Mini-Me

My Aunt Linda sent me this picture today of my cousin Lindsay and I. I'm the one on the left. I think Ty looks a lot like I did when I was a baby.


Tyler has recently had a shift in his schedule and I hope it sticks (but with the upcoming time change, I'm not sure how it will work out):

Between 7-7:30am: Wake up
Between 10-10:30am: Down for first nap
Between 11am-12pm: Up from nap
Between 2:30-3pm: Down for second nap
Between 3:30-4:30: Up from nap
Between 7-7:30pm: Down for the night

His feedings are pretty much the same as before.

Tyler doesn't typically watch T.V. and he never seems that interested in what Matt and I watch, but I just decided to put on a kid's show (Blue's Clues) to see how he would respond. He's in such a trance...I just coughed and totally startled him. He jumped so high. The kid is hooked.

Panama City Beach

This past weekend, Matt had three days off and we stayed over in Panama City Beach for three nights. It was our first vacation as a family of three. We stayed in a beautiful two bedroom condo overlooking the gulf. It was a much needed vacation with a lot of family bonding time.









He loved looking at himself in the mirror:


After settling in on Saturday afternoon, he headed down to the beach. The waves were pretty rough and Tyler was eating too much sand to sit on the beach, so we didn't stay long. After bathing Tyler and putting him down that night, we cooked dinner and sat out on our balcony. Sunday morning, we went to breakfast. After Ty's first nap, we went down to try the beach again. Tyler cried initially when we put him in his float, but eventually he calmed down. He looked so goofy floating around wearing his big, floppy hat repeating the sound "boe". After his second nap, we went down to the pool. Tyler had much more fun crawling around the edge of the pool than actually swimming in it. He was putting on a smiley baby show for the guests at the pool. Everyone loved him. After the pool we went over to a restaurant called Sharkey's. We sat out on the deck, ate, drank, and listened to live music for a while. It was so nice. Tyler was up past his bedtime that night. On Monday, we went to the beach and the pool again. We also took a trip to Zoo World. It was small, but they had a good number and good variety of animals. Tyler seemed very pensive as he watched all the animals. He laughed and smiled when a zookeeper came by with a wolf and let him pet it. He also seemed to like when I was feeding the goats at the petting zoo.










It was such a wonderful trip.
















In other news, Tyler is getting into EVERYTHING.


He is crawling almost 100% of the time now (instead of the army crawl), he's opening cabinets, pulling stuff over, etc. I also noticed on the drive home yesterday that he had cut his fifth tooth. I didn't realize he was teething. Last week, it seemed like he was a little sick. He was waking up at night and his nose was stuffy and runny. I thought he had a cold since I also had one, but maybe he was just teething.

Here are some additional pictures I've taken this month:

Detroit

This past weekend I was the Matron of Honor in my dear friend Corrie's wedding. We have known eachother for 20 years, so it was a big deal! I traveled to Detroit, Michigan for the weekend and was away from my babe for the first time. I was happy to discover that it wasn't very difficult to be away for a few days. I must admit that I enjoyed seeing old friends, meeting new people, staying out late and sleeping in. Corrie looked like Bridal Barbie (I've known the other bridesmaids in the picture below for about 20 years also. Thankfully, we have stayed close and it was so great to see them.):


However, I could hardly stand the plane ride home because I couldn't wait to see this again:


When I saw Tyler for the first time after deboarding the plane, my dad was holding him. Ty smiled at me but seemed very confused. Then when I held and kissed him, he reached for his grandpa! Boooooo, not cool. Not quite what I had envisioned! Post vacation relaxation is not really an option when you have a little monster to come home to. My parents were gracious enough to come up and take care of Tyler for the weekend since Matt had to work. They had a wonderful time spoiling him all weekend at Gigi's in Appalachicola.

Tyler is nine months old now. He is pulling up on everything. It's so strange seeing that tiny little body standing up all the time. His poor head is covered in bruises because he's still very unstable when he's standing. He can also crawl now, but usually chooses the army crawl as his way of getting around. I can't believe he'll most likely be walking in a few months.