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| 8 months |
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| Not really interested in taking pictures |
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| Nine month picture with Leonard |
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| It's hard to just sit still when you're nine months! |
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| "......now how do I get Leonard up here with me?" |
Man, time is flying and I can barely keep up with the all the things Tytus is learning and things we're doing as a family. I've been wanting to write down some of the funny Tytus moments that have happened recently as he becomes more and more like a little boy and develops his personality. In early November, during his playtime by himself in the morning, I could hear him going on and on about something. I peeked in to see what was so amusing and saw this...
He LOVES music. He loves to dance, bobble his head, squeal, and kick his feet even if it's just a beat, someone humming, or a song on the radio. He would spend a lot of his time right in front of the CD player, but it didn't take long for him to figure out how to open it, take the CD out, and move the volume controls. One day he turned it up so loud that I walked in to find him under the table sucking his thumb and looking at the doorway for me to come save him. Since then, we've moved it where he can see it but can't reach it for now.
The best way to describe Tytus and his everyday activities right now is to say that he's an explorer. He likes toys, but he LOVES exploring. He'll freely crawl in any room in the house to check out what's in there. Sometimes he likes to be in the same room that I'm working in and figure out what I'm so busy doing (laundry, making the bed, sorting mail, making dinner, cleaning up/organizing things), but then other times he'll just leave the room to find something more interesting. He's learned what the "no no's" are and tends to stay away from them, and most the time when I go check on him he's just hammin' it up. I think if he could take Mia everywhere he plays, his life would be complete.
One Saturday, we were just taking it slow around the house and Tytus was just cracking up at Mia. She was letting him pet her and pull up on her (which is pretty rare) and he was loving it. I caught some of it on camera...
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| Two peas in a pod |
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| "petting" Mia |
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We've let Tytus start disciplining her.....
not really, but it's hilarious what this picture captured |
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| Mia's trying to escape before Tytus grabs a hold again |
Tytus and I got to go to the park together for the first time. He was still only 8 months old but loved swinging, sliding, and playing around the equipment. It just seemed like the perfect day to get out and play even though it was almost Thanksgiving. Funny how Texas weather is.
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| Waiting under the beautiful tree while mommy unloaded the car. |
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| First time swinging in a real swing. |
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| Loving it! |
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| One day soon he'll be big enough to climb those steps! |
We had a great Thanksgiving with family and spent the month leading up to it reflecting on what we were most thankful for. We decorated a simple Thankful Tree a little each day to share with each other what stood out most to us in the last year. From the smallest things to the big blessings we've experienced this year, we are SO thankful for the way God lovingly leads us, protects us, and shows us himself in all things.
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| Happy Thanksgiving! |
Once we got back into town from celebrating Thanksgiving, we had to unpack and put everything away to get back into our groove at home. Tytus came back from the holiday ready full of good ideas he'd learned from watching his cousins, aunts, and uncles. As I put things away in our bedroom he found a deck of cards that he could open and began imitating how he'd seen the Schwarz side of the family play. He would shuffle through the cards, find one that was just right, then look around (like he was playing with a group) and hold it up in the air and exclaim that he was the winner. Then he would repeat it all over again. He also wanted to act like his cousins Caedmon and Isaac and use his own spoon while he ate. We're not quite there yet, but man would he love to be big like them!
