Tayte's 1st Boyfriend

Tayte at 16 months old and I think she found her first boyfriend. With Tami's 4 boys and my 3 girls 2 of them are bound to get married. So maybe it will be Tayte and Liam.
I had Liam all day the other day cause Tami just had her baby and it was so fun to watch Tayte and Liam. Tayte loved Liam and loved to just be by him all day and do whatever he was doing. First they colored at the table for awhile. (check out that nerd in the background wearing the sunglasses:)

enjoying some snacks together

Look, their first date! Driving in their car.
Playing around, having a blast.
And end it with a kiss! Tayte's "first" kiss. I love it. And we're keeping our fingers crossed that maybe this is the begining of a very long relationship:)
Some more things about Tayte at 16 months:
She has moved to just one nap a day. So she naps from about 12:30-3:30, then always wakes up and just looks at her books in her crib till I come and get her.
She's "trying" to say more words. She says "bye Tyler" everyday when we drop her off for school. She's so cute when it's time for her to go to bed to go around to everyone and say "ni ni" waving and gives everyone about 3 hugs and kisses.
She has developed quite the attitude and seems to think she's the queen of the house. She walks around a lot yelling "MAA!" "MAA!" and expecting me to come to her beckon call.
And probably my favorite thing about her this month is that she has developed a strong relationship with Elmo and LOVES to watch him. She has NEVER been one to sit and watch any movie, but this last month she sits and watches Elmo for LONG periods of time. But only if she has her special chair that she has claimed to be only hers!

She was so cute the other day going up and down the slide. She would climb up it and would be so proud of herself and clap, then slide down, and kept repeating herself over and over.

Kids Pics

While I'm doing family pics here are a few we did of the kids a few months ago that I never posted. Again Tayte did not cooperate, but got some super cute ones of Ty and Mads.

"Attempt" at Family Pics

Here are our "attempts" at family pictures...
These 2 are as cute as can be


Then there's this one, who was a huge pickle the whole time. For some reason she was in a nasty mood and would NOT cooperate AT ALL...grrrr (so annoying)


tried giving her candy....
tried swinging her
and circles, which usually she loves all this, but not today, nothing could make her happy
My adorable Ty Ty
And our Madi Kai


This is the ONLY picture she has a semi smile
I LOVE these ones of the girls flying



This one turned out cute
Oh Tayters


Right afterwords outside the restaurant.
She was as happy as could be at the restaurant- stinker! I guess we should've fed her first.

THE BEACH!!

ALL the girls LOVED the beach and we had SO much fun with them!
Tayte wasn't so sure at first when I set her down, but it only took her a few minutes to have it all over her.

They all got buried, even Tayter's.

Tayte did SO good. Lasted a good 3-4 hrs. every time we went.

Ty and Gigi playing catch
Tayte had NO fear of the ocean. She just wanted to run right out into it. She LOVES the water, more than any of my other ones.

Look at that sandy face. How they don't get it in their eyes and cry, I don't know.

The girls watching Dave boogie board


We had fish and chips in Carlsbad right by the boardwalk
Grandpa doing balloon rockets for the girls
I always get their halloween pj's at the outlet stores there
My little "roxy" girls

SO.... from the first day out on the beach Tyler was adament that she was NOT gonna go boogie boarding. For some reason she had this fear of going. We didn't push her the first couple days but when the last day came we were gonna try a little harder to get her out there. So we rented her a wetsuit (the water was COLD). That helped tons. Once she got out in the water and started playing she LOVED it! Dave helped her boogie board a couple times and she was hooked. She was out there all day and loving it! When we got back to the hotel she wanted to go boogie boarding again. Dangit, we should've made her go out on the first day and not the last.
Maybe next year we can get her up on a surfboard:)



AWESOME JOB TY!!


Tayte was so funny and out of control by the water. If I let go of her hand for a second, she would just run into the ocean.


Madix really suprised me too, she was out there trying to catch the waves on her belly!



Our last day:( Out on the dolphins while dad packs the car.




Ty trying to "save" Tayte.
My 3 little monkeys
On the car ride home. The all did pretty good. Tayter's watched movies while the big girls listened to music on my Ipod
What a GREAT vacation to Cali! Wished we could've stayed longer, we could never get enough of that place.
Coming next is pics from our attempt at family photos on the beach...