September 4, 2009 My beautiful kids

I love my kids! Tysho 6, Lincoln 2, and MaeLee 4 months

Rocky and I are so blessed to have these three very different and unique individuals in our lives.

Being a mother is one of THE greatest joys I could ever have in my life. Next to being married to my best friend and sweetheart, Rocky.

I have loved blogging about my family this year 2009, and since I started in the Spring I had some things that were left out that I want to add. Hopefully next year I will get better at this because it will be our own personal journal for our family each year.

Each of my children are so precious in their own way.

TYSHO SUNHAWK TANO

Tysho we call our most "handsome" boy. There is nothing girly about this kid. He is very masculine in his look and the way he holds himself. People every where refer to him as a mini-Rocky. They say he looks just like his dad, and to that Tysho scowls. He hates it when people say that and he may even respond back, "Yes, yes I know, okay. I look like my dad, but I don't think so. I think I look like my mom." The funny thing is we all thought the same thing until just recently we went through an old video of when I was about 10 years old and low and behold...Tysho looked just like me! Everyone was in awe. His expressions to some of his mannerisms, and also some of the faces he makes was just like mine. I turned to him and said, "See son you were right you do look like me. " He was beaming from ear to ear. Now, I do say many times to my most handsome son, "I think you should be grateful to look like your daddy because he is an extremely good-looking guy."

Tysho is so gifted with athletic abilities since he was just 7 months old he could throw a football. He sleep-walks and talks in his sleep. He is crazy about mustang cars, and loves to watch football his favorite team is the GreenBay Packers. He loves science, books, puzzles, and games; especially video games. We find that he can figure things out by himself. He is extremely witty and has a funny sense of humor. This past year he has been learning his sense of humor which at times is difficult to deal with since it's a lot of potty humor or first grade humor. He tends to find more entertainment with this with his dad than me. They have some kinda joke that goes "Your breathe smells like....(fill in the blank) poop." Usually dog, elephant or sheep kinda poop. Then they both laugh and laugh. I just tell Rocky to watch out because one of these days his teacher is going to send a note home about Tysho's silly sense of humor and he'll say his dad taught him that!

Tysho is so inventive and creative. Here he is making the wall of stone his playground for his army men and action figures.

He can play for hours with his own imagination.

In a few words Tysho is funny, loving, kind, sweet, trustworthy, honest, responsible, shy, a leader, strong-willed, sensitive, compassionate, doesn't try to impress, intelligent, and happy with who he is.

His nicknames are Sunshine because he is so sweet, Dolce and Gabbana because he is so picky about his clothes, from what they look like to how they fit, and also Benjamin Button because we tease him that he worries so much and is such an old soul that he is aging backwards. Right now he is about 86 yrs. old.

Tysho is my most favorite 6 yr old in the whole world. This year after I had the baby I went through the "baby blues" and Tysho wanted so badly to cheer up his mom that he asked his dad to help him buy me some flowers, a chocolate candy bar, and a magazine (tabloid 0f course).

I couldn't of asked for a more special boy.

Thank-you for being my wonderful son Tysho, I love you.

LINCOLN COLE NAABAAHII TANO

Oh our little Lincoln....he is a one of a kind. What a joy he brings into our lives. He makes the sky a little bluer, the grass a little greener, and my smile a whole lot bigger since he entered into our lives. This two year old is our social butterfly. He loves, loves to be the center of attention and he will definitely entertain! He loves to dance and has got natural moves. While Tysho is our most handsome boy, Lincoln is our most gorgeous and adorable boy ever. He is all boy except his beautiful long curly eyelashes with perfectly manicured eyebrows (all natural of course). Tysho has many times said, "Lincoln I love your girl eyes."

Here is Lincoln's breakfast...rice with cheerios.

Of course we know whom he resembles the most in appearance, but Rocky always says I know he's my boy because of his huge feet and mitten hands just like his and also when he sweats he gets little beads of sweat on his nose just like Rocky, and last he loves rice maybe even more if not the same as Rocky the Rice Head.
He also loves sweets, and eats weird things.

He added the sour cream and chive potato chips to his Froot Loops and really ate it too!

Lincoln probably hears his name being called about 100 times a minute. Usually because he is getting into something he shouldn't be. Whenever you can't hear Lincoln then you know you are in trouble. His day is full of mischievousness and exploration. He has no fear and doesn't mind getting into trouble. Usually if he does he either yells back or just runs off into his next adventure. In a typical Lincoln day he will draw all over your walls with crayon. Then after he is told not too you'll find that he went and colored all over your dishwasher and then when he has the crayons taken away later you will find that he had colored all over your garbage can. He will take all of the almonds out of the can lick off the salt and put them all back in the can for whom ever would like to eat them next. Any wall or floor that is the dirtiest he will test out with a taste of his tongue. But don't worry because before you know it he will be eating the hand sanitizer just to get rid of the germs before. He loves lotion and he'll literally take a bath in it if you have it just lying around and not up high. He will make a slide out of just about anything. He has no problem running up to his Conservative Grandpa Gilmore and slapping him on the butt a few times. He likes to think baby powder is magic and he will blow it all over himself and your house if you are lucky enough to take your eyes off him for a second.

Lincoln with his Spiderman boots that he put on by himself while we were moving.

Lincoln loves, loves, and triple loves Spiderman. He has all his movies, cartoons, clothes, boots, toy figures, costumes, swimming trunks, and shoes. You name it he has it! His second favorite love is "Dam- mormors" or for translation "Transformers". We happen to laugh and laugh about how he pronounces it. Of course Rocky only adds fuel to the fire and he keeps him saying it over and over.

He is so sweet and loves to cuddle and give lots of kisses. He is extremely tactile and must touch something at all times when he is drinking his number one favorite comfort his Ba-Ba. He usually says, "Mom Back." Which means he wants to drink his bottle while rubbing my back. Don't ask me why he just does.

His nickname use to be "Chubby" because when he was a baby Tysho one day looked at his baby brother and said, "What are you looking at Chubby?" Which he had some of the biggest cheeks ever, but he has now grown out of his nickname. Now we only refer to him as Lincoln and sometimes "The Beast" per Rocky never by his mommy. I call him my sweetheart.

Lincoln, mommy loves her little wild child.

Tysho and Lincoln are two brothers at opposite ends of the spectrum. But they love each other like crazy even though they do drive each other crazy.

This is typical for them to be fighting. Usually Lincoln starts it by picking on his brother who is four years older than him.

And Tysho always chimes in with his whiny, "LINCOLN...." over and over until we have to get after both of them.

Brotherly Love.

MAELEE ANGELENE TANO

Last but not least my baby girl, MaeLee. She's still growing and beginning to show us her personality. At first I thought she was the sweetest little thing. But we soon learned that this little girl is very determined and strong-willed.

She is extremely smart and knows how to get what she wants.

I love having a little girl. I buy her tons and tons of shoes already even though she's only 4 months old here she had over 10 pairs of shoes.



She's our baby. I love you MaeLee. Her nickname so far is Dee-Dee our little firecracker.