Come On, Tooth!

This past Saturday and Sunday night were very active for The Clelands, and not in a good way.  Both nights Tyler woke up every two hours moaning and crying, and basically slept on either Michael or myself the entire night.  Since he is on antibiotics for his ear infection and wasn't running a fever, it led us to believe it was his front tooth that is working its way out.  Poor little guy, we can see it about to break through, but it seems like this tooth is taking its sweet time.  Or just that Michael and I are used to Tyler sleeping for 10-11 hours solid every night.  Either way,  it was two nights of stumbling around in the dark, and still no tooth!  Now of course I'm wondering if it was something else...guess I'll never know.

We are working on teaching Tyler how to say "bye bye," and he is getting much better at it.  Last night Michael had to run to the store, so he stepped out and said "bye" to Tyler.  Tyler looked at him, stuck his hand out and said "Bye!"  So he stood at the door for another five minutes trying to get him to do it again.  And yes, I teared up- big surprise.  I'm pretty sure our neighbors are starting to get annoyed, because again this morning, we were standing at the door trying to get him to say "bye" to Michael as we were leaving.

The State Fair is here and I'm hoping that we can take Tyler to go see the lights and maybe go on a ride or two...Is he too young to try a corndog?  I know that's what I'm looking forward to.  Oh, and the quality family time too!

High Five!

I must say, we have more and more fun spending time with Tyler as he grows near his 1st Birthday.  He is all over the place, crawling, pulling up, and starting to inch his way down the couch as he holds on.  I even caught him standing up holding my phone in both hands!  I turned around and we had the same shocked look on our faces.  Then he immediately dropped to the ground.  I think he was shocked that I caught him with my phone (again) but I was more shocked that he was up with no support, even if it was for a split second.  He laughs so easily and loves to smile.  He has a few new tricks, although it may take some time for him to respond.  He can give 'high five's" and will occasionally stick his arm out as if he is waving "hi" or "bye".  It is so neat and we are constantly saying "high five" and "hi" until we are blue in the face or until he gets distracted by something else.  Still no mama....

The other day I was laying on his floor pretending like I was asleep (even though I actually wanted to be) and he came over, saw that my eyes were shut, and scurried off into the living room.  Then he stopped, and came back in.  I guess he was checking to see if I was really asleep, so I peeked my eyes open to discourage him from getting into trouble.  It worked!  I'm not sure what his original plan was, but instead he went over to the door and started pushing it open and closed.  I could see in his face that he was amazed at what he was doing.  Then, quickly bored with that and moving on...usually to a shoe or charger of some sort which are all over the house.

This past weekend we went down to the beach to visit some good friends that were moving back from San Diego.  Tyler rode his first amusement ride (a giant skywheel that overlooks the ocean) but I'm pretty sure he could have cared less.  At least I was able to keep the ticket stub that said "Angel in Flight".  Eventually that will wind up in a scrapbook, but don't hold your breath!

And currently, Tyler is battling another double ear infection :(  I'm trying to convince the doctor to let us put tubes in his ears, but apparently he hasn't had enough ear infections yet.  Stay tuned- cold and flu season is almost here.  As far as food, he is eating anything and everything that we give him, and it shows because a month ago he weighed 18lbs. 8oz. and when I took him to the doctor on Wednesday, he had gained 2 pounds!  I bet he's not in the 17th percentile any more!!  The other day I was feeling brave and let him indulge in some spaghetti for the first time.  Wow- I had no idea how messy it could get, and what was I thinking?  Clean up was ridiculous.  Too bad he really enjoyed it because I'm not looking forward to serving it to him again.  I guess it's all a part of being a baby though.

And I nearly forgot- Haircut #2 happened the other day.  Michael did an excellent job- the bangs are even and not too short.  And this time he trimmed the rat tail that was starting to grow in the back.  Having haircuts really takes him out of the baby stage much too fast, but he does look adorable!