Year and a Half Old

Have you ever asked someone how old their kid is and they respond with something like "42 months"? Ugh...then you have to do long division in your head just to figure out the kids age! So, I'm giving up months and just saying "He's 1 1/2 or he'll be 2 in January".

News this month is a growing vocabulary! It's amazing to see how many words Tyler knows and says and to see how much he's actually taking in. He's like a sponge. And then like a parrot when he repeats everything we say (we totally have to watch what we say!) The other day, he was at the bottom of the stairs yelling "Beth!" because that's what Dave was doing about 5 minutes before. I didn't respond for fear that I'll be that person whose kid calls them by their first name :)

Here's a few other fun things the dude is doing...

• When you ask him to count he says "..., 2, 3" He never says 1 and rumor has it that he doesn't say it because he doesn't like having 1 of something...cookies, toys or whatever it may be.


• Some mornings we wake up to "Heeeelllo" or "Hey you" coming thru the monitor.


• Stacking big legos is becoming really fun and he can stack about 4 together before he makes them crash. I was so excited for him to start playing with legos until I had to clean all 1,000 off them off the floor last night.


• When he sees our neighbor Steve or Steve's truck coming down the road he starts yelling "Steve!". Or we hear "Ry-Ry!" when Uncle Ryan is driving down the street. Sometimes he spots the cars before we do!


• Our neighbor coined Tyler as the mayor of our street because he's always stopping by everyone's yards to hang out and see what's happening!

My sister and I got my Mom tickets to see Keith Urban for Mother's Day and we went on Friday night! It was a great girls night out and Dave was away for work last week so Uncle Kevin got to watch all of the kids. Thanks Kevin! We went out to dinner and then to the concert and it was an awesome concert and it was a fun night out!


On Sunday we went to visit my visit my friend Shannon and Tyler got to play with their new dog Arthur. On their way to becoming best friends :)


He was running thru the sprinkler at their house and when his clothes were drying he decided to dress in Rafael's shoes and hat!


Think it might be time for a haircut??

A birthday, a reunion and the beach

Happy Birthday to Me! We started our weekend off with having some friends over for dinner and birthday cake! My 30th birthday pretty much stunk last year (due to crazy house stuff) and I haven't had a cake in 2 years so I was determined to have a cake and have a little party to celebrate turning 31! I know people say getting older is terrible, but I feel like life keeps getting better the older I get!

Here I am telling Amy how good the cake was that she made as I lick all the icing off my fingers :)


Saturday we had the first Wolfe family reunion! I have lots of cousins on my Mom's side of the family that I grew up with, but there's tons more family that most of us have never met. It was cool to meet everyone in the family!

This is some of my Mom's brothers and sisters, my 1st cousins (our spouses) and our kids! This isn't the entire bunch though, there's a ton more! I can't believe we're all grown up...it feels like yesterday that we were running around our grandparents house eating sugar bread. Whenever we left their house, our Pop-Pop and Grammy use to make us bread with butter and sugar on top. Now that I have a kid of my own I just realized why they gave us the sugar on the way out the door :) We forgot our camera and this was the only picture I could manage to get my hands on.


On Sunday we took a day trip to Sea Isle with some friends. Karen and Ben have a beach house there (a savior when it came to nap time!) and invited us down to hang out. We enjoyed their last day at the beach with them before their baby is born (she's due on the 26th!)! It was Tyler's first trip to the Jersey shore (or any shore for that matter)! He had fun and overall it was a success!

We dug holes in the sand, traipsed over everyone's blankets getting sand on them (you'd swear there's targets on them the way his eyes light up when he heads for other people's blankets), we looked for seashells, played with seaweed, played in the lifeguard boat, tried to play with everyone else's beach toys (even though we had the same ones), dipped toes in the ocean, removed sand/sunscreen from our toddlers eyes and made friends with "The Situation" and his crew and scored an ice pop off them. In between all that Dave and I got to take turns going in the ocean - the water was so nice! It was a great, relaxing day!

Best family picture we could get! In all fairness, we told him to stick his tongue out :)


The Situation is in the bottom right hand corner :)

This is my beach babe (after a refrigerated aloe application) and applying SPF 50 all day long...unless Tyler inherited one of his grandfather's skin tones it doesn't look like he has much hope when it comes to the tanning department! This picture just doesn't do it justice :)

4th of July

First off...this picture has nothing to do
with 4th of July, I just like the picture of our goofball :)


We had a jam packed 4th of July weekend! Friday night we started off with a cookout at Ryan's house and on Saturday Juli and Ryan got married! It was perfect, the weather was great, the place they got married at was awesome and the bride and groom were beautiful!
Great time with lots of great friends!








Juli made the broach bouquets...they were so nice!








On Sunday, we had a cookout at Dave's parents house. It poured on and off for a few hours, which meant that Tyler got to play in the Summer rain for the first time. He loved it! Although it wasn't a surprise since we can't use the hose without him running under it. Then, Adam joined him later on and showed him how it's done - they had a blast!






On Monday, we started off with some rock climbing in the morning and then went to my Mom's for a cookout. It was a great long weekend and I didn't want it to end!




Three little firecrackers