First Days of Spring

Ty just got out of the bath and is playing with his favorite toy...a ball. That happens to be his favorite word also.

Tyler still loves Mr.Bear. He tackles him!

We started swim classes at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center this week. Ty loved the water. He was trying to put his own face in the water most of the time. He loved the "Humpty Dumpties" the best. It is were you sit them on the wall of the pool, count to three and they push off and spin you spin them around in the pool and sit them back on the wall. He loved the spinning in the water part. I actually let him push off and go under water a little and he loved it.

It is just an introductory class, so they sing songs and do little exercises. The instructor Brianna, gives us tips here and there. She was telling me to try teaching him to blow bubbles in the water...he is starting to understand, but doesn't quite get how to do it yet. Although...he does know how to blow...he was playing a harmonics the other day at a friends house. Thursday's class was in the therapy pool which is like a big hot tub:) That is because it was 65 degrees outside and the pool is outdoors. These pictures are from Thursday's class.

Tyler's friend Clayton is taking the class also. It is fun for him to see a familiar face. It's nice for me also to spend time with Kristy. She is the one that told us about the class. We will miss class the first week of April because we will be in the midwest visiting family. We (tyler and Mommy) are both looking forward to seeing Grandma and Grandpa Olson and Knight. We also will get to see Baby Carter and Aunt Christy, as well as Gigi Knight and Jackson. Gigi Jackson's are coming home early from Florida to see us:) We were surprised to hear that yesterday and are super excited to see them and everyone else!






Words Tyler is using now: ball, tickle, pizza pizza, caw for car, bika for bike, bee for bree, caw taw for carter, aney for Laney, papa, nana, nee nee, ke for keys, no, yeah, bea, deah, daddy, mommy, ott for hot, bubbles

16 Months

We all dressed up for our friend Elizabeth's 30th Birthday party. We got a babysitter and spent the evening at Korean BBQ and Korean Karaoke. It was so much fun. Dave has one year until he turns 30. Pretty crazy!

A lot has happened in a month. Tyler had his first x-ray on his left leg, because he was limping. He is not limping anymore, and we do not have any results from the x-ray, so it must be healed. Or so we thought until I got a phone call about an hour ago from Dr. Mattai saying that he has a fracture. I did not get many details on which bone, but he is going to see an orthopedic doctor this week to make sure there is no permanent damage and that it is healing correctly. Worst part is that we have no idea how it happened. We think it may have happened at the gym that I work out at. He goes to the kids club there and one day when we left there I noticed he was limping. I will give you an update soon.

Tyler has been talking up a storm. He talks about daddy a lot and mommy a little. He cries when he hears daddy shake his keys or when daddy actually walks out the door, even for a second. He loves riding on Daddy's shoulders and going for walks. He learned to climb on the furniture and loves to sit and read books on the couch. He has a new table that he likes to sit and eat his snack at. Tyler likes to stand on the chair and watch mommy and daddy cook.

We started juicing about a month ago. Tyler loves all kinds of veggie and fruit juice...even beet, carrot, celery and spinach juice. Because he has low iron(not real low) it was suggested that we make him juice, so we have and he loves the process of making it, as well as drinking it. He has also had to take a vitamin supplement.

Next week he will start swim lessons with mommy at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center. It will be twice a week for one month. It is warming up, so it should be nice for trips to the pool in March.

Tyler is climbing stairs now.

This city boy is amazed at a little stick. I can not wait to take him to the country in a few weeks so he can explore and get dirty. He loves running barfoot on the concrete. I bet he will love the grass at Grandma and Grandpa's.

He is taking me on a tour of apartment courtyard. He likes to point up at the helicopters and look at all the flowers and plants.

Tyler has his baby crocs on from Aunt Lindsay. Thanks for my outfit Aunt Lindsay.

Here he is doing the sign language for sleepy. The book he is reading is Baby Signs for Bedtime. It is one of his favorites. I love these books. They teach him different signs and he understands the pictures. It is like he can already read.