i so nice

How the days fly!  I have been putting of writing a post for so long because it has been too nice for me to sit at my computer.  And then I started reading a few different books.  When I read a book, I am so involved that I read it every spare second I have.  I decided it was time to get back to my real world, not my fictional worlds.  I told myself I couldn't start another book until I updated the blog, cleaned my house, etc, etc.  We will see how long I last....I bet I start a new book tomorrow.  Enough about me.  How about I start discussing the whole reason you all are here.  Tyler, Ty, Ty-Ty, Little Man, Big Guy, Monkey, Monster, etc. 

• Driving in the car, on one of our many adventures, and I stopped and got Ty-Ty a cherry limeade from Sonic.  After a few minutes of him sipping on it, he put it in his cup holder.  I asked him if I could have a drink and he quickly moved it to his other cup holder (farther away from me so harder to reach) and says, "You won't like it.  It's just for little boys, not moms."  Apparently I use a similar line too much...
• Ty keeps telling everyone he got a haircut....um...see below.  He kidds.

I don't look like trouble do I?

• Mitch picked Tyler up from school, like most days, and Ty insisted on climbing into the truck himself.  Of course, he was taking his sweet time so Mitch said, "Let's go, Ty.  You're burning daylight."  Fast forward a few hours and Mitch is dishing up some ice cream for Ty for a snack and Ty says, "Come on, Dad.  You're burning daylight."  See what I mean about he is his father's son?!!?
• Speaking of Mitch and Ty...I get home from work to see this.

• On a happier note, Mitch walked in after the State Track Meet with a molesterstache/mustache and Ty said, "Ew, Dad.  What's on your face?"  Good boy!!!
• A current obsession of Ty's is green yogurt.  I always have Greek Vanilla Yogurt in the house (because it's delish) but nothing else.  Where did the kid eat green yogurt???  Long story short, he told Mitch he wanted green yogurt when I wasn't home one evening and after much whining, Mitch just assumed I put food coloring in the yogurt.  Now Ty really insists on colored yogurt, mainly green.  
• Tyler loves green yogurt, but not the green fruit snacks in his Star Wars Fruit Snacks.  We were driving home from the doctor's office and I gave him a pack of fruit snacks for a snack.  He eats a few and when he got to the green one, he says, "Here, Mom.  You can have green.  I so nice."  Who am I to turn down a fruit snack?  So I said sure and put my hand back so he could give it to me.  A few seconds later, I get a slimy, slobbery green fruit snack placed oh so nicely in my hand.  I looked at him and he smiled and said, "Don't worry.  I just took little bite."  How nice, Son.  Whenever he has fruit snacks now, he will give me the green. And he always bites off the head of the character first.  
• Ty wanted to go outside and play so I told him to go put on his shoes.  He said he wanted to wear his boots so he was going to go get his socks.  I put my shoes on and see this.  

What do you mean, I look like a dork?

• These days Ty "fights" bad guys.  A lot.  To everyone that drives by and sees that weird kid on the front lawn with a broom stick doing some sweet karate-ish moves, sorry.  He's just protecting our house from the bad guys and/or monsters.
• Sometimes the weapon of choice is a butter knife.  He will stick it in the waistband of his pants for easy access and then go after the bad guys.  Awesome sounds effects and facials included.
• Me: "I love you, Ty-Ty." Ty: "Well you see, I love Dad."  Me: "You can love us both." Ty: "Umm...no.  I love Dad."  How rude!
• Ty loves talking on his phone.  AKA, Dad's old iPod.  He even put on old silicon phone case on it.  He will stick it in his pocket or waistband if he doesn't have a pocket.  He is a little sneaky so I have to check him before we leave the house. 
• I love wedding season.  Seriously.  It's the best!! Of course, Ty has some SWEET dance moves that he thoroughly enjoys showing everyone at the wedding dances.  One of the weddings we attended a few weeks ago, Ty is sitting on my lap and he whips out his "phone."  Hence me needing to check him before we leave.  I need to make sure no phones and/or knives leave the house.
• Tyler and I were out on a walk and we walked past a golf cart.  Ty got excited and said, "Look, Mom!!  It's Papa Dave's golf cart."  Of course, he wouldn't listen to my reasoning of it just being a similar one, not Papa's.  I'm not sure if you know this or not, but Ty thinks he is always right.
• Even though the Monster says he doesn't love me, I know he kidds.  I mean, look at the cheeser!

