Must I blog?

So it's been a REALLY long time since blogging...and to be quite honest, I'm really forcing myself to post this one up as well.  Tyler is growing so fast!  He's been crawling fast and has been trying to stand up since he's been 7.5 months old! He can pretty much stand up some, and walk while holding onto something.  Why did I ever say I wanted him to start crawling and walking? Anyways, I've decided that Tyler looks like an F4 with his new hairdo.  It's starting to look like a helmet of hair.  So anyways, here are some pics of my "baby Yi-Jung (F4)." =) 

Poor kid looked like a "special" child.  But since we were at a musical, it was too loud for him.

Highlight of The Week

As of late, I've been feeling even more exhausted as the months go by. Tyler seems to grow overnight and has been amazing me more and more.  In the last 2 weeks, he's finally been able to sit up on his own, and slowly, but surely, is starting to try and crawl, too.  He will occasionally topple over and then cry because he now knows how great it is to sit up like a big boy.  He just about reaches for anything now and will grab and pull and toss everything.  As exciting as all these milestones are, I'm realizing how much more work it is the more independent he is becoming.  This morning I had a little bit of sanity because Ron was babysitting Tyler while I took it upon myself to ditch them both and go get some lunch with some good girlfriends.  But then Ron was clearly upset when I walked in the door at 3:15 p.m. and he was 15 min late for playing basketball.  Sigh.  Really, I need a longer break.  

Anyways, so on friday for small group, we went to Mission Beach to have our usual hot dogs and smores.  This was our first time at the beach since Tyler was born, and thus, his first time, too.  It was a bit chilly and I was actually a little bit excited about putting him into his bunting outfit again since he had only been able to wear it couple times since it doesn't really get cold in SD.  I hadn't seen my SD peeps in awhile, so I was anxious to show them how well Tyler sits up on his own, and this really was so hilarious.  It truly made my day.  

I had planned on bringing my camera, but as always, my mommy-brain forgot.  Thankfully, Sophia had her camera on her, and was able to capture Tyler sitting up in his bunting. I think we all got a kick out of it. 

I love my boy =)

Rock Paper Scissors Design

If you don't already know about her, my really good friend Rachel Baker, makes THE MOST awesome invitations known to mankind. Really.  If you're looking for invitations that come in silk boxes or engraved into glass, you've found the girl for you.  Let's just say that the average joe can't afford her talent, which is why she's come out with a line that is much more affordable, yet still exudes her really classy and couture style. You may feel intimidated by her invitations, but she will design and work with you to give you the best invitations AND she will also do her best to work with your budget.  This is why she is just so marketable.  She has been in many wedding magazines and some tabloids we all love to read such as US Weekly.  Anyways, if you guys know anyone who needs wedding invitations, please spread the word!!! Seriously though, check out her website to get an idea of just how great she is =)  

www.rockpaperscissorsdesign.com

(if the link doesn't work from this site, just type it in your url, for some reason, when i'm checking the link, it's not working)

Tyler.....again...

I almost forgot why I started this blog in the first place.  I'm supposed to put pictures of Tyler up for Ron.  Oops.  So anyways, here are some recent photo's of Tyler.  Lately, he hasn't been giving me that toothless grin, instead, he does this now.  But I still think he's adorable. =)

Then here's this expression....which I think I kind of do occasionally.  So I personally like this photo! 

So Tyler is always "awwwwww"-ed over due to his fabulous hairstyle.  Lately, his sides have been tame, and his hair on top is just...well, kind of does it's own thing.  Everyone loves to ask if I style it this way, but I'm proud to say that this is all au-natural, baby. 

Yes, they are....

A couple of weeks ago, one of my best friends from dental school came down to visit me and brought me this little treat:  Teeth cookies!!!  As disgusting as teeth may seem to some, we dentists can find all things teeth to be uber cute.  You gotta admit, these are cute!

(ok, so I don't know how this all started getting underlined...)

So this really "inspired" me to try my hand at sugar cookie baking.  I haven't made sugar cookies since I took home economics class my freshman year of high school.  I decided that I'd make Ron some cookies for him to take to work.  Yes, just as I find teeth to be amusing, I just naturally assumed that Ron and his co-workers would find these to be just as amusing and cute. But when I told Ron my idea, he just about died instead.

TA DA!

When I ordered these cookie cutters, I thought, "hey, these cute little guys can be packaged up in threes and I'll give them to Ron to take to work...." well, just to give you an idea of how intimidating these really were.....

Yes people, that is a large water bottle.  The cookie cutter you see on the inside is bigger than my foot.  HOLY COW.  In fact, when I made my first batch, I kept breaking the big nuts off the penis because they were just so heavy! I guess you must handle them with care, as with any penis. I really wish that I had the patience to wait till morning so I could take some pictures of these in better lighting, but I just couldn't wait due to requests of pictures...so I will post up day pictures tomorrow. Hehe. 

