Swing!!!!

We went to my family reunion in Goldthwaite and visited a park. This was Tyler's first time in a swing and he LOVED it! He had so much fun. He actually kicked his legs back and forth like a big kid would to get the swing moving faster. Unfortunately he came down with a case of hand foot and mouth that I attribute to me letting down my germ guard (against Will's wishes)and putting him in the swing. He was out of daycare for a week so back to germ - a - phobia. At least he enjoyed the swing. We don't have big enough trees for one so I bought one for my mom's so hopefully he will like it as much.

8 Months

At eight months Tyler has accomplished A LOT! He can clap, although not on demand, I guess as the music moves him. He loves to stand and learned to pull himself up.


He has been army crawling from about six months and after learning to pull himself up I caught this video of his first real crawl.

He is all man, he was going for the remote, I figured that would get him moving :)

He is a charmer, he likes for people to smile at him and loves crowds. He will make noise in a resturant until he gets people to turn and look at him and then he gives them a huge smile.

He's getting so big!

Grand and Great Grand Mommas

We saw all the grandmas on the Saturday before Mother's Day. We had lunch with Nanny and Grandma. Tyler did so great, we were there for two hours and he behaved so well. It helped to have extra loving hands to hold Tyler.
Nanny and Tyler (the lighting could have been better)

Grandmas

Grandma and Tyler

From Grandmas

After lunch we headed over to G Donny and Mary's wedding. Tyler got to spend lots of time with Great Gran. Tyler was pretty intent on getting Great Grans corsage. When it came time to feed Tyler Great Gran did not hesitate to step in and feed Big T. She did such a good job - his bib was barely dirty when she was done. I should have spent a little more time observing her technique.
Tyler and Great Gran and Gramp (quality of this picture is pretty bad, but you get the idea)

From Grandmas

Tyler is very lucky to have such wonderful grandmothers and a great gran as Will and I are to have great moms and grandma to celebrate with.

Six Month Pictures Are In!

These are Tyler's six month pictures. The same photographer (Carissa Hoopes) that did his newborn ones. She did a fantastic job! Tyler had an ear infection, Will was sick and I had been traveling for the past three days leading up to these. Will and I did not expect much out of his 'photo shoot', but we were thrilled with the outcome.

He participated for about 45 minutes and was done. We had several wardrobe changes and fought the constant battle of getting his hands out of his mouth (Tyler owns the tastiest hands in the land).

We took him there in the superman onsie with no intentions of having that as one of the outfits, but the photographer said, no I think these will be great and they are some of my favorites.

The Second Tooth has Arrived

Tyler got his second tooth. Two down - Eighteen more to go... (according to the very reliable source of tfairy.com) He is a drooling machine and everything goes into the mouth. I hope the next ones come in a little easier, teething is no fun. What's worse is he has to lose all these and go through it again!

No picture for this post, just seems weird to take a picture plus I am pretty sure I would not be able to get him to cooperate.

Trip to the Beach!

We had planned to take Tyler to San Diego, to the Hotel Del Coronado. Well work was hectic for both of us and Tyler has had an ongoing ear infection so we decided to go to Port Aranasas.

You would have thought we were moving out of the house with the amount of stuff we took. We could have used a U-Haul. Luckily Will suggested a place that had luggage carts so we got everything to the room fairly easily, but we looked like we were leaving Austin forever. One suitcase for Will and I and a whole truck load of stuff for T.

The beach was covered in seaweed and there was some pretty decent wind so he was less then impressed with it. He was very curious with all that was going on with the waves coming in and us jumping over seaweed and all. We also dipped his toes in the pool and he was not happy with that.

We had a great time overall and I am glad we will go back in July. It was the first family trip and outside of one major meltdown it all went well. Hopefully the beach, weather and all things outside of our control will work well for us next time.

The Naming of Tyler and all the Williams

Tyler's full name is Tyler William Ferguson. We knew if Tyler was a boy his middle name would be William, Will told me that if he ever had a son that would be the middle name before we got married.

There are two parts to the William aspect.

Will's dad was Richard Garland, and Will is William Richard - basically fathers first name becomes your middle. Love the tradition - secretly hope Tyler keeps it up :)

William however is very much a family name. How do I explain this without making it overly complicated and using Will, William etc over and over. Forewarning this may require some concentration... Will's grandpa (Poppa) was a William Dixon Jr, his son (Uncle Billy) was a III, and both Will and his cousin share the name. Needless to say there are lots of Williams. It traces back on Will's grandfathers side of the family and his Grandma (Granny - same birthday as Tyler)for generations before that. Man, is that confusing to explain!

At Easter we were able to get a picture of all the Williams in Will's family. From left to right we have Billy or as referenced above III, holding William Anderson (newest William that belongs to the William on the far right), then Will and Tyler William and then William Lee (aka Lee).