Birthday Parties

June was a busy month for us because we went to 4 birthday parties, not including Tyler's at the beginning of the month. At first Tyler was a little confused that he didn't get to open the gifts since he'd just had his own birthday, but I think he understands the concept a little better now.

His little friend Kaitlyn had a pool party on June 21st (3 weeks ago) to celebrate her 2nd birthday and Tyler had a blast! It was his first time in a pool this year and he did great. He couldn't wait to get in the water with his dad. Kaitlyn has no fear of the water, so I'm sure she helped inspire him. I think peer pressure must start at a young age. =)

That same day we went to another birthday party for my friend Sarah's little boy, Jonah. He was also turning 2. Tyler had lots of fun playing in the kiddie pool they had set up in their yard. They had the cutest little frog cupcakes at the party and Tyler enjoyed eating his!

Look Who's Smiling

Here are some photos of our boys from a couple weeks ago that I just wanted to share. These include some of Nathan smiling. He first smiled at 3 weeks old, but I finally caught a few with the camera when he was 6.5-7 weeks old.

Hangin' out in his bouncy seat

Just playing

Smiling at his big brother (How cute is that?)
Smiling for his momma

Tyler was ready for his close-up after I took lots of photos of Nate

Look who else was ready for his close-up

Squeaky clean after a bath

I recently pulled out a bunch of "baby" toys for Nate that Tyler had outgrown...or at least I thought he'd outgrown them. We have pictures of Tyler wearing this same bucket on his head when he was 8 months old.

Mom: "Can you smile, Nathan?"

Nate: "Will a half smile do?"

Always Up To Something

As the title of this post says, Tyler is always up to something. Sometimes he's busy getting into trouble, and other times he's just busy making us laugh. Here are couple things that fall into the latter category that we caught on camera. Both happened a couple weeks ago.

When Tim is in the bathroom, Tyler likes to knock on the door. Tim can hear Tyler running toward the door, so sometimes he'll knock from the other side of the door before Tyler gets a chance to knock. Tyler thinks it's hilarious.

"Knock, knock, Daddy."

Running away after Daddy knocks back

This was Tyler's reaction when he went up to the door to knock at the same time that Tim opened the door to come out. He screamed and ran!

Tim happened upon this next scenario one night. All he knew was that Tyler had gone upstairs with PJ to play in his room. Well, PJ was playing with his (PJ's) basketball and apparently Tyler wanted to mimick him. The following photos show what Tim found. Two-year-olds are just too funny.

Scalawag

Tyler's last dance video (see blog post on May 10th) was a big hit, and here's another one from June 10th. This time he was dancing to a song called "The Scalawag" on--you guessed it--The Backyardigans. Unfortunately he had almost already danced himself out by the time I started recording him. He ends up running laps around the house a couple frames into the video, but he manages to fit in several new moves before that. I love when he tries to say "scalawag" because it really doesn't sound much like it.

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These photos of Nathan are from the same day as the video, so he's almost 6 weeks old. I like to call him Bubba Chubba because he's getting so fluffy. Tyler never had lots of rolls or chubby cheeks, so I'm definitely enjoying Nathan's squishiness. He was actually starting to get a little bit fussy when I was taking these, which is evident in the last photo.

Family of Four

This photo was taken June 8th. It's hard to believe (and to justify) that this is the first photo taken of all four of us. It only took us 5 and a half weeks. Pitiful, I know. Despite the efforts of all four of Tyler's grandparents, he was too tired to muster up the smallest hint of a smile. His birthday party had been the night before and after having so much fun in Sunday School that morning, he was wiped out. Little Nathan was a little worn out, too, as you can see. We'll have to try for another family photo sometime when the boys are more awake.

The next 3 photos were taken when Nate was 5 and a half weeks old. He was just lying on a blanket on the floor. I guess PJ thought he should have a turn in front of the camera since the other two boys in the family have stolen his limelight.
Our neighbors have a little boy named Travis, who is 2 months younger than Tyler. Well, Travis gave Tyler a pair of Diego sunglasses for his birthday. Tyler instantly loved his new sunglasses. As you'll see in the second photo below, he doesn't always get them on right-side-up, but he doesn't seem to care.