May Fun!!

May has been a busy month!!  I feel like so much has happened!!  Courtney is growing up faster every day.  She can now say mamma, dadda, ba ("ball"), and ha ("hat").  She also tries to say Cinderella, but it is more, "ra ra ra ra", but its still really cute!  She is also eating more and more like a big girl.  She will barely eat baby cereal for me anymore, only once a day.  She loves waffles and blueberries, chicken nuggets, sweet potato fries, grilled cheese, and spaghetti and meat sauce.  We are also done nursing!!  Day and night - I'm done!!  She still doesn't sleep great, she just seems really gassy and unsettled.....but the other night she was only up twice and went back done easy, so I was happy about that.  She loves to sleep in big beds all sprawled out, just like her brother.  Good thing we have 2 big beds now!!  Court and I end up in Tyson's bed most nights, while Ty takes over my side of the bed with Brock.

Tyson is also growing up!!  His listening and talking are coming along great!  He really seems to understand me now and he is talking more and more - and not just stuff he sees on TV, actually saying words to me.  One night he got up way too early and I was telling him to go to sleep and clear as day, groggy and all, he said, "I don't want to".  Not the answer I was looking for, but thanks for actually using a sentence.  He loves playing outside - it is his favorite thing in the world!  He is more willing to try new things if I suggest it, and he is listening to me much better - most of the time!

I am really loving this age!!  The kids are so much fun!!  Most of the time.  I remember last year and how hard everything was...This year is already so much better!  Its so much easier to get out and do things and the kids are so fun and cute right now!  I'm loving this age and I am loving staying home with them!  

Here are some pictures from what we have been up to!

Mother's Day!  Such a pretty girl!  Love this dress so much - super cute!

Playing bubbles with Gido!  Ty is obsessed with chasing bubbles!

Courtney is kinda obsessed with my brother.  Once she is with him, she doesn't want to let go!  So cute!

Another cute outfit shot!  Such a pretty girl!

Mommy and baby on Mother's Day!

Courtney got her big girl car seat!!  She was super excited!  Her legs were crushed into the back of the seat before, and now she could kick and move!  She loved it!!

Such a big girl now!!  Oh, and I'm obsessed with her new shoes!!  I loved them so much that I ordered them in the next size up too!!  They are so super cute.  I wish I could get matching ones too!

Some more cute Courtney pictures.  We play in the yard almost every day!

Courtney loves to point at the princesses on her wagon!

Another day, another cute outfit!

Classic Ty picture!  Love it!  I also love when I can actually sit at the table and eat when my kids are eating!  By the time I get them set up and make Tyson actually finish eating his food, they are done and I'm left alone!!

Tyson actually started sitting on and riding his car!!  Big moment!!  I was really proud!!  

Big guy!!  Loves it!!

The kids also got their new big playset!!  Its so cute!!  I think Courtney likes it more than Ty, but he is so obsessed with bubbles!!

Tyson checking out the house.

Courtney checking it out.

Ty on the slide.  The slide is his favorite! 

Courtney on the slide.  She is more nervous about it.  She loves the house part.

 Cute kids in the shopping cart!

More cute play house pictures!!

Court found a dandelion!!  Could there be a happier kid?

So cute!!  I now have to pick these every day so she doesn't eat them.....

This kid is getting too big!!

Playing together so nice!  Love it!!

One day we decided to go to the park!!  Love seeing both my kids in the backseat!

The park was really busy and Court just wanted to stay with Mom.  She wasn't too impressed with the swings.

Tyson was a big boy and tried out the big kid swings!!  He LOVED them!!  I was so proud of him!

My big guy!!

I got Court to play in the sand for a brief moment!

So happy and proud!  I love this guy so much!

Court found it hard to walk and just wanted to be held.

Cute girls at the park!

Ty even tried out this spinning toy!  

We also went to my parents house for the day!  It was so fun to play with some of my old toys!  Court loved the little play house!

Pretty girl!

The kids playing so nice together!

Courtney even played and danced with Gido for a bit!!

So cute!

Dancing with Gido!!

Tired guy on the way home!  Love his hat!!

A princess only clubhouse!

We all got a terrible stomach flu, so once we were feeling better, we went out to McD's to eat!  It was nice to finally get out!!

Cute girl in a McD's bib!

Court's first piggy!!  So so cute!!  I love it!  Can't wait for real pigtails!!

Seriously, she is too cute!!  Love her!!

Here Comes the Sun!!

Spring has finally sprung!!  And my kids are loving it!!  We have been getting outside a lot, and have been enjoying every minute!!  I'm just counting down the days until our lawn guys come to clean up the yard so the kids can get their big surprise!!

Bubbles!!  Ty loves chasing after the bubbles!!  And I am so glad we bought that bubble gun - so much easier and way less messy!

Here is a link to a super cute video of Courtney playing with the bubbles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2RSOjLU_M&feature=youtu.be

Playing with the bowling set!

Crazy alien guys!

Cute moment of Courtney playing with her dolly and her stroller.  Such a sweetheart!

Court can now drink from a big girl cup all on her own!!  I don't let her do it all of the time, but she is actually really good at doing it on her own!!

