Day 339

Today I did the finishing touches to my classroom!  I'm as ready as I'll ever be for the first day tomorrow.  All desks have nametags, pencils, and bellwork.  Now all I need is my new kids!  Excited to meet them and hope tomorrow goes awesome.

I had to take a break from work because I had a dr. appointment today for the baby.  Tim wasn't able to go because he had a shoot.  =(  I was pretty bummed but at least Ryan got to come with me.  I love the people who work at the office.  There are only 3 people there, the receptionist, nurse and OB/GYN.  The receptionist held Ryan and played with him while I did the urine sample.  & Ryan got to sit on the little chair thingy with me while I laid down and we listend to the heart beat together.   That sound never gets old.  My doctor delivered babies at two different hospitals; St. Joe's- where Ryan was born, and UMC.  Today she told me that she now only delivers at UMC.  I was a little bummed.  She said that she needed to make her life easier and UMC is right next to her house so it's a better drive in the middle of the night when she needs to go in.  I was hoping that my babies would be born at the same hospital.  Oh well.  I told her that our daughter was born at TMC.  So we joked that all of our babies would be born at different hospitals.  Which, they will be.

We played for a little while between work (I brought Ryan with me) and dinner.

& snapped a few more pictures until Tim had to leave for a second shoot tonight.

Ryan is loving food again!  He just gobbles it all up.  I had to give him a cereal bar and blueberries after he ate his rice, chicken, and carrots.  Have I mentioned that Ryan loooooves blueberries.  They are his favorite!

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Hold me, momma!

Last night, I was holding Ryan & he started smacking me in the chest.  When he gets really excited he starts flapping his arms around and when I'm holding him his little hands always hit my chest.  I said "Stop!" & Ryan repeated me.  He kept saying "stop."  Tim & I kept laughing at how cute he was.  This is word #5 from Ryan.  Dada, Momma, thank you, yes, and now stop!

When I got home from work today, Ryan and I were playing on the floor.  He started walking along the wall and I was sitting a couple feet away from him.  He let go of the wall and walked to me!!  My baby walked <3  Best part, he waited for mommy to come home to walk for the first time.  Plus, Tim was watching Ryan and I so he got to see too!  I loooove sharing all of these things with Tim.  He gets just as excited as I do when Ryan does new things.  Tim & I sat in front of each other and had Ryan walking back and forth to us.  He took about 2 or 3 steps each time until he reached us. I almost started crying.  Being a mommy to Ryan is the best thing in the world.

Oh, & 8 years ago today I moved to Tucson!

Day 337

Today was a perfect work/mommy day!  I woke up a little after 8 and Ryan was already awake playing with his mobile.  He knows that I love to play before work :)  I fed him some blueberries, strawberries, and a waffle before I had to work.  Then I woke up Tim for Daddy duty while I went to work.  I was productive at work and was able to get stuff done in my classroom.  I came home for lunch just in time to feed Ryan his milk and lay him down at noon.  When I came home from work at 3:30- Ryan was still sleeping.  3.5 hours of a nap.  Geez.  I brought him back to work with me where he played with his trucks and I filed some of my math worksheets.  We ate dinner together and watched "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."  The show is so dumb- but I've been watching it on Netflix for about 3 weeks now. 


Anyways- I didn't take any pictures today because Tim was gone when I came home from work with Ryan, and he had the cameras with him.  He is such a camera hog.

I thought I'd share some pictures of Tim & I from our wedding.  The quality on the computer isn't the greatest.  We got like 750 pictures printed out, and I seriously took the time to scan some of them. Took forever and that's why they aren't so great on the computer.  Tim & I met in February 2007 and got married on May 24, 2008!

Getting ready...

SO handsome!

Two of my best friends before the wedding, Kim & Loni.

Kissing his bride, or more like I'm kissing him ;)

After we walked back down the isle, I kept saying "WE'RE MARRIED!!" I was so excited, haha.

