Painting

1.17.10

So we've been in the new house almost 6 months now. . . and finally got around to doing some painting. About time! To start, we barricaded a wall with furniture. (Please try not to look at the somewhat battered armchair with no cover on it; it has been passed down.) Tynan was not pleased. He wanted to help paint and he wanted that darn furniture out of his way! He finally found a way through when we were almost done. Persistent little imp!

Christmas 2009

12.25.2009

What a day for Tynan! First, he got to open presents with his cousins. Here he is opening his motorcycle from Grandma Doreen and Grandpa Bob. He also got a Lightning McQueen coat, chair, hat, and mittens, a teddy bear, and probably other things I'm forgetting.


And here are most of his cousins. The wrapping paper was flying! Last year, Tynan was tearing presents open. . . This year, he didn't want anything to do with the wrapped boxes. He was too busy playing with his cousins' toys! He didn't want to take time away from those sweet cars and trucks to fuss with silly bits of paper.


Afterwards, we went to Grandma Wendy and Grandpa Eric's house. Unfortunately, I left the diaper bag at Uncle Jeff and Aunt Surae's house, and Tynan of course had a little poopsie in his pants approximately three minutes after we arrived. So while Shawn set out to retrieve it, I forgot to take pictures of Tynan opening his sweet activity car, monkey dumbells, and nursery rhyme books. Whoops!


From there, we went to Grandpa Eric's sister Jone's house for Christmas dinner. That house is quite nice, but not very Tynan-proof!


Here is Tynan at bedtime, all tuckered out. All that running around and playing caught up to him!

p.s. Don't tell Tynan's pediatrician that he was still drinking from a bottle! (We switched him finally this week. Yay Tynan!)

The Christmas Photo

12.19.09

I have a new sympathy for people who work in portrait studios. I have a hard enough time x-raying children, and I get to use immobilization devices!

Well, I bought a cute little dressy outfit from Wal-Mart (where we spend probably 3/4ths of our money) and finally got around to putting it on Tynan so I could take some Christmas pictures. The outfit turned out to be a tad small (though you can't really tell in the pictures). I thought to myself, well he's only going to wear it for 5 or 10 minutes; I'll just return it tomorrow.


30 minutes and some spilled orange juice later, the outfit is ours to keep forever (unless I want to be dishonest at Christmas, which isn't really sitting right) and these are some of the wonderful photos we were able to obtain.


Shawn got this picture on our last attempt. After some uploading, editing, and attempted ordering on several different photo websites (arrrgh!), we are finally set to pick up copies of this and 2 other pictures at our local pharmacy. Now I'm just crossing my fingers that the prints will look okay! (Hey, here's an idea: why don't we get professional photos taken? Yeah, that's on my 17-month-old To-Do List. . .)

Hidden Tynan

12.18.09

This is Tynan's new favorite game. It is so funny! He runs into the hallway and stands around the corner. We yell out, "Where's Tynan?" "Where did Tynan go?" He giggles around the corner. Then, when a sufficient amount of time has passed, he comes running out, laughing and giggling. Half the time, he jumps on us as well. Doesn't this sound like the best game ever?

Brushing Snow

12.13.09

Helping Daddy with the snow :-)

Sports Fan

12.12.09

Tynan put on Daddy's Green Bay hat to match his Green Bay shirt. (With his ear poking out and folded over, he kind of looks like an elf. Or maybe an imp. . . )

Snugglebugs

12.11.09

Here are my two stinker-butts! Tynan saw the camera and hammed. Little imp!

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!