A few more firsts

My little monster man can't pass up a day for a few more firsts. Yesterday he took his first steps behind his push walker without falling on his face! (lol) He had his first pancake, went to his first baseball game and sat (slept) through his first fireworks.  What a fun day!!

Busy month!!

This has been a busy month and as a result my blogging has fallen by the wayside.  I still intend to blog but I just can't sit down and take 5 minutes to do it! So much has been happening with the little monkey in the last month and it is hard to believe he'll be 7 months old tomorrow.  He's now climbing and pulling up on everything and getting pretty fast at crawling too.  He will sit and laugh at Jenny and Palin when they fight now, which is an improvement over crying.  We made a road trip to Oklahoma City and Tyler went to his first wedding where he was a hit with the ladies.  He was quite a hit at Katie and Court's wedding weekend.
The big reason my blogging has slacked is I have been trying to build my photography portfolio and started a little business. I spend a LOT of time marketing myself using social media and emailing people, and of course taking photos! I have been really lucky to have people interested and have been pretty busy the last couple of weekends. During the day I try to edit photos but i spend a lot of time chasing after my crazy little man who is into everything.

In the last month he's had lots of firsts.  He went to his first wedding, started crawling FAST, pulled up and now does squats at his activity table, fell and got a bruise on his head, ate big people food, went swimming, as his first play date with a friend, and slept in bed with mommy and daddy in a hotel.

We weighed him this morning at 17.4 lbs and he is 27.5" long.  He loves all food, does really well chewing and STILL does not have any teeth.  Crossing my fingers those come in any day so we can get some sleep around here.

That's about it for out big guy during month 6.  I have lots of pictures to follow in another post!

uh oh!

We're in big trouble! Not only is Tyler now crawling and sitting all on his own, he pulled up on his activity table and both of us today! oh no!! I guess it's time to start baby proofing!

6 months!!

Little Monster man is 6 months old today! Can you believe it, because I can't!!  He was lucky enough to get to go to see Dr. K today for shots...what a gift right?!  This was the last round until he's a year, so at least that was good news. He is healthy, happy and doing great. They were very impressed that he is already crawling and we have the go ahead to start letting him have table food. He wants him to have developed a good pincher grasp by his 9 month appointment.  He is already very good at sharing his food with the dogs. I usually give him a few puffs on his walker tray and instead of trying to eat them, he likes to push them on the floor for his friends Jenny and Pay Pay. They love him for it.

He weighed in at 16lb 11.5 oz which means he's gained almost 11 pounds since birth.  She tried to measure him, and he freaked out when we laid him down so her measurement was 26" but we measured him at 26.75" at home about a week ago...so Dr K said the office measurement was probably off, but no worries there. His head, though perfectly round, is still only in the 9th% at 16.5 inches. This is perfect though since we obviously don't want any huge jumps in head size. He stays perfectly on track with this one.  Oh, and the best news of all, it seems there is a reason he's been driving us nuts being up all night and screaming uncontrollably. He is just days from sprouting his bottom teeth.  YAY!

So what else about our big 6 month old boy.  He is a total monkey and loves to wrap his arms and legs around things.  He is a total mama's boy and cries when i leave them room, and sometimes when I enter depending on the situation. He is now crawling and sitting unassisted (and painfully close to thinking about pulling up) and his favorite trick recently is to go from crawling to sitting so he can play with all of the toys he's discovered he has.  He likes anything he can get his mouth on, grabbing people faces and his favorite toys are his singamajigs.  He's also recently started petting Jenny, much to her chagrin.  He's a monster in the walker and jumper and now chases the dogs around the kitchen.  If we had more tile we'd never be able to keep up with him.  He loves pretty much all food and is generally easy to please. He has a hilarious little personality and like a Hill, thinks fart noises are about the funniest thing going.  He likes telling us stories but isn't really making any actual word sounds yet.  Soon i'm sure though.  His favorite color is red, loves splashing in the bath tub and any toy that plays music.  He is always chewing on something, or spitting. He's also starting to look more like his daddy. Dr K does seem to think his eye is going to stay two different colors and says at least its a good conversation piece! lol I guess that's about it for our big guy. Time is flying by! Happy half birthday Tyler James!

baby leg pics

Now that Tyler is on the move his little knees have been getting roughed up by the carpet, so on days when he's wearing a onesie, I have been putting some baby legs on him to protect his skin.  Brian thinks they're ridiculous...I think they're adorable. I couldn't help but take his pics in these adorable pirate baby legs!

we have a crawler

Tyler is almost a week away from his half birthday and he is CRAWLING! For real!  He has been working on this for almost a month now, and recently started getting up on all 4s by himself...then he started rocking...then he took a few leaps (and face plants) and now he's moving.  It isn't exactly smooth or flawless yet, nor is he fast (thank God) but he is in EVERYTHING!  So we're officially in serious trouble.  He is so strong and totally crazy, but he's also absolutely hilarious. We're looking forward to what he has in store for us over the next few months. Hopefully he'll enjoy crawling and not be in a huge hurry to walk, but I fear after seeing him dominate our kitchen floor doing the Tyler 500 in his walker, he's probably gonna be all over that and running in no time. 

This is from Friday...he has since made even more progress on his way to taking off!

I've been a bad blogger

We haven't been super busy but a lot has been going on. I thought of doing a few new entries but honestly I don't feel like figuring out what order my pics are in, so instead if you're reading, you just get one BIG entry!

Last weekend we took pictures in Downtown McKinney (which was great) and in Sherman with Aunt Maggie, we took more pics at the park n McKinney (which was awful lol), had a BBQ at our house (no pics sorry), and then spent Sunday recovering and Grammy and Aunt Madge came over. Monday wasn't very eventful either, but Tuesday and Wednesday we had dinner with B's family while Tina was in town.  Big Daddy's 77th birthday was Tuesday and we celebrated at Olive Garden and then last night we went to La Hacienda in Frisco...YUM!  So here are a few pics from this week in review:

Tell me that isn't the cutest bunny ever!