Although I know I have forgotten soooo many Tylerisms, at least here is a little snapshot of our past few weeks.  At times I seriously consider making voice memo's on my phone to remind me--I think I have my mom's memory...scary!  I will try to remember more next time, and I will try to come back out of my fictional world sooner next time...

I'm sexy and I know it. I workout!

Ty-Ty has been one busy guy lately!  From going to Kansas City to getting sick (again).  Let's start with some photo ops...cause I got a lot!!!

• Let's start with this little cutie:

Need I say more???

• Ty loves Miss Maisie.  He gives her kisses like it's going out of style.  He even will put his hands on her cheeks and pull her in for a big ole smooch.  Of course, she then tries to lick him...he's not sure about that...
• We got to go the park in KC to play for awhile...it was a lot of work!

• He decided he need to be a dork and cheese it up for me....as a side note, Toby (his doggie), goes pretty much EVERYWHERE with him.  

• Ty got out of bed and we were sitting on the stairs talking.  I told him that we needed to get up and eat breakfast.  He said, "Umm...let me see," looked at his wrist (like he was looking at a watch), "I think we have time.  It's okay."  Umm...I guess the freckle past the hair on his wrist signified we were okay on time?  I don't wear a watch all that often...so I'm not sure what that came from!
• We were headed up to KC and stopped McDonald's to grab lunch.  Mitch ordered and pretty soon we hear Ty ordering.  "Um...yes.  I want a number 9.  No tomatoes.  And pop.  And a number 9...." He ordered for probably 2 minutes straight.
• Speaking of the car...on our way home from KC, Mitch was giving me a hard time about something...I don't remember what.  Possibly my tendency to push the appropriate time to arrive places.  I was merely defending myself and Tyler said, "Don't be a wuss, Mom."  Say what??? AND his father laughed when he said that.  Rude.
• Ty-Guy's imagination has been growing as much as him!  He has pretend everything now.  From pretend friends to pretending to cook to pretending that he has a flat tire to just about everything else in-between.
• I'm getting ready in the morning and then Ty says:

"Hey, Mom.  I got an idea."  Oh, no.

• Not sure if this was the idea, but this happened moments later:

He is his father's son. :)

• Ty has to go to work a lot.  Today his work was in the kitchen.  Under a step stool.  He broke his watch (imaginary watch might I add) so he had to work to get a new one at work.  When he went to work, he would squat down low and put his head under the stool.  I went and checked...there was nothing there.  ;)     
• I finally got to move all of my plants outside so I moved a few things around inside.  I moved Ty's workbench/tools and his dump truck to a different spot in the living room.  This morning he said, "Mom, why'd you do that.  It goes here."  He moved his dump truck back to where it was and attempted to move his workbench back as well.  He got sidetracked and had some work to do then though.  OCD much??  I don't know where he gets that!
• Driving home from Ark City, Mitch and Ty passed Farmer John.  He has a red combine, two tractors, yadda, yadda, yadda.  All fabrication...I think.
• Our nighttime routine goes a little something like this:  Drink a little milk while watching one show.  Then Dad takes Ty up to bed and reads him a few books and sometimes sings a song.  Next, I go up, give him a drink of water and sing him a few songs tonight.  Tonight, when I went up there to sing a song, he was humming a mighty fine tune.  When I sat on his bed, he said, "Hey, Mom.  You know what my song is called?  Hummmmmmuummm hmmmm hummm hum humma."  I finally got him to stop his song so I could sing my songs and be on my way, but as soon as I started singing, he starting hummm hmm huming along.  Such a beautiful song, Young Man!
• And one more picture.  These little guys were watching a show with Papa Buck.  Gus was helping the other guys play some video games I believe. 

