Playing with Christmas Presents

This post is a little bit out of order, but Tynan was so cute in these pictures I decided to post them anyway. They were both taken in January and show how much Tynan is enjoying his crazy red vehicles. The motorcycle is just a tiny bit too tall for him, so he fell over a lot at first, but he's got the hang of it now.

And Shawn took the batteries out of the Lightning McQueen car so that the volume and movement of the little activities would stop scaring Tynan. Now we can't get him off it! He keeps ramming it into things too, like knocking over that old PC we're going to take to recycle and pushing it and other random objects around the living room. Silly kid! (P.S. Tynan's shirt has an electric guitar on it and says "Less talk more rock." I saw it and had to have it!)

Toothbrush Troubles

2.5.10

Tynan LOVES his new blue toothbrush! With his old one, we would have to hold him down to brush his teeth. Now he asks for it constantly. He walks around the house brushing his teeth. I know, I know - dangerous! What's worse, tartar or swallowed toothbrush? Well, we also have a new problem with his new toothbrush. . .

We can't get it away from him! Look how mad he is! There has to be a better way to do this!

Fingerpaints? Well, food, actually!

1.23.10

I have not been very good at updating lately. Work blocked my blog. When I tried to bring it up, it said, "This website cannot be displayed because it contains material that may be inappropriate." Yeah. Pictures of my son are inappropriate for work. WTF?

Well, anyway, here is munchkin fingerpainting with his dinner. It's amazing he hasn't wasted away to skin and bones by now cause he won't eat anymore. It's not food we're giving him, it's toys! And part of that food is sprayed all over the freshly painted wall! Yay!

Tynan was ready to get out, so he kept signing "All Done." He was also trying to say it, but it sounded more like he was saying "Alda." I tried to catch it on video, but he wasn't cooperating very well.

And here Tynan was showing off some of his anatomy knowledge. :-)

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!