Tynan and Santa

11.29.08

We went to the mall for Tynan's first Santa picture. We didn't have to wait in line, which was nice and surprising for a Saturday. Also, they let us take our own pictures with our own cameras! I just happened to have mine in my purse. . . Apparently I am kind of a picture-taking fiend, or so people tell me. . . Tynan asked Santa for an end to teething pain!

Thansgiving Weekend

11.28-11.29.08

Here is Tynan getting lovings from Grandma Wendy. He is wearing his supercute "Grandma's Prince Charming" onesie. We went home for a quick visit after I got off work on Thanksgiving, and both our families were nice enough to have second Thanksgiving dinners with us. Thanks for the tasty food everyone! And, of course, for the nice visiting time!


Tynan and Uncle Wesley.


Tynan and Grandma Doreen.

Playing Uno at Grandma Doreen's house.

Grandma Doreen won!

Tynan in his reindeer jammies.

Visit with Rich

11.28.08

Tynan and I got to visit with Rich for a few minutes on Black Friday. We didn't get a chance to see Sue or any of the kids but our trip was just a last minute overnight thing and Rich only got about thirty minutes warning. That is okay, though, we're pretty sure we'll be back for Christmas!

Thanksgiving

11.27.08

Here is Tynan eating solid food on his first Thanksgiving! He ate about a teaspoon of rice cereal. Everyone try not to be jealous of this fine dining experience! This makes me think of Thanksgiving last year. Shawn was in Wisconsin deer hunting with his grandfather and I made a quick trip home to eat Thanksgiving dinner at my mom's house. On the drive back, I had to stop at reststops three times!! The next day, I bought a pregnancy test and found out (on Black Friday, ha ha ha!) that Tynan was going to be joining our family. Hard to believe it was only a year ago!

Thank you Teresa!

To Tessie-

I don't have your current address anymore, so I have not been able to send you a thank you card for the bathrobe and toy keys that you gave to Tynan. Then it occurred to me - I could do a cyber thank you! Here is a picture of Tynan with his keys, and you can see the bathrobe in the post before the post before this one. He has just started to grab toys to put them in his mouth (he used to only grab and chew on blankets) so his keys came in handy today! Thanks again for the thoughtful gifts! We hope to see you next week or maybe the following month when we are in town :-)

Tynan Tasting

11.22.08

Tynan tried some rice cereal today! This is actually the second time he has tried it. The first time, earlier this week, Shawn tried to give him some cereal when I was at work. So I wasn't able to get any pictures of Tynan's first taste of real food! I told Shawn he was in trouble. Tynan didn't eat any of the cereal then (he spit it back out then turned away), so this is technically the first time eating solid food, but I'm definitely not letting Shawn off the hook for a while!

Visit from Grandma Wendy and Aunt Nikki

Grandma Wendy and Aunt Nikki came for a quick weekend visit.

They showered Ty with hugs and kisses. Thanks again for coming!

Wildlife Adventure

11.21.08

Tynan is quite the traveler! Here he is in Africa.

Followed quickly by a trip north!

(Okay, maybe we were at Cabela's to buy Daddy a belt. . . We're not telling.)

All that traveling tuckered Tynan out!

Silly

11.21.08

Well, last night I put Tynan into his crib on his back, and he was still on his back when I woke up and checked on him. Even though Ty is sleeping through most nights for about 8 hours at a time, I still usually get up at least twice a night and look in on him. I'm getting better though; I used to get up 3 times every night. Anyway, I heard him cooing over the monitor after I got out of the shower, so I walked into his room. And there was little man, on his tummy, pressed against the opposite side of the crib!

We still haven't bought crib bumpers. I was reading in one of my baby books and it said to take the bumpers out of the crib at about 5 months, so I was thinking, why buy something I'll only use for a month? He doesn't seem to mind when parts are sticking out! :-)

Hats Entertainment

I made Tynan a hat on the Knifty Knitter loom, but it is a tad large. It kept falling down over his eyes. Whoops. . .

Room to grow, I guess!