As I'm sitting here writing this, I am distracted by the weather, so I'm hoping I make sense and don't have too many typos.  Hope you all have a wonderful week!  <3

....I'm going to take the knife away.

Do you ever say something, and a few seconds later think, "Oh my...thankfully no one else heard that."?  Today I said to Tyler, "Tyler, if you don't stop doing that I'm going to take the knife away."  Wow.  Now that's a wonderful statement isn't is?  Would you like the back-story to that now?  I suppose you'll just have to read to find out....  muwahahahaaaaa  (I have to get my entertainment somehow.)

• Ty has been sick since Friday night so we've been having boat loads of fun at our house.  When the meds kicked in though, Ty was on-fire.  He had a lot of work to do.

Mom, I'm working.  No pictures. (I win--I got a picture)

• Ty got to come to work for a few minutes the other day and he after his initial "I'm so cute and shy" minutes, he befriended a young lady.  He told her he had a baby brother and a pet cat.  The young lady looked at me and said, "You have another kid?!??"  I told her no, but that Ty likes to pretend.  Ty then looked at me, scowled, looked back at her, and said, "I do too have a brother AND cat."  He looked at me again and scowled.  SAAASSSSSYYY!
• When I picked him up to bring him to work he told me that he got his homework done already.  He got a 59.  He did "great."  Hmmm...I didn't know his school gave homework....and a 59% will not be great in this home!
• As stated above, he likes to pretend to have pets.  One morning he had a pet dog he was "playing" with when suddenly, I heard him fall down.  He got up and came into the kitchen and told me that he jumped over Clifford, his dog, so that he didn't hurt him.  After a few more "jumps" over pretend Clifford, I reminded Ty he had a stuffed animal Clifford.  He then used him to jump over.  At least he had a goal of how high to jump...he didn't always make it though.  
• Ty has another stuffed animal dog, he named him "Woofy."  I had to give Woofy lots of kisses and give him "dog feed" and water.  He even made me take him for a walk.  Have you ever tried to take a stuffed animal for a walk?  Not the easiest thing in the world.
• "Mommmmm!!!  You look fine.  No more make-up."  Alright son, you need to pick...one day I need more and the next I don't need any?  
• While riding his "Rockin' Bull," Ty also cleaned Grandma Wheat up.  He used the tail as the soap and wuffa (loofah).  
• Ty-Ty is playing, I'm sitting on the couch checking my email.  He stops what he's doing and comes over to me and says, "You little stinker, you."
• Another morning I'm responding to my work emails and Ty gets his iPad (a little toy that has the alphabet, etc on it) and starts checking his email too.
• Ty was excited to see Grandma Karen the other day and I walk into the kitchen to see this: 

When I asked him what he was doing, he excitedly said, "Mom, it's 

a prize for Grandma Karen!!!!!"  (Just as a side note, the four oranges

 are placed perfectly on the blocks of the letters S-T-E-P.) 

