I've decided to start keeping track of the hilarious things that Tyler says and does. He's definitely a toddler, and his little personality is so adorable. I hope to update this post often, adding recent comments that sparked laughter in the McKinney household.
2/22/11- My mom came over to visit. She was rubbing my belly and saying, "Grayson, wake up. Are you in there? Hello?" Tyler walks over, and upon hearing this, makes a fist and knocks on my belly, as if it were a door.
2/27/11- Tyler and I were hanging out in the playroom. He walks over to me, softly touches my belly and calls it a "ball." Then, he proceeds to point to every ball in his playroom to make the comparison.
February- While Tyler was taking a bath, he pointed to his pee pee and wanted to know what it was called. I told him "pee pee," and he repeated it. Days later, I was using the restroom, and Tyler walked in (because toddlers don't understand privacy with their parents). He looks at me for an explanation. I told him that mommy was going "pee pee." He looks down and shakes his head "no." I guess I need to work on my terminology. Pee Pee can't be a noun and a verb, ha.
3/1/11- In light of the upcoming arrival of Baby Grayson, we borrowed a baby doll from Jennifer. We've been teaching Tyler to be gentle, not touch the baby in the swing, etc. Several nights ago, Chad showed Tyler how we'll put the baby to sleep in Grayson's crib. Yesterday, we noticed that the baby was missing from the bouncy chair in the living room. After looking all over the house, we found the baby face-down on the inside edge of Grayson's crib. Apparently, Tyler thought it was time for the baby to go to bed.
3/2/11- We've been working on discipline. While upstairs playing with his toys, Tyler looks down and starts telling his helicopter, "no, no, no" in a very stern voice. He was reprimanding the toy helicopter for getting it's string caught on the wheel.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Tyler's 18-month well check
Tyler is officially a year and a half old. I know that every mom says this, but I still can't believe how quickly he is growing. He's definitely becoming more of a toddler during this 18-month milestone. He runs, climbs up anything (including things we won't mention for fear of a CPS investigation) and legitimately plays with his toys. However, his favorite activity remains the same ...
Little boy still loves to read. He sits in his reading chair in his room for 30-40 minutes at a time, reading all of his books. He picks each one out of his basket, "reads" it out loud, tosses it on the ground and gets the next book. He does this process until he has read all the books. Then, he gets down, picks them (or most of them) back up and puts them in the basket for the next time. He'll even sit in the living room and read Daddy's magazines, Mommy's decorating books and our Bibles and books from our bedroom nightstands. We have books in every room of the house, and we spend a vast majority of the day reading the already-memorized stories. He learns a lot from them, as we are noticing he is picking up several words from his favorite stories.
Speaking of words, Tyler is talking a lot these days. Here is a list of words he knows:
(I'm sure there are more that I can't remember right now)
As far as growth, he is definitely decelerating on the curve. The doctor said Tyler started to level off at 6 months and has continued to slowly decline in percentiles. The doctor is not worried, just says it is typical of very large babies. They start out huge (Tyler was 8 lbs 15 oz at birth, which was 3 + weeks early, and he was in the 95th and 75th percentiles for months). Now, he is leveling off to where he should be and may continue to remain. All that to say, he's our skinny little boy. No wonder I'm still buying him size 12-18 month jeans! Here are his stats:
Weight: 23 lbs. 3 oz --- 15th percentile
Height: 32 3/4 in. --- 62nd percentile
Head circumference: 18 1/2 --- 27th percentile
Little boy still loves to read. He sits in his reading chair in his room for 30-40 minutes at a time, reading all of his books. He picks each one out of his basket, "reads" it out loud, tosses it on the ground and gets the next book. He does this process until he has read all the books. Then, he gets down, picks them (or most of them) back up and puts them in the basket for the next time. He'll even sit in the living room and read Daddy's magazines, Mommy's decorating books and our Bibles and books from our bedroom nightstands. We have books in every room of the house, and we spend a vast majority of the day reading the already-memorized stories. He learns a lot from them, as we are noticing he is picking up several words from his favorite stories.
