Two Pacis

Ryker is still addicted to his pacifier (paci). We have several around the house. Yesterday he came to me and said, "Mommy two pacis!" He was so excited. The next thing I notice he has both pacis in his mouth at one time, grinning from ear to ear. He cracks me up!

He has also learned a new song recently, Shake Your Booty. J and I were laying in the bed with him singing night night songs (our normal bedtime routine) and I just started singing Shake Your Booty. He thought it was hilarious, so he started singing too. He just keeps on amazing J and I every day!

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!

The Lake, Birthday Party, Cooking..

We have been so busy lately doing a lot of fun things and watching Ryker grow up. He is talking so much more now, he can make sentences and he is able to tell us what he wants and doesn't want, which is great! He has been fascinated with the oven, not such a good thing, but he loves the oven mitts. Every time we take something out of the oven he wants to put the oven mitts on and "get" Jason and I. It's really funny. Speaking of "getting" people, he loves to scare people and be scared. He likes for you to chase him and he likes to hid behind the sofa or under the table and yell "Boo". He has really begun to play a lot more and he is more apt to play with you or other kids than he has been in the past. This morning we were watching TV and he came up to me and said, "Mommy play?, Mommy play?". It was so cute, so of course we played, and he wanted to play Thomas on his train table, which is probably his favorite toy right now.

This weekend we went to Lake Blackshear with Stephen, Stephanie and Ethan. We had a great time. The boys played well together both indoors and outdoors. They really get along well and they love each other, which makes trips together a lot easier. J got Ryker to get on a jet ski with him. Ryker wasn't too sure about it, but J took him for a quick spin, until Ryker was "done". Ryker and Ethan played in the baby pool outside, and ran around the yard. Ryker did not want to get in the lake at all, which kind of surprised J and I because he usually loves the water. I guess it was just too big and unknown to him. I hope he does not react this way to the ocean when we go to Florida in September. Inside the house there was a little tent that Ryker called a tunnel. He loved the tunnel, but he wanted Ethan in there with him all the time. If Ryker wanted to play in the tent he would start saying, "E tunnel, E tunnel", then Ethan would run in there and they would have a great time rolling around and "getting" each other.

Yesterday we went to Vince's 2nd Birthday party. Ryker and Vince are great buddies and they are only 3 months apart, which works out well because they play really well together. Ryker was funny, he was more interested in Vince's new playroom than he was with the Birthday party. After most of the other people were gone, we stayed for a little while and Vince and Ryker and Ethan all played together. They were too cute. They chased each other around the house and shared snacks (Ryker calls snacks Yum Yums). We had a great weekend packed full of lots to do, but Ryker was excellent the whole time. Just a few little times of whining, but besides that he was a angel.

Next weekend we are going to Peachtree City to visit baby Kellen and Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Amy for the 4th of July. We're looking forward to a fun day of golf cart riding and fireworks. We are also heading to another Birthday party next Sunday, so we will have another busy weekend. Stay tuned for new posts next week.

I Love You.......

Today was a day for firsts. Ryker started saying "I Love You" today. We were in the grocery store this evening and he was in the front driving the little race car (we get one of those carts with the race car on the front). He was peeking back through the cart and looking at me and talking, he looked so cute so I said, "I Love You Ryker T" and he said, " I Love YOU". My heart just melted! He says it just as plain as day like he has been saying that forever, but he accentuates the YOU. I kept saying it to him and kept saying it back. When we got home I tried to get him to say it to J, but he didn't. Then when J was feeding him dinner J said, "I Love You" and Ryker said it back to him. It just makes me smile to know that he knows he is loved and to know that he has heard I Love You enough in his short life to be able to say it back. He is a precious precious child and J and I love him with all our hearts.

In addition to saying I Love You, he also experienced his first adventure in one of those moon walk jumpy things. Our neighbors granddaughter, Lana, had her 3rd birthday party today and she invited Ryker. They rented a princess castle jumpy thing. When we first arrived Ryker was not into it at all. He didn't even want to get near it. After about 20 minutes he wanted to get in, so we stuck him in there. He crawled around and called for me and J, then he kind of warmed up and was having a good time. He wasn't really able to stand up on his own in there, but he had a good time crawling around. Then our neighbors other grandchild, Kristofer, who is 6 got in the castle and he was playing with Ryker. He would stand Ryker up, then they would fall down. Ryker thought it was hilarious, so he kept laying there laughing. He had a really good time. In addition to playing in the jumpy thing they also played on the wooden playground my neighbors had in the backyard. Ryker swang and went down the slide. There was a little girl there who was 14 months and Ryker was mesmirized by her because he is so into "bebes". He followed her around a lot and wanted her to be with him everywhere he went. It was so cute. We all had a really good time!