Tyler was a gnome for Halloween (specifically the Travelocity gnome).He looked super cute and everyone loved his costume. He wore it to school and won (unofficially)staff favorite. His teachers loved it so much they took him to every room to show off. We took him in the wagon to a few houses to trick or treat but mostly sat out front and handed out candy.
We went to the pumpkin patch at the Elgin Christmas Tree Farm. It's the same place we get our Christmas Tree from every year. It was a lot of fun with a lot for kids to do. Tyler pet a minature horse he wasn't really sure what to do but liked it in the end. We took a ton or pictures of him in the pumpkins and had a great time. We bought three pumkins and carved one of them for Halloween.
Tyler took his first steps - of course being bribed by the opportunity of a phone. I 'tricked' him into it and then he didn't walk again for almost a month. As of now (11/26 when I am posting this) he is a full time walker and almost running! He is past the 'Frankenstein' stage as someone called it and walking great. Man are they fast!!!! I am so very glad to have him not crawling - when a kid starts self feeding with their hands - its like taking your silverware and strapping it to your shoes and then giving it a slightly warm wash with soap before dinner. You can tell my excitement by the gasp at the end but it was super exciting!!!!
Tyler has a best friend at daycare. His name is Alex, they were in the infant room together and now in the one year old. They are so happy to see each other they hug and smile. All of their teachers say it is not common for two kids this young to be such good friends to be so excited to see each other. Of course if you put two one years together for an ongoing period of time you are likely to encounter problems. Alex likes to put his hand in Tyler's mouth and Tyler figures if its there why not bite it? We have had several incident reports about this. I keep telling Tyler these will go on his permanent record, but doesn't seem to bother him. We got invited to Alex's birthday at Gymboree. The first thing Tyler did... was run up hug Alex and then bit him... Luckily we stopped it before it became an 'incident' and they both had a great time.
Tyler decided he liked cake at Alex's birthday. I didn't really expect him to go after it like he did, but all the parents got a good laugh.
Amber got married to Josh on August 13th but we just got the photos back from the photographer. Amber made Tyler a honorary ring bearer. Here is a great picture of Amber and Tyler and then one of our family from the wedding. Amber was a beautiful bride and had an amazing wedding. We all had a great time and were happy to celebrate their marriage with them.
Tyler had his one year appointment and is in the 75th percentile for height and weight. His head is in the 95th percentile but I can't be surprised by that when we went to buy him his cowboy hat we started at the infant size, then x-small then small and landed on child medium (he was 11 months old).
He is a happy healthy boy and hitting all his milestones. Still not a walker but seems like it should happen any day. Surprisingly he is very cautious when it comes to walking and it doesn't really fit him, but as they say 'he will do it when he is ready'. He does clap his hands when he stands, so proud of himself.
This is about a month old but he pushes the carts all around the house. This one was super cute (of course we didn't have clothes on him) but if you listen at the end it sounds like he is saying 'Dad look'
He started the one year old class. He has to wear shoes everyday, sleep on a mat, self feed and drink from a sippy cup. He is able to do all of them and then on the first day the teacher thanked us for getting him prepared and I thought... didn't know it was an option? The thanks really goes to his infant room teachers they did most of the work :) I see kiddos older then him that can't self feed and still have a bottle and am glad we 'felt the pressure' to get him there. He doesn't seem to mind it at all so that helps.
Tyler had his first birthday at Grandma and Grandpa's house (big thanks to them!) It was cowboy themed although Grandpa always reminds us he doesn't want to be a cowboy... Nanny made his cake she special ordered a pan to make it a cowboy! He had a great time and had lots of people there to celebrate. All his cousins (Aiden, Kennedy, Alexis, Jordan, Piper and soon to be born Teagan) and second cousin Madeline as well. In addition to all his aunts, uncles and all of his great aunts and uncles! Of course Great Grand and Gram (Clyde and Libby) were there as well. Lucy was there and even rode the train with Tyler... she was fine (at two and half months) he was not too happy about it, but separate post on that.
He (we) were lucky that many people attended to help him celebrate his first year. Thank you everyone that made the time to come.
Aside from a gagging (although some called it choking) incident with the smash cake it all went well.
I have said it 100 times before but my gosh where does the time go?
