A day in the life of..

New York – What a great time! Tyler was in heaven from the moment we left home until we left. You know he was so excited for NY anyway and the day we left we had to get up at 3:30 in the morning and he was up and ready for some action! The airport limo picked us up and he was yapping away to the other people in there. We flew on Delta Song and they had the TV screens at every seat! Tyler thought that was pretty cool. He watched Cartoon Network for some time, and then he played the trivia game that you can play against the other passengers and he won!! I was playing too, so I thought that was pretty funny. The minute that we landed in NY his eyes were huge and he had this big grin on his face. He was so happy to see the snow on the ground. Mike’s Aunt Luchia and Uncle Feliche picked us up from the airport and as soon as we went outside Tyler was bouncing around – I told him to touch some of the snow, but he wouldn’t. When we got back to the house there was all this fresh snow in the backyard, so Tyler wanted to go out and play in it. We got all bundled up and headed out. At first he was apprehensive, he was stepping on it and crushing it, but wouldn’t touch it with his hands. I finally said to him to just go ahead and stick his hands in there and make a snowball. He did. I took like a million pictures! He wanted me to keep taking more and more pictures! “Take a picture of me doing this… take a picture of that.” It was sweet. When he made his very first snowball he looked at me and said, “Mom, I think this is the best day of my life!” I almost broke out in tears. I mean there is not a price in this world I wouldn’t pay to make my son happy. When he said that, it was like pay off for everything. Once he had touched the snow, there was no going back! He made a snow angel and we made a snowman, he wanted to stay out there forever! The next day we went into the city and did all the touristy things. We rode the train into Battery Park and I think that was the only time on our whole trip that we were absolutely freezing! It was so cold with the wind coming off the water. We saw statue and got out of there!! Tyler looked at me at one point and said, “mom, I can’t do this anymore, my cheeks are hurting!” We went to Ground Zero and that was hard and weird because I know that Tyler knows a lot about 9/11 and everything that happened, but when you see it now, it is surely not like we saw it on TV and it is hard to grasp he whole thing. He asked me if the buildings just fell into the hole. I tried to explain, but it just looks like a building site now, and that is all he saw. I showed him all the names of the people that died and the pictures that showed the twin towers. We walked on Wall Street, saw all the Broadway Theaters, went to the Top of the Empire State Building and shopped at Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. It was a great time. We saw Rockefeller center, Trump Tower, Radio City Music Hall, NBC Studios, the Today Show Studio, Times Square and St. Patrick’s Church. We went for a carriage ride through Central Park, saw the Plaza hotel and went to the big Toys R Us with the Ferris wheel in it! When we went to Toys R US, Tyler’s face lit up and it looked over at me and said, “Mom! Look in my eye. Do you see a tear in my eye? There is a tear in my eye!” I started laughing hysterically it was so cute. He spent forever trying to pick out the best toy and finally settled on this Yugio thing. He even got to pick a treat in Candy Land and he selected the Wonka Bar. They are having some promotion right now and there is chance to win a golden ticket, so he was excited about that. He didn’t win the golden ticket, but he told me that was “OK, because even Charlie didn’t get a golden ticket on his first try.” Isn’t he so cute? Dom and Holly’s wedding was on Sunday and what an event that was! I have never seen a wedding like this one. It was a huge event. Tyler was the man! He looked so cute in his little suit. At one point in the night he dropped a strawberry on his shirt and came to me and said, "You are not going to like this, I spilt something on my shirt. But don't worry, I still look good!" All the other kids there were following him around and laughing at his jokes. (He tells the WORST jokes!) He was in heaven! I thought I was in the movie Grease! Tyler does this funny dance move and every time he would do it, all the kids we doing it. It was the funniest thing. All the girls kept coming up to me and asking if I was Tyler’s mom and telling me how funny and hot he is! Yes, I did say “hot”! They were all hugging on him. The reception started at 6 and Tyler stayed dancing the entire night until we left at about midnight. They had this amazing spread for dessert, it was an entire room filled with desserts and they even had cotton candy for the kids! Tyler had 5 chocolate covered strawberries, 1 cotton candy, 2 scoops of strawberry ice cream, 1 pack of smarty’s and 1 Kit Kat! Can you imagine how happy this child was? The whole trip was a great time for him. For two nights we went and stayed with Mike’s Aunt Mae and Uncle Ronnie in Connecticut. Talk about heaven! It was so beautiful! When we got there, there was already a ton of snow and Tyler just loved it. We got there late one night and when we woke up in the morning he looked out the window and was so excited! We saw like 7 deer in their back yard! By the time we had left the snow fell 9 inches! It was awesome because I was happy that Tyler actually got to see the snow fall. He built a giant snowman, like over 5 feet tall and made snow angels and threw about a million snowballs! He even played snow baseball. The first day we were there we went for a long walk in the forest and it was just awesome. We crossed a frozen creek that had some holes in it that we could see and hear the water flowing underneath. It was kind of scary. Tyler was the so surprised to see real snowflakes. The snow was falling on my jacket and I showed Tyler. He said it looked like a Chinese star. I don’t think I have ever even saw snowflakes that were so perfectly clear. It was very cool. Of course, we got lost in the forest and ended up walking to find our way for like 2 hours!! When we got home I wanted to go right in, but Tyler stayed playing outside. He cleaned off the steps of the house and just did anything he could to stay in the snow longer. He really loved it. So, can anyone guess where Tyler wants to live when he grows up now?