A Day Out with Thomas Again

This was our 2nd pilgrimage to Heber City to meet Thomas the Tank Engine. I made the mistake of bringing it up on Tues night, 3 days before we were going. I'm not even sure how many times I had to try and explain to a 3 year old that Thomas had a long way to travel and wasn't here yet. He didn't seem as excited (jumping around) as last year but he's talked about it for the last 2 weeks and told everyone he got to ride on Thomas so I know he loved it.

This was just enough to remind Kyler how much he enjoys playing with trains so when we got home all the train stuff came back out.
This is his certificate he got for riding Thomas that is hanging in his room.

Kyler

Some random pics of my sweetest little boy!!

Wearing his new Seattle Mariners Hat. Makes his dad so proud!
The golf ball sized lump that showed up one morning and scared his mother to death. Turned out to be strep throat even though he seemed fine and happy as can be.

Watching some Pink Panther on the morning cartoons.

My very own Krispy Kreme delivery boy. His crazy long hair before the latest hair cut.

Day of Trains

Truthfully everyday is a "day of trains" at our house with the toys, movies, PJs, and even fruit snacks but for this outing we actually went looking for trains outside the house. Once again feeding the addiction of a 2 year old. Since Blake had President's Day off work we decided to take Kyler for a ride on Front Runner.

If you look closely you can see he is holding his train ticket in every photo. It's safe to say he was a little excited.

Our destination was the train museum in Ogden.

We got very lucky and Zoey slept from the time we got onto the train until we got home. So we could both focus our attention on Kyler and hopefully make it even more special for him.
Kyler got so used to us taking pictures that he started walking up to things, like this photo, and saying "mom, take Kyler picture with train".

Kyler 2 Year Birthday (6/1 and 6/7)

Cousin Alex brought him a dinosaur card.
Birthday Loves from Grandpa
Kyler’s official birthday was the day after we moved into our new house. We were all exhausted and the house was a mess so lucky for us he doesn’t understand birthday’s yet and we pushed it off a week. Saturday we celebrated and went to the zoo with family and cousins and then more people joined us for Thomas the Train cake at the park. It was so fun to see him get excited about the animals and he loved the slide at the park by our house. I think we’ll be spending a lot of time there this summer. Yummy Chocolate cake. Really it only lasted for a few messy bites and then he wanted back to the slide. We got him back for a few minutes to open presents.

Kyler's Shiner

It should be widely known that the streets of Logan are ruled by roaming gangs of babies and toddlers. Well we found out that Kyler was running with a very tough crowd and apparently got in a scuff with the local neighborhood thug. After lots of diaper pulling, biting and name calling, Kyler took one to the eye, but the other kid, well lets just say he is now in the NICU. It was brutal! We are just glad we are not the other kids parents.

So please don't call Child Services on us it was just Kyler protecting his turf. Kyler has told us he will never again participate in such debauchery ever again! (His word not ours). (Ok, Kyler fell and hit the leg of a table at grandma's. But this sounds better right?)

Kyler's 18 Month Check Up

Kyler had his 18 month Dr. visit on Friday and I have to say these were the worst shots yet. There was no distracting him with daddy or fun toys this time. So of course we decided to tack on more excitement and all get flu shots together. Kyler seemed fine the next morning but Blake and I are still whining about our arms being sore. He is now 23 lbs and 31 inches tall. I’m told that’s below the 20th percentile but he sure seems nice and chubby to me.
As you can see his mom’s curly hair is catching up with him too.

Kyler's First Snow

So of course Blake had to teach Kyler how to eat snow. I don't think he realized at the time that Kyler wouldn't understand the 'Don't eat yellow snow' rule.

The first post!

This will be a soft grand opening of the Blake and Monica blog. I know Monica has a lot of pictures she wants to put on here, but I had to post this because it just made me laugh. This is the influence toys have over Kyler. The monkey was provided by grandma, the entertainment was provided by Kyler.



This is what happens just a couple of seconds later....



Watching this was so much better than actually doing my homework. Of course after about ten minutes of Kyler doing this, and a whole lot of falling over, I had to stop him.