A Great Vacation

I climbed into the mini-wagon and Uncle Brad took me for a spin around the house.

I got to meet our nephew Carter Anthony. What a cutie!

Grandma and Grandpa Knight with their two grand sons.

Playing b-ball in Grandpa Knights office.

Easter egg hunt

Cousins:)

Grandma and Grandpa Olson with the Grand kids.

After hours in the car:)

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.

Caffeine does really cool things to kids

just kidding...this is without caffeine. He did this all on his own and it was pretty hilarious at the time.It is creative what kids can do with a balloon.

Another Festive Weekend

Quincenera
Daddy officiated a quincenera this weekend for Sara Vasquez. It was fancy and beautiful. It took place at a restaurant venue called Castaways. It is in the Hills of Burbank and overlooks the city. It was not unlike a wedding minus the groom. For those that are not familiar with a Quincenera or otherwise known as Mis Quince Anos. It is the celebration of a women into womenhood or her 15th birthday. At this one in particular, there was a ceremony where she and her court of men walked down the aisle, friends gave reflections, parents gave their blessing and gifts, and Dave gave a charge. Then there was a reception with hordeavers, dinner (prime rib:)), cake cutting, a choreographed dance with the court, DJ (AJ Mora) and dance with father and daughter. Tyler had a great time dancing to the music as usual. We had to cut his party shor tthough because we had to get him to bed before 9pm, so that he would be rested for his best friends birthday party and baptism the next day.

Birthday /Baptism Celebration: Ethan Waters

Boys in the Tub

One evening we were having dinner with Matt, Kristy and Clay Orzewalla, as well as Chris, Elizabeth and Ethan Waters when we thought it would fun for the boys to take their baths together. It was about bedtime for them and rather then everyone go home and take a bath we decided to through them all in the tub together. Her is the result of three boys in the tub.

Wedding Ring Bearer

This was a big weekend in the Knight household. Tyler was in his first wedding as a ring bearer and mommy shot her second wedding as a photographer. It was crazy:)
We timed it perfectly so Tyler would take a nice long nap between 11am-1pm and Dave would put him right in the car and bring to him to the church. Then, he would dress him in his little Tuxedo. The funny thing about his Tux is that it was originally 5X too big. I took it to a friend of mine who knows a little about alterations and we took the whole thing apart, cut it down and re-sewed it back together. You would of never known. I think it turned out nicely. It would have been easier to make one from scratch we found out, but the bride and groom had picked this one out. Everyone doubted that Tyler could walk down the isle, but not only did he walk down...he ran down with a big smile on his face. Dave and I were both at the other end and he was happy to see us I guess. We were proud of him. He even lasted a couple hours at the reception. He stayed up past his bed time(7:00pm) two nights in a row, but did great. He ended up going to bed a t 9:00pm, which is late for him considering he usually sleeps from 7pm-7am now.
I worked a 12 hour day and had a few moments to enjoy the company of Adam, Becca and Sophia Carpenter. They were all in the wedding(groomsmen, bridesmaid, and flower girl). We got to meet their new addition, Elise Noel (6 weeks) also. It was so great to see them....we miss them all!! On Sunday we got to spend the evening with them, which was special. It was hard to say good bye again:(
Daddy did a great job making sure Tyler was taken care of and to each location on time the day of the wedding. He had some help at the reception by Bryan, Renee, Bill and Carol Childs who were in town visiting Bryan and Renee.
To top of the weekend Becca and I had Mochi and Pinkberry to celebrate Valentine's day and the guys went to bed early. It was a great weekend, now on to hours of editting, sorting and post production. Here are a few pictures from the wedding.