A Day at the Park

This was Tyler's first time meeting Kade. They had so much fun together. I was worried that Tyler was going to be rough, since him and his friends have been so rough lately and pushing eachother down and laughing. But he was so sweet to kade. We went to the park for a picnic and to let them play. They played chase and when Kade got stuck he went and tried to turn him out of the ditch.  

"Mommy the Hero!"

Lizards are everywhere in Jacksonville and Tyler loves them. He saw a couple and started to chase them and then he wanted us to catch one for him. We spent hours one day trying to catch these crazy lizards but we couldn't. I kept telling Brian to go catch one because its a guy thing to do. Well two days later we head over to Tammy and Robert's(Brian's Aunt and Uncle) house again and before we even get out of the car Tyler is saying lizards, lizards. So I decided I was determined to get one for him since his Daddy couldn't get him one. I saw one on the deck and it saw me coming and ran but I dove for it and caught it!!!! I scraped my pinkie finger up and it was bleeding but it was worth it since Tyler got so happy. It was so gross so I started to hold it by the tail and told Brian to take it and hold it for Tyler. After tyler held it, pet it and kissed it we let it go and of course he wanted another one. And so Tyler's wonderful Mommy caught him another one just like that and became the hero of the day!

Jacksonville Zoo

Of course Tyler loves the zoo! At the Jacksonville Zoo you can feed the Giraffes so Tyler thought that was really cool. We saw all  sorts of animals. When we first got there we asked Tyler what animal he wanted to see and he said elephant(of course, 3 elephants a mommy, daddy and a tyler keep following us everywhere we go, they were in California and now they are in Florida) so we are walking on the way to the elephants and we pass other animals and we say oh Tyler look at the birds and Tyler says no elephant and makes an elephant noise and says bye birds. He did that to all the animals then finally we got to the elephants and he sees them and say bye elephants and says Giraffes. We can get through the zoo pretty fast. They had a great splash pad there that Tyler loved and he would of stayed there all day. We had to bribe him with a ride on the carousal to get him out. He picked the alligator to ride on(the alligators also follow us around and snaps at him when he is napping he tells me).

Introducing....

Tyler recently added two new stuffed animals to his gang, Yaya and papa. Here is a picture of Yaya and Papa...

Everytime Tyler goes to sleep we have to do a roll call to make sure everyone is there. I have tried to get ride of some of them so I wouldn't have to take a suitcase of stuffed animals when we go places, but Tyler will always ask where they are. Here is a picture of the whole gang!

From left to right starting on the back row.....

Yaya, Papa, Dede(mickey), Woof Woof, Lucky, Penny, Blankie, Boo and deeno

Knock Knock Joke...

"Barbie"

Awhile ago Brian asked me why Tyler is always talking about Barbie. I said what he never talks about Barbie when I am around. It wasn't until I went to California and my sister said why does he keep asking for Barbie? And I told her he's not saying Barbie he is clearly saying more please. After I kept listening to him say more please, now it sounds just like Barbie but I never noticed. It's so crazy that I understand Tyler so well, to me he says stuff pretty clearly but I always have to translate it to people, even Brian!

CALIFORNIA!

Tyler and I had so much fun in California! It was so good to go home and see everyone. Here is a list of the stuff we did....

We hid eggs for Tyler and he was so good at finding them all.

We started a band...

We had everyone over and the kids had so much fun together! Tyler and Chase loved each-other, they would wrestle, run after each-other, sit by each-other and even gang up on Max together :( Here are some pictures and a video of Sierra getting the energy out of all the kids!

                                              

We went to the zoo and Tyler went on his first roller coaster! It was really fast! When we turn the corner I grab him tighter, I thought he was going to be scared but he loved it!

               We miss you Grrrpa and Auntie Abbey!!!!!

Passover

Yesterday  was the first day of Passover and we had our seder last night. Donna and I were hosting the seder so we had lots to do. We decided to make plagues bags and they turned out great! This is what was in them...

Ketchup for blood

Frogs for frogs

Magnify glass for lice and we drew lice on the back of the bag

Flies, we put a fly sticker on the bag

Locust we put a locust sticker on the bag(we put other bugs so they could find the right bugs when we get to that plagues)

Bubble wrap for boils

Clear bouncy ball for Hail

Cow for Cow disease

Sunglasses for darkness

baby for slaying of the first born

The Seder:

We all took turns reading from the haggadah(The haggadah tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt and explains some of the practices and symbols of the holiday) then ate yummy food! Brian hide the Afikomen in Tyler's potty(he hasn't used it yet and it was in a plastic bag) and the kids couldn't find it. It looked like a tornado hit in the playroom. With the help of me telling Tyler to look in his potty, he found it. All the kids ran after him as he ran to give it to Daddy and they all got presents. All the kids had tons of fun. After we had our delicious desserts we sang passover songs. Here is a video of one song....

                                           

Spring Playgroup Party!

Best friends!

Yesterday was our Playgroup spring party. Tyler had a blast eating all the yummy food. Ella Hid "spring" eggs for all the kids and I thought Tyler wouldn't know what to do but he ran outside and grabbed as many eggs as he could find. Then when I told him there were treats in the eggs he couldn't wait to open them. My favorite picture is the one where I am opening a lollypop and Tyler is yelling no and pointing at me. I really was opening it for him! We had so much fun, thanks Ella for hosting!

My son is a genius!

                                 

Tyler's favorite thing to do is play his Sesame Street computer game. Anytime we go on the computer Tyler comes running over and saying big bird, big bird! He is so good at it. He uses the mouse really well! If you can't understand him in the video, when elmo asks to find the color red he points to to the other colors and says is this red, no thats purple and so on to each color and then he gets to the color red and he says is this red, yes its red and clicks on it. Thanks Yaya and Papa for the game!