Kyler and Sky

These two cousins are just a few months apart in age, 

so it is always fun to see how they interact with each other.  :)  

Nana Comes to Visit!!!

We were super excited for Nana to come to town for a visit!  :) 

Well she was actually here to watch Zack, but we got lots of time in with her as well.  

Memorial Day Picnic! (no pictures, but good food!) 

Curious George Exhibit!

Lunchtime: 

Mom and I experienced our first frozen yogurt experience - Cherry Berry!  YUM! No picture, but worth noting.  :) 

Can you tell this kid loves cats?  :) 

He got to meet the new ducks - talked to them alot in the cage and then Missy let him hold one and it nipped him.  He was so done after that and kept trying to hold the door closed.  ha ha!  

Jump Place:  

Zack loved the dodgeball area and Kyler just loved to jump!  

15 mOnThS!!!

*** oops...wrote this a LOONG time ago and never posted it. 

 So for your reading delight, it's posted just a couple of months late.  Ha!***

This kid seems so grown to me lately!  He is a true delight and makes me smile everyday!  What more could anyone ask for? (well, apparently me since I still have a long list of prayer requests, but that's for another post, right? :))  I am finding this stage the most fun and the most challenging!  He is Captain Fearless - climbs everything, the higher the better!  He eats non-stop and amazes me with new words all the time.  He is has also become Captain Allergy too which made for some scary moments when he had trouble breathing.  He now has inhalers and a daily allergy medicine. 

Stats: 

22.8 lbs

32.5 inches

Development:

• talks, talks, talks! ! he loves to read his book aloud in babble form and will repeat you sometimes - never when you expect it though.  :) 
• says 'tra' at least 50x a day -- it means truck.  He might throw in 'ca' every once in awhile to change it up (car).  the benefit is that in the car if he gets upset, I can just say truck and he spends a good 5 minutes straining his little neck to see all the cars passing his window. coming in second place with 40x a day is 'caT' - if he can't see one, he is begging me to open the door, so he can.  
• climbs - everything.  the stairs, the front and back porch, bookshelves, on to my bed (dangerous!), on the chairs and then onto the kitchen table, shall I go on.  :)  the plus side to this is seeing him turn around to his belly to shimmy off any high item.  
• playing alongside peers and following all the big kids around.  our neighbor is 18 mo. and they sit next to each other and just throw rocks...until a car or truck distracts my boy.  
• Says about 20 words, but understands alot more than that. ***please, thank you, no, more, mom, papa, bubba, not yet, drink, shoes, outside, milk, car, truck, train, ball, book, trash (no idea!), yeah (not yes), bye-bye***
• Walks, runs, kicks balls, tries to throws, recently started to walk on tiptoes and walk backwards
• enjoys scribbling, putting magnets on and off the fridge, hearing and imitating animal sounds, and transferring items from one container to another (sand to bucket, water from cup to bowl, etc) 
• has started to glare at people instead of smile.  If they glare back, they get rewarded with a smile.  
• still likes mama to rock him to sleep
• Mastering the temper tantrum....we both need work on this.  I get too frustrated when he throws a fit - but say the word 'no' and the fit starts almost immediately.  Easily distracted from it, but ugh!  Prayers!
  
  
  
  

Kylerisms:
He tries to shimmy off my bed, but it is so high, he then switches to a death grip and hollers.  Don't worry - he isn't left unattended in my room, so I am there to save him.  

• Throws the biggest fits whenever we have to do go indoors, but the other day it was 90 outside and after 30 minutes, he was banging on the door to go in.  A record!  
• Still gets lots of compliments in all stores thanks to his 30 facial expressions in a minute 
• He will pick up my phone or his fake phone, say Hi and jabber for a bit, then he throws the phone on the ground and shouts BYE!  I have never done this, so it is all him!  :)
• Pretty sure this will change, but I have to zip the diaper bag to keep him away from his medicines.  He loves them and brings them to me as a snack choice.  
• Will not ever come if I say 'come here' or 'look at this', but if I say 'eat' 'bye-bye' or pretend to snore, he comes at a dead run.  :) 

Firsts:

- Water park experience

- Roadtrip!  He was a rockstar roadtripper too!  :) 

- Meeting so many people on our trip
- Trip to McDonalds
- Asparagus -- and he loved it!  