So here are the big peckers all lined up.  (Yes, they are called Pecker Cookie Cutters in case anyone else dares to attempt to make these)  Seeing how big these peckers really are, I didn't really get much bang for my buck as far as the amount of cookie dough I needed to make.  And these are even smaller than the middle size pecker in the photo above...but still pretty darn huge. 

 

Just for the sake of making them less vulgar and more feminine, I decided to make them pearly with some pearl dust.  I'm not sure if you can really see it too well, but it's very shimmery.  Oh and btw....I bought bags to put these in, and well, surprise, surprise....they don't fit.  

What to do with left over dough....

Make bite size heart cookies. Yum.  

milestone

yay!!! he rolled over today!!! but i can't get him to do it again.....maybe it was just a one time fluke.

oh the expressions....

Has anyone ever found it funny that when you see a cute baby, the words to express exactly how cute you think they are, somehow always come out like you are talking about food? I've compiled some of the expressions that Tyler has received:

1.  I want to just bite him.  Really...I could just bite him.

2.  I could just eat him up!!!

3.  He's so chewable!

4.  I could just gobble him up!

5.  I want to eat those cheeks or I just wanna bite those cheeks

6.  I just wanna squeeze him and eat him

7.  I just wanna chew on those cute lil' feet

I'm sure there are many more expressions of the like that I can't remember. 

So....I guess Tyler is just edible and scrumdiliumtious! He thanks you all! 

Already 4 months!!

How time flies.......

          Hello to you, too! 

Ron attempted to tame Tyler's hair...it was kinda cute...for awhile...then i missed his crazy hair!

I really wish I knew how to photoshop that drool....

It's pretty obvious that he loves tummy time. 

oh my sweet baby =)

Another Im Trait?

I am totally rolling my eyes as I see this picture! Teeheehee! Ron really has this extremely annoying reflex of blinking his eyes in every picture. Imagine the days when digital camera's were not really popular! I'd develop the roll to find him blinking in at least half the photos!  I told him the curse of his blinking eyes would ruin all of our wedding pictures! So anyways, I was trying to take some pictures of Tyler and Ron together, and I took at least 6 pictures, and in most of them, if it wasn't Ron blinking, it was Tyler.  And well, this picture explains it all.  I couldn't help but chuckle when I took this picture.  Now I think some Im genes are finally showing up.  I wondered where they had all been hiding when Tyler was born.  ;)

Lefty or Righty?

I can't exactly remember what cool milestones a baby goes through, but in the last week or so, Tyler has actually been grasping things and holding them, which pretty much really amused me.  I remember so many mothers telling me how much I'd love motherhood when the baby arrived, and I kept thinking, "what is wrong with me?" because I wasn't loving motherhood yet.  And my pediatrician reassured me that those feelings don't really show up until the baby is about 4 months or so.  Anyways.....back to the grasping of objects....I've been handing things to Tyler to see how he'll hold things, and he seems to not be as coordinated with his right hand.  He likes to grab with his left hand and holds things much better with his left hand.  Both Ron and I are righty's, so this should be interesting if Tyler takes after his Uncle Jeff, cousin Jonah, and Grandma Sandy.  Oh and btw...when do babies start rolling over? 

repeats...

Since I've already posted these pictures on facebook, most of you will have already seen these, so I'm apologizing ahead of time.  We decided not to really celebrate Tyler's 100 days (gasp!!) because, well, just because.  But his auntie and uncle decided that he needed to have a little celebration, so he got a cake and a cool lion stuffed animal who has his same hairstyle. =) His 100 days fell close after Valentine's Day, so I bought him the Bumbo chair as his gift from me. Since he loves to be upright like a big boy, I thought he'd appreciate this gift, but it seems to me that he hasn't found it all that interesting yet. 

Caving in...

I'm so NOT a blogger. Bloggers write really well, and well...I'm not that interesting.  So...anyways, as if facebooking and myspacing wasn't enough, other mom's keep asking me if I'm going to start a blog now that I have Tyler, but these mom's are mainly stay-at-home moms, who probably don't have a lot of time on their hands, but still manage to blog.  I decided that I was not going to become a blogger, just because I'd rather be surfing the internet then blogging, but Ron kept bugging me to start one so he can show pictures of Tyler to others.  So here I am, caving into peer pressure of blogging.  boo... I wonder if I can keep this blog a secret?

This is tyler 5 days after he was born.  Jean Kim took his baby photo's and did such a great job!!!

www.jeankimphotography.com