Free time is all gone these days, but I'm sneaking in a post here to do some catching up. Tyler just turned 18 months old! Such a big boy, he is getting very good at drinking out of a cup without a lid. He repeats just about any word we ask him to. He has a gigantic vocabulary. Now that he's not in daycare anymore, we are learning what a lot of the mystery words mean, but he continues to add new ones each day. The latest is mowon. He kept looking outside ("side" as he calls it) and saying mowon. What? Finally, I was watching him play yesterday and he kept saying it. Then he went over to the lawn mower and said it again. Ah. Tyler, say lawn mower..."Mowon" he said, nodding his head yes. Of course :)

He is discovering his emotional self. Not sure if this is due to the baby, the change in routine with no more daycare, just regular 18 month old behavior or a combination of them all. But it coincides with him crying out words in his sleep. He'll be sound asleep and yell out "Up" or "Mine" so we think he's begun dreaming, which can be very confusing to the little guys from what I've read. But, little things are really starting to get to him. Like, he'll be watching the same Elmo show for the third time in the same day and when Elmo gets thrown off the stage by big fat Rosie O'Donnell, Tyler screams "ELMO" and repeats this over and over as I assure him Elmo is fine. Heck, he's even yelled out "Elmo" in his sleep, so I'm guessing his dreams are difficult to differentiate from reality. We're learning to cope with his newly discovered sensitive side. He has become much more used to the baby crying and doesn't need nearly as much consoling as he did when Gavin first came home. But boy he sure won't let you forget the baby is crying, even if you're already holding the baby trying to make the crying stop. The cutest thing is Tyler will go out of his way to find a binky when the baby cries.

Well, that's it for this late update. I can hear Tyler thrashing around in his bed as we speak. He bonks his head so hard on the walls you can hear it two bedrooms away. He'll likely come out of his room rubbing his head in a few minutes saying "Bonk."