Speaking of words, Tyler is talking a lot these days. Here is a list of words he knows:
(I'm sure there are more that I can't remember right now)
- Mommy
- Mama
- Daddy
- Dada
- Baby
- Girl
- Cow
- Moo (sound a cow makes)
- Puppy
- Hippo
- Bebo (a belly button on a hippo, from his book)
- Fish
- Car
- Vroom Vroom (sound a car makes)
- Truck
- Ball
- Happy
- More
- All done
- Uh oh
- Apple
- Milk
- Cracker
- Yum yum
- Up (which means that he wants to play upstairs)
As far as growth, he is definitely decelerating on the curve. The doctor said Tyler started to level off at 6 months and has continued to slowly decline in percentiles. The doctor is not worried, just says it is typical of very large babies. They start out huge (Tyler was 8 lbs 15 oz at birth, which was 3 + weeks early, and he was in the 95th and 75th percentiles for months). Now, he is leveling off to where he should be and may continue to remain. All that to say, he's our skinny little boy. No wonder I'm still buying him size 12-18 month jeans! Here are his stats:
Weight: 23 lbs. 3 oz --- 15th percentile
Height: 32 3/4 in. --- 62nd percentile
Head circumference: 18 1/2 --- 27th percentile
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Christmas 2010
We had a great Christmas! Tyler was such a joy this year, although we learned a few lessons about traveling with a toddler.
On Christmas Eve, we started celebrating a new tradition--Dixie House Cafe in Fort Worth. Chad discovered this place and wanted to take the us to a old-fashioned, mom-and-pop kinda place for lunch. Plus, we picked up our homemade pies that we ordered for Christmas lunch.
After a nap at home, we went to the Christmas Eve service at our new church, First Baptist McKinney. They didn't provide childcare for the service, as an attempt to celebrate as a family. It was our first time taking Tyler to "big church," and he didn't do too badly. We only had one freak-out moment because he wanted to go with all the kids to the children's sermon on stage. After Chad took him in the hall, he calmed down and sat through the entire service. He liked all the music.
Then we rushed home to make cookies for Santa (a family tradition) and read the Christmas stories. Daddy always reads "The Story of Christmas" and "Twas the Night before Christmas." Since Tyler LOVES books, he loved this activity.
Then it was off to bed before Santa comes ... well, not without checking to see how his cookies were doing in the oven.
Santa came, and we managed to get a few pictures of what he left for our very good boy.
On Christmas morning, we set the alarm and went in to wake Tyler at 7:30 a.m. We had to get an early start since we had busy, busy day planned. He normally eats breakfast immediately, but when he saw what awaited in the living room, he forgot about his hunger for a moment. Merry Christmas little buddy.
He loved his train table and Thomas Early Engineer train set! And in true Tyler-form, he climbed right up on it to get a closer look.
We opened a few more presents at home.
Then, we went to Grandma Marty's house for a Christmas celebration. Tyler must have been an extraordinary boy this year, because Santa left him gifts at Grandma's house too! He ran straight in and "ooohhh"ed over the table and train. (Sidenote: my mom and I never discussed what Santa was bringing Tyler, and we bought almost the same things: tables, chairs and trains. So funny!) Tyler opened a few more gifts, but his favorite was the snack tree she made. We were all super impressed with her creativity. Tyler could go up to the tree (which intentionally matched his bedroom colors) and pull off all the toddler snacks he could! An edible, toddler-sized Christmas tree ... so perfect!
We banked at my mom's house. She loaded us up with gifts! We are so spoiled! :)
Next, we all went to Grandma Judy/Great Grandma Morgan's house. Tyler was starving, so he got to eat a little early. We all sat down at the beautiful table and shared a great meal. After lunch (and an attempt at a nap), we opened presents. We drew names again this year, which proved to be a little more difficult than in years past. But we still had fun.
