Weekend recap

Does anyone love weekends more than a mommy who works full time?  If so, it'd be  pretty hard to beat!  When I got home from work on Friday, Ryan & I sat on the couch and ate some yogurt.  Well- he did, I didn't.  When he was done, he wouldn't let me get rid of the cup or spoon so I rinsed it out for him so he could carry it all over the house.  The spoon kept falling out and he kept picking it back up and putting it into his cup.  Eventually, the spoon fell out, Ryan grunted, and then he threw his yogurt cup.  He was getting so frustrated.  He picked them back up, spoon fell out again, Ryan grunted, and he threw the yogurt cup again.  I decided to help him out and give him the light weight take n toss spoons instead, which stayed in his cup :)

Then we decided to play water table!  The water table collects mosquitos if you don't rinse it out or gets dirty.  We had to clean it out before we filled it back up.  Ryan could play with that water table forever.  He loves it.  & I could sit in the little red chair in the backyard and watch him play with it forever too.

We had some butter noodles for dinner with some vegetables.  Ryan likes to eat from spoons and forks.

First you gotta dip your fork in your food like this...

& then you stick it in your mouth.

Too much work, I think I'll just use my hands!

After dinner we all went to the park.  Ryan still gets those belly laughs going down the slide =)  We let him walk around allll over the place.  Walking in the grass is a little tricky.  There is a baseball diamond at the park too and Ryan spent most of the time walking around the dirt.  Who knew walking around could be so much fun?!

We spent a lot of Saturday working with Daddy.  We got home around 3:30 and took late naps.  I love naps.  But I love them even more being pregnant.  I wake up SO refreshed.  Ryan & I didn't wake up until 5:45!  I thought for sure he wouldn't go to bed that night.  I kept him up til 8:30 instead of 8 because Ryan and Daddy were playing so nicely.  At 8:30 he went to bed without a fuss!

On Sunday- Ryan woke up before 8am for the first time in a long, long time.  7:51am to be exact. 

Grump.  Actually he wasn't.  I just don't think he likes the camera in his face all day every day :)

Trying to figure out why his car won't fit down the basketball net!

We went to church on Sunday.  When we picked Ryan up from the church nursery he was playing with a play kitchen!  I have been thinking a lot about getting/making him one for Christmas so it made me happy when he was playing with it.  He saw Tim & I walk into the nursery- he smiled at us, and kept right on playing!  Haha, usually he would have walked over to us but I guess he liked the kitchen more!

We laid down for naps when we got home.  Ryan threw a toy over his crib and Tim heard, and then Ryan started whining a little.  So what did Tim do, he said "Aw, I want to give him back his toy." So he walked in and gave him back his toy!  & Ryan started crying when he left.  Tim is SUCH a sucker for Ryan!  Ryan whined for about 10 minutes and Tim got him out of his crib again.  No wonder Ryan doesn't always nap for Daddy- Ryan has him wrapped around his little finger.

Check out the yogurt face and animal cracker shirt!  Messy boy.  Love him <3  & now for another week filled with an even better weekend to come spent with my two favorite people.

15 months!

Once again, I'm up early, writing in this blog while my family still sleeps.  Number 2 could possibly even still be sleeping because he hasn't kicked me yet this morning.  He is starting to get quite active.  One of the best mommy moments is feeling your baby inside of you.  Well- until the end when you're just trying to push their body parts back to normal so your belly isn't one big lopsided mess.

15 months ago Tim & I were checking into the hospital.  We had already missed Elyse who was at home with my mom.  But we were also so excited to add Ryan into our world.  & What an amazing world it's been having him here with us.  As we prepare for a new baby, we're often thinking "How could it possibly get any better than this??"  How can a new baby be as cute as Ryan?  How could we love a new baby as much as we love Ryan?  Everyone says we will, but as of now, it just doesn't seem possible.  Ryan is the best thing in the world- he IS our world.  Our world revolves around him, playing with him, making him happy.  We wake up when he wakes up, naps at 1, lunch after naps, dinner at 5:30, bath at 6:15, walks, milk, bedtime at 8:00.  Our little family is so managable on this little schedule for Ryan.  I'm often wondering what life will be like with two little boys.  I hope and pray that Ryan loves his little brother.  I am nervous to add one more into the mix, I am also so, so excited.

I actually remember what I was doing a year ago today,  I remember what Ryan wore the day he turned 3 months old.  I remember him falling asleep in his stroller as we were going for a walk.  It was also the first time I left him at home with Tim while I went to a card party for one of my friends. 

I think Ryan was extra hungry at dinner time.  He saw me pulling stuff out of the fridge and freezer and wouldn't stop following me around.  He kept walking into the kitchen and stopping at the stove.  We had breakfast for dinner.  I always thought it was a little weird when my dad would cook me breakfast for dinner, but I also loved it.  We had eggs, hashbrowns, and toast with jelly.

So serious for pictures.

& A few more pictures from my shoot with Ryan last weekend!

