Ty: 8 Months

This kid.

This now 8 month old kid absolutely melts my heart.  He is the classic definition of a momma's boy and I kind of love it.

He is more than willing to smile at anyone else and is ok with them holding him, until he sees me.  And he is absolutely not ok with me walking out of the room.  He is definitely in the separation anxiety phase.

Ty's 8th month started off wonderfully - HE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!  And woke up so happy!  I woke up panicked, but happy once I realized what happened.

It was unfortunately really short lived because we went out of town for Halloween and he is in a constant state of teething so...it was nice while it lasted.

I ended my last post by saying I thought it would be any day now until he was crawling and into everything.  The day has come!  He is not only crawling - very quickly - everywhere, but he has also learned to pull himself up on everything.

Lori isn't super thrilled with another kiddo chasing her, but she is dealing with it.  She's a good sport. Ty loves all the animals - he has discovered the animals hanging above his crib and just beams whenever he sees them or any of the mounted deer of his dad or grandfathers.

If I turn my head for a second he is off!  He has also learned to stand up in bed and is beyond proud of himself.

We all took our first trip to the Houston Aquarium.  We went on a Monday morning and there wasn't anyone there so we got to ride all the rides basically by ourselves.  The ferris wheel was a hit...the train, not so much for Ty.

He is still wearing size 4 diapers and 9-12 month clothes.  Mostly 12 months.  He is doing great with solids and loves puffs.  He has contemplated taking a bottle from Barry but isn't totally convinced yet.

He still has just the two teeth but has a couple others that are starting to poke through.  He thinks Sawyer is just the greatest, especially her hair.  He is a hair puller in the worst way.  Besides hair, his favorite things are my phone, his activity table, trying to crawl into the fireplace and taking a bath.  He definitely keeps me on my toes and is already into way more than Sawyer ever was, but then he just smiles...I am not sure how he is every going to get in trouble for anything with those dimples!

Halloween 2014

Now that we have kids, it seems like holidays that used to last 1 day - if that - now last at least a week!  Halloween was no different this year.

First the pumpkin picking.  We tried to go to this pumpkin farm by us but after driving all the way out there the line was like 45 minutes long just for a ticket so we left and went to the local church we have visited the past few years - and we were the only people there!

Sawyer was pretty set on getting a purple pumpkin, and did her best to convince me to buy a giant one...

But in the end settled for this one.

And a few others - one for school and some for all of her friends to come over and paint.  The nice man that was working there offered to help up take our haul out, but Miss Independent took care of it herself.

So we had the girls over for pancakes and pumpkin painting one day.

Ty pretty much slept through all of this.  Then we had to carve the big pumpkin.  My mom came over and helped us.  Unfortunately for Sawyer, my mom and I are suuuuuper unartistic and she wanted a Hello Kitty.  Nothing a googled stencil couldn't help!

She was super into pulling out the "seeds and slime" and loved eating the roasted seeds.  The next night, my dad was back in town so we went over there to carve pumpkins and things got serious.

This time she wanted a bat.

Tuesday, Ty had costume day at Mother's Day Out.

Thursday, Sawyer had costume day at school. I dressed Ty up again just because...

Thursday was also Barry's birthday so we had a nice dinner out and a neon blue cake with blue icing, fish shaped sprinkles and rainbow candles.  Sawyer picked that because it is her dad's favorite.

We had planned to go to San Antonio on Saturday for Caroline's baptism, but last minute decided to take off Friday morning so we could trick or treat there.  Sawyer was so obsessed with the Belle dress, she basically wore it for 3 days straight.

Once we arrived, we had such a fun night trick or treating with Ariel, a sweet little flower and lots of cousins!

Ty: 7 Months

I feel like Ty changed so much between 6 and 7 months.

His personality is really starting to come out and he just seems like he is quickly moving out of being a baby.

He is so, so happy and so sweet.  But...he is also starting to throw little fits when I take something from him or walk out of his sight.

He has lots of new tricks this month.  He sits...

and has figured out how to crawl over the past month.

One of his favorite toys

He isn't super fast yet, but any day now.  Over the past month, he went to his first football game in Dallas.

We got to meet up with all my girlfriends from high school which was such a highlight of our weekend.  I loved introducing Ty to all my friends, and meeting some of their kiddos for the first time.

We also were in Yoakum on Grandma Cowan's birthday so we were able to celebrate with her and her friends at Dairy Queen.

He started sitting in the grocery cart.  He loves it and flirts with anyone and everyone.  But mostly gets angry that he can't steal Sawyer's snacks.

Eating and sleeping are...eh.  We gave Ty some Puffs for the first time and they made him terribly sick.  We ended up at the pediatricians office with a potential soy allergy to add to the milk protein allergy.  I am hoping we will do some sort of blood testing at his 9 month appointment so we can get some more for sure answers.  Fortunately, though, he is all of a sudden really liking any fruits and veggies that I make for him.  The only thing he doesn't like right now is peaches.  STILL not sleeping through the night, still up every 3-4 hours to eat then right back to sleep.  Still not taking a bottle.

I keep trying to remind myself that this is only a season and I will soon miss this, but geeze I'm tired!!    Ty LOVES going to Mother's Day Out.  I am so thankful for his teachers and the 8 hours a week I can go to work.

He also really, really loves Sawyer.  He gets the biggest smile on his face every morning when he sees her.  He also really loves pulling her hair.  She is so sweet to him; her favorite game to play is that she is the mom, I am the dad, Ty is the daughter and her baby of choice for the day is Ty.

I'm sure he doesn't love it, but this is how we currently spend most mornings!  His other favorite thing is Lori.  His head is on a swivel whenever she is in the house and he watches her every move and does everything he can to get his hands on her.

We enjoyed some great weather and were able to spend quite a few evenings in the backyard hanging out.

The weekend that we were in Yoakum, the photo albums ended coming out and we came across this.

Could they look anymore alike?!?  Ty weights about 20 pounds, is wearing size 4 diapers and 9 months clothes.  He has two teeth, bottom middle, which popped up a few days after he turned 7 months.  It has been a fun month, I am sure any day now he will be all over the place and into everything!