More sentences by Tyler

I am continuing to be amazed by Tyler's progress in school. He has learned so much this year - it's really crazy! I am so proud of him.

Here's some sentences he wrote today at school:
Me and my sister has fun in the tub. I can see the ro(c)k fart

Ooookay, maybe that one doesn't make on proud. Here's a better one!

Last nite (night) we slep(t) in the caipr (camper).
I was on time for the bus.
On Saturday me and my sister play(e)d a game ca(lle)d chas(e) araod (around) the grach (garage).


I think he's pretty damn amazing!

2nd child syndrome

You know how it goes. With your first child, you're constantly taking pictures, writing about what color poop they had that day and trying to teach them everything they could possibly learn before they even reach age 1. Oh the baby book is perfect. The first year frame is updated monthly. And then the 2nd child is born and it's all downhill from there. Here's a perfect example:


Tyler was telling me his favorite song which I guess is currently the one on that State Farm commercial where the guy is singing in the car so I then asked Delana the following question - "What's your favorite song?"

Her answer:
"A, B, C, D......"

Yeah I guess she knows the alphabet now. Huh. Who knew?

Sentences by Tyler

Every day they write sentences at school and they used to be pretty basic "I like....." and easy things like that.

Lately though they've been getting longer and more indepth. The two he brought home today made me LOL. Hope you get a chuckle.

"On Saturday me and my dad winte (went) to Loes (Lowe's) an(d) we made a flawer (flower) for moth(e)rs day."

This is the one that actually made me laugh:
"I gave my mom the card and my mom liket (liked) it and she loved me and she is in love with me."

Isn't that too cute??

Falling off the wagon

YIKES! I am really slacking on my working out right now. Last week I was out of town so I was only able to get my weight training portion in once. Thankfully the hotel did have a rather nice workout center so I was able to get on the treadmill both nights we stayed. Then over the weekend we were busy with Delana's room and I was fighting off a minor illness. And then today, I overslept so again I haven't done any weight training in over a week now. The only saving grace is that I DID go to zumba yesterday.

HELP!

New bedroom!

Many of you know this and maybe some of you don't BUT I am scared of colored walls. I mean petrified. When we built our new house 5 years ago, I didn't even consider it. White walls it was. All white. Every room. Have you ever painted a brand new home with no carpet or heck no anything in it? Well it's quite difficult - I was literally blinded by lack of color.

Okay, so anyway, back to this new bedroom....I finally decided that it was time for color and the first spot was to be Delana's room. We already had the new bedding and the new big girl bed so it seemed a natural choice to go all out with colored walls too. Off to Lowe's I go and then the fear set in - what if I pick the wrong color? What if it looks horrible? I texted my friend Jen in a moment of panic and she pulled through for me. She talked me down and I decided on yellow. Unfortunately when I got home, it just didn't look right. (And I'm thinking, yeah...this is why I don't do color!) So back to Lowe's I go to ask them to lighten the yellow or if there's a way to make it more of a green. The lady there was SO nice and told me to just pick out an all new color and we'd trade it. So I settled on Valspar's Abisinthe Mint (not sure if that spelling is right) and I have to say it turned out FANTASTIC! And it was even better that Bryan did the painting while I was out of town for a conference. Even better. So when I returned home, there was a gorgeous painted room all ready for me to see. Yay!

The next day, we headed to Lowe's first thing in the morning to buy trim and again, this was something that I really wasn't into at first and again, it turned out great. While there, we also looked at some new hardware for the dresser. Unfortunately the ones I liked were NINE dollars each - putting the handles at more than the dresser probably cost! No way. So I decided I'd try to spray paint the handles. It was worth a try. I found some spray paint that supposedly bonded better to plastic and was even in a really pretty lilac color. $4 and about an hour later - wallah - brand new handles that in my opinion look fantastic!

Up next.......Tyler's room!

Look Mom, no training wheels!

I guess it's pretty evident what this post is about. Some time last week, Tyler asked that we take his training wheels off. Bryan obliged but Tyler really wasn't able to ride that well without them. Well today he finally made some progress and mastered it. Considering I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was oh about 10, this is really amazing to me to see an almost 6 year old pedaling away like he has been doing this all his life. Delana is doing similarly well on her tricycle this year. Last year she could only master the backwards with the feet trick. But this year it's on - she's pedaling forward and doing great.

Here he goes!


SCREECH! Putting on the brakes




This evening was probably just about as perfect as it could get. And we took advantage of it big time and as you can guess, it was mostly spent with the kids riding their bikes. What a great day!

Riding off into the sunset

First baseball game

Tyler had his very first baseball game today. Unfortunately Bryan had to work and was unable to attend. But Mom was there as well as Delana, grandma Vernann and Aunt April. Tyler did fantastic! He started out playing second base, then he was the pitcher and finally played in the outfield. I think he liked second base the best. He said he didn't like pitching because it was hard to see. The kids have to wear a helmet with a mask on it when they pitch for safety. Add that to the fact that Tyler wears glasses as well and I'm sure it was quite uncomfortable.

Classic Tyler in this pic - he got a little bored.


I was a little disappointed in how things were run - they had 5 batters per inning and then switched sides. Personally I didn't feel like it taught them a whole lot. Plus no one got out and the kids were mostly held at first base when they hit. It was just strange to me. I'm all about the kids learning and equal opportunity but I think the concept of OUTS should have at least been part of the equation.

Okay, anyway......back to proud mama. Tyler hit two times during the game and he did GREAT! I was seriously so proud! SO PROUD! He rocked. The first time he had a nice hit but the second time he CRACKED it. It went to the outfield before it even started bouncing and then it went all the way to the fence. That's my boy!!

First time hitting:


CRACK!



My favorite baseball players
Cade, Tyler and Lexi