Lord Father, I praise for the amazing little man you have blessed me with.  May I never forget that he is the answer to so many of my prayers and may I continually give him over to You!  Help me be a more patient, play-loving mom.  And for Kyler  "I pray that out of Your glorious riches You strengthen Kyler with power through Your Spirit in his inner being, so that Christ may dwell in his heart through faith. And I pray that he, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that Kyler may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to You who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine for Kyler, according to Your power that is at work within us, to You be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." (Ephes. 3:16-21)

Mother's Day

It was a wonderful Mother's Day this year! 

Kyler's babysitter had made a cute page for me with a poem and Kyler's handprints and I got a beautiful bouquet of roses from Kyler as well (he had a bit of help from his Nana!). 

We did Kyler's Baby Dedication that day as well which worked out perfectly!  My sister and one of my best friends came to church to see the service.  Kyler didn't cry once and sat through the whole service.  He might have made a squeak when our pastor tried to pick him up - he likes his mommy right now. (no pictures of this...silly me!) 

Afterwards we went to Chipotle with Heidi and then home for naps - both of us!  Then we played outside til we met my dad for some Mexican food.  At the restaurant Kyler DEVOURED the salsa -- all of the tables around us kept pointing and even the Hispanic waitress came up and asked how long he has been eating salsa.  Told he had eaten it before, but never like this, the kid was practically drinking the stuff!  One thing he definitely gets from me!  :)

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Proverbs 22:6

Start children off on the way they should go,

 and even when they are old they will not turn from it.  

- Proverbs 22:6

The writer probably didn't have Quiktrip in mind when he wrote this, but it is a great gas station with great drinks that I am happy to share with Kyler!  Don't worry -- I am teaching other important things like manners and reading too!   :) 

A peach yogurt smoothie - gone in about 30 seconds!  :) 

Short Update

This lady has been sick, so updates and just taking pictures hasn't been on the top of list.  Oops!  Well here are a few pictures to appease my few readers.  :)

Park Fun

Swim Time!

Lots of outside time!

We're excited for the Royals Home Opener Day!

Blanket fan -- he doesn't even care which blanket, just likes to cuddle and carry.

He bird watches almost every morning!

We saw church friends at McDonalds.  :) 

Raising up my lil Royals fan.

1st trip to McDonalds - chicken nuggets...yes!  french fries - no!
lots of kids around...yes! yes! yes!

A Marker For Our Mr. Nicoda

If you have had the unpleasantness of having to arrange and PAY for a funeral  you'll know how crazy expensive tombstones can be. It wasn't in my budget 4 years ago and as much as I have hated not having a stone for Mr. Nicoda, I just couldn't afford it with all the things that come up. That being said last October, my dad had gotten some money and knowing that I was still saving for a stone little by little, brought the stone I had picked out!  A blessing?  I'd say so!  So thankful to have his spot marked with his name now!  We had to wait over 5 months for it to get delivered and it was, of course, made wrong - since that is my usual luck - but we can keep that stone til the right one comes.  

 Yea! for a stone!  Yea! that my boy is in heaven!  

Yea! that I have Kyler to keep me company til its my turn for heaven!

It is supposed to be all black, no gray, but we'll wait and enjoy this temporary stone.  :) 

*Sidenote : Kyler is usually asleep when I go to the cemetery  but this day he wasn't and loved pulling all the flowers out the vases.  :)  

Words, Words, Words

Probably even more than with walking, I anxiously awaited for Kyler to start 'talking'.  At our 1 year check-up, the pediatrician asked if Kyler was saying any words besides mama.  Mama?  Yeah, right!  :)  This kid now says more than half a dozen words or so, but none of them really mama.  He makes mamama noises, but not really in conjunction with me.  Ha!  But he does say alot of other words which makes my heart proud.  Currently we have bye-bye, hi ("hhh"), outside ("si"), dog "da", kitty cat "kit-e", ball "ba", please "leas", and most recently thank you "sank ew".   :)