Big Boy Bed and Grandma Breclaw's Birthday

We have been preparing Tyler for his "big boy bed" for a while now but I have been putting it off because I foresaw disaster. We finally decided to try it on Thursday and to our surprise, he is doing great! We were practicing going to bed and getting tucked during the day and that night he went straight to sleep in his bed. We can't believe what a big boy he has become!

Grandma Breclaw is turning 65 on February 23rd but since that's a Wednesday this year we celebrated on Saturday. Everyone in the Ellsworth clan has had allergies or a cold this week so Mike didn't make the trip. Tyler sure did have a good time visiting with Grandma and Grandpa Breclaw. We went for a nice lunch at Lonestar Steakhouse (Grandma's choice) and then visited for a few hours.

Reading Grandma's birthday card

Tyler and Grandpa B.

Building a Snowman

Central Illinois got blasted with 13 inches of snow Tuesday through Wednesday last week. Since it was a relatively nice day (around 32 degrees) today, we went outside and made a snowman. Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth planted the idea in Tyler's head when they rolled out a quick snowman in the front yard so then Tyler decided he wanted to join the fun too. All previous attempts in the snow have failed miserably so I wasn't very hopeful but we were out for over a half hour today and built a pretty impressive snowman (thanks to the snowman kit Grandma and Grandpa Breclaw gave Tyler for Christmas). Here are the pictures from the fun....

Tyler's first leap in the snow

This little snowman is the one Grandma and Grandpa E. built--just Tyler's size

Here we all are trying to roll up this very heavy second snowball. It was a lot of work.

But we muscled it out and got it done!

Tyler helped pack on some snow too

Our snowman!