Apple picking

 



We planned our annual apple picking trip early this year.  It was forecasted to be a beautiful weekend and our apple picking team (the Norman's) and Grammy and PopPop were around to join in the fun.  This year the trip seemed to be much more enjoyable for Tyler - being able to run around the orchard and pick and eat all the apples made for a happy little boy.

                                         Mmmmm Apple



Taking the tractor for a stroll



                                    Strong little boy trying to pickup the big pumpkin

Tyler trying to hold Lily's hand



Night night

Tyler loves to play night night.....where someone pretends to sleep and he wakes them up and demands they go back to sleep. He would play forever if you didn't get tired and dizzy from all the up and down! Here is a recent play session with PopPop....

Our little helper

Saturday we had wood delivered to get ready for the winter season (Daddy loves his fires!).  When the wood was delivered Mike and John got right to work stacking the wood.  Tyler was very interested in the process and decided to join in on the action

Our little helper.....

Here ya go PopPop

Grammy and Pop Pop are here

Grammy and PopPop took a trip down last weekend to get their monthly Tyler fix. As always Tyler was happy to see them enjoying having two additional playmates to run around with. It was a very fun action filled weekend which included a trip to the playground. lunch out in town, apple picking, and lots of chasing and tickling session at home (everyone including Tyler was exhausted come Saturday night!). 

Tyler is loving dogs these days, but only if they don't pay attention to him.  He likes to watch them and say "woof woof" as they walk by

Here I come Mama....

Weeeeeeeeee

Time to throw rocks in the water PopPop

Chillin

Practice makes perfect

It may be a bit premature but we started to give Tyler utensils to practice with during dinner (any other time would be a disaster since an immediate bath is usually needed after his "practice session"). Overall he's done pretty well...he gets the concept that it needs to go into his mouth but unfortunately most of the food ends up on him before it gets there. 

Lesson learned here, let him practice with regular applesauce rather then blueberry appleasauce - much easier to get out of clothes!

Getting the boys back together

Every few weeks we try to get a play date together with Miles, Andy, Tyler and the newest addition Liam.  Obviously they are still too young to really play together so it's more of a chance for the mommies to spend some time together while the boys run around like maniacs (or maybe that's just Tyler).  We had a nice morning meet up -here our boys played with toys and chowed on muffins (cupcakes according to Andy) bagels and yummy watermelon.  Nice way to start off the weekend spending time together and tiring our boys out in hopes of a nice long afternoon nap!

Andy being a good boy just relaxing watching some Mickey

Trouble trouble......putting together an escape plan

Just had to include this one.....shows Tyler in true Tyler fashion taunting Mommy by almost touching Miles head after she told him not to poke at Miles anymore.  Luckily Miles is such a chill kid!  BTW check out Starr in the background joining in on the playtime fun! 

The little things

Mike and I make an effort to continue to do things that we would have done pre-Tyler (i.e. - ladies night, football Sunday, golf outings, manicure/pedicures)  It gives us an opportunity to relax a little bit and remember what it was like to be obligation free for a short period of time.  Although we both enjoy that time away we can never really seem to disconnect from it all - constantly requesting pictures and sending texts to see how our boy is doing.

Last night I went to dinner with some of my girl friends for a much needed ladies night.  All the ladies have children (one with two and one with a second on the way) and most of our conversation was around our little ones or life with our little ones.  It's just how it is these days.  During dinner I got my updates on how T-man was doing and got responses of "crazy as ever" and received this video to support it saying "he's done this about 29 times now".  I watched it about 4 times at dinner with the ladies and then again a few more times later that night.  He always keeps me laughing!

A trip away for Mama and Dada

Mama and Dada took an early anniversary trip last weekend to our beloved Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid.  It was an incredible weekend away - giving us some time to sit down (and not have to get up 5 seconds later to chase our little terror) and  relax.  We had an amazing time and lucked out with beautiful weather - which allowed us to enjoy Lake Placid to the fullest!  

The view from our room.....the picture even relaxes me!

This great weekend could not have been possible without Aunt Chris and Uncle Larry.  They were kind enough to take our little man for the weekend....and seemed to enjoy every second of it.  Tyler also got some time in with Grandma and Papa before they headed back home.  They all claim he was a very good little boy - while we know he is adorable and is quite the character - we also know he is a 1+ year old that is not always a "very good little boy".  So we can't say enough how much we appreciate them taking him for the weekend. 

Tyler having fun at the park!

       
 

While we enjoyed our relaxing time away we sure did miss our baby boy and couldn't wait to get home to see him.  As soon as we got back we rushed into the house expecting Tyler to come running at us with big smiles - unfortunately the reality was a glance up our way a slight smile and him resuming play time with Aunt Chris!  Just warms your heart doesn't it :)