me and katie all dressed up!
My handsome fireman~
the other day we were driving in the car and ry kept trying to tell me something, and I just didn't understand what he was saying. All the sudden I heard a sigh and ry said,"nevermind mom, just nevermind."
Ry found a little lunch box the other and started to carry it around here is our conversation surrounding the lunch box
RY: bye mom i'm going to work.
MOM: bye hon have a great day.
(Ry walks to the garage door)
RY: hon, where are my keys! i can't find my keys, hon do you know where my keys are?
MOM:here ry here are some keys.
RY: oh, thanks hon(he walks back to the garage door and opens it)
RY:OH NO MY JEEP, WHERE DID MY JEEP GO? MY JEEP IS GONE!!!
Ryan was leaving yesterday to go fishing with gramps
MOM: Bye Ry be a good boy and listen to gramps. I love you!
RY: Bye hon, have a good day, i love you too!
he has been talking up a storm and it's so fun to hear all the crazy little things his mind thinks up!!
The best book I've read in awhile!!! We have a totally new kid in our house and it is amazing. He listens the very first time or else he knows there will be a consequence right away! I feel better because I'm not asking, yelling, begging, talking, or explaining over, and over and over again-I say it JUST ONCE! We went out lunch yesterday and I explained to him how I wanted him to behave while we were eating lunch and that if he didn't act that way, I would take him into the bathroom and give him a spanking. Well it worked like a charm, Ry sat in his chair quietly and played with his cars and ate his food nicely. He did get one spanking in the bathroom because I was being a super stickler and he was standing up on the rungs of his chair. After that it was smooth sailing and I got to sit at lunch with my friends and talk for over an hour with little interruptions!!
The other night after I finished reading the book I explained to Jared how things need to operate from now on. Ryan woke up from his nap and we were off, we were about half way through the night when Ryan exclaimed,"Mom, I'm a HAPPY BOY!" while jumping up and down! At that moment I was sold, I knew it was working and that we would stick with it!!
This is what nap time now looks like!
I can't believe that this is the same little girl I had nine months ago!!! She is going to be nine months on Tuesday and boy have things changed!! Here's a list of all the fun things she is doing at nine moths old
she is just a happy baby and we are so glad that she is a part of our family
Do you have a guess now?
"keek a boo sister keek a boo."
Well, lets just start with last week was the week from HELL....yes I even spelled it out, not trying to sugar coat it!! I thought the week would never end!! Let me start at the beginning of this very lengthy post, Sunday Ryan pooped his underwear, count um THREE times. Totally frustrating because normally he doesn't poop that much and he didn't tell us any of the times before or after, and one of the time was at church. Let me remind you this is just the beginning! Monday, Monday, Monday as I'm sitting here typing I can't even remember Monday or the events of the day it seems like years ago. TUESDAY, Tuesday is the day! When I woke up I thought to myself I should just ignore the yelling kids in their cribs and go back to sleep, I could tell by the way Ryan was yelling for me at 8 that he was in a mood already and it was going to be an uphill battle ALL day!! I had plans with a blog friend who I've never met but been trying to get together with for over a year, so despite the mood of my two year old I wasn't going to cancel my plans for the zoo, and I thought maybe, just maybe the zoo could pull him out of his two year old funk! We got to the zoo and met up with our new friend and had a great time getting to know her and her sweet little boy(I knew her husband from high school), and my plan seemed to work of getting Ry out of his little funk. He was doing so well I decided to let him feed the parrots in the Parrot Paradise. I was holding Caroline and Ryan was running around the boardwalk terrorizing the birds and trying to knock birds off of other children's food sticks. I was walking over to get Ryan from a group of children, when all of the sudden I was on my back and Caroline was lying a foot away from me screaming bloody murder, and all I could hear was a man in the background yelling,"OH MY GOSH SHE FELL SHE FELL, OH MY GOSH SHE DROPPED THE BABY, SHE DROPPED THE BABY, SOMEBODY HELP HER SHE DROPPED THE BABY!" I stood up a little shocked and not quite sure how I fell AND dropped my baby, some one handed her to me and I walked out of the exhibit to look her over and talk to security. Somewhere in the shuffle of it all I forgot about Ryan and some one brought him to me, maybe my friend I was with but I'm not sure( she was on the other side of the exhibit and miss all the excitement), but he didn't have his Buzz Lightyear(which he got for finally going poop in the potty) Caroline was fine just a little bruise on her cheek and very hurt feelings. I noticed right away that we were missing Buzz and went into panic mode! I'm sure I looked like the crazy mom