there was a birdnapping!

This morning when I opened Ryan's door, he said "Mama! Mama!" and was over by his bed - and then he signed and said "birds!" to tell me that his birds were missing! He was pointing to where they should be on his bed railing (the "birds" are on his crib soother). Awwww, it was so sweet. The batteries needed to be recharged, and he had been asleep when we got home last night, so he went up to his room and didn't notice they weren't there until he woke up.

This is a picture of his "birds" - the birds move and flap their wings and there are lights and music, and it also projects a light show onto the ceiling. He still loves it!

little sisters are pretty entertaining

This is Ryan's reaction to Katie jumping in the jumperoo this morning . . .



It was funny because he looked at me and said "more", so I told him to tell her, which he did. Well, I hope she learns what that means soon because when he got out of the booster seat, he went right up to her and was VERY insistent with his demands for her to jump MORE. Ryan needs a lesson on babies not understanding things yet ;-)

Happy Birthday to my precious little man!!!

I am so excited about Ryan's birthday! I can't believe my little baby is two years old :-)

I really need to go to bed (it's just after midnight) but I am tempted to stay up and go kiss him at 1:25am, LOL. He is such a sweetie, and I'm so thankful that I am his Mommy!!

I was wrapping presents tonight and was thinking about what we'll do tomorrow (well, today). I have a book that I'll give him in the morning so that we can read it during the day. I wrote a little note in it that he'll probably think is silly some day - sappy mommy stuff :-) We might go to the park or at least play outside in the morning before his nap. When Marc gets home we'll give him the rest of his presents, and then will probably take him outside to play with his new t-ball set. I am so excited to give him that - he's going to love it!

During his nap, I am going to try to make him a cake for after dinner - using this pan. I hope it turns out ok! I am trying to not make it too fancy because I have a lot of cake and cupcake decorating to do for his party on Saturday. We'll see how much time I have to decorate it! Dinner will be some of his favorites - chicken fingers, peas, and mac n' cheese, LOL!

Ok, I have to get to bed!!

some pics

Kate tried the jumperoo today for the first time :-) She liked it - but I think Ryan was more excited about her being in there than she was! We have to watch him VERY carefully when she's in there!! Her feet touch the floor - but just barely. I remember putting a pillow under Ryan's feet for a while, and then one time he pooped on it, LOL.

Ryan was so excited to put this hat on Katie :-)

Here is Ryan eating an apple from his great grandfather's tree. He LOVES them and is always saying "apple" and grabs them out of the big bag we have.

teeth brushing funny

The other night, we were both in the bathroom when Ryan was brushing his teeth. He does pretty well on his own, so we just help him a bit at the end to make sure he didn't miss anything. He will say "ahhhhh" when he opens his mouth wide and "eeeee" with his teeth together when we brush the front of his teeth - he seems to have fun with it!

Anyway, he had done well but didn't brush his back molars. So we said something like "don't forget to brush in the back" and he proceeded to take the brush out of his mouth, and brush the back of his diaper, LOL. It took us a second to realize what he was doing before we burst out laughing. He laughed with us but was very confused about our odd request :-)

open mouth, insert foot

literally, LOL. Yes, Katie has finally gotten a taste of her toes :-) She was such a cutie with her foot in her mouth for the 1st time yesterday, 9/29. She has also been enthralled with her hands. She'll hold her hand up in front of her face and just stare and slowly move her fingers. It's so much fun to watch!

Ryan has been LOVING his GeoTrax - an early birthday present from Mommy and Daddy. He is obsessed. We got him a small set to start with and he's having a blast playing with it. Marc had showed him some videos on youtube and he kept saying "more choo choo" every time he got near the computer. So, on Sunday night, we went out and got him some since I'd rather he play with trains than watch them on videos! It turns out that this is a good learning opportunity since he has to control himself and deal with the disappointment of not being able to be attached to the GeoTrax 24/7. We have done a lot of time-outs lately, LOL.

He's so funny playing with them - he actually loves pushing the train without it running on the batteries - and I love watching him carefully walk around the track, sometimes going on his toes to avoid stepping on it or knocking anything over. Today I told him to push the button to turn the train on (he forgets and wonders why the controller isn't working) and he said "no" and then (nicely) took the controller and put it all the way across the room so that I wouldn't use it :-) We spent quite a lot of time rearranging track today - and I heard a lot of "no no no no no no" if I tried a configuration he didn't like, LOL. He is already really good at putting the pieces together even though he doesn't quite get the elevation parts and makes things that don't quite work at times. It's also been fun to talk to him about the train - practicing words like "down," "bridge," "under," etc. We are having lots of fun enjoying this with him! I'll have to post some pictures or video - we love watching our little engineer. (You know, a person that runs a train. Hi Russ.)

unfortunate toddlerisms

Today, as we were having some mini pizza bagels for lunch, I was trying to help Ryan say "pizza." Well, the first syllable of pizza sounds like pee, so his attempt at the word (since he knows it is two syllables but he can't quite say "zzzzzzza") is "pee pee." Now I'm all for having affectionate nicknames for pizza, but this is not one that I can embrace, LOL!

Mommy: "pizza"
Ryan: "pee pee"
Mommy: "peeee - zzzzzzza"
Ryan: "peeeee - pee"
and on and on . . .

Then Kate was sitting on my lap and Ryan decided she should have a lesson too, LOL! He was so adorable pointing to the pizza on his plate, getting right in her face, eye-to-eye, and saying slowly and repeatedly - "pee pee."

Hmmmm, I wonder if this is going to interfere with potty training somehow?