Playing Outside

 Kyler loves to be outside.  Often there are toys left at the park near our home that anyone can play on.  Here, Kyler is playing with such a toy.  His feet barely touch the ground, but sometimes he can move backwards.  Forwards hasn't happened yet.

Kyler still loves to swing.  He also loves to play in the sand and crawl around in the grass.  He loves to explore and is not afraid to wander from his parents.

Peek-a-Boo

Hyrum taught Kyler how to play peek-a-boo.  Hyrum says, "Where did Kyler go?"  Kyler will place his hands over his eyes (at least somewhere on his head.  Sometimes he misses his eyes completely, but it is adorable).  Hyrum keeps repeating that phrase until Kyler puts his hands down.  Then Hyrum says, "There he is!"  and Kyler smiles really big and covers his eyes to play one more time.

Teeth

Kyler has got teeth!  He has two on the bottom and three coming in on the top.

Summer = Vacations and Family

We had so much fun this summer.  We were able to do a lot of fun things and see a lot of our family!  Here are some of the things that we did and remembered to take pictures of :)

 Pioneer Day, 24th of July.  This is our celebration, thanks to grandparents, of the pioneers entering the Salt Lake City valley.  Kyler loved chasing the balloons around.

Kyler also LOVED the toy Grandma and Grandpa gave him-stacking cups.  He plays with it all the time.

We went to a baseball game with some of the fam.  It was fun to all be together, eating concession stand food and watching baseball.  Barbara pointed out that Hyrum and I are the same age as many of the players!  Crazy!

The best part of the baseball game had to be the firework show afterwards.  We got to sit on the field and watch one of the most spectacular firework shows I have ever seen!  So fun!

Another fun thing we did was go to a Raptor Center near by and looked at all the different birds of prey.  Here Kyler is trying on bird's eyes.

We toured this very cool Governor's Mansion.  It was very elegant and even had a servants' wing!

We went to Yosemite National Park.  It was fun to spend a few days hiking around and camping.  I really enjoyed walking through a tree.  It was a huge tree and still alive!  Amazing.

Kyler enjoyed the hiking as long as he wasn't hunger or too tired.  He loved being outside practically all the time.  We had a very fun summer.

Reading Stories

Kyler loves to have stories read to him.  Hyrum taught Kyler how to turn pages at about three months of age.  Recently Kyler has added another talent to his story reading.  He has many books that have things for you to touch.  When the book was new, we would grab his hand and help him feel the different things.  Now, Kyler will turn the page, then grab your finger and make you feel the different things.  It is so cute!  He guides your hand across the "fur" of the animals.  I love it.