We love visitors.......

During the month of July we had lots of visitors......Tyler loves having visitors because he can run around like the crazy little man he is and get lots of giggles and laughs
from his audience!

First up was Tyler's beloved cousin Baby Jack.  He loved having baby Jack around and continues to love seeing pictures and watching video's of his baby cousin.  I'm pretty sure in this picture Tyler was going to give Jack a sweet little kiss...not sure how sweet Jack thought it was as he doesn't look too happy!

During the month of July Grandma and Papa were in town staying in MA for a few weeks and then coming back to NJ for some visiting time with T-man before their trip home.  Grandma got some snuggle time in with T while watching one of T's favorites Shrek.

Uncle Larry silly as always - taking a ride on Tyler's Sesame Stree bus.  Lots of giggles on this one!

Could this picture be any sweeter - Tyler loves his big cousin Sophia.  Laying together watching Mickey the night before our trip to Cape May . 

Happy 2nd Birthday

Tyler's second birthday included multiple days of celebrations and many many rounds of Happy Birthday being sung.

Celebration Day #1 6-5-12 The night before Tyler's birthday Grandma and Papa came over for dinner to kick-off Tyler's 2nd birthday celebration. We had a pizza party wrapping up the night with cake (1st round of the happy birthday song) and presents from Grandma and Papa .

Loves having happy birthday sung to him

Snuggle time with Papa

Celebration Day #2 6-6-12 Tyler's actual birthday began with overwhelming excitement (from Mommy and Daddy) for Tyler to get his big gift of a new John Deer Tractor (aka death trap).   Tyler has a love for all tractors, fire trucks, ambulances and police cars out there- so we knew getting our little boy a tractor of his very own would be a huge hit (or at least we hoped).  We are happy to report upon the reveal of the "mean machine" Tyler's eye's lit up with excitement screaming tractor and running over to it pushing and pulling every lever and pushing every button he could find.  Lets just say we had one happy little boy....and we were happy parents to see our little boy so excited.   On a side note I would not recommend this toy to any child (or teenager for that matter) even though the recommended ages are 2-5yrs old.  When putting in the batteries this "toy" flew through the backyard going what seemed like 50mph (realistically 5-10) far to fast for a 2 year old.  Let's just say this toy will not have batteries in it for a long time in our house!

After present time we got ready for the day - we have a tradition (2 years in the making) that Mike and I take off work and spend the day doing something extra special with our boy.  The day kicked off with Tyler's two year checkup (I know nothing like going to the dr on your birthday but it just worked out that way) and then off to McDonalds for a birthday morning breakfast of hotcakes and hash browns (Tyler would live off of hash browns if we let him).  After breakfast we headed off to a minor league baseball game.  We had been talking to Tyler for weeks about going to a baseball game and he couldn't have been more excited.  It was a beautiful day and Tyler was a very good boy sitting on daddies lap enjoying the baseball game (as well as the planes and butterflies that flew by) and his french fries (it's his birthday if he wants everything that is fried and potato then that's what he gets). 

The day ended with a nice yummy meal of another of Tyler's favorites - Pasta - at home and ice cream with another round of Happy Birthday sung to celebrate his actual birthday!

Celebration Day #3 6-9-12 Tyler's 2nd birthday party - Paaarrrtyy - The weekend after Tyler's actual birthday we had a celebration with family and some friends.  This year we decided to scale down Tyler's party so that the day was fun for him rather then overwhelming with the amount of people that would be there.  It was a great day with family and friends and I think Tyler thoroughly enjoyed himself.  2 years down....how old are you when you stop birthday parties because they are just exhausting!

Another birthday cake

Nope not french fries - but veggie straws

Another round of happy birthday

Smiles with GG, Sossie and PopPop

Tyler's 2nd birthday celebration(s) was a success!  Thanks to everyone that came out to celebrate and for all the generous gifts.....Tyler is so lucky to have so many people that love him so much in his life.

