Trunk or treat

Tonight we went to a trunk or treat at Ty's new best friend Van's church. Ty was a monkey and Van was a lion. After putting on our monkey costume at home - he tried to eat the fake banana attached to his costume - so we had to get a real one. Here we are trying to eat it in peace - but momma keeps taking pictures.
....need a little more....

momma......
okay, I'll be a monkey. OO-OO
AH-AH (see the banana?)

trunk or treating with Van. It went okay - until Ty saw spiderman - he did not like the mask covering the little boy's face and started screaming and clung to my leg.

showing off his trick or treat bag mom made for him. :)

Be on the lookout for more pictures from Halloween night!

Tricky

As I was cooking dinner tonight Ty kept asking for cheese, after two slices I said he has to wait for dinner. I turn my back to stir something at the stove and then look down. He just has a huge open mouth smile so I of course think he just likes helping with dinner. But then I realize he keeps opening his mouth and giving me a really happy smile-then I see it-a half chewed green bean that he stole off the counter while I had my back turned. Ha. So I prompty filled up a plate of beans for him to eat. We are both tricky tricky. (wink wink!)

Two more!

Around Ty’s birthday he had a fever for about 4 days and no other symptoms.  It was a rough week – he was having trouble sleeping – waking up in the night 3 or 4 times.  No one got much sleep.  Well, while we were learning body parts we decided to count his teeth – turns out he was getting his two year top molars right on time.  Now that they have finally broken through he’s sleeping and eating better! Yay!

Pumpkins

Halloween is almost here and so we got into the spirit last weekend by carving a pumpkin and doing a pumpkin craft.

Here is our pumpkin craft. Can you guess who did which pumpkins?

Daddy carved the big pumpkin while Tyler watched intently.

Cleaning leafs

We kind of have fall here-in that leafs do fall from the only kind of tree they have here-they are tiny leafs and here Tyler is cleaning the leafs off his playground. When the wind blows he screams no because it knocks more leafs off the trees and onto his slide. I rode my bike up here 2 miles hauling Ty in the bike trailer so let's hope I can make it back up the big hill without walking.

Tyler is 2!

Our baby is two! His checkup went well, he was 37" tall (95th percentile) and 30.4 pounds (50-75th percentile). He is growing up so quickly. He's learning more words everyday and has started to repeat what we say - or at least try. He's adjusted to his big boy bed very well now and stays in until it's time to get up. He's finally started eating better, though he's still not a fan of vegetables. We have switched to 2% milk, though he would drink half a gallon a day if I would let him. We're working on drinking more water and limited his milk - which could be the cause of him eating better. We had his two year old pictures taken last weekend so I'll post those as soon as we get them.

Birthday weekend

My mom, sister and her husband came to visit this weekend to celebrate Tyler's birthday. Saturday we had fun visiting the Hoover Dam and had a party after Ty woke up from his nap.

He wasn't sure what to do with the candle, but liked it after daddy blew it out.

Yummy Sesame Street cake!

View from the Hoover Dam

Karissa and Morgan had to leave Sunday morning so we decided to take mom to visit Mount Charleston. This is one of the skiing areas in Las Vegas. They already had snow and we were not prepared for the 45 degree weather. We stopped and ate lunch by this clear stream - it was a really cool area and probably would've walked around more except we were so cold, we ate our lunch quickly and headed back to the truck and turned the heat on. Who would've thought - snow in Vegas? We kept pointing it out to Tyler and he started saying "more snow, more snow" so we stopped so he could play in it - but then he wanted nothing to do with it. Figures.

We look forward to visiting Mount Charleston again and maybe even skiing this winter.

Splash pads!

Henderson is full of parks - there are at least three parks within a mile of our apartment and we've been to all of them and more. Last week we got invited to a park that had a splash pad. What is a splash pad you may ask...it is super fun, free, and the kids love them! The pictures will explain.

BBB

Big Boy Bed! After several weeks of Ty climbing out of the crib we finally took the front off and added a side rail so he could get in and out by himself. It's been almost a week and we still have trouble staying in bed, but he's getting much better and only gets out one or two times. He loves being able to get in and out all by himself.

Red Rocks

We took our first trip to Red Rock Canyon today. Forgot to bring our camera though so these pics are from my camera phone. If you want to see it better you'll have to come see it for yourself! Ha-or just wait till we visit again! And remember our camera.