Super cute video of Courtney blowing kisses with me!  Love her!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3cm3zdNHU&feature=youtu.be

A couple more of my happy guy!  Just loves being outside!!  He is so stinking cute!!

Last week, well early in the week, the weather got seriously summer nice!!  We were out in our shorts and hats and it was pure awesomeness!!  And pure kid joy!!  My kids had so much fun, and it was really fun playing with them.  They are at a good age!  Court is a strong walker, so she can explore and run around and I don't have to hold her the whole time.  She loves being out there with Ty, trying to do what he does and chase him around.  I took way too many pictures, but they were so happy and having so much fun and were sooo cute!!  I couldn't help myself!!

Looking so grown up and cool.

Who doesn't love a baby in a sun hat?  I had been wanting to put Courtney in this outfit forever and was so excited to finally have her in it outside!!  

Cute hat, cute shorts, cute bow, cute shoes - too cute!!

Ty and his bubble gun!  So happy!  

One of my favorite pictures of her!  Adorable!

Choo choo!!  I actually try to not encourage this too much - but it is so cute!

Ty looks like a man in need of a nerf gun...

Funny girl!

Playing with some of the new toys from my parents.

She loves them!

Ty likes to line things up....he was really good about sharing them with his sister.  I was proud!

Brother - sister playtime!!

Courtney loves the princesses on her wagon.  She points to each one of them and I swear she is trying to say their names like I do.

My little soccer superstar!!  She just started kicking the ball all on her own!  Link to the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_w3Qja9VH8&feature=youtu.be

A little brother sister book time.  Courtney has gotten much better at not just eating books, although she still loves to eat books.  And when she wants to she high steps it super fast to get away from me!!  Haha!!  She does love to look at books and point to all of the pictures.  She mostly says, "ta" for everything, but I feel like she is learning the words, even if she can't say them.

  

Tyson being such a big boy and coloring inside the lines!!

Reading with Daddy!  Cutest moment ever!

Gotta learn all about Buzz and Woody.  She loves this book.

My Big Guy!!

Tyson is 3.5!!  He is getting so big!!  Literally - he looks so tall and grown up now!  He is such a fun, funny, and cute little guy!  He LOVES dinosaurs!!  Like love, love, loves them.  He watches this show about a boy and his bucket of dinosaurs.  In the show, they jump in the bucket to go to dino-world.  Tyson also has a bucket of dinosaurs and pretends to go to dino-world with his dinosaurs.  His favorite dinosaur toys are the dinosaur toys he gets from my parents house.  They are my brothers old ones.  What is super funny is that when we go there, he separates the duplicate ones that he already has at home from the "new" ones and won't play with the "old" ones while he is there.  Its so funny!!

He is talking more and more, but is still hard to understand at times.  He talks fast and tends to blend words together that he thinks are one word.  He is getting a lot better at listening and sharing - not all the time - but much improved.  He listens really well about coming in from outside, coming for meals, and even helps clean up sometimes!!  He can share really nice sometimes, which is such a blessing as Courtney is all up in his business a lot of the time.  He likes to set up his animal toys a certain way and has a really hard time sharing them when he is playing with them.  He really loves the animal toys that he got for his birthday - he plays with them every day.

He LOVES being outside!!  It is his favorite thing in the world.  He is so happy out there and it makes me so happy to see him so happy!  Being outside more and getting more fresh air has really helped his patience level.  I find he listens better and is easier to get along with when he has been getting outside more.  He loves when I blow bubbles for him to chase and pop.  Super cute!

He loves his baby sister!!  He loves to chase her around and have her chase him.  He alos likes to play with her feet and talk to her.  He gets really frustrated when he is trying to do something and she comes over and messes it up, but when they do play nice, its the cutest thing in the world.

He is so sweet!!  When he is playing and the blocks get messed up or he gets frustrated or we get frustrated - he always says, "I'm so sorry".  It kinda breaks my heart sometimes.  Especially if we have been having a rough day and he is just trying to do something, "I'm so sorry".  My poor guy!!  Just doesn't understand sometimes and I feel so bad that he is so "hurt" by the process.

He can be very emotional.  He can melt down into tears very easily and needs his hugs and cuddles from Mom or Dad.  If he is getting frustrated, we often offer a hug and he goes right in for it, because he really needs it.  I read an article about strong willed kids (Ty is absolutely strong willed, if you want to put a label on him) and I thought it was interesting that they stated that strong willed kids know that they are hard to handle and need extra reassurance that you love them.  This is so true!!  I hug and tell Ty that I love him and am proud of him almost as much as we play.  He needs it and thrives off of it!  I was already doing this before I read the article, but I found it interesting that they actually encouraged you to baby them.  It made me think that his more babyish behaviors are probably a result of insecurities as opposed to inabilities. It also stated that they have a hard time with transitions (yep!), are very emotional - highs and lows (yep!), and love adrenalin games like hide and seek or chasing games.  I thought that was also interesting as Tyson loves to be scared by us.  If Brock pops out at him and he gets scared, he thinks its so much fun!!  I worry that he will be into jumping out of planes when he gets older....but I'm not going to worry about that now.

I love my little guy so much!!  He can be frustrating at times but if I can keep my patience, he is the best little guy in the world!!