Tyler Talk

It is so fun to hear Tyler Talk these days. 

His mispronunciation of things keeps us laughing and is absolutely so adorable we just don't correct him.  Don't worry, we also fully enjoyed B's mispronunciations ("may I have some more prentzles?") and he speaks fine now. 

Around Christmas time, J decided to shave his beard he had been growing for quite some time.  When he came downstairs, Ty looked up and said,
"Daddy, I like your mouth!"

Or earlier in the fall, I was rocking him a little longer than usual.  Both of us were lying back and closing our eyes.  When I opened mine to see if he had fallen asleep, I was nose to nose with his "fwog" and Ty commanded,
"Kiss em!"

And still, when he comes to me, arms in the air wanting me to pick him up, he says,
"Mommy, I hold you."
I won't change that one... ever.

And when we settle on the couch to watch some TV or a movie and he leans on my arm and whispers,
"Poporn?"

And I love when ever we pull up to our destination in the car, even if its just the gas station, he yells out very excitedly,
"We here!  We here!"

Or when he says after his stomach growls, "that's not a monster, thats my tummick!"

The current one involves our boy's obsessions with Ninjago Lego toys.  The action figures with all the extras are called "Ultimate."  So Jay becomes Ultimate Jay.  Zane becomes Ultimate Zane, etc.  We couldn't quite figure out what Ty was calling them since he was speaking so quickly (gets that from me!) but we finally figured out he is saying "Open it Jay" and "Open it Zane."

"B, where is Open it Jay?"

"Daddy, have you seen Open it Zane?"

"Mommy!  B won't let me play with Open it Kai!"

Too cute!

His "flavorin" Ninja is "Open it Zane."

Here is my attempt at succession picture taking with Ty.  I was trying to capture his cuteness as he laughed and played at the ball field.  Its a little blurry, but I love these pics.

He is just so funny.  His newest thing is to run and yell at random, "CANNON BALL!"

I just can't wait to see what he comes up with next.  Love my wild man's sweet little profile and check out those eyelashes!  Jealous!

Mom's Day, a Water Fight, and a Pillow Bed

First off, this Mother's Day was the best one for me EVER!  My boys were so so sweet and picked out their gifts and B made me a little book about his thoughts on his Mommy and it was just about the best thing ever.  I'm going to get it laminated and bound!

But first, the weekend!

Friday, the weather was beautiful!  The big guys stayed out and played basketball in the driveway until it was too dark to see the basket.  What a great preview of the coming summer! 

Saturday morning B and I woke up early and had a very special time together, just the two of us.  Gotta love those unplanned moments.  Instead of turning on the TV, B read his Ninjago book and I read my latest Linda Dillow book.  We just had breakfast and read together in the stillness of a Saturday morning. 

After everyone else was up, we headed to baseball pictures and then a game. 

B made an awesome catch at 3rd base.  We were really hootin and hollering over it.  Ty made some new friends.  He marched right up to a lady at the game and asked to pet her "arf arf."  Then he let her pick him up to see her dog in the back of her truck.  I can't decide if his brazen personality is cool or if it scares me to death that he will talk to strangers and allow them to pick him up.  B would never have done that!

During the game we found out that Pops took a bad spill in a bike race and broke his arm and destroyed his elbow.  So naturally after naps we headed by Sonic to pick him up a treat to cheer him up.

My sister and her family came up from Charleston since Billy is about to be deployed.  Tough on their little growing family.  Joshua is due in August.  But it was so fun to hang out with them.  We went over for supper Saturday night and the kids played outside until bedtime.

On Sunday morning B had such a tough time not telling me about their gifts for me!  When everyone was finally up (Ty slept until 7:45!) they gave me my kit to make my raised vegetable garden!  I'm so excited!  The boys had picked out little garden stakes all by themselves. 

I also got a picture frame from each of my little guys and of course, B's book, which took the cake.  I also got some new PJs from my honey since we had discovered a few weeks ago that my favorite PJ pants have a huge rip in them.  I got a few Mother's Day pics too.  Take them any time you can!

B took the one above.  He's not bad with the camera!

On to church and then to Mom's for a huge lunch with 30 people!  We tried to do some family pics before everyone got there. 

My niece, Hannah B.

This looks about right.

After way too much good food, I dug out some spray bottles from my Dad's garage and successfully executed a water attack on the kids.  So much fun!

Get Uncle Billy!

The kids also participated in pushing Ty as fast as possible down the sidewalk in the bubble car.  This was actually really funny until they hit a VW head on (sorry, Aunt Claire).  No airbags were deployed, but that ended the game.

We got the boys home and I dumped them in the bath and then, since it was really too late in the afternoon for naps, but they were tired, and it was only a couple hours until bedtime, we made a huge bed of pillows and blankets, put on a movie and ate popcorn and chocolate milk for supper. 

It was a great great weekend!  And this Mom feels very special and very loved!

Happy Mother's Day!

To my beautiful Mama, inside and out and my prayer warrior grandmother, Mama Stone.