Weekend Update

Not a very exciting Super Bowl weekend at the Zbrzezny household. Both kids have the sniffles so we skipped out on the party we were supposed to go. Instead we hung crown molding in our master. It still needs to touched up, but we now have one room almost done in our house.
Before:
After:
As I mentioned, Tyler has a bit of a cold, so he is not very happy right now, but otherwise he is doing well. At almost 6 months, he is very different from Aubrie. She was very independent; she did not want to be held or cuddled for long periods of time and she was very happy playing with a toy in her crib or on the floor by herself. Tyler wants nothing to do with being put down. If we are awake, he wants to be in our arms (I am currently typing one handed while holding him the other arm.) This is nice in terms of cuddling and bonding, but does not allow me to get much done around the house and is not helping him learn how to roll over or sit up etc. The only place we have found that we can put him down with out him crying is on an old reclining chair that we got from Grandpa years ago.
If we surround him with pillows, he will take his afternoon nap in the chair rather than in my arms. Not the best solution, but for now, it works.

We are still doing well with food. Right now he is partial to cereal and fruit. We have tried squash and sweet potatoes, but neither of those seem to agree with him, even though he liked them. It is much easier having a baby who likes to eat as opposed to Aubrie who is still a terrible eater.

Tyler after his bath. He is not a fan of the actual bath, but a very happy baby afterward.

Food etc.

Tyler started eating solid food a few weeks ago and he LOVES it!!! In the past few weeks he has eaten more rice cereal than Aubrie has eaten in her entire life. We have already gone through two boxes. We have also tried applesauce and today we added squash. Again he loves both of these. With Aubrie, we were lucky if she ate a whole jar of food in one day. Tyler would eat more than one jar in a sitting, along with a bowl of cereal.

Uncle Justin and Aunt Jessica came to visit last weekend. Aubrie was thrilled to see her 'friends' and had a great time building her Christmas Ginger Bread House. (just a bit behind).We were also able to hang our new TV over the fireplace with their help. Now we just need to finish building the wall to separate the two rooms and build some kind of cabinet/shelving for the rest of the audio components. (can't wait for that tax refund.)
Tyler's Baptism pictures:

Lots and Lots of Photos...

It has been a while since I posted. We have since gotten heat back, which is a good thing since we have had record lows in the single digits (definitely looking into the new furnace with the tax return)!

Anyways:
Aubrie and Minnie at the World of Disney store in NYC.Tyler and Mom at the Rock to see the tree.
Aubrie's penguin that Santa brought...pre-filling at the Build-a-Bear Store, in her Belle dress that Santa also brought, which she has pretty much not taken off since.
Tyler on his noisy fire truck from Aunt Katie.
Aubrie bringing Happy Feet alive at the mall.
Tyler's baptism, December 28, 2008.
With his God Parents, Jaclyn and Kevin.
Tyler with his future wife, Clara, who was born a few days after him.
Aubrie and her buddies just before midnight on New Years eve.
Aubrie a few minutes after New Years...enough party, time for bed.
Aubrie getting her achievement ribbon at gymnastics class.
My cheerleaders with their first place trophy after competition Saturday.

BRRRRRRRRR

So we just got back to Albany after spending almost two weeks in Western New York for the holidays...it is 39 degrees in our house! At some point over the last two weeks our furnace stopped working. This sucks!

Merry Christmas

Christmas Pictures take 2...

Early Christmas Presents

We took Aubrie and Tyler to see Disney on Ice tonight as an early Christmas present. Aubrie was sure that cousin Kate would be there since it was Disney. After she got over the disappointment of not seeing her best buddy Kate, Aubrie had a great time. After all, it was an excuse to wear her Snow White dress out in public again!
She loved seeing all of the Princesses with their men.
Even Tyler enjoyed the show, or rather the flashing lights and fireworks.
Yummy snow cone in a princess mug!On another note, Daryl and I received an early Christmas present from my parents today...
It is now hooked up to the Dish, but we have plans to mount it on the wall over our fireplace and we have to upgrade to HD programing. I am not sure what we are going to do with the outdated entertainment center that we currently have.

Santa

Tyler's first meeting with Santa.

Overall it went pretty well...no screaming. Aubrie is an old pro at visiting Santa now. This year she would like Santa to bring her a penguin. (good luck with that)