Baby Steps!!!

Oh my! So much has happened recently and I've been very delinquent on my blogging! My apologies!

So...January 31st began my last week of staying home with Tyler before he started preschool and I started my new job! It was a fun week...but bittersweet at the same time!

But wouldn't you know that Tyler decided to take his OFFICIAL FIRST STEPS on January 31st! It was a BIG day in the Sullivan house!

The story goes as follows...I was cooking dinner and Tyler was in the kitchen playing with his magnets on the refrigerator. I turned around to check on him and he was standing with his hands off of the refrigerator and took two small steps. I started screaming and he started laughing at me! This led to a repeat session in order to get me to scream again! What can I say...my kid is amused quite easily!

I tried to get Tyler to repeat the big event for Ben when he came home...but alas, he would not perform.

However, it was only just a couple of days later that he started taking 3 or 4 steps at a time!

We were so excited to show off Tyler's walking skills just in time for Aunt Kate's arrival from Baltimore for the weekend.

We had a great time hosting her!

She arrived on Thursday night and left on Saturday! Highlights included seeing Tyler take lots of baby steps, a trip to Pho, a trip to Ippolito's Italian for dinner, and a "trail run" at daycare, where Tyler got to play in his classroom for about 1/2 an hour while Ben, Kate and I watched.

Kate left on Saturday evening, just in time to get everything ready for our Super Bowl Sunday party. We hosted 14 friends and 5 kids at our house and had a great time. Needless to say I didn't have too much time to watch football or commercials with a house full of people and a new toddling Tyler on my hands but I did manage to get in a cocktail or two (or three) and have fun with the crowd once Tman was in bed for the night!

Enjoy the video of Tyler walking!

New Happenings

I've been delinquent in keeping everyone up to date on the Sullivans for far too long! So many things have been happening and being a stay at home mom has made blogging even more difficult! Tyler is a handful and limits my time to just sit down and write. After our return from Charlotte, I had my interview with Concentra on Tuesday the 18th. Concentra is a very large company recently purchased by Humana that owns Urgent Care/Physical Therapy Clinics across the US. I interviewed for a Field Training Manager and was thrilled to receive the job offer 48 hours after my interview! That was certainly huge news in the Sullivan house! So the rest of the week was spent securing a full time preschool for Tyler. We enrolled him at Primrose School in Alpharetta. Other highlights of our week included playdates with Steph and Dylan and my monthly Book Club. We also had a awesome night Friday when Steph and Pat hosted everyone at their house for game night. Myself, Ben, Steph, Pat, Roberta, Mike, Andy and Angela enjoyed an old fashioned Shrimp Boil and a hilarious game of Balderdash after the boys were tucked in bed for the night. We stayed the night over at Steph and Pat's to make it easier on Tyler and he had a great time the next morning playing with Dylan. We finished the weekend off with some family time!

The next week Tyler had an eventful week. We went to Northpoint Mall with one of his many girlfriends, Bella, to ride the train and carousel. He loved it of course. We also had a great playdate on Friday with Steph and Dylan and Angela came over to hang out too!

Friday night my parents came into town to babysit so that Ben and I could celebrate my new job at our favorite steak restaurant, Bones. The steak literally melts in your mouth!

Saturday, we went to the aquarium where Tyler had the time of his life! He kept saying WHOA everytime he saw a fish...considering we were at an aquarium that was a LOT of WHOA's!!!

Sunday we went to church and Tyler had a playdate with our next door neighbors.

Enjoy the aquarium pics!!! More updates on the new job and Tyler's preschool to come!!!