Eye boogies

Tyler's had a bit of a runny nose for the past week or 2 since he's been teething. Mommy tries her best to wipe away the boogies when she seems them, but looks like some got away.

Tyler's eyes have been a bit gooky, so mommy phoned Dr. O for some advice (this was on Sat, 11.22). After mommy's elaborate description of the "gook" ... turns out Tyler has wiped his boogies into his eyes (on accident, of course) and had a bit of an eye infection.

Medicated eye drops and viola ... it's been getting better day by day now.

Major Over Flow

Boooo on Daddy!

We went to the Murakami's to watch the UH football game (a bit after Vicky's party) on Saturday. As always, it was good food and company. Around half time, Tyler started fussing because he was TIRED, but refused to sleep ... so we decided to head home.

Daddy took him out of the car and transfered him into his room. The next morning rolls around and Tyler promptly wakes up at 6am. Mommy goes to get him and OMG, PEE everywhere!!! Turns out daddy "forgot" to change his diaper the night before. Poor Tyler. I am not sure how long he was soaking wet. Mommy felt so bad, she woke up daddy to scold him and had him give Tyler a bath. In the meantime, mommy had to change the sheets and blankets and get them all washed.

Boo on Daddy!

Unofficial play date

We went to help Aunty Vicky celebrate her "33rd" birthday this past Saturday. Even though the party was for Vicky ... it turned more into a play date. Haylie has LOTS and LOTS of toys! Bryen, Rachael, Haylie, Tyler and Jayden all were there, playing for the most part nicely together. It was actually rather cute! Lots of lessons in sharing, lots of eating, and for Tyler ... some sleeping. LOL

Holiday 2008 Pictures

We were in Hawaii when Tyler turned 1 and "forgot" to take his studio pictures there. Back in Cali, he was either sick or we had other things to do ... so his "1 year" pictures were taken at 14 months and clubbed together with our 2008 holiday pictures.

The session itself didn't go as well as we'd like, since Tyler didn't like the photographer. Nothing personal ... he just takes a while to warm up to new people and unfortunately we didn't have anytime to do that. He fussed a little, but mostly just stared and didn't want to smile. We got a few out of him, but not as much as we would have liked. We had another outfit for him, but didn't even think of trying to change him because he most likely he would have gotten more upset. In the end, I think we got some good shots. Take a look below.

T Rex

Tyler loves throwing balls and then chasing them. Recently he has been pretty amused with bouncing them.

Bear crawling

I think he has figured out that the tile hurts his knees. What a smart guy!

He can go on and on and on ...

Tyler has soo much energy. Mommy and daddy can barely keep up somethings. Here's mommy chasing Tyler around. LOL

Baby Einstein

Tyler still loves watching baby einstein videos. His current favorites are Baby MacDonald, Numbers Nursery, On the go and Baby's' Favorite Places. Here is he's very excited!

Dr. O ... Dr O

Last week Wednesday, Tyler had to go for his flu booster. At around the same time, he also started refusing his bottles. Coincidence? We thought so at first, since getting the flu shot will sometimes show flu like symptoms. So we monitored him for a few days to see if it would get better. He'd drink an ounce here and an ounce there ... but nothing like before. Back to see Dr O. Thankfully, Tyler did NOT have an ear infection, which is what mommy and daddy thought initially ... since past experiences has always been the case. This time, we were surprised with TEETHING! I guess the rest of his teeth ARE coming! We are going to give him so Advil/Tylenol to help relieve the pain, but other than that ... we have to just wait till it's over.

A lot of things are related to this, not just him not drinking. His crabbiness, his sleeping pattern ... I guess it's good to know that it's just not his new personality. He is still the happy go lucky baby we know ... just not now because of his soon to be new teeth.

14 months

Mommy just realized that Tyler turned 14 months this week. This isn't as notable as turning a year old, but still worth a blog entry.

One thing mommy also forgot to mention is that Tyler just started getting his 3rd tooth! I wouldn't say he's behind, but his teeth are surely taking their time to come in. As noted in earlier posts, he is also furniture and wall walking EVERYWHERE.

More fun times for mommy and daddy as they now are constantly making sure he doesn't take too hard of a fall.

Wall walking @ 13 months

Tyler has been furniture walking pretty well for a few weeks now, basically only using our coffee table, couches, and chairs. Just recently ... he started using walls. ANY wall!



Pics also at 13 months

Random Pictures of Tyler at 12 months

A year has come and gone as quickly as everyone said it would. We can't believe Tyler is already a year old. It seems not too long ago we brought the little guy home from the hospital.

In this first year ... despite the lack of sleep, mommy and daddy can say it was definitely an adventure we were not prepared for. I don't think anything can prepare you to be a parent. But we are learning along the way and doing a pretty good job, if I must say so myself. We are also looking forward to all the new things to come.

Happy Halloween!

Tyler dressed up as Squirt from Finding Nemo (thanks to Aunty Tammy). Everyone loved his costume. He was the cutest turtle in town! Mommy and daddy were boring and didn't dress up.

We went to visit Vu and family for Halloween. Tracy was a witch, Jay was Dark Vader, Andrew was Bumblebee, Kathleen and Patrick were "Waldo", and Ethan was a pumpkin (i think).

Tyler was a bit clingy when we first got there and took quite sometime to warm up. But, towards the end of the night he was having a great time playing with Andrew.