Tyler. His "b-ball" is now his new favorite toy!

Mrs. Stockmon, Stocking, Stockin, Skockman......

Yes, that's what I am called now. Apparently "Stockton" is very difficult to say when you are a first grader! Well as you can tell, I have started back to work. I thought maybe you would like to know what it's like to be in my first grade class, so I will give you a little sneak-peek......



So welcome to my class! And whatever you want to call me (as long as it's nice and first grade appropriate) is fine by me.

We're BAAAAAACK!

I know it's been a while and I am soooooo sorry! But we're back people.....because you know why......MIRACLES REALLY DO HAPPEN! And because my little boy is a genious I tell ya! My own little child prodigy! You know how I have been telling you all these sad stories about my broken camera; how I dropped it trying to get a good picture, and the lens was pushed over to the side, and how it would cost over $200 to fix, and how I couldn't find a camera that I wanted in my price range, and on and on and on. Well HEAR YE, HEAR YE! I don't have to buy a new camera anymore because MY CAMERA IS FIXED! And no I didn't have to spend $200 to get it fixed. All I had to do is give it to my little 19 month old, genious of a little boy, to play with and throw around in the car for a couple of months, and it works again. I guess the last time he threw it, he knocked the lens back into place and now it works as good as new. I am super excited and so proud of my little Mr. Fix It!
Needless to say we have taken many pictures and videos in the last couple of days, so I will be posting quite a bit tonight and tomorrow (since I have the day off! YAY FOR LABOR!)

You are my sunshine!

Bucket

(I got some pictures with my phone the other day and thought I might share.)
Bucket is one of Tyler's new favorite words. He got to use the bucket at my dad's house to help feed the cows and horses, and I guess he really loved that bucket. Because now that he is home, he wants to play with the big white bucket on our porch. Even the other day when I took Tyler to the pool, he insisted on taking the big bucket, plus his two little buckets.
Once we were at the pool, Tyler made friends with two guys there. They helped him fill his big bucket with water and then this is what he did with his new toy bucket......


If you look in the background, you can see one of Tyler's new friends.


Is he too cute or what!

So during his time in the bucket, Tyler would stand up and then sit down as fast as he could so all the water would splash out over the sides. Then he would laugh and laugh and wait for me to refill the bucket with water. Then, the process would start over again!
After about 15 or 20 minutes of Tyler still being in the bucket, I tried to explain to him that the pool was like one large bucket that he would have alot more room to play in. Well you try reasoning with an 18 month year old....it didn't go over very well!