• When Ty-Guy wakes up in the morning, he usually will yell to see where I am and then come find me or stand there and whine.  One morning he walks into the kitchen where I am, looks at me, and says, "Mom, you stink.  Go take a shower."  I had just gotten out of the shower, thank you very much!
• Ty is walking up the stairs and "falls" down.  He lays there and dramatically whines and says, "Mama, savvvveeee meeee."  I save him by picking him up and putting him on the couch.  He says, "Thanks superhero."  Then I had to go get stuck on the stairs so Super Awesome Ty-Ty could save me.  The name was self-proclaimed by his truly.
• Ty likes to play in a cabinet that has water bottles, to-go coffee cups, Tupperware, and other kid friendlier items.  Usually when he plays in there, he will get out multiple cups and fill them with water, if I don't catch him before-hand and tell him he can't.  Okay, that's a lie.  I'm sure you know him well enough now that me saying "no" is not going to prevent something from the start, it more so makes him stop what he's doing.  The truth: Our fridge has a lock on it where he can't use the ice and water dispensers.  If I see him playing in that cabinet, I lock the dispensers and tell him it must be out of water.  (Mom of the Year again!!) 
• Okay, if you haven't lost interest yet about the knife, I'm surprised.  :)  This morning Tyler was playing in that cup cabinet and pretty soon he pulled out a spoon.  I figured it had fallen out of the silverware drawer, which is right above this cabinet.  A little later, he pulled out a butter knife and a fork.  I am crazy organized enough to know there was no way that all of that had fallen out of the drawer, so I went and looked.  As it turns out, he was reaching through the cabinet, into the drawer, and pulling out the silverware.  Pretty soon, he told me he was cutting me some boli (aka Stromboli).  He was "cutting" the carpet.  Then he told me he'd cut me some corn.  And then salad with pears.  The night before, Grandma Wheat made him Stromboli, corn, and jello with pears.  Funny how that works out.  Naturally, he started "cutting" much too vigorously for my taste.  I told him to "woah back" in his cutting.  Believe it or not, he only woahed back for about 30 seconds.  He then started running into the door with it.  He told me he was "just shutting the door, Mom."  That's when I said: "Tyler, if you don't stop doing that I'm going to take the knife away."  If anyone would have heard that, I'm fairly certain Child Protective Services may or may not have been called.

Have a great rest of the week!  :)

Put Your Face Back On

I am doing my best to jump back on my bloggin' bandwagon.  We'll see how I do.  ;)  Have a wonderful week! 

• Me: Tyler, don't do that!!!  (said louder than my normal talking voice, but not yelling).  Ty: Mom!!! Don't yell at me.  That makes me very sad and mad and sad (yelled through gritted teeth).  Easy Bossy-Boots!  I'll show you yell! ;)
• Ty and I are headed to Ark City.  It's snack time so I give him a granola bar.  When he's done, he asks for a drink of water so I give him my cup (good Mom forgot his cup on the counter).  He takes a drink and puts my cup in his carseat cup-holder  I ask him for a drink and he says, "Nah," and proceeds to look at me smiling.  I didn't really need a drink so I laugh and don't push it.  Ten minutes or so later, I need a drink and ask for my cup (again).  Ty ignores me.  When I say ignore, I mean completely ignores me.  I am asking him for it, he stares blankly forward.  I ask again, same stare.  I wave in front of his stare and tell him to give me my cup, same blank stare but this time a little grin starts to spread on his face.  Seriously!?!?!?  Who taught him this stuff?  It's a known fact that I am wonderful, and not sarcastic, or ornery.  Fact.  (This is my story so I'm going to stick with these "facts.")  
• We got to go see Baby Owen this past weekend! Congrats Stephanie and Jeff!!!!!!!!!!! Yay babies!!!  As soon as I took Baby Owen from his dad, Ty took him from me.  Baby Hog.

Buddies!!!

• When asked what he did at school today, Ty has lots of different stories.  Sometimes he gives me the, "Ummm...nothing," business. Somedays the stories are probably true. Example:  "I played with my fwiends and we kicked ball, and ran, and cut, and..." yadda yadda yadda.  Other days, there is no way he has an accurate recollection of the day.  Example:  "We went on the roof today."  Hmmm...something tells me the two-year old classroom tries to avoid the roof....
• Ty sees one of my belts hanging up in my closet.  He tries to climb the shelves in my closet to get it.  I ask him what he thinks he's doing and he says, "Mom.  I weally need my lasso."  Apparently belts not only keep pants up, they allow young boys to "lasso" everything in the vicinity of him.
• This morning as I'm getting ready I hear Ty playing with his tools and then I hear, "wectangular prwism" (rectangular prism).  Proud math-mom moment.  I know they talk a lot about shapes on "Team Umizoomi" but he wasn't watching it at the time.  I'm not sure what he was saying was a rectangular prism or if he was just taking the words for a test drive.
• Ty has been practicing his money:

