Ty and Santa

Just another reason I love Ty's daycare. They had someone dress up as Santa and took pictures of the kids with him. They put all Ty's pics on a CD for our Christmas present! It definitely beats standing in line for hours at the mall!

Brent and I went with Ty the morning they did the pictures. Ty wasn't wild about sitting with him. He didn't cry but definitely did not want to touch Santa. No smiles, but I thought they were still cute!

Ty's First School Picture! (7 months)

All About Ty!

Ty is growing up so fast! He is now 8 and a half months old! I am TERRIBLE about writing in his baby book, so I thought I would list a few things he has started doing...

* As you can see, he is sitting up on his own very well now. He loves to sit in the floor and play.

* He's not crawling, but the boy is still ON THE MOVE! Our friend Rachel let us borrow her son's walker. Well Ty figured it out last week and the boy is all over the house....taking decorations off the tree, clearing off our coffee table...just a preview to the crawling days!

* He's been saying Dada since he was 6 months old. But he finally said Mama. Me, Ronnie and Jo Ann were at the table eating dinner and he was in his jumperoo. Well he was tired of it and got mad so he started screaming "Momma, Momma, Momma!" I was so happy :)! Of course he still only says it when he gets mad!


* He also has learned Bye Bye! We were leaving daycare the other day and his teacher said bye bye. Well he looked at her and said bye bye too! I was like when did you start doing that???!

*He also loves to takes "sips" out of Mommy and Daddy's cup or can. He especially loves Diet Mountain Dew. I literally cannot drink one without him screaming and reaching for it.

*His favorite toys are now my cell phone and the remote control! Once he sees them, he has to have them.

* He has two teeth now on the bottom! He got his first one November 16 (7.5 months) and the second one soon followed. I don't think he is going to be a terrible teether thank goodness!

Time to Play Catch Up!

The past few months have been SOOOOOO BUSY in the Beard household!!! Of course I can't remember all that has happened so I'll just list the big stuff!

October-

Ty celebrated his first Halloween! Unfortunately, he was sick. But we dressed him up as a little monkey and all the grandparents came to visit. He looked precious as you can see!!!

November/ December-

We had a great first Thanksgiving as a family. We have SO MUCH to be thankful for this year!We had lunch at Pop's and Ann's with the Bradley side of the family, then dinner at Nona's for Brent's family. Ty was VERY good all day!

We also had to make a couple of visits to Children's ER! The Sunday after Thanksgiving, Ty broke out in a rash. I called the on-call nurse to see what to do and she instructed us to head straight to the ER in case of meningitis! We were so scared, but after hanging out in the ER for a couple of hours, he was diagnosed with roseola. I had never hear of it, but its just a virus where babies run fever and have a rash....nothing serious. Thank God! But wait.....fast forward to the next Sunday night. We were about to eat dinner at Brent's parents' house and noticed Ty was burning up. He was running a 103 fever and not totally alert. He also seemed to be having trouble breathing. So off we go again! It was really scary because we were taken back immediately and his pulse rate was way too high. They gave him so medicine to bring his fever down, and he seemed to get better. Turns out he had another virus and his fever got too high, too fast which caused the difficult breathing and him not being very alert. We kept him home the following Monday, and he was much better by Tuesday. And...there is more good news! We made it through this past Sunday totally healthy! Hopefully these ER visits are a thing of the past!!!

We have to work on sharing....

"Uncle Fish, I'm warning you- DO NOT touch my toys!

"I mean it- I'm watching you!"

(Not a good idea)
"Now, I'm MAD!"

Mommy's Sweetie!

Have I mentioned that I love this little boy!?? He made my day yesterday. He always smiles when I pick him up from daycare. But yesterday was different. His teacher, Mimi, picked him up out of his jumpy and when he saw me walking toward him he smiled, gasped and put his arms out toward me. It was so sweet!!

Pumpkin Patch

Sunday, we joined Jaime, Jason, and Brady at the Pumpkin Patch at Shadow Lake. We had so much fun! Ty seemed to enjoy being outside. He rode his first train and took his first hay ride. We also had a little picnic with the Cox family. Here are some pictures from our little adventure...