Happy Halloween!

We had lots of fun the week of Halloween! Wednesday we went to Gigi and Pop's church's fall festival. Last year Tman couldn't really enjoy any of it, but he definitely had a blast this year! He was excited about putting on his choo choo conductor outfit and even picked out his boots by himself.

Ready to go!

We had to get a few pics before everyone started playing! Tman and the cousins!

My most favorite picture of the night...

and definitely one of my most favorite pics ever of me and my little guy (thanks Kristin!)

Carrying his choo choo bucket!

 Let the games begin! We were throwing washers into holes and balls into hoops...

 and beanbags into holes-yes he did them all at once!

 heading off to the next adventure-a hayride with daddy!

 this was his favorite part of the whole night-the huge slide! i thought he'd be scared but we went together and as soon as we got down the slide he started asking for more, more, more!
 no pics of us sliding, but here's one of anna showing us how it's done.

 giving his cousin a kiss bye bye! we had so much fun, and can't wait for next year!

That weekend we had a soup swap with our small group at the park! So much fun and lots of yummy soups (and dinner for another night too!).

Headed to the park...yippee!

 Lots of climbing, running, and playing chase

 so much fun with our friends!

Halloween night we went over to hang out with the Wakeems. Yummy tacos and lots of trick or treaters! We had fun hanging out on the front porch waiting for trick or treaters and the boys had fun running around.

 Weston dancing to some tunes and tanner knocking on the door-apparently he was ready to go in.

 Such a fun week with family and friends and an extra cute choo choo conductor!

October Fall Fun

we had a fun month with lots of outside activities! we visited a pumpkin patch with friends...

tanner picking out a pumpkin to take home

 trying to get a picture of the 3 musketeers is about near impossible!

 waving and smiling (yes that is a smile...not an angry, yelling face despite how it looks) at the camera

 and we even got to go on a hayride

 and check out some ponies and donkeys

 wagon rides with weston

and my favorite picture from our morning

  

we also headed to rockwall to watch anna play soccer...the twinkle toes (that's their team name) was pretty entertaining to watch!

tanner warming up on the field

 sharing some snacks with audrey and kicking the ball on the sidelines

 we have also found a great website that reviews lots of local parks so we've tried out a couple of new ones with plans to visit lots more new ones! tanner had over 2 hours of fun at this one!

 he did the big slide all by himself!

21 months

It’s been a long month…colds and ear infections! No fun! But despite tman not feeling up to par, he’s still one busy little guy!

He loves jumping…will stand on the coffee table/leather ottoman or the ottoman in his room and jump to you-with no warning so you better be ready!

He started mother’s day out this past month. His teachers are so sweet and he has such a fun time. They sing songs, learn verses, read stories and he always comes home with a cute craft. Mommy is loving having one morning a week of me-time too!

I had to take a few first day of "school" pics...

 headed to his classroom and feeling like a big boy with his backpack on!

 showing me his choo choo lunchbox that grammy sent him

 and smiling at his teacher!

Tman is up to 24 lbs (fully clothed at the dr’s office…but I was excited!).

Loves his friend Weston…and says Weston (in his own Tanner language) all the time-especially if I tell him we’re going to play.

movie time with our friend and then giving him a hug (while also trying to steel his chair)

 

He's a mess...random funny picture with his new boots (we had a few days of running errands in the 100+ weather wearing boots and shorts!)

 and oh he takes after uncle grant. he was quite proud of himself...he's tentative in new situations in public, but at home, he's crazy! he had a fun morning of slam dunking with the help of his ice cream truck!

I feel like he understands everything. I have to be careful...if I tell him we’re going to see Weston or Aunt Tay Tay he immediately goes to the back door and wants to go…and is not easily distracted!

Is so good at holding my hand and walking now.

Just this month he has started coming up to me and Lance, grabbing our finger and escorting us to wherever he wants us-usually it’s to play choo choo with him.

Yes, still obsessed with choo choos. Balls are also high on his list of things he likes along with airplanes.

Still loves his bear and binky.

Has started loving to read new books at bedtime instead of the same few. If we start reading one and he decides it's not exciting enough, he'll wiggle down out of the chair and pick another one. I'll also find him in his chair reading a book-so precious! 

Loves helping empty the dishwasher. He takes handfuls of silverware and puts them in the drawer and he’ll hand me plates, bowls, cups…emptying the dishwasher has gotten very fast-I have to move fast to get the plates from him before he drops them or reaches for more! He really just likes helping with anything in the kitchen...mixing or even one day he "helped" peel potatoes!

He also likes to "work" on the computer or ipad (yes, he knows how to scroll, select, and even go back to the main screen). Anytime he's in the living room and super quiet, it's usually because he's on the computer and knows it's a no-no!

And he's still quite the helper with laundry!

Words are growing-at least in Tanner-ese. Up, down, help me, fishy, hop hop (bunny), ice cream and big bird. And he always says “neigh, neigh” at the grocery store-he misses seeing the Budweiser horses apparently.

not too bad

well we made it 21 months (ok, 3 days shy of 21 months) without any sickness but tman has his first ear infection. last weekend he caught a little cold and then passed it on to me. so we've had a pretty low key week. by thursday tman was acting back to normal and i was starting feeling a little better (just in time for lance to catch the cold).

so i headed out for a girls night to see motherhood the musical (i won 2 tickets-so fun!!!). it was such a great musical-both the funny and the special things about being a mom. after it was over i discovered lance had texted "not sleeping, up with me on the couch." i figured tman was just having a hard time falling asleep, needed a little snuggle time and would be conked out when i got home.
WRONG!
they were rocking in his room when i got home, and i thought he just was waiting up to see me and would fall asleep after a few minutes of snuggling with mommy.
WRONG!
we were up until 12:30 am. he didn't sleep a wink until after midnight and normally he's asleep by 7-7:30. he just couldn't get comfortable. we'd rock, then try his crib. he'd lay down, rest and then cry and want up. we tried the couch and then back to his crib. we tried his rocking chair again. normally he's fine just snuggling in his chair, but that just wasn't cutting it.
finally around 12:30 he passed out from exhaustion. he finally was able to settle down when i put him in his crib, but of course he was up again around 7. with a little bit of a fever. and clearly exhausted and not feeling too hot.
i made him an appt thinking it was probably just from the cold he was still getting over, but knowing there was no way i wanted to repeat last night 3 more nights before we could get him checked out.
there's a reason he was up all hours of the night. BOTH ears looked pretty bad. poor little guy has a double ear infection. so we left with a prescription and the advice to give him advil at night since that's when the pain is the worst. of course last night was the first night this whole week we didn't give him advil or tylenol before bed...because i thought he was all better.
WRONG!

good thing i trusted my mommy instinct and took him to the doctor today (yes, i don't usually take him-growing up with a dad as a doctor skews your opinion on dr appts). here's hoping the meds kick this thing fast and that my little guy gets to feeling better soon!