Don't let your guard down!

You'd think I would know this by now...not to let my guard down. Have eyes in the back of my head and if it's quiet know that "something" is up. Well, I did..WE did..let Ryan have free reign upstairs for a little too long. Dean and I were putting up room darkening shades in Ryan's room last week and it was taking wayyy too long. That means I was getting frustrated with something that should have been pretty easy. Of course we didn't have the right curtain rod so Dean was trying to, for lack of better words, put his maintenance touch on it (basically jerry rig it until we could buy a correct rod). By the time I realized we hadn't heard from Ryan for several minutes, it was too late. While I was walking into our bedroom asking Ryan what he was doing, I saw what he was doing but he answered anyway.

"I color Mama" was his answer

That sweet & innocent 10 day old baby in the picture on my nightstand had found a black sharpie and "colored" throughout our bedroom in less than 3 minutes! At first I was taken aback especially at the coloring of the door but I held my cool. It wasn't his fault I left the sharpie within reach. Dean came in and we both looked around at what Ryan was able to color. Besides the closet door (which is actually going to be replaced anyway since it doesn't close correctly) and the tablecloth on both our nightstands, everything else I was able to get clean. He marked on the TV screen, the baby monitor screen, our computer screen & the window. All of those came clean with a baby wipe. So, we were reminded once again that while we should let Ryan have his independence, it's best to let him have it in a room where there's no sharpies!

Growing

I can't believe in 3 weeks (okay 23 days to be exact) my baby will be 3 years old! Where has the time gone? I hate that as we get older, time goes by so fast. At least it does for me. We recently obtained (gotta love free & in near perfect condition!) a new kitchen table which fits our space better (it's small & round rather than oval) but it really didn't dawn on me that Ryan really didn't need a booster seat anymore..until last night when Ryan was getting down from his seat. The booster seat is almost too wide for the kitchen chair so it's akward for him to get in and out of and usually Dean or I will end up grabbing Ryan's arm just so he doesn't falling. Dean and I both agreed it was time to let go of the booster since he didn't need it anyway. The table is slightly lower than our other one and plus Ryan is 38 1/2" tall. He's probably taller than that now or getting there. We think he's on a growth spurt because he's eating a ton this week and he's been sleeping longer in the morning. Of course, I'm sure I just jinxed myself by writing that!

 

Father's Day 2010

Besides being hot & humid outside, this Father’s day was very nice & uneventful inside (well other than my flopped angel food cake-more on that later). We are even more thankful this year because of what happened a few weeks ago to my dad and the fact that everything turned out OK. I let Dean sleep in and later in the morning Ryan and I ran an errand for a while to let Dean have a little peace and quiet. We vegged out and I made an angel food cake to take to my parent’s house. I had bought an angel food cake pan and according to the directions on the one step angel food cake mix, after taking it out of the oven I was to “immediately invert the pan onto a glass jar”. Despite this being quite odd to me, I did what the directions told me to do…because I follow directions! Well, as soon as I flipped the pan over the whole cake fell out of it into pieces onto the counter. So much for following those directions! Luckily it was early enough in the day where I could run out and get another cake mix and make it again..this time not following the directions on the box and just letting it cool on a wired cooling rack. I added crushed pineapple to the mix and it turned out to be delicious!


My brother has a golden retriever puppy named Baxter and Ryan adores him. Every time we say we are going to see my brother, Ryan asks for Baxter. Since my brother was obviously going to be at my parent’s house, we assumed Baxter would be too. So, as soon as my brother arrived, Ryan started looking for Baxter but he wasn’t there. My brother had been on a short overnight trip and had taken Baxter so he had left him at home to snooze and get cooled off. We told Ryan we were sorry but Baxter was at home sleeping and Ryan just got really quiet. He was staring at my brother with the most pitiful look and then started tearing up. He came over to me and snuggled with me and we all assured him we would see Baxter soon and he got up and started playing around again. As you can see in these pictures he was pretty happy all day.

wearing his "Dad's my Super Hero" shirt

Daddy & Ryan with the same expression!

By the time we got home and got Ryan changed into his PJ’s, books read, he went to the potty one last time and light turned out it was almost 9:00. He’s been doing the “I need to potty” thing all week, after we put him to bed. Of course, I can’t deny him going to the potty…after all, that’s what the ultimate goal is. So, even though we let him potty before putting him to bed, we can always be assured he will need to go again once he’s in bed and suppose to be trying to go to sleep. So I can safely say it was well after 9 before he finally went to sleep and guess who didn’t want to get up this morning? Of course, the morning we NEED to get up early to get out of the house on time, Ryan doesn’t want to. OH, and that room darkening shade we bought a couple weeks ago works on keeping the light out but doesn’t work on keeping Ryan’s internal clock asleep. He still wakes up between 5:30-5:45..except this morning!

