Ty at Almost 18 Months

**Warning for some reason this first part of the post looks all retarded and highlighted but I don't know how to fix it nor do I want to spend the time figuring out how so there you go.**  

The other day I had a Dr. appt at 1pm, right smack dab in th middle of naptime poor planning on mama's part for sure. Anywhoodle my wonderful husband was able to leave work and stay with Ty while he stayed asleep. Apparently daddy wanted a little nap too so he fell asleep in his rocker in the living room. A few minutes later he was rudely awaken by no other than Mr.Ty, slapping him in the head with the box to an Elmo DVD while saying "Elmo. Elmo. Elmo." When I got home shortly after, Ty was watching Elmo. When Patrick told me this story I could not stop laughing. The boy knows what he wants and he certainly knows how to get it. 
I think since I continue to ignore my other posts I still need to do for Halloween I'm going to make this post into a kind of 18 month update on Ty and what he's been up to recently before I forget you know because while the pumpkin patch posts and weird leaf stalker lady are nice, I did this blog so that I could look back on it one day and remember everything about my sweet baby boy so that means non eventful posts mainly just for my personal enjoyment and possibly for Ty's future wife when she's pregnant and asking me how Ty was as a baby.
The child is such a talker now I'm still the only one who understands everything he says but he's got a ton of words that others can recognize too. My favorites are tractor and lawn mower because both are so clear and he says each word about 500 times a day. I spend so much time with him, I know what different squeals and sounds mean. The ones that come to mind are when he's harassing the dogs in another room I know which dog he is bothering and what he's doing to them trying to push payton out of the way, getting paris to shake, trying to mount one to ride like a horse, you know things like that. On a side note its hillrious to hear him bug old lady Paris until she can't take anymore and runs with her tail down to another room I just see a quick flash of her as she darts thru the hallway. 
Ty has 2 top molars growing in and I just noticed a bottom left one coming in. I'm impresed how straight and nice they're coming in especially compared to his snaggle tooth peers too bad they're only his baby teeth or he would not need braces ever. 
He does the funniest eye roll thing now where he closes his eyes all put out then rolls them when they're open. Patrick has said on several occassions that its exatly like the dirty looks I give him and I'm sad to admit it but yeah, I know I give those same looks hahaha. 

Probably the biggest and most impressive thing that Ty has started doing is telling me when he is pooping and then again after he's done that he has poop. This means that its not long before I can start potty training. I have never minded changing diapers at all what I do mind is paying for them so I am so excited to not have to buy those stupid things anymore. Anytime that I am on the potty just peeing now he will ask me "poop?" so he even knows that pooping is to be done on the potty. Wow an entire excited paragraph about poop, what would my UT English professors think? 

I believe I mentioned above the love that Ty has for tractors,. Well he now takes one to bed with him every night. He holds it while I sing and rock him. He is such a boy!

He weighs 23 pounds now which is still just between the 10 and 20 percentile for his age. However he is around 34 inches which is the 90 percentile and his shoe size is the same as the kids in playgroup a whole year older than him, he wears a 6. Tall and skinny with a huge foot, hello future athlete. 

Oh here's a fun fact for you my child still wakes up all night long and sleeps worse now then he did when he was a baby and still nursed. I don't know what to do and I've kind of just come to terms with it. He sleeps in our bed most of the night because I just get tired of having to get up and go tend to him. He does still wake up when he's in our bed but I don't have to get up and its relatively quick to put him back to sleep. 

I've had several of the moms in our playgroup ask me if Ty ever cries because he is so laid back and go with the flow. He really doesn't ever cry, just in the middle of the night. He's a very happy and content little boy. Waking up in  the middle of the night with him isn't that big of a deal, I can catch up on sleep someday and will miss getting up to rock him. 

I still believe that this child will grow up to be a politician. he is so friendly, waves to everyone and totally knows how to work a room. Everywhere we go people just love him because he is so friendly and outgoing. It has made me have to be a much friendlier and outgoing person too because I have to talk to all these people who he is waving and talking to. 

I guess that's about all I really wanted to get posted. I still can't believe that my baby is a year and a half old! I am so proud of him everyday and he just makes me smile I never knew it was even possible to love someone this much! Oh and to close, this is for you my sweet baby Ty

I will love you forever, I will like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. (I still can't even look at that book without bawling like a baby and I refuse to buy it. I just can't handle it)

Fall Leaves Stalker

I am asolutely in love with the fall foliage here I've never seen anything like it.  It is beautiful and I am borderline obsessed with it. I was going to just post about it on facebook but I'm fairly certain some of my friends will unfriend me if I mention the leaves there one more time. I'm also pretty sure that if my son could talk well enough he would say "damn lady, ok I see the leaves could you shut up about them now?!"  I grew up in Texas, we dont have leaves like this, we don't really have a fall at all so to experience one has been glorious. Oh and I know I'm not alone because my mom was all excited about them too when she was here.  So anyway I collected abunch of colorful leaves today from the park and I am going to try and preserve them just like little kids and nerds do and then I'm going to use them in Ty's scrapbook which I swear I am starting when I go home for Thanksgiving and have someone to watch him. So here are some pictures I took this morning .