Of course, Erica and I had to take a pregnant picture (Me: 27 weeks, Erica 29 weeks). This time next year, we'll have two new babies. Baby Logan and Baby Grayson will be crawling all over the place ... crazy!
After a long, nap-less day, we headed home. Poor Tyler was exhausted. But it was a great Christmas nonetheless. We were able to celebrate with family and make many new memories.
On Christmas Eve, we started celebrating a new tradition--Dixie House Cafe in Fort Worth. Chad discovered this place and wanted to take the us to a old-fashioned, mom-and-pop kinda place for lunch. Plus, we picked up our homemade pies that we ordered for Christmas lunch.
After a nap at home, we went to the Christmas Eve service at our new church, First Baptist McKinney. They didn't provide childcare for the service, as an attempt to celebrate as a family. It was our first time taking Tyler to "big church," and he didn't do too badly. We only had one freak-out moment because he wanted to go with all the kids to the children's sermon on stage. After Chad took him in the hall, he calmed down and sat through the entire service. He liked all the music.
Then we rushed home to make cookies for Santa (a family tradition) and read the Christmas stories. Daddy always reads "The Story of Christmas" and "Twas the Night before Christmas." Since Tyler LOVES books, he loved this activity.
Then it was off to bed before Santa comes ... well, not without checking to see how his cookies were doing in the oven.
Santa came, and we managed to get a few pictures of what he left for our very good boy.
On Christmas morning, we set the alarm and went in to wake Tyler at 7:30 a.m. We had to get an early start since we had busy, busy day planned. He normally eats breakfast immediately, but when he saw what awaited in the living room, he forgot about his hunger for a moment. Merry Christmas little buddy.
He loved his train table and Thomas Early Engineer train set! And in true Tyler-form, he climbed right up on it to get a closer look.
We opened a few more presents at home.
Then, we went to Grandma Marty's house for a Christmas celebration. Tyler must have been an extraordinary boy this year, because Santa left him gifts at Grandma's house too! He ran straight in and "ooohhh"ed over the table and train. (Sidenote: my mom and I never discussed what Santa was bringing Tyler, and we bought almost the same things: tables, chairs and trains. So funny!) Tyler opened a few more gifts, but his favorite was the snack tree she made. We were all super impressed with her creativity. Tyler could go up to the tree (which intentionally matched his bedroom colors) and pull off all the toddler snacks he could! An edible, toddler-sized Christmas tree ... so perfect!
We banked at my mom's house. She loaded us up with gifts! We are so spoiled! :)
Next, we all went to Grandma Judy/Great Grandma Morgan's house. Tyler was starving, so he got to eat a little early. We all sat down at the beautiful table and shared a great meal. After lunch (and an attempt at a nap), we opened presents. We drew names again this year, which proved to be a little more difficult than in years past. But we still had fun.
Of course, Erica and I had to take a pregnant picture (Me: 27 weeks, Erica 29 weeks). This time next year, we'll have two new babies. Baby Logan and Baby Grayson will be crawling all over the place ... crazy!
After a long, nap-less day, we headed home. Poor Tyler was exhausted. But it was a great Christmas nonetheless. We were able to celebrate with family and make many new memories.
Monday, December 20, 2010
A Year Ago this Christmas ....
