Nyle

I call him my little sunshine.  He is such a happy-go-lucky kind of kid. He's also pretty independent and stubborn about sleep.  Here are just a few of his 2-year-old antics.

Wrestling--we see A LOT of this in our home and Nyle is never afraid to jump in WWF-style

I don't remember all the particulars, but I think it was something to the effect of, trying to get his own milk because Mommy was upstairs feeding baby West?  I just remember coming down and finding this with the half-empty gallon of milk sitting nearby.  I just sighed and thought-yep, that's Nyle.  

We have a bit of a montage of pictures like this with Nyle falling asleep in some pretty cool poses.  He's actually asleep here, while balancing on the chair. 

poor nose

I suppose the wood is softer than tile?

He can sleep through quite a lot. 

The best picture I took of his sleeping poses has been lost, but it was of him asleep sitting upright against one of those giant bouncy-ball toys that kids can hold onto and bounce around.  I was pretty impressed with that one, since it required constant balance. 

This gave me a huge scare.  One day we had the window company come inspect our windows as we had a few that sustained damage during a hailstorm.  The blinds had been pulled up and while I sat working with Ned in the loft, I heard the most stomach-turning scream I'd ever heard. I turned around to see Nyle dangling in the air with the blinds cord wrapped around his neck.  He had been playing with the cords while standing on a chair and somehow gotten tangled in them when he slipped off the chair.  I was literally just a step away from him and thank goodness I was.  I quickly unwound him, then simultaneously chewed him out for playing with the cords and hugged the stuffing out of him.  I try not to think what might have happened if I had happened to be downstairs at the moment that had happened.  I just thank Heavenly Father, even to this day, for the miracle it was that I wasn't further away.  Needless to say, The blinds are all down in our house so the cords remain high up out of reach.