Sideways

12.9.09

I haven't figured out yet how to rotate this image, and it's making me mad! Anyway, here is poor Tynan, all pooped out after daycare. He fell asleep on the way home. We came in and I put him on the couch, and he rolled over to the very edge and stayed there long enough for me to whip out the camera phone. Then I was able to take off his coat and shoes, clip his fingernails and toenails, change his diaper, and put on his jammies without him waking up. But of course, when I went to get the good camera, he totally woke up and got angry. So here is your rotated cameraphone image. Sorry!

Black Friday

11.27.09

Shawn tells me that this day isn't really supposed to be called Black Friday anymore because stores are trying to spread sales out so that people don't die during mass tramplings. (Now isn't that a cheery thought?) Well, after we slept off our Thanksgiving-overs, Grandma Wendy, Aunt Nikki, and I bundled Tynan up and hit some stores. (We waited until the afternoon though - no way were we getting up at 3a.m.!) Tynan very quickly demonstrated his interest level in shopping, as you can see. Poor sleepy boy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

11.26.09

Grandma Wendy and Aunt Nikki came to visit us for Thanksgiving, which was awesome! (We were still sad we didn't get to see everyone this year, but it was super fun to go shopping with GW & AN on Friday!!!!!) Shawn and I made a beer can chicken (cause we're classy like that)

and we crammed all of our food onto our brand new tablecloth, courtesy of Grandma Wendy, and ate till we were bursting and nap-ready! Tynan had a lot of fun too. We could tell cause he crashed right after the food, just like we did!

Oh No

11.10.09

What kind of security latch works for this?

Let's Boogie!

11.3.09

I bought some cheap children's music through Tynan's daycare that arrived on this day. When we got home, I turned it on. It was an instant hit!

Helping Daddy

11.1.09

After we all slept off our sugar rushes, we headed outside to work on widening the driveway. (Okay, Shawn worked on the driveway. Tynan got dirty and I took pictures. What can I say? It's a group effort. ;-)

Shawn is making a stone pathway thingy on the sides of the driveway so we have a bit more leeway when we pull in. He has this mold that he fills with cement. The cement is shaped into stones that make a path. It's pretty neat. Go Shawn!

Candy!

10.31.09

After walking around to a few neighborhood houses in his cute cute cute spider costume, Tynan helped me hand out candy. Well, he sort of handed it all around him while I handed it to Trick-or-Treaters. . .

We don't play in sandboxes in our house - we do candy boxes!

Carving Pumpkins

10.25.09

I got a homegrown pumpkin from Liz's Halloween potluck and I bought a second pumpkin for 2 bucks while I was grocery shopping. When I got home, Shawn and Tynan helped me work on carving the pumpkins. (See how well Tynan helped? Putting the seeds into the bowl? Yeah?)


I don't think that Tynan quite understood what I was doing inside the pumpkin, but he had a lot of fun trying to figure it out!

Here is the finished product. The orange pumpkin is eating the green pumpkin's brains!

Halloween Party

10.23.09

My coworker Liz had a bunch of people and their kids over for a Halloween potluck. I made mini cheesecakes mixed with blackberries so they would look kind of bloody and Halloween-y. There were only two left when Tynan and I were leaving, so they must have gone over well. Here is Tynan playing with some of the glowsticks. He thought they were pretty darn cool.


Tynan was in his spider costume (which he kept tearing off) and I was a witch. I had black and white stripped stockings on like the Wicked Witch of the West. I had a hat too, but they were out of the regular hats so mine had silly looking feathers around the brim. I didn't wear it very often. Tynan was pretty enthralled with all of the other children there. He also had a great time spinning the tire of the bicycle hanging up in Liz's garage. He loves wheels! Crazy kid!

Funeral

10.17.09

Here are pictures of the luncheon the church provided for us after Grandpa Tony's service. The first picture is my Uncle Alex with my step-Uncle Craig. I have not seen most of these guys for several years, so we treated it as a sort of memorial slash reunion. We told funny stories about Tony and looked at pictures of him hunting and fishing and taking his hunting dogs out and about.

Here is Tynan trying to feed my Aunt Fiona while her daughter Katrina watches. He didn't act like he was very hungry at all, little stinker!

Here is my Uncle Lawrence with Nikki and Fiona's other daughter Kateri.

Here is Lawrence again with my other Uncle Alex.


And here Nikki and I are posing with Fiona at my Grandma Jo's house. (I changed into jeans right before this picture and a T-shirt right after. . . I don't dress up very much.)

It was nice to see everyone again. I definitely missed Tony. I wish Tynan had been able to meet him.