After unpacking the Christmas decorations, I found myself in a reflective mood. Tyler's ornaments from last year included a footprint and "baby's first Christmas" bootie. It's amazing to me how much a child can grow and change in one year. I can honestly say I love him more and more each day. Being a mommy is fun! Here's a look back for comparison. Same cute boy. Same adorable smile.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Doctor update
The anti-contraction medicine is working, for the most part. I've only had a few bouts of severe pain, which have usually been cured with a glass of water, a warm bath or lying on my left side. At the doctor yesterday, my cervix was measuring perfectly. In fact, it has even lengthened a tiny bit more. They did another sonogram as well to check Grayson's growth. He is in the 50th percentiles and should weigh significantly less than his big brother at birth. Right now, he is 1 lb 13 oz. He is so cute, all curled up in a tight ball. He's always asleep and very cuddly ... again, very different than Tyler who performed acrobatics in the womb. Oh, and we think he has my nose. It's a lot more pointy than Chad's. :)
Our doctor is doing a couple more tests at the next visit after Christmas to make sure my body isn't showing any more signs of preterm labor. But she thinks everything will be fine. And on January 3, she is scheduling the c-section! She's going to look at the calendars, make sure that both doctors in their practice can be available, and request a specific anesthesiologist. I can't believe we'll have Grayson's birthday chosen in a couple weeks! It will most likely be March 10, since our doctor is the staff doctor at the hospital that night. But we'll definitely let you all know when the date is chosen.
Keep up the prayers; they are obviously working!
Our doctor is doing a couple more tests at the next visit after Christmas to make sure my body isn't showing any more signs of preterm labor. But she thinks everything will be fine. And on January 3, she is scheduling the c-section! She's going to look at the calendars, make sure that both doctors in their practice can be available, and request a specific anesthesiologist. I can't believe we'll have Grayson's birthday chosen in a couple weeks! It will most likely be March 10, since our doctor is the staff doctor at the hospital that night. But we'll definitely let you all know when the date is chosen.
Keep up the prayers; they are obviously working!
Monday, November 29, 2010
God healed us!
I believe in the power of prayer, now more than ever!
We went to the doctor this morning, fully prepared to be admitted into the hospital. We left Tyler at Adventure Kids Playcare with the carseat and meals for the rest of the day. I was planning for the worst, but very optimistic that God heard our cries and healed me.
The doctor, whom I love immensely, came in to hear all that had happened over the last week. There are numerous medical treatments she could do, and she was hopeful I would carry Grayson full term. She started with the least aggressive approach today, prescribing anti-contraction medication to take every four hours.
I saw the sonographer immediately afterward, who rechecked my cervical length. She reviewed the two tests that had been done in the hospital, which had both come out that my cervix had shortened to 2.8 centimeters (3.5-4 cm is healthy). She started the test and immediately said, "oh, your cervix is fine. It's completely normal." It measured between 3.5 and 3.7 cm.
I still have to go back to have my cervix rechecked every two weeks, since it can shorten and lengthen very quickly. And I must take it very easy, but I am off official bed rest.
Thank you to each of you who lifted our family up in your prayers. I am beyond grateful to God for protecting us. And as a friend told me, God knows the number of Grayson's days, which includes the day they will start. I have faith that his plan includes a healthy birthday for our little boy.
I know it's weird, but we were so excited today that we took pictures of the test results. Here's my healthy cervix. :)
We went to the doctor this morning, fully prepared to be admitted into the hospital. We left Tyler at Adventure Kids Playcare with the carseat and meals for the rest of the day. I was planning for the worst, but very optimistic that God heard our cries and healed me.
The doctor, whom I love immensely, came in to hear all that had happened over the last week. There are numerous medical treatments she could do, and she was hopeful I would carry Grayson full term. She started with the least aggressive approach today, prescribing anti-contraction medication to take every four hours.
I saw the sonographer immediately afterward, who rechecked my cervical length. She reviewed the two tests that had been done in the hospital, which had both come out that my cervix had shortened to 2.8 centimeters (3.5-4 cm is healthy). She started the test and immediately said, "oh, your cervix is fine. It's completely normal." It measured between 3.5 and 3.7 cm.
I still have to go back to have my cervix rechecked every two weeks, since it can shorten and lengthen very quickly. And I must take it very easy, but I am off official bed rest.
Thank you to each of you who lifted our family up in your prayers. I am beyond grateful to God for protecting us. And as a friend told me, God knows the number of Grayson's days, which includes the day they will start. I have faith that his plan includes a healthy birthday for our little boy.
I know it's weird, but we were so excited today that we took pictures of the test results. Here's my healthy cervix. :)
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