Tyler's 2nd Birthday

Marshmallow Elephants!
(If you've seen Tyler make an elephant noise, you know why. Precious!)

They don't always like each other, but they love each other!

10 p.m. on a Monday night

Jennifer goes upstairs to get ready for bed.

Over the baby monitor, Brian and I hear Jennifer dropping something or throwing something.

I am thinking awful thoughts about my sister being so loud when she knows Tyler is not sound asleep yet.

Then we hear Jennifer: "Jaime, you have a naked little boy up here."

Apparently all that crashing around was Tyler opening his bedroom door... After he'd stripped off his pajamas and left his diaper laying in the middle of the floor. Luckily Jennifer was concerned about all the noise and went to check on Tyler, whom she found walking down the hall. Naked. With two stuffed puppies.

Help 100 Children with Your Mouse

Reece's Rainbow, a ministry that assists with adoptions for children with Down Syndrome, is in the running for an American Express grant. (I read about it on 5 Minutes for Special Needs.)

Click here to nominate the ministry to receive a grant that would help 100 children. No catches. Just nominate before Sept. 1.

'67 Shelby Raffle

My good friend Jodi and her husband are raffling off their '67 Shelby to benefit The Wooden Cross Ministries.

Jodi's church is "drawing up plans to build a Ministry Village. The first structure going up is the Hope House where the main focus will be families: counseling, budgeting, foster care, as well as a child advocacy center, of which there is none on the east side of Atlanta."

Visit www.youcouldhelp.com to purchase your $25 raffle ticket.

Happy Early Birthday

Grandma & Grandpa bought Tyler a climbing jungle gym for his birthday. He loves it! Brian and I love that we can sit down and enjoy the backyard without running circles keeping up with Tyler!



See the Gatorade bottle? His favorite thing is to roll bottles down the slide!

He also likes to go down the slide on his belly. He wants to go face first, but I won't let him!

First Baseball Game

Before the game, we went to the kiddie section, and Tyler did not want to part with this ball. Instead of throwing it at the moving target like the other kids, he took it to the top of the slide and threw it down!

Here is Tyler leading the way to the top of the slide, Mama in tow.

And good thing. That was a big slide. Tyler wasn't too sure about it once he got to the top! But after Mama brought him down, he wanted "more! more!"

This looks like he had a great time, sitting in the stands, watching the game, doesn't it?


Truth is, he lasted as long as the candy did. Two innings into the game, Mama and Daddy took turns chasing him around the stadium for two innings each. Six innings into the game, we called it quits... just as the home team hit a double in a game we were losing 3-0.

Grandpa had fun, too.

Less than 15 minutes later...

Making the Sofa More Comfortable

After moving all the sofa cushions onto the floor — repeatedly — Tyler was exhausted.