Happy 15 months to the best thing that has ever happened to my family :) 

A week without blogger

I actually miss writing in this thing every single day.  I've even skipped a few days without taking a picture of Ryan!  I think I need more pictures of Ryan.  I don't like only taking 2 or 3 pictures of him a day.  He's my baby, and I want to remember these days forever.  Nothing too exciting going on here. I had to sweep and mop the floor the other day so I turned on some cartoons and put animal crackers in a little bowl for Ryan, and he actually sat on the floor and ate them!  I was so impressed.

I've never just let him sit on the floor and eat, he's always in his high chair.  But he sat and ate and didn't even try getting up until all his crackers were done.  Speaking of crackers, I call them "cookies" just because cookies sounds more, I don't know the word, exciting?, than a cracker, half the time I call Ryan he completely ignores me but if I ask "Ryan, do you want a cookie?"  He will turn around and smile and walk over to me with his arm reached out.  Now I know that he has selective hearing when I tell him he can't play with the Bluray player and the sound system.  What a little booger.  He is getting better at listening when I call his name, which in this house is a lot of different things.  I'm not quite sure how Tim comes up with all these ridiculous names for Ryan, but they always stick.  It's usually "Wubby" or "wubdub" now.  It's pretty sad that my baby turns his head when he hears "Wubby."

Ryan now takes the frog's back off of his Boon Pod Frog toy holder thingy or whatever it's called.  After manuevering it for a good 3-4 minutes, he figured it out and can now take it off like a pro.  He was probably wondering why I was always jipping him and only putting out a few toys during bathtime.

Bathtime.  Does anyone else think it's gross that kids don't get baths everyday?  I started giving Ryan a bath everyday the day after he turned a month old.  That's when I started his whole bedtime routine which works oh so perfectly now, so if your baby is NOT in a specific bedtime routine- start one!  Do I think it's necessary for a 1 month old to bathe everyday?  Eh, probably not.  I mostly did it for the routine for Ryan.  He's older now, he plays, he goes outside everytime we open the back or front door, he gets food all over himself, he gets into everything.  My kid needs to take a bath everyday!  I find it pretty disgusting when big kids don't bathe everyday- they run!  They sweat!  They smell!  Their feet turn black!  Yuck!  Make your kid take a bath.  We also brush Ryan's teeth every night, I am big on clean teeth and clean bodies. 

This picture is funny, Tim had a shoot last weekend and Ryan wanted to join so he hopped onto the backdrop and did a little pose.  Cheeeeese.

The weather here has been SO nice- on Sunday I took Ryan for a walk at 3 in the afternoon!  I haven't been able to do that in months.  Good thing I did because it rained for hours that night.  It always feels like something is missing when we don't go for walks at night.  We love walks :)

I've been looking at lots of mommy/baby pictures on Pinterest lately, wondering why I don't have any "good" pictures of me and my little man.  I woke up on Saturday and asked Tim to take pictures of Ryan and I.  I want maternity pictures this time around too.  Maternity pictures never crossed my mind when I was pregnant with Ryan until Loni took them with baby P, by that time I was too fat and gross to want any pictures. 

I love them :)  They make me smile.

& Lastly- speaking of my good friend Loni, she is hosting a giveaway on her blog for Butt Paste!  Check out her giveaway here!  & if you don't follow her blog already- you should.

I woke up early this morning so I could FINALLY write in this thing, and now my time is up and I have to go to work.

Day 365

Check out Ryan's hair!  It's already so long again, especially on the sides.  He needs a haircut again and it's only been 5 weeks.  His hair grows so fast.

Labor Day weekend is now over and it's back to work tomorrow.  Tim & I had plans to go to Yuma for the weekend to go to the lake with my parents.  It didn't work out the way we wanted so we were a little bummed about that.   We did get to spend 3 days together though, which is always nice.  We also had 3 days where we slept til 10am.

Two nights ago, Tim & I went through my blog and we're reading different entries and looking at pictures.  It's so nice to have the memories written down.  We remembered some things we had forgotten about and laughed at others.  I think back to the first day I started writing in here.  I still remember the day, and I can remember the picture of Ryan I posted.  Ryan & I were laying in bed playing, he was wearing his wrist rattles, and he fell asleep in the middle of playing.  He was so little.  A year later, he's still my baby.

I did okay writing in this blog for a year straight.  Sure, I cheated 98% of the time and had to back date some entries, so what?  I still took a picture (almost) everyday.  This year(+2.5 months) has been nothing short of amazing, being a mom, and becoming parents with Tim.  I have loved watching Tim be a daddy to Ryan.  He does just as much for Ryan as I do, which I am SO thankful for.  He takes just as good care of him as I do too, which I would never admit to him ;)  Sure- sometimes he puts him down a little later for a nap or feeds him different things than I would, but dads aren't moms and moms aren't dads.  I am so blessed.

I'll still write in here, just not everyday. 

Day 364

Tonight I was folding and putting away Ryan's laundry and he made a huge mess.  He pulled his froggy potty out from under the bed and started rolling it around.

22 weeks pregnant today!

Day 363

The most handsome little man I've ever seen. 

Day 362

After a long week at work- I was so excited to leave at 4:00!  Labor Day weekend- means 3 whole days with my two favorite people in the world.  Tim & Ryan <3

Not happy that I stuck him in the bumbo.  He HATED it!

Stop taking pictures!  Let me drink my milk in peace!