single mom

On Thursday Tom left to visit his younger brother, Sam, and family in Boston. It has been a while since he’s seen his brother and we have never met their son, Ram, who is now 3 and a half! So it was definitely time for a visit. I’m saving all my vacation days for [...]

summer 2009 roundup

This summer we’ve really seen Tyler’s personality come out. He’s caring (always feeding us or his friends food) and funny (loves to crack jokes, make funny sounds and laugh). He’s almost always in a good mood except when he’s getting his haircut.  His favorite show is Peep and the Big Wide World, a hilarious show [...]

clip of the week

Tyler’s BFF Jakey came over this weekend for some rowdy, sweat-dripping fun. Jakey is about 6 months younger than Tyler and it’s cute to see how he will constantly watch Tyler. The not-so-cute part is that he will imitate EVERYTHING Tyler does, from jumping off the couch to running up and [...]

Noah’s Ark

We’ve been wanting to visit this exhibit for a while, but you have to buy tickets in advance and it kept falling off the “to do” list. I finally got around to getting tickets and it was well worth it. Taken from the Skirball Cultural Center site:
“Inside a floor-to-ceiling wooden ark, filled to the rafters [...]

a fun day at the…doctor’s office?!

Last week Tyler had his 2 1/2 year wellness checkup at the doctor. I had been dreading this day since his nightmarish 2 year checkup at which he screamed at the top of his lungs when the nurse tried to even measure his head. Since January, we had taken measures to mentally prepare Tyler for [...]

family trip and sleeping woes…

I realized that we had never gone on a “real” family trip that didn’t involve visiting relatives (mostly my parents in Seattle). So we decided to go on a road trip to San Francisco for the long Memorial day holiday weekend. I lived in SF from 99-2001, and it is still my favorite city. Our [...]

Mr. Curiosity

Tyler has suddenly become curious about everything. “what’s that?” is his new favorite question. Whether it be reading books and pointing to every single detail asking “What’s this?” (Thank God for Richard Scarry), to pointing at ANYTHING and EVERYTHING and asking “What’s this?”, to asking “Where are we going?” every time we put on our [...]

It’s a small world after all…except during spring break

Last week marked 2 special occasions: It was Tom’s birthday and Aunt Rebecca came for a visit from Seattle. To celebrate, we took a trip down to Disneyland mid-week. We were hoping it wouldn’t be too crowded being a Wednesday, and Tax Day at that…but we were wrong thanks to Spring Break. Surprisingly Tyler did [...]

Boy vs. Girl

The other day our friends Kristina and Willow came over for a play date. Willow is almost exactly three months older than Tyler so it’s been fun seeing the kids grow up together. Now that they’re both two, the differences between Boy and Girl are getting more and more apparent. Willow quietly slinked off to [...]

10 things…

1. Tyler says “bless you <insert name>!” whenever someone sneezes. Even if you sneeze in another room, he’ll shout it out loud to make sure you hear him.
2. Instead of simply answering “yeah” or “yes”, he answers “OH YES.”
3. He can read numbers up to 9 (gets confused when he see the “1″ and ”0″) [...]