OK I think this is one of the cutest videos I have taken of Tyler. He is talking with Aunt Jenn, cousin Evan, and Grandma and Grandpa in Oregon.  This will also likely be one of the last Tyler posts because I have opened up TylerPerson.com where you can find future posts about him!

I take my camera everywhere I go.  Why?  Because you never know when you are going to run into suburban wildlife with your son and dog on a walk like I did today.  We also came back to play cars and we did some awesome drawing and as you can probably tell I’m quite the artist.

For Tyler’s birthday Christina’s parents arranged for a San Ramon fire station tour for this morning.  As you can see from the pictures and the videos he absolutely loved it but I don’t know if the adults or Tyler had more fun.  You don’t realize how complex fire trucks are until you really get up close to them, or in our case we were lucky enough to sit inside of it.

It was a very busy day today but overall I think Tyler really enjoyed his 3rd birthday.  Thanks to Christina for being the most kind person I’ve ever known and for helping to throw a great party for Tyler.  Thanks to my parents for joining the festivities with us on Skype this evening, miss you and love you.  I can certainly appreciate technology when it helps bring us closer even though we are far away.  Thanks to Christina’s parents for joining us and helping us celebrate, you are both fantastic and we love you.  Mike, Jenn, Evan, and Austin thanks for Tyler’s gifts and as you can see he clearly liked his recorder.  Finally, thanks to Lana for bringing cupcakes to Tyler’s daycare this afternoon and sorry I couldn’t make it but I was tied up in a meeting.  Being a single dad isn’t easy but thanks to everyone for helping to celebrate my favorite “Person” in the whole world.  It is always great to know even though things didn’t work out as planned, Tyler is able to feel very loved and I really appreciate those who care about him.

I like it because it has everything in it he loves (his beloved drum, a DVD, his dragon, and of course the sunglasses).  Not to mention we were on the way to the hotel to pick up Grandma and Grandpa when I took it which makes it that much more special.