The latest

Not much has happened in the past couple weeks. Josh spent a week in Jacksonville for work while Tyler and I stayed home and dealt with a prank caller and another major windstorm. Those kinds of things always seem to happen when Josh is gone!

The past couple days I have been working on making Tyler some fleece footed sleepers. I have 3 done in the 3T size and I have another cut out for a 4T size and enough fleece for a couple more. I just don't have the zippers, so my projects has been put on hold until I can get to JoAnn's. I'll post the pictures of the completed sleepers on our website soon. I just have to get them off the camera.

Tyler has perfected his useage of "no". Lucky us. I'll ask him for a kiss and pucker up for him and he'll turn his head and say "no!". He had a mixed up schedule this week, too. He was a grouch for Brandy on Monday and Tuesday. He failed to take a nap on Wednesday (which made him not as grouchy as one would assume). He was still not acting normal on Thursday - a crab-butt as I like to call it. On Friday, he wasn't too bad - that's when we went to JoAnns to get sleeper supplies. He hammed it up for all the ladies in the store - his favorite thing to do.

He's been going to bed awake for the past week as well. As long as you lay him in there with something to play with, he'll play for about 10 minutes and then fall asleep. An added bonus is that he has something to play with when he wakes up so Mommy might be able to get a little bit more sleep before he yells out "HEY!" for us to get him. It was awesome that this morning he yelled out "DADDY", so Josh had to go get him - too bad I was already awake and couldn't get back to sleep. He has yet to yell for mommy in the morning, but maybe that's what he means when he yells "hey". I'd like to think not.

He's been giving Grandma all kinds of kisses over the phone lately. He says "mmm ahhh" up to the phone. Grandma gets more kisses than I do anymore!

Well, in up-coming news... Josh will be heading to Texas the first weekend of March and won't be back for about 2 weeks. I just wonder what catastrophe awaits us! Tyler and I are planning to head to Grove for a visit while Josh is gone, so he'll have lots of chances to give Grandma kisses in person!

A Major Update is in Order!

Tyler went to the Doctor on his 18-month Birthday, January 20. He grew quite a bit since his last check-up. He now weighs 30 pounds, 5 ounces and is 33 inches long. That puts him in the 90th percentile for his weight and 75th for his height. He has just gotten so big!

His latest word is..... NO! However, I don't believe he always knows what it means, but I'm sure that is just a matter of time. Today he was messing with the computer buttons and I was pulling his hand away and he kept saying "no" each time, so I guess he's getting the idea.

He shared some Ghiradelli chocolate squares with me today and he loved it. He was grabbing for more, so I guess I have a little chocolate fiend on my hands! A boy after his mother's heart!

Tyler has been trying to get on top of his cozy coupe car. He succeeded a couple times using the ottoman. Other times he just tries to scale the side of the car. It has only fallen over once on him and he hasn't tried to climb on top of it again... yet. This little monkey boy has also been able to get on the couch without any help from his toys (he used to use them as step stools). Earlier today he managed to climb onto the back of the couch - not completely b/c I thawarted his efforts, but he was almost there. He also has sticky fingers - stealing everything out of my pantry and the one cabinet I can't lock. So, he walks around with BBQ sauce bottles and cookie cutters. I get a little upset with him, but it's terrbily cute when he's hungry - he will go to the pantry and open the door for us and try to reach for a snack. Now, if we could just get him to fix his own dinner!!!

Our little man is also a salsa lover. If we turn on the salsa music channel on the TV, he comes running and starts dancing in front of the TV. Just in the past week he's brought out some new dance moves. It's an easy way to get him to stop doing "bad" things like carrying around Daisy's food bowl. He can't ignore the call of the music!!!

I worked on some video footage and posted the clips in a new place on our website. There's two folders just for video - for the first year and the second year. I don't think there were any additions to the first year folder, but several to the second year.

In other news, Josh has been busy trying to get back into shape. He looks forward to doing some bike races this summer. Just about every day he is downstairs riding his bike on the rollers. Every now and then he manages to get my fat butt to the Y for a workout. Most of the time, the timing is wrong to go. When we do manage to go, we end up eating dinner at 8:00 by the time I get it fixed. And we can't always go after dinner because the Y's child care is done at 8:00. So, like I said, the timing is usually off. Just an extra half hour (closing at 8:30) would make a world of difference.

We've also been trying to eat better. Not that we really ate bad before. Josh has been packing his lunch almost every day (which has also been good for the pocketbook!) I've been buying more apples and bananas to snack on and once the ice cream in the freezer is gone, I'm not buying any more. It's only going to be for special occations - which probably means just birthdays. Salad has become a side dish we eat several times a week - although I'm not sure how long that is going to last. Tyler has been eating more table food, but not always the same table food we are eating. About half the time I end up fixing him something different. He has been doing a much better job of feeding himself, too - only finger foods. I haven't let him try feeding himself with a spoon much because it's far too messy.

Well, I guess that just about does it for now! Feel free to check out the new pics and video on our website: http://hoblet.phanfare.com/