11 months Old

Tyrel is 11 months old. He is getting so big, I can't believe that he will be ONE next month. He loves eating, and I love to feed him because he is not picky. He will just eat (unlike the other kids). He did officially sleep through the night for several nights in a row, and although he has had his off nights here and there, he is generally sleeping from about 9:30 pm - 5 or 6 am. It has been awesome. He starts to get really irritated when kids grab toys from him, he grabs it really tight and screams a "mad" scream. He loves watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Baby Einstein, which keeps me sane on those days when he stays up at 5 or 6 am. He is totally formula now, which has been mostly nice; just a little hard on those restless nights. He loves going outside and if I open the balcony door, he crawls SO fast over to it to try and make it out. He also freaks out if I leave, or if I even walk to or by the front door for any reason. And the biggest thing he now does is walking. He talks 4-5 steps in a row, I bet he'll be a pro by 12 months old.

He's so sad, but it's a great picture to see all his teeth

Fishing and First Steps

Matt, Sam, and a friend from the ward (Brent Nielsen), went fishing on Wednesday and here are the pictures.

Also, here are some of Tyrel's first steps!

new pictures

Tyrel's fingers are looking great. They are pretty much all healed and the swelling has gone down a lot. It's been two weeks since he got his cast off. Here is his hand:

I tried really hard to get on of the back of his hand. Did you know it was almost impossible to do that. I think the picture is blurry and his fingers are closing, but you can kind of tell:

He hated me taking pictures of his hand. He gave me this sad face, and when that didn't work....

...he resorted to this. Which made it even more difficult.

Movie party with the Knowles

My Mom made cute matching toy story outfits for the boys and I have been trying forever to get a good picture, this was the best I could do.

This was also the best I could do

Matt gave Boston a haircut, don't worry, we didn't leave it like that.

Brothers: It looks like they are the same size to me, just Tyrel is like a giant baby, and Jonah is a tiny little boy.

Boston and Mikelle in the hammock

Tyrel playing outside

At Bison Park

Also, I have to put this in because I am just so excited about it. Tyrel is now sleeping the whole night through, from 9 pm - 5:30 or 6 am. Then a bottle and back to sleep until 8. This is quite amazing because this didn't happen for the other kids until around 18 months/2 years.

Girls

Mikelle makes me laugh all the time. She has the attitude and emotions of a teenager; which makes me wonder if I'm getting a glimpse of what she will be like, or if it will be much worse. This morning I had several errands to run, so I told the kids we needed to start getting ready. Mikelle usually likes to pick out her own clothes; in fact, I am only allowed to pick out her clothes on Sunday because I told her she has to at least match for church. I asked her if she wanted me to get an outfit out for her and she said she wanted to pick it out and went into her closet. I then got myself ready, changed and feed Jonah and Tyrel, got them both dressed, got the diaper bag ready, got all the lists and papers ready for our errands, got all the shoes and sippy cups, and told Mikelle to come out and get her shoes on. All this took about 30 minutes. She came out of her room and was STILL in her pajamas. She proudly said "Mom, I picked out what I wanted to wear, but I'm still deciding on what underwear. Do you think I should wear Fancy Nancy or Tinkerbell?" What a funny girl. It takes her this long to make clothes decisions.

One more thing.

Mikelle told me she was hungry so I said "What do you want to eat, some vegetables?" (sort of joking) and she laughed at me and said "oh mom, vegetables, of course not."

4th of July Weekend

Mikelle

Jonah

Tyrel - his first 4th of July

On July 3rd, we had a huge pancake breakfast, here is Mikelle and I in the kitchen getting everything ready.

Eating pancakes on the deck

Tyrel LOVES playing out there

Sal, Sam, and Matt going on a scooter ride

The kids running up and down the sidewalk

going "fishing" in the muddy water

some quiet time

Then sparklers!

Tyrel's first sparkler!

Boston and Mikelle making "O's"

Then on July 4th, after church, nap time

Then we headed over to the Gamez's house for a BBQ, ice cream, and fireworks.

The cute Gamez girls

throwing the poppy things

The kids LOVED the fireworks. It was pretty nice for most of the fireworks, then it started pouring rain. We still got all the fireworks to light except one. Then we went inside and played games for awhile. The kids had a blast staying up SO late.

Other random pictures

Mikelle with her award ribbon from her coloring contest

Tyrel, you can see his fingers look a lot better in this picture