Grandma & Mom.

Kim, Jen (Tim's sister), Me, Rebecca, and Loni!

One of my favorites.

Love my girls.

Our first dance, She's Everything by Brad Paisley.

& Our family of three! Before it became a family of 4 (or 5.)

&&& This morning, I was in a meeting about EpiPens & the baby was kicking me!!!

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Rebecca's babies are food monsters.  They love to eat :)

Ryan was mad because Rian took his snack wrapper!  He wanted it back!

Day 335

I put Ryan to bed at about 9:15 that night.  He actually only cried for a minute and fell right asleep!!  He doesn't like sleeping anywhere but his own crib.  I was so proud of him.  He slept all night and woke up at 8:41 the next morning!  Before I was a mom I could sleep through anything.  I actually woke up to Ryan's breathing,  because it was right at my face.  He was sleeping in the port a crib right next to the bed Tim & I were sleeping in, and he stood up when he woke up and was staring at me and his face was right next to mine!

Tim on the way to the lake, he's so handsome <3

Ryan was such a good boy today!  He had so much fun.

Hi Daddy!

Aiden & Rian came to join us.

Rian & Ryan talking.

Perfect little babies!

We have a lot more pictures, but Tim is always taking them in Raw format and I can't figure out the stinkin things!  He is driving me nuts.  He is such a camera hog.

Day 334

I only had to work 2.5 hours today!  I left work at about 11:30 to come home and finish packing.  We are headed to Yuma today to go camping at the lake for the weekend!  Tim had some work to do at home before we left.  We stopped at Subway along the way and the people who worked there were sooooo slow.  It was horrible!  I didn't make Ryan take a nap before we left so that he could sleep in the car.  He only slept like 45 minutes in the car!  He definitely isn't a baby anymore.  He doesn't always fall asleep in the car like he used to when he was little.  He used to sleep the whole way!  He got really cranky like the last 45 minutes, so Daddy pulled over so I could sit in the back and entertain Ryan.  He loves Mommy :)  We had fun making faces at each other and tickling him.  We didn't arrive at my mom's house til about 7:45.  We still needed to eat dinner so Tim went to Chile Pepper and got us 10 bean and cheese burritos.  Yuuuum. 

Ryan was so cute, he kept coming up to me with his mouth open because he wanted a bite.  He is so our baby loving those bean and cheese burritos, just like mommy and daddy.

So excited to be out of the car and be able to crawl all over Grandma's big house!

Snuggling on mommy's leg.

Milk!  Yum.

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Today at work wasn't too bad.  We had to be there at 9.  Ryan woke up at 8:30 today!  He must have known that Momma had to go back to work.  He usually sleeps in til about 9:30 or so.  It made me happy to hear his little voice on the baby monitor while I was in my closet getting dressed.  I scooped him out of his crib & brought him into my room where he played with his car until I was done getting ready.  & I was able to feed him some oatmeal with cut strawberries.  The main thing I'll miss about going back to work.  He cried a little when I walked out the front door.  He misses me too :)

We had a lunch break from 12-1pm.  So I came home to visit the boys.  They were listening to the Black Eyed Peas and Tim was teaching Ryan how to dance!  It was so cute.  Ryan was swinging his arms around and bouncing his body up and down.  Then he started moving his head.  Haha.  Tim & I couldn't stop laughing.  I played cars for a little bit with Ryan and he giggled like crazy when I ran my car into his.  I fed him his milk and laid him down for a nap before I left.

At work- we had a few meetings, but I was able to set up my classroom a bit.  Which I needed because I haven't been into my classroom at all this Summer.  I had to go to the teacher store and pick up a few things for my classroom.

Every night after his bath- I take Ryan for a walk.  I say "Ryan, do you want to go for a walk?"  He looks at me, sees his stroller, and crawls like crazy over to it and gets up on it until I stick him in it.  He loves going for walks just as much as I do!