Silly Boy

The picture should about say it all. It's 100 degrees here in TX and Tyler's flannel Curious George pj pants that my mom made him for Christmas are now his favorite. Never mind that they're too short for him too. He wants to wear them all day long. If we run errands, I make him put on shorts. When we get home, he wants the George pants again. He's now into socks. Last winter, I couldn't get him to wear socks for anything. When we were in IL in December, the minute we'd get in the car his shoes and socks came off. It didn't matter is was 5 below and there was tons of snow, he hated socks. Now, he has to constantly wear socks telling me that his feet are cold. He wears them with his crocs and sandals. He is one silly boy!

School

This week I started working again. Just two days a week-nothing too hard. Tyler started a new school. He wasn't thrilled to be left there on Tuesday. We'll see how he does tomorrow. His friend, Emily goes there too. When we looked at the school, he was excited to go to school with Emily. As the days got closer for him to go, he wasn't too sure. Here is a picture with Daddy before we left. The other is a picture when I picked him up. I didn't have any luck with a picture when I dropped him off.

Learning Time

This week Tyler and I started on his Learning Time. I totally copied the idea from my friend, Kate's friend's blog. Her blog is http://www.thedomesticnotebook.blogspot.com/. I just want to give her credit seeing how it was her idea.

Anyway, we start with the calendar, which Tyler loves. He actually asks for it a few times throughout the day. I'm surprise that after one week, he knows the months of the year song. I know there is a song for the days of the week, but I can't remember the tune. I'll have to ask my teacher friends.

Next, for each week, I pick a letter. We do different activities with that letter and there is a bible verse that starts with that letter. This week was the letter T which he already knows well. We decorated a turtle with triangles, glues twigs on a letter T, read the story of Moses and had him make the Ten Commandments. We were suppose to do a cooking activity, but never got around to it. Our verse was Prov. 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart.

South Padre

Last Saturday through Tuesday, Tyler and I went back to South Padre with our friends, Kathleen and Mark. When we were there the end of June, Tyler would go with us out into the water, but he didn't love it as much as last year. This trip, he loved it again. He ran straight into the ocean and loved jumping and falling down in the waves. He again did lots of building sand castles.

We went to Sea Turtle Inc. They rescue and take care of sea turtles. It was pretty neat.

Some friends of ours had told us to drive really far down the beach past all the developments. We did and we found these big sand dunes with tons of shells. The boys loved collecting shells and sliding down the dunes.

Just a few pictures

My mom took a few picture of us while she was here. Tyler kept trying to escape though.

Fun with Aunt Kim & Grandma

Tyler loved having his Aunt Kim and Grandma Chambers. He had a blast with both of them. Aunt Kim had to style his hair the morning of the party, had to put on his sunblock each time we went to the pool, had to put on his PJ's at night, had to sit by him at Chick-fil-A.... You get the picture. He did not want her to leave! (I don't know what's up with the coloring of this picture)

Tyler had fun showing off at the pool for Aunt Kim and Grandma. He showed them how he can float all around in the big pool and his huge jumps.

On Tuesday, we went to the outlets in San Marcos. Tyler would behave for a few stores and then get to ride the toys they have there. He loved it. We ate lunch at Centerpoint Station. It was very yummy and Tyler found an old car to play in.

Tyler's Carnival Party!!

Tyler had his 3 year birthday party today and it was so much fun. My mom and I started planning it back in May. I'm glad my mom and sister were here to help. It was a lot of work, but worth it seeing Tyler so excited. This morning he woke up he said to Scott, "Daddy, you sing Happy Birthday to Ty today." And he also kept asking me, "Mommy is company coming yet?"

It started with Tyler's birthday invitation, which I got on etsy. I think it turned out very cute. When the kids came, they had a bag with their name waiting and got to take tickets for the games. For the games, we had Mystery Fishing, Bean Bag Toss, Can Toss, Lucky Ducky, and the photo booth. At each game, they had to turn their tickets in. You can see the ticket cans on the corner of the tables. I covered baking powder cans with paper and then had the word tickets in a circus font on the front. The cans were great since they have that little opening at the top.

The birthday boy didn't want to dress up, but some of his friends enjoyed it.

After playing games, the kids and adults were ready to eat. We had hot dogs, ham & cheese sandwiches, chips, fruit on skewers, and pasta salad. You can see in the corner of the pictures the little red baskets I had for the kids to eat on.

We had cupcakes, cake balls, and animal crackers for dessert. I bought cute cupcake toppers on esty. In the background, you can see one of the banners I made. It was, Tyler: A Year in Review. It had a 2 year picture at the beginning and then one for each month until he turned 3.

This is the other banner I made. It hung over the fireplace and we put the presents under it.

When the kiddos left, I had popcorn and cotton candy for them to take with.