And these are just various shots on different days at the park that I thought I should include for everyone's viewing pleasure.

This is right outside our backdoor. Amazing!!

And these are just at our park and around our apartment, you should see the trees all along I-20 and at the SC/Georgia border on the Savannah River and you could have had any of them turned out today that I took while driving, out my car window (for some reason I thought that that would make me less weird then pulling over on the side of the road and taking some nice, safe pictures hmmm...)

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Blog...

So I still have some posts to do from my mom's visit and actual Halloween and trick or treating but I wanted to get some of my phone pics on here before I forget what they are. So here we go,

 A little hard to see since it was getting dark but here are some of my pictures that I drew for Ty with his sidewalk chalk. What I was impressed with was that as I drew everything, Ty was able to recognize what I drew and said what it was. It makes me think about when we were young and my mom would draw us pictures and we would laugh and laugh. Me and my brother would request that she draw us under the sea pictures because they were just so retarded looking and we wanted to laugh. I like to think I got a little of my dad's drawing talents, just a little. 

Ty with his big tractor playing in his huge sandbox that Patrick made him behind our apartment. The kid can seriously spend hours out there, its amazing. 

Game day. Just at a park playing, trying to wear him out before a noon kickoff. What am I going to do next year when those football legs don't fit anymore? I get more compliments on those then anything else he has. Its even kind of annoying (not really) going out in public and getting stopped constantly about them and how cute he is in them. 

How much of a professional traveler does he look here? We are at Target here and on his favorite aisle (yes even more then the toys) the luggage. I know that if I bought these items for our upcoming trip to Austin it would take us forever to get form our gate to the next plane because he would want to pull his own suitcase instead of riding comfortably in his stroller so I didn't buy them but dang it if he's not the cutest little jet setter...

Dad and Ty in matching UT hoodies reading the book that we had to hide because all Ty ever wants to do is read this book. Its all about trucks and tractors and he is obsessed. 

Here we are playing at Patrick's jobsite. Probably not the safest place for an 18 month old to roam but whatever he had a great time and then took a super nap. Also while we were here "helping" dad we bathed Payton in the what will be main entrance to the restaurant. Now whenever I go in or look at the Cracker Barrel I will know that I bathed my dog in there hehehe. 

After visitng the jobsite, we had a bbq to go to and Ty's shoes were all wet so the only shoes he had were the above loafers and therefore I had to dress him to match the loafers.  When we got to the bbq my friends younger high school brother said "if you ever have a boy you totally need to dress him like Ty." 

Grammy's Visit Highlights

I have so many pictures from my mom's visit because we did so many things that I decided to just post a couple of pictures from each thing and give a little summary of what we did at each place. I'm being lazy and not doing a separate blog for each event, sorry but I still have a child that wakes up all night I'l allowed the right to be lazy. 

This was at Hopeland gardens. Its out of sync with the other gaden pictures but please refer to the above statement of me being lazy, its too hard to move pictures around on blogger. Ty is chasing the cat that often stalks my dogs when I bring them here. Ha take that kitty. 

Here we were buying Ty's official pumpkin to be carved. Its hard to believe that after the amount of pumpkin patches we visited I didn't get  a pumpkin until 2 days before Halloween. This was a produce stand right next to his dad's job so all he could see, think about or concentrate on were the tractors. That's what's he's looking at in these pics. 

See, here's what he was looking at the whole time. 

Here we are the Augusta Build A Bear. I have wanted to go to this place since before I even thought about having a kid. I wanted to borrow someones child to go in and make one so you can imagine my, er, Ty's excitement when we got to go build a bear with Grammy. 

He was all excited until the weird lady in the big queen of hearts costume scared him. After she talked to him, he wanted nothing to do with the stuffing of the bear. 

See how weird she is? I didn't really want to be near her either. 

Trying to get Ty to step on the pedal that makes the stuffing go into the bear. 

I took the pictures indoors without a flash which is the explanation for the poor quality and awful lighting. 

Here is Ty picking out an outfit for his bear. He tried to pick up this fancy sequinned number more than once. I told him his daddy wouldn't appreciate his Liberace bear so we needed to keep looking. 

Here they are bathing the bear before we dressed him. 

Naming the newest addition to our family, Masters P. Augusta

And here he is, Masters. As manly as one can get at a Build-A-Bear

These are just some funny out takes of my mom trying to control both my dogs and baby by the super pretty red fall trees at my apartment. 

My mom racing to catch Ty before he fell down this hill. I've seen him slide down this very hill on several occasions  but see I told you my mom was much more caring and motherly then me, I would have just watched and laughed. 

At Hopeland Gardens where the tress are just beautiful. I am loving South Carolina in the fall because they have a fall like you always read about in children's books talking about fall.  I don't remember reading in 1st grade "Look at the leaves all shrivel up without ever changing any color but brown and die due to the massively hot and dry summer we just had"

Ah me and my baby. We had so much fun while my mom was here. It reminded me how much I like spending time with her so I bought a plane ticket to go home to Austin for Thanksgiving!