Tyler...Once Again!

September 22, 2015
Tyler left his giraffe paci in Visalia so Jeff's mom mailed it to us a few weeks later. But when he got it back he was mad that the giraffe was attached to his paci and tried to take it off. Can't win with that kid I guess!

December 2015
The Cobos (Mason maybe?) taught Tyler to say, "Luke, I am your father." But the way they say "father" is funny; it is "faja". They also taught Tyler to say "agua" for water. I told Jeff this and Jeff said that Tyler's Spanish had now caught up to theirs (so true). Tyler actually called it agua for a while after we got back. So silly!

December 7, 2015 will be a day that will live in infamy. It was the day Tyler first escaped his pack and play. We were visiting my mom (or Macey according to Tyler), when I decided to check on Tyler, who was supposed to be sleeping in a pack and play in the guest room. I opened the door to find him sitting on the floor next to the pack and play, eating my chocolate candy bar. He had chocolate all over him and the wrapper was laying on the floor next to him. He had used the side of the guest bed to get out of the pack and play. After I cleaned him up, I moved the pack and play away from the guest bed. That seemed to deter him from getting out for the rest of our stay. Although, when we were down a few months later, he learned how to get out of the pack and play without using the guest bed to assist him. Sad day.

February 2016
Tyler threw his granola bar in the middle aisle during sacrament meeting. And when I told him to go get it, he ate it off the floor like a dog. This kid, I tell ya...

Tyler likes to brush his teeth, mainly for the toothpaste. But the funny part is that he makes me lift him up to the sink when he is done so he can spit in it just like I do. 

Tyler has some Batman sunglasses I got for him from a clothing swap. I don't like them but he loves them. He likes to wear them to the park. When he wants to play hard he comes and brings me the glasses to hold for him, but when he wants to just cruise the place, he comes and asks me for the glasses back for him to wear.

March 2016
Tyler was standing on Jeff's backpack so Jeff said, "No." Tyler laughed and said, "No." Jeff said, "Not funny". Tyler said, "Not funny" and ran away laughing.

Jeff told Tyler that Tyler needed to brush his teeth in the bathroom but Tyler wanted to brush his teeth on our bed. All of a sudden I saw Tyler smiling, with his hands behind his back, slowly walking towards our bed. One guess what he had behind his back? You got it, his toothbrush!

May 22, 2016
Tyler slept on the couch. I guess he woke up in the middle of the night and went there. He also got into the cupboard before we were awake and ate from the peanut butter jar.


May 23, 2016
Tyler thinks he made the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse appear by saying the magic words that the show tells the kids to say, he was thrilled. He calls the show "Mickey Mouse Outhouse."

I told Tyler it was time for his nap so he went and found an old piece of hard, dried out bread, took a bite, and said, "I like it bread momma." Nice try. I'm sure you do kid. Now get to bed.

I was taking Tyler in from the car and he didn't want to go so he started screaming, "Let me go! Let me go!" People probably thought I was trying to kidnap him, but I'd take a quieter kid!

May 31, 2016
Tyler loves to sing. He is currently singing, "Happy, happy, clap clap"(If You're Happy and You Know It). He like to sing the "Hokey Pokey" when we put his pants on. And his favorites: "Follow follow me, fast fast" (Do As I'm Doing), "Barbara Anne", "Shake Your Booty", "Wheels On The Bus", and "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed."

Tyler got on the counter to the microwave and when I tried to pull him away he shouted, "I'm cooking!"

He just came out of his room. I have two problems with that.
1. He is supposed to be napping.
2. He is naked!


June 2016
Tyler's new loves: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, The Minions movie, Paw Patrol, pickles, going in front of me when I vacuum or putting his toys in front of the vacuum, getting food from the cupboard (found him drinking syrup one time and honey and Worcestershire sauce another because he thought they were syrup), he wants to sit at the table with us instead of at his high chair, sing songs, sleep on his bedroom floor, throwing temper tantrums, going to nursery, playing with his friends, blowing raspberries on my stomach, coming in to our room at 6 AM, going potty, looking at and taking pictures, playing with balls, playing outside, doing trust falls, saying "Nice try", and most of all, doing anything to make you laugh! 

