Overnight changes

Seems that every time that we turn around, Tyler has learned a new "trick". It's absolutely amazing. His latest tricks came over the weekend. We were just hanging out in the living room as we always do on Sunday mornings, when Tyler walked behind his play kitchen and climbed up into his rocking chair and sat down. He just looked at us with this big smile on his face, and you could tell that he was really proud of himself. We just cheered and cheered for him, which made his smile even brighter. He then showed us that he can also sit properly in his little armchair, and even made an attempt at climbing up on the couch with us, but I don't think we're quite there yet. It is funny to watch him hike his leg up though in an effort to sit with us.

We also pulled out his old John Deere ATV this weekend. He hasn't really shown much interest in riding toys (even though he has about 2,986 of them), except to just push them around. Well, this weekend he went up to the John Deere and immediately hiked his leg over the seat to sit down. It took a couple of (frustrating) tries, but he finally got it, and once again he just beamed! I thought that he would have a tough time with the dismount, but a few more tries and he had that down pat too! He tried all of this again when he saw his little trike outside while Travis & I tried to get some yardwork done. Success!!! Now, to just get him moving while he's sitting on his toys. I have a feeling it won't be long now!

To back up a few weekends, we did head back to Lynchburg for my Granddaddy Woody's funeral at the beginning of the month. Though it was a time of mourning, we got to spend some very special time with some family that we rarely see. My aunt Kay flew in from Singapore and brought with her my cousin Anne from NY. And my other cousins Gray & David drove up from Atlanta. It was so exciting to see them all, as this was the first time that they had met Tyler! Nana Scoggin and my Uncle Nathan also made the trip, so we had a nice time visiting with them too.

Granddad Snead (Trav's dad) has been a bit under the weather lately, so we've been trying to visit with them across town some so that Tyler can brighten the day! We were there on Saturday, and Tyler had a great time pulling out all of Gramme's tupperware, just like he does at home. Silly boy.

We're headed back to Lynchburg this weekend for a wedding, and then I think that we're actually home for a few weeks!! Our next big trip after that will be our big trek down to Columbia, SC for Maggie & Stephen's wedding, where Tyler will be the ring bearer with his good buddy, Madison Michael. We can't wait!!!

I'll leave you this week with a video of another one of Tyler's new tricks. At first, I thought that he was going to blow me a kiss, since I had just done so to him. Nope. But this is still just as cute.