Fall fun!

We have been having lots of fun in the beautiful fall weather! Mason is loving being able to spend so much of each day outside. He loves playing with dirt, rocks and sticks...a typical boy! Here are some of the fun things we have been up to!

Sandbox fun with friends!

Visiting with animals at the farm.

Driving tractors with our pals!

Searching for the perfect pumpkin!

Hayrides!

Visiting the pumpkin patch with Mimi and Grandpa!

Riding on real choo choo trains!

Exploring the scary pirates with Grandpa!

First teetor totter ride!

We love fall!

Will Mason have a baby brother or sister?

Just for fun I added a poll to the right side of the blog guessing whether we will have a boy or a girl! For those who don't know, there has not been a girl born in the Tye family in over 60 years! And there have been ELEVEN boys born since! I can't wait to find out what we are having! Of course we would love to have a little girl so we would have one of each and I would go crazy buying cute girl stuff! Then I think how cute it would be to have two little boys so close in age who grow up hopefully being best friends! Plus reusing all of Mason's stuff would be so nice! We will be happy either way and are just hoping for a healthy baby!

17 months!

Mason is 17 months today! I can't believe that he is almost halfway to being a two year old! It's crazy how fast time flies. He has changed and grown up so much over the past couple of months so I wanted to do a quick update! Here's what little man is up to at 17 months!

- He is talking a lot! He says about 25-30 words and is learning more every day! His newest words are baby- which I'm hoping is a good sign that he is interested in babies since he will have one around the house soon, and Mimi which he calls my mom.

- He is really into any type of transportation. He gets so excited when he thinks he knows who is in a car. Any white car is always "Dada" and any red or maroon car is "Mimi". He also loves trains! He says "choo choo" to anything that even remotely resembles a train.

- He started saying Mommy instead of Mama! This melts my heart!

- He will point to most of his body parts! His two favorites are tongue and belly button!

- He has a new fascination with water. He loves to be sprayed with the hose, loves his bath time with Daddy and gets excited even if he just sees the smallest amount of water on the ground. Its funny the little things that excite them!

- I've been working on his colors for a few months now and the other night he said white! Kind of a strange first color but we will take it!

- He is definitely entering into the early terrible twos and testing us with tantrums! He is normally pretty good about calming himself down but gets worked up over stuff a lot easier than he used to!

- He loves loves loves books. I'm so glad to have a little boy who loves to read. He brings us a book first thing in the morning, wants to read books throughout the day and expects multiple books before bed at night. He has a few favorite books and its so cute to see him dig in the book chest for them and get excited when he finds them!

Happy 17 month birthday Mason! We love you so much!

Mckinney Octoberfest!

One of my favorite things about living in Mckinney is all the fun activities that are always going on at the square. It gives Mckinney such a small town feel and I love that! Saturday night we went to the Octoberfest and had lots of fun! Mason got to dance to polka music, ride a train, and go to a petting zoo. He was so tired by the end of the night but such a little trooper! Here are some pictures from our night!

Mason and his friends Carter and Katelyn checking out the band.

Mason and Carter started dancing and it was too funny!

I so wish I had a video of this! Notice the people behind them to the left stopping to watch them? Haha!

Mason and his friend Megan

Of course he had to try sausage! He was blowing on it because it was hot.

Yum this is good!

With Liev in the petting zoo!

Goodbye First Tri!

I'm so excited that i'm officially done with the first trimester! I seems to go sooo much quicker the second time around! I really regret not being better about writing things down during my pregnancy with Mason so I am trying to improve on that that this time around. I found a list of questions that I have seen a lot of other people use and I am going to try and update it once a month. Here's my first update for 12 weeks!!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 12 weeks
Size of baby: He or she is the size of a lime!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained half a pound
Maternity Clothes: Not yet although I have worn the bella band a few times
Gender: Find out on November 16th!
Movement: I started feeling little flutters about a week ago! It's so crazy how much quicker things happen the second time around. I didn't feel them until almost 19 weeks with Mason!
Sleep: I am sleeping ok. I seem to be waking up every night around 3 and having a hard time falling back asleep though
Symptoms: This has been such an easy pregnancy thank goodness. I haven't really been sick and my only symptom is being tired. With Mason I had horrible heartburn from day one and haven't even had that this time around.
What I miss: Iced Tea! I'm really careful about not having caffeine but do allow myself a glass of tea with lunch every Saturday...its great! Its funny the small things that get me excited.
Cravings: Food just hasn't sounded good this pregnancy. I do occasionally get cravings but for the most part I eat whatever doesn't sound bad. I'm still having a little bit of a food aversion to chicken, which makes dinner a little hard!
Best Moment this week: Hearing the heartbeat!!! Mason came with me and my doctor kept telling him it was his "baby".....it was so cute watching his puzzled face!
What I am looking forward to: Finding out the gender!

Fun at the Zoo!

We took Mason to the Dallas Zoo a couple of weeks ago and had lots of fun! I was pleasantly surprised with how nice the zoo was and would definitely go back! Mason loved seeing the animals and was especially interested in the giraffes. His favorite part of the day though was playing in the water! I think he thought it was pretty cool that he got to get soaked with all his clothes on! I guess thats a boy for you! Enjoy the pictures!

World's Greatest Invention

Dear Shopping Cart Maker,

You are my hero. After trying this cart last week, my shopping trips which used to be rushed and stressful are now slow-paced and relaxing. Instead of crying because he has to sit in the cart, my child now cries when he has to get out of his "car." You deserve an inventor's gold medal and I am sure all moms of toddlers would agree! Thanks for helping me be able to really shop again!

Sincerely,

Your biggest fan