Baby Einstein and Tyler's swaddle blanket

I don't have any of the videos yet but I think Baby Einstein is a great little video series for babies. I found quite a few of the clips on youtube and so one night, I put Tyler's bumbo on the computer chair and he sat there and watched it pretty intently! I was pretty impressed!

This is Tyler in his bumbo with his new play tray. I really like the tray because it helps him to have the toys up to his level since he is still learning how to pick them up on his own. It will also make the perfect little travel high chair!

We still swaddle Tyler at night because otherwise, he pulls his pacifier out and then cries until I get up, walk down the hallway, and put it back in. Sometimes I don't hear him until he is really mad which wakes him up too much and then falling back to sleep is not as easy. So, even though Tim calls it Tyler's straight jacket, we still use it! :) Doesn't he look so peaceful and comfortable here?

Here's a little video clip of Tyler being "untied" from his swaddle blanket and doing a BIG stretch :)



And, a futile attempt at trying to get Tyler and I's picture together. I will say though that his eye color and mine are almost exact in this picture when I thought they were more like Tim's. Maybe its just the lighting.

Just because I take a lot of pictures...

I take a lot of pictures of Tyler...but you can't really take too many right? :) Anyway, yesterday after church, Tyler and I both put on our sweats (it was only in the 60s in August!) and took almost a 2 1/2 hour nap. Both of us slept without interruptions, it was great! Here he is in his little hoodie. :)

This was before church in his cute little dress shirt and sweater vest. :) This boy sleeps a lot!

Tyler loves his bath time. I've been trying to let him do a little "swimming" in the tub where I actually let him float with his ears under that way he can start getting used to it. I want this boy to love the water!

He loves this part too when I let him kick around on his changing table. What little boy doesn't boys love being naked! :)

Products of our first garden!

Tim and I had our very first garden this summer. I have never done any of this type of gardening in my entire life but Tim had and so we planted a small, but perfect little garden. I didn't take any pictures of the actual garden but here are some pictures of what we got!

This is what we got EVERY week...LOTS of cucumbers! We have pickles out our ears!

I was most excited about the green beans as I grew up on home grown and home canned green beans. We had some bug issues during the middle of the summer, but now we are back to getting 5-7 pints a week...not bad I don't think!

A lot of our corn ended up being raccoon food, but apparently they thought this one was too small to even bother. We went ahead and picked it and it was the most perfect little corn on the cob ever! It was by far the best tasting sween corn I have tasted all year. All that flavor packed in to one little ear! :)

Fun Photos of Tyler

Tyler and I headed outside one day to have a little fun. I realized I hadn't taken any pictures of him outside this summer at all! I don't think he particularly liked it, actually. He kept closing his eyes. :) We were in the shade! Anyway, enjoy the pictures of our little boy!

You can click it to view it larger.I love those perfectly kissable lips!

Trying to keep up!

Its been over a month since I've updated and for those of you who actually follow my blog, I'm sorry! The last time I updated, I was on vacation with my family to Emerald Isle, NC and we were celebrating my dad's 55th birthday. I took hundreds of pictures while we were on vacation and there is no way I can possibly upload them all here. But some of the best ones are on facebook and you can check that album out by clicking here if you want. Tyler turned 3 months on July 29...it never ceases to amaze me how fast he is growing up! He weighed 14lb 2 oz a week or so after his 3 month birthday and was 25 1/2 inches long. Here's some of the professional pictures we had taken of him.

I'm now back to work full swing and for the most part Tim and one of our neighbors who is also a member of our church watches him for me. Tyler loves his day with Daddy and our neighbor Nancy and her husband Jay just LOVE being around him and playing with him. They are disappointed if I come home from work early. :)

I think one of the reasons why I have been so bad about updating here lately is because I took pictures for a couple at our church's wedding on the 1st and just last week finally got all the pictures edited. I had help from Tim and also a friend, Cynetta but all 3 of us took 1500 pictures! WHEW! Anyway, I was pleased with the results and actually, because of that officially decided to start my very own VERY small business, In His Image Photography. Here's the video from the wedding.

You can check out my "fan" page on facebook by clicking here. I also have a photography blog. Anyway, thats all I'm going to be able to update on at the moment. There is still lots of pictures of Tyler, Joanna's 30th birthday party, and just general life pictures to post but that will have to wait for another time. We've been busy gardening and canning LOTS of cucumbers but I don't have any pictures just yet. We were disappointed with our corn...well, actually the corn did just fine. It was the stupid raccoons that ate it all that we were disappointed in. But we were able to freeze at least 6 bags of it and ate some fresh. SOO good. My favorite. Anyway, next year we will figure out how to keep those pesky things away! I will try to do better with updating although, I must admit, facebook is so much easier and more enjoyable to do!