Snack time!

When it comes time for snacks, Tyler is always so happy!

Tyler eating noodles

Opening Xmas gifts

Christmas 2008

We spent Christmas here in San Jose this year. On Christmas eve we went to the Phan's for dinner and on Christmas day we went to Haylie's for lunch and to Vance's for dinner.

Tyler got lots of cool presents. Too bad he is still a bit young to enjoy opening them. Mommy tried getting him to rip the paper, which he did for a while ... but then decided the paper was more interesting then the gifts itself.

Here are some pictures of Tyler's 2nd Christmas.

Tyler the Samurai in his new Beanie

Thomas the Train at Barnes and Nobles

Shopping at Bed Bath and Beyond

Tyler walking around the house

Sitting to standing to walking

Getting braver!

Standing up

Got some pictures of Tyler standing by himself.

Feeding Elmo

Evan's 2nd Birthday!

Evan had his 2nd birthday at Pump It Up in Morgan Hill. It would be been more fun for Tyler if he was walking, but he still managed to entertain himself with the BIG soccer ball and blue car.

Bryen's 4th Birthday

Went to Bryen's 4th birthday party at their house in Millbrae.

Breakfast with Santa

Tyler's school had breakfast with Santa this past Saturday. He ate pancakes while mommy and daddy had eggs, bacon and tater tots. (1o bucks, not to shabby). Tyler was a bit fussy at first, but warmed up and walked all around with cafeteria holding mommy's hand. He even waited happily to see Santa. But when it was his turn to take a picture with Santa Tyler cried! (as mommy and daddy figured would happen). It's okay ... our friends have told us it could take a few years, LOL.

Afterwards, we went to the school yard to play on the toys. Tyler had fun walking around the little slide.

Baseball toy

Baby Einstein duck toy

Mommy bought this toy a while ago and Tyler never played with it. Now he keeps wanting to press the buttons to hear the music. Over and over and over again.

REX the dinosaur

Daddy bought Tyler Rex the dinosaur. Tyler seems to like him. He even kisses him!

First recorded steps

Take 1 and 2

Walking with the Alphabet Train

Here's T walking with his Alphabet Train toy. Take 1, 2 and 3!

All I want for Xmas is my 2 front teeth

I'm not sure if I've been keeping up with reporting on Tyler's teeth growth. But the latest count that is fully out is still 3 on the bottom.

The top left center is still slowly pushing through and finally the 4th on the bottom has broke through the gums.

Cranky cranky cranky! Tyler didn't sleep well because of his teething. He woke up mommy at 2:30, 5:30 and then finally for good at 6:30. Not fun at all.

Catching up 14 month pics

Mommy has been slacking a bit with the pictures. She still takes them, but hasn't had time to upload them regularly. So here is 14 months ... all in one shot!

the Never ending cough ...

Yep, its baaaack! Bronchitis once more. BOOOO!

Started meds this past Monday (Dec 1) and will be on it for 10 days. 2.5 ML twice a day. Luckily this time there is no vomit (knock on wood!)

First blood shed

After Tyler's amazing performance of walking, we seemed to have gotten him all riled up. He was full of energy and little was bouncing off the walls. This may be a small side affect of the ice cream he had earlier that night, but that's really a mute point.

During this excitement, he was crawling with lightening speed across the kitchen floor when his hand got stuck and his chin came crashing down on the floor. :( Immediate crying and screaming. Poor thing! At first we didn't notice anything, but a minute or 2 later he was bleeding from the mouth. It appears he somehow had cut his upper gums (where is latest tooth is emerging). We cleaned it up and tried applying ice, but he didn't want anything to do with the ice. There was a bit of fussying, but eventually he did calm down.

Mommy was sad. It was the first time she saw Tyler bleed. :(

First official steps

While at the Murakami's watching the UH football game, Tyler surprised us all by taking his first official steps! I say official because it was his first steps (this past Saturday, Nov 29th) all by himself. :)

He was with daddy near the kitchen and just somehow ended up standing there for a few good seconds. We all looked and said "YAY Tyler", which prompted him to clap, LOL. (that's what he thinks YAY means). I was very very cute. Then I went over to call him towards me and he took a few steps! We practiced a few times back and forth between daddy and mommy and I'd have to say, he took a good 10+ steps!

I am VERY excited and I know a lot of you are laughing because once he learns to walk he will NOT keep still. But I already feel that is the case now. Only now, he's crawling and getting all dirty and trying to walk, which makes me nervous. I'm sure in time my blog will come where I complain about the walking, but for the time being ... I am still EXCITED!

Black Friday

Unlike previous years, mommy didn't wake up extra early (4am) to go shopping this year. Ads weren't THAT interesting. Deals didn't seem THAT great. And frankly, there wasn't really anything she needed, LOL.

Hahaha, that's all pretty funny. Even if mommy didn't wake up "early" for shopping, she still went. Tyler still wakes up at 6:30 ... so at 7:00 she was off.

Mommy didn't really buy much ... a Cars playroom set for Tyler, some doggie toys, and most of the children's xmas presents. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Rex ohana went to spend Thanksgiving with their close family friends in Fremont. (Vu's) It was a great evening. Dinner included all the holiday traditions including some extras ... prime rib, rack of lamb, spam musubis (which daddy slaved and made for once!) You may laugh if you want, but it all was very DELICIOUS!

Tyler took a while to warm up (again!) ... but soon enough he was playing with Andrew. We brought his ATV and remote control, which Andrew played with more than Tyler. LOL But it's okay ... Tyler can play with them anytime.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!