Sittin' up today. Tomorrow, the Olympics!!!

The view up here is soooooo much better!

Since we returned from Telluride (has that already been over a month ago? Yikes!), Tyler's been quite the busy and social little man. He got invited to his very first birthday party by the little girl, Emma, who lives up the street and was turning 2. Emma had a petting zoo brought in for her birthday and Tyler was seemingly interested in the animals, although not as interested as one of the pygmie goats was in me. It was fun seeing all the kids go crazy for the animals they've only heard about on Old MacDonald's farm, or at least some of the smaller ones (sorry, Tyler, no cows. Cows seem to be his favorite). There were, however, chickens, roosters, a tiny, squealing pig, lots of goats and a few bunnies. He also got invited to a cool beach bbq birthday party for one-year old Brogan. He had fun down at the beach with his buddies, but was particularly interested in the balloons. To view more photos of Tyler and the animals and the birthday parties, you can click here http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=17b7zi65.5gzersih&Uy=2mlml9&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV=724884471410_847733595305

Here chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken!

So, when you turn one you can eat string cheese? Cool!

On Friday of this past week, Tyler earned his first $100 by being in an exercise video. We were told it was a shoot for Baby Einstein, but I guess they needed older babies who could walk and play peek-a-boo. Instead, Tyler got to help out this nice lady, Michelle, with her workout. I think he dribbled a little bit on her while she was doing arm raises. If he makes the cut, he'll earn another $100! I think his days as a star are limited, though. They told us we had a "hard call time" of 1pm but they didn't get to him until 3:30 and by then he was fried, and so was my patience.

If being in the movies means I get to hang with hot chicks, I'm all for it!

Tyler's main development lately has been his ability to sit up by himself, which he is proudly displaying here in this photo. I wish I had as good of posture as he does! If he lurches for a t0y, however, he falls over and does a face plant on the carpet. Ah, the forces of gravity surprise us all.

Sittin' up in my kingdom!

Sittin' up from the back. Check out that hair.

Here he is from the back. He's starting to get thicker hair, except there's a bald patch on the very back of his head from where he rubs it off tossing his head back and forth while he's trying to sleep. Sleep is something we are still very much struggling with and something I could write another complete post on. Once he gets over his current cold, we're going to be doing a little "sleep training." In the meantime, he continues to be rocked to sleep and to wake up every2 hours or so, usually just needing us to go in and reinstate the binky. He's up by 6 or 6:30 and ready for his breakfast. On the weekends he gets to eat breakfast out at the Ocean Diner. It's kind of mean to take him to a place that smells of bacon and pancakes and then give him sqush, but oh well!

Open up, T.D.! It's good, really!

The big news in our household right now is that our beloved Clippers have made it to round 2 of the NBA playoffs. People used to joke that once we had a baby, the Clips would then have three fans. Ha! Just get on our bandwagon, now, we say! Go Clippers! You can see Tyler is a really big fan. He especially likes to talk about the Clips their game strategy, the players, who he'd be putting in if he were coach, etc while he's in the tub with his big red cup (excuse the sideways camera action, Dad didn't know it was for the blog!).

I've been a Clippers fan my whole entire life!

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