Happy Birthday to Me!

That's right! I celebrated my birthday last weekend. Yes, I know there has been a delay in sharing these pictures with you. That is what happens when Mom's camera battery goes dead and then she can't find the charger. But, I love her anyway! Daddy and Mommy always talk about how special the day I was born will always be to them. It is a day of celebration for our whole family, because it is the day God made us into a real family.

This was my 3rd birthday! Can you believe it? Me neither. I'm growing right up!

We celebrated with a dinner at Grammie's house. We got all bundled up and headed over there after Daddy got home from work. I had to take my new Gordon along with me! My passion is still trains!

Grammie had some yummy chips out for us to snack on, and boy, did Teddy and I dig in!

We snacked and played until my Papa Peters and Gram Gram Peters came. It was a small, intimate party, but that didn't keep us from having loads of fun! Daddy likes to get Teddy laughing by acting like he is going to eat him. We like to do anything to make Teddy laugh because his laugh is hardy and contagious.

My 3rd birthday also marks the 3rd anniversary of Mom Mom being a Mom. She says her whole life has been changed with motherhood, and she loves it! I sure love that she loves being my mom and spends each day taking care of me and Teddy.

Birthdays involve presents and I got a big surprise when Mom and Dad got me the Geotrax set I had picked out myself at the toy store. They took me on the Monday night prior to my birthday. It was a fun night with just me, Mom and Dad having dinner at Friendly's and going to Toys R Us while Teddy spent the night at Grammie's house. I am always a good boy about putting toys back on the shelf and not asking to bring them home, but when I saw this giant box on the bottom shelf, I gave it a big hug and just kept saying to them "We have to take this home." They were super-sneaky and bought it without me knowing it! How fun to pick out my own present!!

Birthdays also involve yummy food. We ordered pizza, one of my favorite foods. Here is Teddy chowing down!

Ugh, yucky Teddy! Don't touch Mom's camera with your pizza fingers!

My favorite part of birthdays might just be the cake. This was a super special cake made by my Gram Gram Peters. She knows I love trains, and I really love trains with candy all over them!

Here is my Gram Gram watching me blow out my candle...a big 3! Thanks to Mom, Dad, Teddy, Grammie, Papa and Gram Gram for making my birthday super special!

More Christmas Photos

I've had some more pictures to share, but forgot to get them up here. This was the second half of our holiday, with a Peterson Family Christmas party and a visit to Great-Grandpa & Grandma Young's.

We went to see Grandpa & Grandma Young the Saturday after New Year's since we didn't get to see them on Christmas. Grandma & Teddy were having fun playing with the clapper, noise-maker thingy that Aunt Shel bought us, and I helped Grandma open their gift.

Grandpa Peterson stayed with us for an overnight the Sunday after Christmas. He got to sleep in my room with me.

The Saturday following Christmas was the Peterson Family Christmas party at Grammie Peterson's house. We had a lot of fun packed into Grammie's place, watching movies, playing Wii, opening presents and of course, eating!

This is near the end of the day, but poor Teddy was so tired, he couldn't stay awake any longer. He fell asleep in Sarah's arms.

This might be why he was so tired. He was one popular kid!! He is easy to make laugh and smile...and therefore he brings lots of smiles to others!

We had a fantastic Christmas season this year and are already looking forward to next year with a new brother or sister!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

What a special way to celebrate Jesus's birthday! Christmas is such a fun time with loved one, giving gifts to show love, helping others who are in need and remembering the ultimate gift that God sent us in Jesus. We've had a great Christmas so far and wanted to share a few of our newly-made memories.

Heading to church on Wednesday night - to dashing young boys!

Christmas Eve at Papa's House with cousins, Cohen & Cooper and yummy popsicles!

Working backward through our Christmas morning...snacks before naptime!

I've got all the trucks from the Cars movie...Chick's truck came from Santa! They have to be lined up perfectly or I got a little bonkers!

Gram Gram and Papa Peters came over this morning. I made them laugh when I opened my gift, I said all excitedly "It's a BOX!!"

Teddy was tired out from all the excitement and had to put his feet up for a while.

Teddy's favorite gift was a music box with a little train that went around.

We got all sorts of new trains to add to our Thomas the Train collection.

Here is me with my new train, Murdoch.

Teddy got a train car with a shark inside!! He was pretty excited!

Last but not least, a little video of our Christmas morning!

Need I Say More...

...I'll just say "Have a Merry Christmas!" Love to you and your family, from Tyrus, Teddy and Mom and Dad too!

Fun in the Fall

There are lots of fun things to do in the Fall. This week, we got a taste of lots of them. Here is a quick run down...

First there was meeting our Grammie Peterson and Gram Gram Peters out for pizza. Teddy and I were being goofy brothers. Nothing like giving your little brother a kiss. Mom and Dad says God wants me to love my brother (as opposed to hitting him, pushing him, taking his toy away, etc.).

Here we are with our Grandmas!

Who knew pizza could be such fun!

Then there is jumping in the leaves! Daddy took us outside the other day and raked up a big pile for us to jump in. He actually jumped in it more than we did. Delia and Blossom jumped right on top of him.


Teddy jumped in with Daddy and they tried to bury themselves in leaves!

Then there is carving pumpkins! Grammie came over and we carved up a couple of the pumpkins from our garden this summer. I particularly liked fitting the top back on.

Teddy liked to scoop out all the insides.

The next super fun thing is Halloween! We went to Canisteo again this year and spent some time at Papa's house and at Great-Grandpa & Grandma Young. My Gram Gram Peters came to see us in our costumes. This year we were little Army Recruits...ready to report to boot camp!

October Celebrations

October sure is a fun month in our family. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate. This year, Mom Mom turned 30 and later this week, Daddy will be turning 40. Aunt Lou Lou and Karlie also celebrate their birthdays this month....and with birthdays come celebrations!

Last weekend, we celebrated with a fun family dinner at Uncle George and Aunt Lou Lou's house. Even Grandpa Peterson and Aunt Jean traveled from Albany to celebrate with us. Here is a photo of all of our beloved birthday-ers!


I particularly like birthday celebrations because it involved blowing our candles on a cake....something that I love to do, even when it is not my birthday!



This weekend, we had another celebration at Gram Gram Peters' house. Papa Papa, Aunt Shel Shel, Uncle Joe, Cohen and Cooper were all there. This picture isn't actually from this weekend, but is when Gram Gram came over to our house a couple of weeks ago and we took the opportunity to snuggle with her for a while.

Another thing that happens in October is lots of yardwork! Teddy has been trying to help Daddy keep up with some of it.