Tyler is NINE!!!

We can't believe Tyler is NINE today!!  He says he wants to be an explorer, a lab worker, the owner of something, an architect, a scientist who studies dinosaurs, or in the secret service. He loves designing homes on his tablet, seven minute workouts, playing soccer, and making his little brother laugh. We couldn't love him more and we're going to celebrate him all day!

I always tell Tyler that no matter what age he is, when I look at his face, I can always see his baby face and I love that so much!!

St. Patrick's Day

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by eating cupcakes, wearing green, and listening to Brady say, "baba" and "ball" over and over again!  He also kept saying, "a tunnel".  :-)

We can't believe how much our boys have grown since last year!

Dr. Seuss & The Animal Fair

Early in March, Brady dressed up for Dr. Seuss Day, and I got to attend Tyler's Third Grade Animal Fair!  I remember when he was in first grade, and the older siblings of some of his friends had their third grade animal fair.  I remember thinking to myself, "I can't wait to go to that when Tyler is in third grade!"  I am SO glad I got to go, and I was so proud of all the hard work he did researching and presenting information about artic wolves.  :-)

Little Talker

We absolutely love hearing Brady's voice!  We are so excited about all of the words he is saying!  He is still working on the beginning sounds of some of the words, but hearing his sweet, little (deep!) voice say, "ash" makes me smile every single time.

Here are the words he has said:

Splash and flash ("ash")

Up

No ("oo")

Dada, Daniel, Jenna, TyTy

Hot (while playing near the toy stove at school!)

Hush

Push ("ush")

House ("house")

Tunnel

Shh

Monkey noises

Bus ("us")

Car and truck ("uck")

Duh

Mama

Ball

Ow (for "ouchie")

Hi

Dog

Ice

Ho ho ho

Ellen (his speech teacher!)

Out, deck (He always wants to be outside!)

How

Baba

Hat

Horse

Down

Snack (at school!)

Look

Oh no

Even More Febuary Photos

Brady loves going to the library...

napping on the couch, in his stroller, or in the car...

and being just like his brother...

I love when he points out his family members in the photos we have around our house.  He got adorably confused when I asked him to point where "Mommy" was...he kept pointing to me, rather than the pictures!  :-)