Although Tyler has a few shows he likes and always asks to watch a "kid show," he still won't sit through a whole 30 minute show. But I am ok with that :)

June 3, 2016
I laid Tyler down to change his diaper and his head barely touched the old diaper so he said, "Yuck! That's disgusting!" He loves to say things are disgusting. Or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, "Mmm. Tastes delicious!" He also claims things are "too spicy" if he doesn't want to eat them.

I learned from Nicole Portman that pinching Tyler's inner thigh is a good way to discipline him in public. I haven't had to use it in public yet but have had to a few times at home. When I did it today he started crying and saying he needed a bandied :(

He took something he wasn't supposed to have so when I walked into his room he said, "No! Go away!" Think he knows he isn't supposed to have the item?

Just went to check on Tyler napping and he was naked again! I couldn't even find the diaper so I had to put a new one on him. Side note: It took me two weeks to find the diaper he took off!

June 14, 2016
Today he asked me to get him some yogurt and immediately ran to the couch, laughed and said, "I take momma's spot?!"

June 16, 2016
Tyler sings the Donald Trump rally girls song. So ridiculous. He is also his best cheerleader. He got a baseball stand and bat for his birthday and after every hit, declares "That's a good one!" 

June 18, 2016
I walked away from Tyler to get something and he said, "Get back here!" 

Tyler was so excited to swim in our pool, he kept saying, "Tastes delicious!" I think he just knows that is a good thing and decided to say it. 

We were playing outside when it started to rain. As we were heading in the house I told Tyler that the bunny rabbits outside will probably go in the bushes to hide from the rain. I then told him to shut the front door to keep out the rain and bugs. He said, with angry eyes, "No, bunny rabbit!" He was leaving the front door open for the rabbits to come in from the rain. Sweet. 

July 2016
Tyler's new thing when he wants more of something is to say, "One two! One two! One two!" He knows two is more than one.

His other new thing? To copy you, whether that is literally copying you as you talk, or your actions. Tyler wasn't listening to Jeff one day so Jeff took his pointer finger and thumb and closed Tyler's mouth. While he did that he said, "Listen Tyler, listen." So a few days later Tyler took his two fingers up to my mouth and said, "Listen momma, listen!"

July 2, 2016
Tyler told Jeff tonight that he talked to "Ana-wheeze." I couldn't figure it out. Turns out he was saying, "Ana and the boys." Funny he picked up on calling them "the boys" like we do.

July 30, 2016
Tyler got mad at me and told me to leave him alone, "leave me wone!" He also drew on his hands with marker and was upset when I washed it off. He said, "I want my marker back!" 

August 4, 2016 
Tyler: That's a schoolbus!
Me: No it isn't. 
Tyler: Yes IT IS a schoolbus. Huh. Yes it do. Yes it do.
Me: Ok, fine, it's a schoolbus. 

He loves to say, "it IS" something. "Yes it do, yes it do." He says, "huh" for "uh huh". 

Tyler just accidently spilled his bubbles, "There's still whittle bit more! You have to be careful." 

Jeff said in his sleep, "You're gonna fall!" No doubt he was dreaming about Tyler and his doing things that will end in his falling. Tyler gets very offended when you tell him that he is going to fall or will get hurt, "No say that!" 

Jeff said Tyler's name in his sleep and Tyler happend to be in our bed so Tyler responded, "I'm in momma's bed daddy! I in momma's bed." Tyler also talks in his sleep. 

I babysat for a non verbal Autistic girl today. Tyler kept singing "Shake Your Booty" and eventually she hummed along with it! He also kept shouting at her to physically shake her booty and when she didn't, walked over to her, put his hands on her hips, and shook her waist for her. Probably better stop him from making that a habit. 

Well, till next time...