• And his alphabet (he does know it all the way usually...but still super cute!!):

• We went to Molly's softball games at Newman on Friday afternoon and Ty had to play.  He had to play a lot.  There was a young gentleman there taking pictures of the game and I saw him take a few candid pictures of Tyler in-between innings.  Apparently, Ty noticed it as well.  He came up to me, pointed at the young man, and said, "What's that guy doing."  I said, "He's taking pictures of you.  Did you smile and say cheese?"  He said, "No, Mom.  I just playing."  As the game went on, he took many more pictures of Tyler.  Ty began cheesing a lot!!  After the game, I tried to describe the young man to Molly and told her if she ever ran across him or the pictures to send them to me.  Sure enough, Molly sends me an email with a few of them and wrote: "This guy came up to me in the caf and showed me the first pic and said, "I have a weird question for you.. Do you know this kid?""  This one is my favorite by far.  (PS: "The guy" told us he was definitely going to get an "A" in his photography class.  I thought, "Duh, have you seen this kid?" ;))  (PPS:  I'm sure he asked Molly because she is fortunate enough to look like me.  bahahaha)

Hope the little man helped you get an "A!"

• Ty also cheered for Molly a lot.  He successfully tried to start a Molly chant similar to "Rudy. Rudy. Rudy."
• This past weekend we were outside trying to do a little yard work while Ty-Guy was taking a nap.  One of our awesome neighbors yelled across the street...long story short.  Ty-Ty has a new to us swing-set.  When he woke up, Mitch told him that we had a present for him in the backyard.  Ty got super excited and kept saying, "What is my present?" He was very happy when he saw it!  He hasn't gotten to use it much yet because of the much-needed rain, but he loves it already.
• I'm putting on my face (aka make-up) and Ty starts "helping" me.  I quickly decided it was good enough for the day.  He tells me, "You not done.  You need this." And he handed me eyeliner.  Alrightly then meanie-face.
• I washed my face and Ty told me, "Put your face back on."  Note to self: stop wording putting make-up on that way or I will feel like a donkey without make-up.  

I have more in my mind already, but I think I better whoa-back for the day.  If I write too much in one post, I will just bore the bajezus out of you all.  

Hey, Mom! What time is it?!?

Days, almost two entire months of "days," has passed since I last posted and I can't figure out why it's been so long...I have excuses out the wazoo but in all honesty, I've been busy.  Or maybe lazy is the correct word?  Either way, I'm here now!  Because it has been so long, there are two possible scenarios for this post: 1) I post entirely WAY too much because there is much to tell or 2) I forget entirely WAY too much because it has been so long...you can be the judge.

• How about I start here:  

This is my life.  Every day.  

Heaven help me as he gets older...these "un-truths" will only get better I'm sure! 

• We have been enjoying the outside weather as much as we can.  Tyler loves to be outside and telling me what to do.  Example--Me: Tyler? Where did you go???  <crickets> Tyler????  <crickets>  Then I walk into the kitchen and feel cool air and notice the garage door is open.  I look out the door and there is Tyler, working on his bike with his tools.  When I tell him he has to stay inside.  "Oh, Mom.  I am just working.  Don't worry."  
• Me:  Guess who's going to pick you up from school today, Ty?  Ty: Um...Um...Um...I dunno. Me: Grandma Wheat! Ty: No!!!!!  Grandma Wheat AND Grandma Karen.  <insert whining and fussing and trauma throwing>
• Me: After this show we are going to go to bed, ok.  Ty:  <chuckles and smiles at me>  Oh, Mom!  Don't be so silly.  (At least I'm funny right??!)
• Super Tywer:  Packers Uniform, Spiderman Flip-Flops, Cars Book, Batman Cape.

To get him to look at me and smile I had to use the
"Don't smile.  Don't you dare smile at me" trick.

