"Jack me up, Dada!"

That is what Ryan said right before I took this picture, LOL. Yes, not the safest activity - but since they seem to do this, I had to at least take a picture :-) There was also a lot of digging and raking done this weekend. When Katie and I got home from Little Gym on Saturday, Ryan said "Katie might want to dig with me" before she was even out of the car :-)

Happy Halloween!

It was raining for trick-or-treat on Saturday. We got the the end of the driveway and it started POURING so we ran for cover on the porch and waited it out until it let up a bit. The kids didn't seem to mind one bit. You can tell the kids are wet in the pictures and check out the rain all over Katie's face in some of them! On Sunday, November 1st, there was a Halloween party at Little Gym so Ryan and I went since Katie was napping. With the time change she was SO tired and we couldn't keep her up - it was from 12-3 and she slept from 12-4! For more pics click here!


"Why is my face so wet?"

"See, we didn't melt, and are even having fun!"

responses!

Ryan has started saying "o-tay" (ok) in response to many questions and comments that we make. It still shocks me every single time, LOL. I know it probably doesn't sound like much, but it always surprises us because it's such a change. I have been thinking about what the change really is - it is not that he wasn't answering us before. In some cases, he is responding verbally where he wasn't before. If I had asked for him to take his shoes off, he usually just did it, but now his action is preceded by "o-tay" - so cute! In other cases I think he is saying "ok" as a response instead of "yes." The other day (while working on the railroad) he had two handfuls of train track and I asked him to cover the piano keys. He spun around to look at the piano and said "o-tay, in a minute." I LOVE how our little boy talks and I continue to be unable to get enough!!

In other response news, Katie is answering questions too! If you ask her a yes/no question she will say "no" or "uh-huh" to respond. So so cute!!!! This also shocked us. Most times it actually comes out as "uh.....HUH" and usually includes some shoulder shrugging to emphasize her point :-) She is such a sweetie! Right now she loves giving hugs. There are times when we are eating and I have to get up from my chair 10 times in a row to respond to her calls of "hugggg hugggg hugggg" and outstretched arms. I know, it's a very tough life :-)

Happy Birthday to our precious little man!

*Here* are some interesting facts about October 7th in history. For us, October 7th is the day we met our son, the day we were lucky enough to become Ryan's Mommy and Daddy. I will never stop being amazed at how he has changed our lives for the better and has brought us a world and lifetime of happiness. Happy Birthday Ryan! We love you so much!

I can't believe he's already 3!!!!! It seems like only yesterday we took these pictures . . .

color of the day: RED

This was Ryan's 3rd week of preschool. He is going Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-3. The first week he was only there for 90 minutes total, so this is his second "full" week. The first week consisted of a 30 min "meet the teacher" session where I stayed with him on Tuesday, and an hour long class for him on Thursday where I was still in the building participating in an orientation for the parents. I don't know of him shedding a tear - it's a struggle for me to get him to say goodbye since he wants to start playing as soon as he walks in the room. I'm very happy he seems to be enjoying it! I still need to post pictures from his first day!

Today he had to wear red - the color of the week - so I snapped a few pics of him in his new red shirt. He's getting so big! I am also including a picture of Katie from yesterday. I was trying to get a picture of her in her new tights (which I was LOVING) but she didn't cooperate, so this is the best I could do! And yes, that sock is in the garbage :-)

groggy windows

When he got up this morning, there was condensation covering Ryan's windows. You really couldn't see out at all. He was talking about a "grog" (frog) and it hopping way up high, and it took me a little while to catch on :-) He explained "a grog hopped way up high and made Ryrun's windows all groggy!! Need a ladder to clean Ryrun's windows" LOL! I guess he was thinking the windows were "foggy" but got it confused with "froggy" - clearly a frog was to blame :-) So so cute! I also love that he realized we'd need a ladder to clean the windows from the outside.

"The dogs no like Ryan in the corner"

Apparently, Golden Retrievers don't agree with time-outs. Who knew? LOL! This is his latest excuse, and I heard it over and over during his last time-out. He also said that he couldn't walk over to the corner.

His talking continues to amaze us. The other day we were at my mom's house and his drink was on a table near my mom's cat. Ryan started screaming "Cat! Cat!" which of course caused the cat to flee to safety. Then he said "Ryan had to scare Nana's cat away so the cat would not drink Ryan's drink." I remember when we used to talk about whether he was saying 3 or 4 word sentences :-)

Another cute thing that I had wanted to write down, though it was said months ago now . . . Ryan bit into a grape and exclaimed "there's juice in there!" Now that I am typing it I feel like maybe I already blogged about it, LOL. So maybe I'm repeating myself. Oh well!

Let's see, what else . . .

Ryan has discovered plugging the drain in the sink, though he can't quite reach the handle to do so himself. When we go in the powder room he immediately gets on his stool and starts saying "Mama, please pull that up please mama . . ." The other day he had the sink half full of water and made his fist "swim" around in it and said "like Nemo swims through the ocean."

About a month ago now, Ryan stood on the base of a cane (the kind that has four little feet) that had been in the garage. The handle is bent and makes it look like a microphone, just the right size for a toddler. He was saying (screaming) something over and over and over and my mom and I could not figure out what he was saying. I finally figured out that he was saying "WE ARE HERE!" and realized he was copying the last scene from "Horton Hears a Who" - I was surprised he remembered and thought of that!

A while ago he saw Marc feeding the dogs and said "Ryrun eat cocoa puffs TOO!!!!"