Some more "Firsts" for Tyler...

So, on Sunday we drove down to San Diego and Tyler got to experience the beach for the first time. He got excited as soon as he saw the water while we were in the car. We didn't really plan on swimming due to the water being pretty cold. We kind of just rolled up our pants and went in knee high and we played a little bit of tag in the water. Unfortunately, that resulted in Tyler face planting in the water :-). I guess he was use to running in the water... but it was pretty funny. And he wasn't phased by it and he just kept playing. Here are some pics of us at the beach.

Can you see his excitement? (I know... it's kind of dark shadow over his face)


This is before he face planted. :-) We had a lot of fun. :-)


All three of us before we left with coastline behind us. It was a nice day at the beach. :-)


Us with our friends (newly engaged friends!!), Jon and Emily, who were so kind as to take care of us in San Diego. They ALWAYS are such great hosts when we go down there. :-)

So, Tyler's other first was yesterday. Not that anyone really wants this kind of first, but he had his first surgery yesterday for his hernia. It was only about an hour and everything went absolutely smoothly. Although he woke up from the anesthesia just crying. He said he wasn't in pain. So, I think he just didn't like the feeling of being under the anesthesia and still feeling out of it when he woke up. He woke up stunned that it was over already. But... he stopped crying as soon as they gave him a popsicle. Here are sine pics from surgery day.

I just thought he looked so cute in his hospital gown! :-) He looked so tiny when he was walking around in it.

This is obviously before the surgery since he's still smiling. Afterwards it was the opposite.

And here's a picture of his lovely little war wound!

So, there are Tyler's firsts this week. Hope you enjoyed as we did... not that the surgery was enjoyable! Thank you all for your prayers. Please keep it up as they help us get through each day.