Soccer Class

Tyler had his first of six soccer classes today. The class was structured perfectly for toddlers. The kids learned how to dribble and trap the ball. Then they played a few fun games:

• Cone field: They dribbled back and forth through a huge field of cones and tried to avoid the cones.
• Tunnel tag: When they kicked their ball into another player's ball that person became "frozen" and had to hold their ball over their head with their legs spread. They then became "unfrozen" when you kicked a ball through their legs. Tyler liked freezing Daddy.
• Pac Man: They kicked their balls into cones and got to collect each cone they hit.

Unfortunately there was a very loud basketball game going on in the other half of the gym. About 5 minutes into the soccer class a very loud buzzer went off. Tyler was freaked out by the buzzer and so he insisted on holding Michael's hand or my hand for the rest of the class.

Mr. Helpful

Lately Tyler likes to get things off the shelf and put them in the cart when we are at Fred Meyer or Target. We often have to negotiate about the product or color of the box. He usually only puts things in the cart after I give him the thumbs up. However, when we were at Target yesterday Tyler put not one, but 3 boxes (with 3 tests each) of pregnancy tests in the cart when I wasn't looking. I had to laugh because I am about 6 months past needing those!

Monster Trucks

Tyler is really into monster trucks right now. Yesterday at the playground he told me the following while he was manning one of the steering wheels. Tyler said he was driving a box truck that was hauling a monster truck to the monster truck show. He also pointed to the tall posts on the play structure and told me that those were exhaust pipes for the box truck.

Recent Expressions

• "The moon is following us.": Tyler said this a number of times in the car the other evening.
• "I want my Mommy!": This is what Tyler calls out when we wakes up in the morning or from his nap. I'm not sure why he doesn't just call out, "Mommy!"
• "I want to click myself.": This was Tyler's way of telling us he wanted to fasten his seat belt.
• "I bonked myself.": This is what Tyler said when he bumped his head while getting clothes out of the dryer.
• "What's that?": We hear this numerous times each day as our curious little guy wants to know about everything.

Slippers

Tyler looks so grown up in his new slippers!

Although Tyler typically prefers to go barefoot in the house year-round, I bought him his own slippers in the hopes that he will stop taking my slippers off my feet.

Trick-or-Treating

We went trick-or-treating in Multnomah Village yesterday. It was fun to see all the kids dressed up. Tyler was a little scared of some of the costumes involving masks but definitely liked collecting treats.

Robert, Christopher, Sandie, Tyler,
Lourdes, Calvin, Michael, and Renee

Men at work

So hard to get 2-year olds to pose together for a photo!

Grrr... I'm a shark!

Lollipops were a hit.

Halloween Party

We went to a fun Halloween party/carnival on Sunday. Tyler loved the bouncy house and enjoyed playing many of the games.

It was hard to get a good photo of my
construction workers because the flash
just reflects off their vests!

Tyler and Christopher

Using a net to scoop up ducks

Fishing for Halloween treats

Tyler bounced and bounced and bounced

Tyler showing off the bat
he had painted on his hand