Caroline pulling her self around the room

What a fun and busy month we have had

Here are some fair pictures continued: Ryan loved the petting zoo! The cow looked like she wasn't to sure of Ryan

Mimi and Ryan waiting for the dog show(which he has talked about several times since)

The day before the fair Mimi took us to the Heard Museum-which is a nature preserve. They had a wonderful dinosaur trail, the dinosaur moved and roared at us! Ryan loved every minute of it and tried to join them on most exhibits.

Caroline enjoyed the walk but wasn't too interested in the dinosaurs

Ryan was petting the dinosaurs tongue!

This was the first the dino on the trail. Ryan wasn't expecting it to roar at him.

Off to find next dino!Earlier in the month I got to go to a hockey game. I invited my friend Maria, she has a little boy a day older than Caroline so it was nice to get out with out any babies.

I have a friend that just had a baby so I took her little boy to the zoo with us. Graham and Ry are only a couple of weeks apart but the are TOTALLY opposite in temperament. One boy was always ahead ( I bet you can guess which one) and the other was always straggling behind. It was kind of funny because they were never together but both enjoyed them selves. I almost forgot Caroline was there except for the fact that I was pushing her stroller. I thought it was going to be a nice cool day-boy was I wrong, it was the most humid day we've had all year-yuk!

Ryan eating pudding for the first time and totally enjoying every moment of it!

Sister just happy strolling along!

what ry has been talking about

Ryan has been saying all kinds of crazy things, so good and some bad but all funny!

The other day I made Ry a sandwich, he took it and stuck his finger in the middle of it and then said," Look mom a finger sandwich!"

I was in a parking lot and some guy was trying to backup into me and I proclaimed
MOM-"Cooomme ON dude!"
from the back Ryan piped up with
RYAN-"come on dude your pissing me off!!!"
Oooppss I guess it doesn't sound so good coming out of the mouth of a two year old! Check other word off the list that I didn't think was too bad!

We were driving to my parents house when Ryan said from the backseat
RYAN- "mom, gramps poops in the yard"
MOM- "no Ryan gramps doesn't poop in the yard, Satch poops in the yard and gramps cleans it up!"

The list goes on and on, I need to be better about writing them down just for my sake so I can show him what he said when he was little.

Sweet little boy picked me a flower~~ We were out the door at 10:30 on our way to the fair!JoAnn gave us some free tickets to the Texas State Fair and off we went for a day of fun!! Big Tex greeted us when we walked in-Ry thought he had a big hinney!! We rode the train right to the front gate~ it was so easy and another fun adventure to add to our great day.Caroline LOVED the cotton candy, and had it EVERYWHERE~Both kids had Cotton Candy for the first time. Ry thought it was a pillow at first and gave it a big hug when I gave it to him, I had to tell him he could eat it before he would give it a try. They had this cool basketball center set up and Ryan loved the "baket-ball" set up! It was an area where he could run around all he wanted. Ry looking up to Derik I think this expression says it all! Ryan LOVED the petting zoo!This ostrich was mean-he was eating the food out of my cup so fast we couldn't get a good picture, but Ryan thought is was the coolest thing

Caroline was so good all day I don't think she made a peep!!

She couldn't stay awake any longer!Ryan walked around the entire Fair so at the very end he was out!! He didn't wake up until half the train ride was over! We had a great day at the fair with Mimi! Thanks for such a fun day to both grandma's is definitely in order!!

I need help

Okay I have some major problems so I'm asking the world for some answers! I have a Two year old who hears EVERYTHING, can say ANYTHING, and UNDERSTANDS everything. How do I discipline a strong willed TWO year old boy who laughs at spankings and will sit in time out forever no problem? How do I punish mean words, "Go away, stop it, stay out of my room! bad mommy, you go to time out!" If he is saying all this at two what is he going to be like at 4, 9, 13, 17? I need to put a stop to it NOW but I'm not sure how to find something effective and immediate, any help or answers.

What better way to start off the day then with a tractor ride? Mimi, I, and the kids got out today and did a little thrift store shopping and then decided that we needed to let Ryan have some play time. In McKinney they just built a brand new Babes Chicken around a bunch of historic restored homes. They have tractors, trains and wagons out for you to climb on. Ryan loved it~

Serious Tractor face~~

Then in the evening Gramps took us to see Toy Story and Toy Story 2 at the theater! Ryan surprisingly sat through both movies happily, although we did have a little bit of a volume control problem. Ryan has NOT mastered the art of whispering at ALL! He even kept the glasses on for most of the movie. Caroline came with us too and she was a model baby the entire time although a little squirmy.

Giving gramps a little movie love! We were both shocked at how while he did through both movies!

A little spider swinging is always fun-except when your brother thinks it's fun to give you bonks the while time! ryan is getting more adventurous and is loving the slides at the park!

monkey bridge! monkey boy!

Fishing with gramps! Gramps went to the store and bought the STINKY bait, well come to find out all you need is a hot dog! The little boy next to us catch like 3 fish in the time we caught none!

TV time with Satcho

Satch makes a great pillow! We are dog sitting and Ryan is loving it!

This ones a keeper!

This is the best pic yet of my sweet little girl!!

Caroline and I went to Boise for my best friends wedding, and we had a fabulous girls week! I'm so happy for Kathy and her new found happiness!

I couldn't have asked Caroline be any better, she was perfect!

This is our group of girl friends from Spokane!!

Little blurry but it's the best I got!

The night before Kathy's wedding, we all got together for pizza

This is BeJay, Kathy's wonderful new husband giving Caroline a little cuddle time!

Thank you to Jared and all my family for watching Ryan while I was gone, it's so nice to know that I have so much help and wonderful support around me!

Sight seeing

We went to the Sutro Baths , Caroline's first time to the Pacific Ocean. And to Pier 39 to see the seals-man do they stink!!

the wedding continued

Here are all the girl cousins, after a night of partying! Caroline posing!
On our way to the wedding

Lindsay pulling the wedding bells!

Caroline did a great job being quite during the ceremony