Christmas

We had a great first Christmas. We saw lots and lots of family, I believe we made five different visits but it was fun to see everyone.

I am excited for next Christmas of course I am sure he will get lots of gifts and prefer the boxes!

I went back to work after Christmas and Will took the last week of the year off. He had an exciting time as a stay at home dad for a week.

The Christmas Card that Never Was

I had great intentions of putting together a Christmas card I wanted to have Tyler as Santa and include the dogs too. Will suggested we put Tyler in his wagon - in our heads we had a great image, execution proved to be more difficult. I soon realized there was absolutely no way that I was going to get all three to even halfway behave so I thought about photoshopping them all together. As you can tell Tyler was not thrilled with any of this at first but then warmed up to it some.

My goals were lofty and in the end I never got a Christmas card out! Next year I will start in November and hope I get one out the door.

Where's Tyler

Tyler was a giraffe for his first Holloween. Kind of funny considering he doesnt have much of a neck, but very cute!

We took this picture of him, very ETesque.

Go Rangers

Even though Will and I are not big baseball fans and Rangers either we still excited to see a Texas team make it to the World Series.

Amber bought Tyler this Rangers outfit which brought them luck in the begining.

Thanks Amber!

Why does Tyler smell like syrup

I can not stand pancakes waffles or anything that has syrup on it. Syrup sticks with you through 15 handwashings and although I ate it while pregnant with Big T before and now after pregnancy I hate(d) the smell.


When Tyler was about two weeks old I went to bed early and through out the night time feedings and such I kept thinking I was smelling syrup - gross maybe just hormones?


The next day I finally asked Will, do you smell syrup on his head? He said no at first but finally admitted he had pancakes after I went to bed and might have kissed Tyler's head a few times (or 100) hence the smell of syrup.

Photographer

We went to a photographer (Carrissa Hoopes - she's awesome) at six days old. Tyler pooped on everything but they didn't seem to mind. Lots and lots of great photos.

Going Home

We took Tyler home on September 20th. So exciting and scary. Grandma came and stayed the first night went to the grocery store, did dishes and laundry - thank you Grandma. While she was at the grocery store Will watched Tyler and I awoke to the changing table top on the coffee table and some mass chaos in the living room as Will attempted diaper changing outside the hospital. I think Tyler peed on us and it was about a 15 minute ordeal. This later lead to us timing his diaper changes to see if we could beat the previous time.

It was a fun and exciting and scary time- we were on our own!

Nanny came for the next two days and helped out as well. Fun times, and honestly not a great deal of sleep so its kind of blurry!

Tyler in his car seat to go home.