• Trying to get the napless bear to sleep on Easter Sunday after a large amount of candy was lovely.  Actually, I've seen worse.  Way worse.  Anywho, our new bedtime routine is Dad takes Ty up and sings a song or two and tucks him in.  Then I go up, give him a drink of water and sing a song or two.  When I leave, I give him some form of my standard, "Don't get up or you will get a potchin."  (Grandma Wheat word for spankin'.)  A few minutes later I hear the patter of feet in his room so I start to head back upstairs and give him "the look."  He looks and me and says, "No potchin, Mom.  I JUST WANTED TO SAY HAPPY EASTER."  Well played.
• We were at the Farm for Easter.  I decided to go to mass Saturday night so I went up at got ready while the guys stayed downstairs watching basketball.  When I went back downstairs, Ty saw me and said, "Oh wow, Mom.  You look cuuutttteeee."  That's why I keep him around--he's a good boost for my self-esteem.  He then proceeded to "sweep" my dress with a paddle.  A 2-foot wooden paddle that I was sure would be used to hit me with.  I was shaking in my flats the whole time I was getting "swept."
• On Easter Sunday, Ty had to tell George (dog) the ways of the world. 

• Crazy Hair day at school.  He kept feeling his hair and asking, "I look good?"

• World.  Please meet Tyler's "Tall Tummy."  He named it himself.

• Ty has started telling us more, and more, and more stories from school.  For example, Miss Laura had to put the Green Goblin in think time.  He was mean.
• Miss Laura is pregnant and when I told Ty she had a baby in her belly.  He intently looked at me (I thought he was going to tell me I had a baby in my tummy again and after all that Easter candy, I was not going to be happy about it) said, "I don't have a baby in my tummy.  But I have a Blue Bubba.  I put him in my shirt and then he's my Baby Maisie."  He then proceeded to put Blue Bubba (a little "lovie") in his shirt and then take it out and it was a baby!  Magical!!!
• On the way to school, I hear Ty in the back seat saying, "No!!  Be Nice!!" So I asked him what was going on back there.  He sternly looks at his left shoe and points to it and says, "This shoe is being mean to the other shoe."  
• Oregon (in green unies) is playing basketball on TV.  "Hey look!  The Packers are on."  He did not believe us that it wasn't the Packers.  He is in for a surprise next year when Dad coaches the Derby Panthers (also in Green unies)!
• One morning, Ty opens the fridge door and sees some leftover cake on a plate.  His eyes light up, he looks at me, and says, "That looks dewicious."  I tell him he can have some after school.  He looks at me again, decides I'm not looking, and sticks his finger right in the middle of the cake.  (Just a little something about me:  When someone cuts a cake, etc to get a piece, it drives me CRAZY if it's not even after the cut.  I have eaten MANY pieces of cake, etc trying to "even" out the cuts.  Seriously.)
• Ty runs up to me and says, "Hey, Mom!  What time is it?!?"  Um....  He smiles and says, "It's time for lunch!  What time is it??"  I get it now and say, "It's time for lunch!  Lunch time everybody."  For all of you non-Bubble Guppies watchers, this is part of every show.  I thought it was strange he was asking for the time; I mean, I know he's gifted <says every mom about her child> but still.  ;)
• Ty has started trying to negotiate watching a show or reading a book before bed....like he will try to tell me why he NEEDS to watch/read.  Oh boy...
• I am sitting on the stairs finishing up this post and Ty comes and sits by me.  He looks at the screen and starts his version of "reading" what I've typed.  I asked if it looked okay and was all accurate.  He smiles and says, "Sure."  Am I sensing sarcasm??  Oh my little friend, in a few short years, you will be so embarrassed with all this...you just wait!  

Sick a few weeks ago...still sassy as ever!

• A few parting pictures for your viewing pleasure.  :)

Uncle A.J. showing him how to hunt cans.

Too Cool for School

I promise Ty is saying #1!

Until next time, my friends!  :)

i. am. an. awesome. mom.

