Being Silly

Ryker just cracks us up! Today he was on the landing of the stairs looking at his Barney Says book. The book has a Barney hand puppet that fits into a cutout on the cover of the book. Ryker was just looking at it, then he called J and I and when we looked over at him he had his face in the cut out. We cracked up. He is so funny! I can't believe he thought to to do that.

Our little superhero

Ryker is growing up so fast! He is starting to sing the songs in his videos and he is talking so much. He really likes Backyardigans and Wonder Pets. Wonder Pets is his favorite right now and it is so cute to hear him say, "wonder pet". Speaking of Wonder Pets, he wanted to have a cape on one day, so I attached his little blanket around him. He wore it for about 5 minutes, then he was done, but he was our little superhero for those few minutes.

Tonight he decided he was going to push his highchair around the kitchen. He has never done this before, but I pushed him in it from the dining room to the kitchen tonight, so I guess he got the idea from me pushing him. He got it out of the kitchen and in the dining room, but he ran out of room. J and I were laughing because his highchair is so big compared to him, but he was determined to push that thing around. We also had some fun with stickers. Ryker and I went shopping tonight and we found some Thomas the Train stickers, so we had to buy them. When we got home J stuck one on his hand and he did not like that so we started sticking them on a piece of cardboard. He thought that was fun, but after J and I walked away he started pulling the stickers off the cardboard and sticking them to his leg. It was hilarious! I picked him up to try to get a picture of him standing, but he wouldn't put his feet down. I guess the stickers were pulling his skin or something. Anyways he eventually stood up and I was able to get a couple good pictures.

He is still calling J Da, but he has begun to say Daddy recently, and it's really cute. He calls me Mommy, but he has also been calling me Mom. I like both, but with him calling me Mom it really hits me that he is growing up and he's not a baby anymore, he's actually a little boy. He also says, "sorry" and "I like it". It is amazing to watch him grow and change everyday. We love our little superhero so much!

4th of July Weekend

We had a really busy weekend this past weekend. Friday was the 4th of July so we went to Peachtree City to celebrate with Uncle Jaybo, Aunt Amy, Baby Kellen, Mamina and Pa. Kellen and Ryker had a great time playing, as they always do. There was another family at Jeremy and Amy's who had a little boy a month younger than Ryker. Ryker towered over him, but he had fun playing with him as well. His name was Noah, but Ryker kept calling him Baby Kellen. He thinks everyone who is smaller than him is "baby Kellen". We took the golf carts over to Jeremy's Golf course to watch the fireworks. It was lots of fun riding on the golf cart. Ryker wasn't too happy about the golf cart when we first got on, but he warmed up after a few minutes. After the fireworks Ryker fell asleep in my lap on the golf cart as we were riding back to Jeremy and Amy's. We all had a great day, but we were all exhausted once we got home that night.

Saturday we had plans to go see Ethan's new bedroom (he got bunkbeds) and to check out Baby Brennan's room. Both rooms are very cute. Ethan's room is definately a little boys room, with the outdoors theme and all. Brennan's room is really cute and pink! Definately a baby girls room. We had a lot of fun playing and Ryker slept well in Brennan's crib!

Sunday we went to Ted's 4th Birthday party. (Ted is one of my good friends son). It was a lot of fun. Ted has a lot of girl cousins, so there were a lot of girls at his party. Most of the girls were older (6-10), but they loved Ryker. At one point they had Ryker upstairs in the playroom and they were spinning him on the Sit-n-Spin. Needless to say he loved the attention and had a great time.

Although our weekend was busy, we all had a great time!

Amazing Stuff

Ryker never stops amazing J and I. Yesterday he was playing in the vent (ours are on the floor), he loves to feel the air blowing on his face. We had a balloon from Vince's Birthday party and Ryker took the balloon and put it over the vent and of course the air blew the balloon into the air. He thought that was the coolest thing, so he kept putting the balloon in the air and hitting the balloon to keep it up in the air. I was amazed that he knew to do this. Then last night we were reading a bedtime story - What's Up Duck? - is the name of the book. It is a book about opposites. It has one word on each page, example: front, back; happy, sad. We read it often so Ryker is familiar with it, but for some reason the first time we read it last night he was so into it. He wanted us to read it a second time, so we did. This time he would tell us some of the opposites. I said happy and then he said sad. One of his favorites is slow and fast, he loves to say fast! He did such a good job, we read it again. This time he was almost able to tell us what all the pages said! We were in awe! I am so amazed that his memory is so good. I can't wait to see what he is going to do next. Prior to our bedtime story he was downstairs drinking his milk and he was going back and forth from Elmo to Cookie Monster, feeding them his milk. At one point his milk leaked on Cookie Monster and he said, "Yuck" and was wiping it off of Cookie's fur. It was hilarious.
The other thing he says a lot now is Thank You. J and I have been working with him on his manners, mainly please and thank you. He doesn't say please until we tell him too, but he has been saying Thank you on a regular basis. It is so cute because I'll give him some juice or a snack and he'll look at me and say Thank You Mommy. I just melts my heart.
He is also started to ask us and his stuff questions. Today he came down stairs and said, "Whoa, what's that? Airplane, cool", all in one sentence. I couldn't believe it! He is actually answering his own questions. He repeats a lot of words now and it just amazes me that he can say somethings, like: butterfly, rainbow, penguin. He is just so smart!