The Many Faces of Tyler Roo

I took all of these pictures (plus a lot more in about one minute. He's fun.  :-)

The Laughs Don't Stop

While we definitely have our share of two year old moments around here, we spend most of our time either trying not to burst out laughing at the things Tyler says or failing at those attempts and just laughing.

A few days ago he affectionately nick-named Carsten, Baby Otter. He corrects me when I call him anything else. "No Mommy, he a otter." He's sticking to his story too. Sorry Carsten. I promise, it was not my idea to call you an otter. I hope it doesn't stick forever.

Last night it was getting late so I told Tyler he just needed to clean up one thing and put it away before bed. He did. I guess.

He was pretty proud of himself for putting himself away. Then he accidently tipped over backwards and laid there pretend crying and saying, "Oh no, I dumped out!"

 

I'm not sure if I ever mentioned this before, but for his half birthday he got a surprise in the mail from Grandma Ronni and Papa Joe. A deer! It didn't fully replace his imaginary one, but usually he has the real one with him now. It's adorable. He was so excited when he opened that box. Anyway, today he pulled out a little zip-lock of popcorn while I was making lunch. I told him he couldn't have any because we were about to eat. Not surprisingly, he told me it was for his deer and took off running. He wasn't lying - this is what I found later.

 

 

After nap he got his deer out again and told me he was having a movie night for his deer. He worked so hard setting up the deer and the bowl of popcorn that I told him he could watch a real show on the iPad instead of just staring at the wall in the hallway pretending to watch something!

 

And here's one just because I don't get a lot of pictures of Carsten without his helmet on. I miss his cute little head.

 

He loves standing and moving around the table in this thing! Tyler also loves pushing him in circles around it. Thankfully he's a little adventure seeker and doesn't mind being pushed in fast little circles!

 



Baby Food Day!

Lately Carsten has been very interested in everything we eat. He grabs food off any plate he gets close enough to, stole my spoon out of my blizzard at Dairy Queen last week and keeps on trying to steal Tyler's sippy cups.

There's nothing in that cup, but he really wished there were.

So Saturday morning he tried rice cereal for the first time. It didn't seem like his first time. I'm not sure who's been feeding him, but he acted like he'd been eating from a spoon his whole life. Not that he didn't get messy. He is the king of getting messy. But he didn't act even a little surprised about the taste or the consistency, or the spoon. He just took a bite and immediately opened his mouth and leaned forward for more. He ate the whole bowl, and quickly! He was like a little bird opening his mouth and making little squawky noises between every bite. It was so cute.

Such a big boy!

Eating like a little champ.

 

My Little Pumpkins

Last weekend we went to the apple orchard. It's one of the things I love most about fall and we didn't make it to one last year, so I was very excited. We stayed there for two hours longer than we thought we would! Time really does fly when you're having fun. :-)

 



I keep calling Tyler my little pumpkin. And every time he says, "No, I not a pumpkin Mommy, I a Tyler!" I think they're both cute little pumpkins though, no matter what he says. :-)

5 Months!

It's taken me a week to get these up, but Carsten is five months old now! He's pretty much awesome. I just love this baby!

Right now he loves playing with toys. Well, mostly he loves chewing on toys. He is constantly putting things in his mouth, always chewing on his fingers, and most recently his toes. That is seriously one of my favorite things. I loved it when Tyler did it and I love it when Carsten does it. SO CUTE!

He can sit up by himself (with a little support from the boppy.) He wants to be a part of everything going on around him. He no longer just falls asleep in his car seat when he's tired. If there are people around, he wants to be watching them! And of course, the person he loves watching the most is his big brother! He loves Tyler and almost everything he does. I love watching them together. Tyler is in a screaming phase (which we are working on), and sometimes he screams right in Carsten's face and scares him. But lately when Tyler screams in his face, Carsten screams right back at him. It really surprised Tyler the first couple of times. It's pretty adorably cute.

He's a little bundle of love and joy. :-)

 

 

Baths are his favorite thing in the whole world. Nothing makes him happier. He has a bath every night before bed and he smiles and laughs and splashes and chews on foam letters and enjoys every minute. He doesn't even care when his brother tries to help by dumping water over his head. He just laughs more.

 

He loves his Bumbo, but he rarely sits in it the right way. He's usually too busy turning to watch Tyler. His foot is not as ginormous as it looks in this picture. :-)

 

He is charming and smiley and happy all the time. Ok, not all the time. He is charming all the time, but he's actually becoming very opinionated. And his biggest opinion is that I should never be more than 6 inches away from him or looking in any other direction but his. When I turn away from him he cries. When I turn back, he laughs. It's starting to make it very difficult to get out of the house in the morning! Or to get much of anything else done. I happen to think it's very sweet and I love it that he wants to be with me all the time. But it is getting a little ridiculous sometimes. We're working on it. :-) But I'm also trying to enjoy it, because someday he's not going to be nearly so cuddly and snuggly and I'm going to miss it!

 

What's cuter than a baby with a birthday hat? A baby with a birthday hat over his helmet!

 

He's been a little champ with his helmet! He wakes up a little earlier than before he got it, but otherwise, he doesn't seem to mind it at all.

We snazzed it up a little bit.

If you think it's hard to get kids to sit still for pictures, try getting a picture of the back of baby's head. It is basically impossible.

My sweet little guy - Also known as Carstenator Gator and Tyler calls him Little Cutie. :-)

 

Photo Shoot!

I apologize in advance for the extreme number of pictures in this post.

I have been wanting to get some good pictures of the boys together that I can get framed. And I felt like we were running out of nice days to do it outside. So instead of hoping for a nice weekend day when Carl could help, I decided to just do it last Thursday. The point was really to get nice ones of them both together. Here's how that went:

Cute, but not what I was going for. :-)

Almost, but I was too busy tickling Tyler's tummy to keep him laying down that I didn't really aim the camera!

Not fans of laying on grass. Not. At. All.

I love that they're looking in the same wrong direction in these two pictures.

One of my favorite photo fails ever.

And we lost one.

Somersaults on cement? Perfect.

There it is. The one and only.

Tyler refused to put his head any closer to Carsten's because he was afraid of baby drool, and Carsten was hitting him in the head repeatedly, but somehow, I got this one treasure. :-)

 

They were both more cooperative on their own. Here's Tyler:

 

Real life. He is doomed to spend the rest of his life pulling up pants that don't fit.

Senior picture?

My favorite!

 

And Carsten:

 



I am clearly not a baby photographer. He's just laying down in every one. But he's smiling and showing off those big blue eyes that I love, so I am satisfied.  :-)

 

 

These two make life so much sweeter.