Twice in one week...unheard of you say?  Agreed.  :)

• Yesterday morning, Ty came upstairs as I was blow-drying my hair and told me he was ready to go school now.  I thought I was going to die from shock.  He asked to go to school???  Yeah buddy!
• He decided he would let me finish my hair first.  So I finished drying it and then went to put my blow-dryer up and it fell on my head.  I grabbed my head because it didn't feel lovely, and then I noticed my straightener (that was on) fell on the floor.  Ty started to reach for it so I lunged forward trying to grab it before him.  He, naturally, got the bejeezus scared out of him and freaked out.  I couldn't tell if it was sheer terror from his mama or if he got burned.  He quickly calmed down so I assumed it was me, but then he told me his fingers hurt.  I am an awesome mom.  Sometimes I fell like if I say it out loud, it will be true.  I wish.  Long story, (kind of) short, we put a band-aid on it and went to school.  When we got there, he told Ms. Laura that I burned his fingers.  I. Am. An. Awesome. Mom.  It's not working.
• Last night, Dad treated Tyler to whatever he wanted to eat for dinner.  Ty's choice?  Chicken nuggets, mac & cheese, corn, chips & guacamole, taco, and chocolate milk.  An interesting combination!

• After dinner, Mitch asked Ty if he wanted to take a bath.  Tyler told him, "No, me not stinky."  Mitch said fair enough and Ty remained bathless.  
• Then Tyler told Mitch he needed to watch Toy Story and get snuggled up.

• Today was the day we got new tubes and our adenoids taken out.  Ty wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything after midnight.  Needless to say, I was afraid this would be a bit of a challenge for the oinker.  With this in mind, yesterday I bought him a little Spider Man on a motorcycle to distract from no milk or breakfast.  And I bought a movie to watch in the car on the way because I knew as soon as we were in the car, he would want something to eat.  Smart.  That's what I am sometimes. 
• Ty did awesome before, during, and after surgery!  From the time he was taken back (which wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be) to the time I saw him again, it was about an hour....not too shabby.  The nurses got him to go with them by saying two magic words: sucker and dinosaur.  I see how I rank.  Just kidding, I was relieved he didn't throw a fit when leaving me!!

Mom, no pictures.
I'm getting groceries.

Playing around in the waiting room.

Flirting with all of the nurses!!

• When he started waking up, he was laying on his stomach on his bed and the nurse asked him how he was and what he was doing.  He told her he was "just hanging out."  
• Of course, when I walked in, he started whimpering and reaching for me.  Those suckers and dinosaurs got nothing on me!
• He gave me lots of snuggles and cuddles when we first got home...then he got crabby...then he got CrAzY (that's where we are now).

Snuggles for his mama.

• What is CrAzY you ask?  I will give a few examples.  1) Starts poking my nose saying, "Nosey, nosey, nosey..."  Then he laughs and does it again and again.  2) Performing the "Flying Peanut," which he now insists is the "Jumping Peanut," from every surface imaginable to every surface imaginable, myself included.  3) Rolling around on the floor.  It looks like he is playing Steam Rollers but there is no one else playing with him.  4) Getting his suitcase out of his closet and yelling to me that he "just has to pack up so he can go."  Um...I'm sorry.  Where are you going? 
• As I am typing, he is tossing throwing the football and then getting tackled by imaginary opponents.  I fear that I may soon have to be an opponent.

The football is starting to get dangerously close to me and the computer, so I think that means it is time to be done for now.  Subtle hint that Ty is starting to catch on to this whole blog thing and knows that one day he is not going to like it much?  Good thing I don't take hints well.  :)

Doctor Tywer

Hello again to all my friends!  (Quick, what show is that from??)  Straight to business today.

• We got to see Baby Maisie and the boys again (and Aunt Heidi).  Tyler is still OBSESSED with Maisie.  He would sit by her and "guard" her like a dog.

Don't worry, I'll watch Maisie.