As you all know I am writing this post almost two months after celebrating Tyler's birthday and he still is insisting on having Happy Birthday sung to him....what have we done!

Happy Fathers Day!

My handsome boys!

Nothing like a sweet kiss from his baby boy to make his day!

2 Months Away

Busy days and busy nights since our last post. I'm sitting here wondering where the heck the past two months have gone knowing that with each week there is so much I'm wanting to document and tell but just not finding the time to do it.  After some gentle reminders that this blog is to not only to track the progress of our lives with Tyler but also to fill the void and boredom of those whose days revolve around checking blogs and getting progress updates - I knew I had to get something on here.

Our time away has been busy as usual.....lots of  laughs, happy tears and of course memories to cherish.  We have done a lot of celebrating of important events including our baby boy's 2nd birthday, the announcement of the addition of another member to our little family and finding out that the new addition was going to be a baby brother to Tyler. 

While we have been MIA the past few months we've had a lot of moments to reflect back on the past two years of life with Tyler and realzing how special each moment has been and how lucky we are.  While Mike and I are not very religious people I can say we feel blessed to have a healthy, happy, funny and lovable boy to wake up to every day and feel even more blessed to be expanding our family with another special little boy whom we know will complete our crew! 



Daddy and his little man



Mommy and her two little men

Happy Mother's Day

What a great weekend we had last weekend.  The weather was beautiful and our boy was ready to play play play.  We spent lots of time outside and enjoyed the nice weather - ensuring that we had lots of sun block on!  Mommy and Daddy even go some time away with friends and went out for date night Saturday night. 

Mothers Day was fantastic.  I was spoiled with breakfast and dinner, presents, flowers and cards (my favorite was a card with lots of dots which signified Tyler's interpretation of Mamma).  We spent Sunday morning at the park with Tyler's little friend Adam and his mom and dad, Aubree and Ali.  The boys had a blast together running all over the place.  After lunch and nap time we were outside again playing games in the backyard and of course making our trip to the local nursery to see the tractors.  It was a great day - have to say much better then last Mother's Day which started off with a trip to ER for treatment of Tyler's and Mamma's pink eye!

Sure do love this little boy!

Our little slugger.....you better not come near him when a bat is in hand he hits everything!

Trying to figure out the bubble blowing process - he blew a few bubbles but we saw more spit then anything else

Tongue out as always and ready to slide

Easter day fun!

Easter Sunday was lots of fun.  Mommy and Tyler slept over Aunt Chris and Uncle Larry's on Saturday night so we can have a full day of fun with everyone.  Tyler woke up early to a candy free Easter basket from Grandma and Papa (thank you very much) and then we waited for Daddy to arrive to begin the Easter egging fun!  Being that Kathryn and Tyler are not exactly at the age where sharing is something they enjoy doing - we setup an Easter egg hunt in separate rooms to let them go crazy without confrontation-they both had a ball!  After Easter egg hunting we hung around chowed on some candy and waited for a nice delicious dinner.  As usual Aunt Chris out did herself and we were stuffed silly!  Another great Easter with family....



Kathryn and Tyler trying to figure out how to get outside to play Beirut with the grownups



Time for some Easter Egging!

Found one

Nothing like a mouth full of candy at 8am

The big hit of Easter (and beyond) the ball launcher

My handsome boy

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend...filled with family and lots of food and candy! The weekend started with Uncle Matt, Aunt Laura, Kathryn, Miss Avery and Winston's arrival. We had a great day on Friday hanging around the house, taking a trip to the park for the kids to play at the playground and for Winston to get some running in and then having Grandma & Papa and Aunt Kendy and Uncle Chris over for dinner.

He loves to .....go go go!!

Pictures with Dada/Uncle Mike.  Hard to get the two of them to sit still for a picture!

Ahhhh love from Aunt Kendy

Tyler stole Grandma's seat!

Silly boys!