that wasn't too worried about dropping her baby but crazy about finding stupid Buzz. Okay so you are think wow that's awful, and I'm sure it couldn't get much worse but it does, just wait. So we finish up at the zoo, my friend invites us to lunch and we join her. We eat lunch and are just throwing away our trash when I realize Ryan has poop running down his leg!! Lovely!!! We say our goodbyes (quickly) and I take my kids out to the car, strip Ryan down and try and find a starting point to clean up the mess since I made even more of a mess just taking off his underwear. Now one might ask if I know he's had this problem why wouldn't I just put him in the pull-ups, I just don't believe in them, I think he would just treat it like a diaper. I'd rather clean up a few poops and get it over with. Anyways.....so I'm cleaning him up trying not to get angry, so as not to discourage our new found potty training efforts. A man walks up and clears his throat, as if to suggest that he needs into his car. I turn to him and say, " Look you are just going to have to wait because I'm up to my elbows in poop and it's going to take me a little while!" The man looks at me blankly and I turn back to cleaning up my two year old! I get everything in zip lockbags, new underwear on Ryan, buckle him up and head home!! That's not the end of the story either! I get home get my white trash child out of the car, throw my keys in my diaper which is sitting on the passenger seat, get out of the car close my door walk around the car to get Caroline out and to my shock realize I have locked Caroline in the car with the keys!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!! Not only did I drop her but I have locked her in the car!! I am the worst mom ever, this totally negates the hours I spent making beautiful costumes and all the other mom stuff I do!!! I think about braking the window but realize we have NO money and that would make my ghetto car even ghettoer(not a word I'm sure)! And Jared doesn't have a spare on his key chain and it's like a twenty minute drive. So I quickly decide to call 911! Luckily it wasn't a hot day but it was warm enough. Then I remember my white trash kid running around in his underwear, I didn't want to give the firemen the impression that I was a totally unfit mother, so I rushed inside and got Ryan some dirty clothes out of the laundry. By the time I got him dressed we could hear the sirens coming up our street. Ryan was so excited to have the firetruck parked right in front of our house and pointed out all the different hoses and ladders to one of the firemen standing around while the others worked to get the door open. It took maybe a minute or two and Caroline had no clue what was going on! Needless to say after our eventful day everyone took a really good nap!
After a day like that I vowed to myself that I wasn't going ANYWHERE the rest of the week! I held true and we stayed home to get the potty training under control. The rest of the week was less eventful, but stressful none the less. I think we turned the corner with the potty training and I'm hoping this next week is nice and mellow.
So if you know where to send the mother of the year nominations please let me know, or you can just forward this on!
today was so beautiful, the pool was just saying ryan's name! yes it is november 4 and ryan was playing in the pool at 5pm! the first couple times he put his feet in, he'd quickly jump out and tell me his feet were cold, but once he fell in face first he was fine!! luckily Mimi and Gramps pool has a big splash pad so i didn't have to dive in after him.
playing with everything a boy LOVES: the hose, a bucket and his trucks, and a fountain-it's the perfect recipe for fun!
while ry waded, caroline snuggled with mimi, and watched her brother splash away!
look at those girls!! i love that cricket loves being with her mimi!
she is happy all the time except for the few minutes before bed or nap time!!
today in the car ry said:
R: mom, i need to go to the hospital!
M: oh, why do you need to go?
R: because my back itches!!
so excited!! they were little fish of some kind, but they bit often which is great for the short attention span of a two year old.
earlier in the day we went to Heritage Farm in plano! it was small and fun! ry loved walking around and playing in the old school.
milk, milk, milk
ry loved every minute of collecting his candy~ the best part is he has only had one piece!! he has totally forgotten he has a huge bag full of candy!!
i'm already thinking about next year~~
this pictures says it all, she is just happy~~
this is more what our day looked like!! i don't know what got into her because she is normally so happy and laid back!! i have the exact same picture of ry crying in his costume so I guess it is a family tradition!! it wasn't because of the costume she just cried all afternoon!
no one held still
this was my best shot all day, right when we got there and he was looking at a Buzz Lightyear display!
all ry wanted to do was bounce in the bouncy house, needless to say we were at one last week and he just kind of wandered around lost with out his cousin miss d to play with