• I guess it's only right Ty was guarding Maisie because he act like a dog a lot.  From crawling around and barking to taking his dry cereal out of its container and putting it on the floor so he can eat it like a dog.  I really should clean our floors more often. 
• At the farm, Ty and the boys were on fire!  They all take turns picking on each other, helping each other, tattle-telling on each other, etc, etc, etc. Overall though, they play together great!!  I personally enjoy how ornery they all are.  :)  From Freddie looking and Grandma and then intentionally dumping his juice all over the table to Tyler jumping on the couch and then stopping when we walk in the room and blaming it on Freddie to Gus  filling a sink with toy cars and water then blaming in on Freddie.  Poor Freddie...I think I see a theme.  Good thing we are I am smart and they can't pull the wool over my eyes! ;)
• Ty also got a haircut.  Dad has been requesting it for a few months now, but I just kept forgetting when we were around his hairdresser (Grandma Wheat).  I finally remembered because he was getting Albert Einstein looking hair....

Albert Einstein no more!

• After the farm, we went to Ark City for a baby shower (and a Cowley Basketball game).  Ty was not impressed when we told him he wasn't going to the baby shower for two reasons: 1) It was for Stephanie & Jeff. 2) He needed to see the baby, even though I told him the baby wasn't there.  He got over it fast enough because he got to stay with Grandma Karen.  
• He did go to the Cowley Basketball game with us though.  He was pretty into it.  He was going to leave with Grandma before the game was over, but he kept INSISTING that he needed to see Dane more.

Watching the game intently.

• Grandma Karen has this little cow statute that Ty likes to play with.  He named is Maisie.  She even had to sleep in his/Grandma's room.
• One Wednesday when Grandma Karen was watching Ty, she asked him if he wanted to go to McDonald's for lunch.  He asked her what that was and she explained it was where they could get chicken nuggets or a cheeseburger.  He got excited and said he wanted: Chicken strips, a banana, and ice cream.  (They sometimes get Braum's so he was most definitely referring to their food.)  Grandma took him to Braum's.  
• You know how most kids recognize the McDonald's Arches?  Ty recognizes the Braum's Ice Cream Cone.  Anyone that knows me well knows my sweet tooth is never ending so I love that he knows good ice cream!  :)
• In the morning Ty-Guy usually watches a show or two so I can get ready. One morning he was whining about not wanting to watch whatever was on, so I was looking through the guide and saw "Dora" was on.  When I asked him if he wanted to watch it, he got mad and said, "NO MOM!  Dora is a girl show."  I wasn't sure I understood him correctly so I asked him what he said, he really wasn't impressed he had to say it twice.  
• Ty takes a bite of his lasagna and says, "Mmmmmm. This is dewicious."
• Tyler, the Stinker, found a present that I had gotten for a friend's son (I seriously bought it over a year ago--->bad friend).  The present was a bucket with bath/water squirt toys and was in the closet that I keep the wrapping paper.  When Ty found it I was folding laundry and didn't notice he had it at first.  I figured it out when I heard tissue paper.  I went to see what he was up to and he proudly held up the buck, sketchily stuffed with tissue paper, and said, "Mom.  Look what I got you.  My birthday present."  I laughed, said thanks, and held my hand out for him to give it to me and he said, "Um. I think it is my Birthday."  Guess who has new bath toys?
• Tyler got tubes in his ears in November 2011 and we go to check-ups for his ears about every 6 months.  When we went in December, we made a check-up in 8 weeks (last week) because it wasn't looking good.  When we see the doctor, he writes on his tablet and does his check-up on Ty.  After we saw the doc this time, we went to a waiting room to get a hearing test and then to schedule surgery.  As we were in the waiting room, Tyler got out his Magna-Doodle and starting carrying it around saying, "Me Dr. Tywer.  I give you check-up, Mom."  (Anything that looks like a tablet now means he is a doctor.)  In case you were wondering, surgery is Wednesday.  We are getting tubes put back in and also his adenoids taken out. I can remember how much fun it was when he was waking up from his anesthesia <insert eye roll and sarcastic snort> so I'm really looking forward to that.  Seriously though, I'm not complaining because this is way minor compared to other surgeries so I am just counting my blessings.

It's rough being this awesome.

So much more to tell, but this old lady is tired!  Have a great week!!!