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With all of the exciting flood stuff going on we haven't kept up on what Tyson is doing these days. He is growing and changing so much we are learning something new from him each day! Last week we (well, mostly Tenisha) had a little scare with him. On Friday while Jason was at work (with our one car) Tyson managed to push himself away from the table so abruptly it caused his chair to tip over backwards. His head hit the floor and the chair broke from the force of the landing. He was pretty chill for awhile and when he started walking again was a little tipsy. I called his dr. office and the RN recommended that he come in for a check up. He didn't have any bumps or bruises, but since he was unsteady I wanted to take him in. Fortunately one of Jason's co-workers, a friend that he went through academy with, lives not even 5 min away, works a different shift (so was home) and has a daughter a month or so younger than Tyson (which means a carseat his size). He was able to take us to our appt (20 min away) which was such a great help. The bus would have been 1.5 hrs each way. By his appt he was doing much better, though a little out of sorts, like maybe he had a headache, and the doctor said if anything worse was going to happen we'd probably see it by the time he went to bed. Well, of course, later that evening while he was throwing legos at the fridge for target practice he did a little happy dance, slipped, the lego in his hand dropped on the floor and he firmly planted his face on it. It looked like he landed on his nose, but then I noticed the blood on my shirt and the huge cut swelling on his upper lip. For real. My first thought was that we were going to have to go back and get stitches. It turned out it was just a cut....but really, why does it all happen in one day? He recovered quickly and still puts his feet up and pushes against the table while he's eating, though now his chair is against the wall so it shouldn't be able to fall again. Oh Tyson.

The other big change that happened this week is that Tyson now sleeps in a toddler bed!!! He made the transition pretty quick once we put on his new Lightning McQueen bedding! We had tried with just the sheets and blankets he used in the crib and it wasn't appealing. Since we changed his sheets though, he wants to sleep there and has done so for nap and bedtime for the last three days!! He doesn't even climb out of bed in the morning until we open his door! It's pretty sweet. We were thinking it would take a lot longer since many kids books say they aren't really ready until age 2.

He sure is talking a lot more and learning more words and phrases. His new phrase is 'let's see' which he says more like 'lesthseee'.

Reading aloud to himself while mama is making lots of phone calls and papa is working on floodstuff..