That's my boy!

My favorite group is Sugarland and Ryan knows it! A few weeks ago I figured out the dvd player in the car played cd's too (yeah, I'm a dork and didn't realize it before..duh) so every time we get in the car to go somewhere Ryan wants to "sing songs". I reached into our middle console to get a cd one day and it was Sugarland and I said (mostly to myself) "oops, that's Sugarland not Ryan's cd" (of kiddie songs). But Ryan surprised me and said "sugar" and reached for the cd. So, I put it in and almost every time he wants to sing songs, he asks for "sugar". This morning he was in such a good mood and couldn't wait to listen to Sugarland!

Check out the video..I was too late in catching him singing while Daddy put his (Ryan's) shoes on but at the end he does start singing although I can't make out any of the words..LOL

New video

I was able to get a video of Ryan playing a few hours after his surgery and you can hear how well he's talking now...seems that every time I break out the camera he thinks it's his! I really need to get him a cheap one at a yard sale or something..our old one we had given him broke when he dropped it face first on the kitchen floor..oops.

Ryan's adenoids are out!

Today was surgery day for Ryan. I really didn't sleep very well last night but that was to be expected. Even though Ryan's ENT doctor performs these surgeries multiple times twice a week, just the thought of surgery was giving me a knot in my stomach. Both Dean and I knew it was the right thing to do for our little man. Every time he gets a snotty nose & cough, we're like ..not again! We were saying that Monday morning when Ryan woke up with a runny nose and progressively got worse throughout the week. I was afraid they wouldn't be able to do the surgery but last evening & this morning his nose wasn't as congested or runny.

I'm glad surgery was first thing in the morning because telling him "no, you can't have any juice right now" was very hard this morning. Luckily, we only had to repeat that a couple times before we had to get out the door. When we were in the waiting room of the surgery center, we told him he would be going to see the doctor for his nose. Then he told us "doctor check ears" because he remembered the doctor checking his ears last time Ryan was there. We went back and Ryan got weighed and his height measured. He's 32 lbs. & 38 1/2" tall. All the nurses were so sweet and Ryan actually wanted to keep the blood pressure cuff & oxygen monitor on! We changed him into his gown (he got to keep his Thomas shirt on underneath) and then met with each person who would be involved with the surgery (anesthesiologist, of course Ryan's ENT doc, & the nurses). Ryan was enjoying the big chair he got to sit in:

The doctor came back and we gave Ryan a kiss and then the doctor took him and we went back to the waiting room. About 20 minutes later the doctor came to the waiting room and told us Ryan did wonderful. He never even cried & took a couple breathes into the mask and was asleep. He also said the adenoids were very enlarged, red & had a ton of puss (ugh!). So having these out should help tremendously...let's hope so!

We got to go back in recovery and he was just waking up and once he saw Dean and I, he started crying (which is natural after waking up from anethesia). I held him for a while and tried to get him to drink some juice. After about 30 minutes he finally drank 1/2 the juice & an icee pop. They gave him some Tylenol w/ codeine, we waited a little more and then we got to leave. When we got home he immediately started playing with his cars & trucks. After a while, he wanted a waffle & a pancake so he ate both & a little bit of banana. I was exhausted but he wasn't. He went down for his nap at his normal afternoon time and then was back at playing afterwards. Kids...their so resilient!

It's June!

I can't believe it's June already! Half the year is about over and my little baby will be turning 3 in 6 weeks! It's been a while since I last posted but I didn't plan it that way. We've been so busy lately and since Ryan likes to wake up at the crack of dawn (5:30-6am), I've been trying to limit my computer time at night and get to bed somewhat early. I really am sort of a night owl (nothing like my sis though, right sis?) but I could easily stay up until midnight some nights. Despite our efforts of getting Ryan to sleep past 6, he hasn't and will not go back to bed once he's up. We've tried putting him to bed later, going to bed earlier & limiting his naptime. We've settled on getting him to bed earlier--lights out by 7 if he's had a very short nap or no nap at all and 7:30-7:45 otherwise (it had been 8-8:15). It makes for a quick paced evening some nights trying to get dinner & a bath but if it makes him less cranky in the morning then I'm all for it.

Last weekend we had a yard sale so that whole week we were busy getting everything together and bringing home totes & boxes from our storage unit (that we've had since we tried to sell our townhouse 18 months ago!). We had a great sale and it wasn't too hot. My sister & BIL came into town for the week and we ended up spending Memorial Day with them at the mall and went to visit my parents for a while afterwards. The day after, my dad had a planned surgery but things got a little complicated (not planned) so for a few days it was very stressful for our family. With lots of prayers, he is now on the mend and will hopefully be home within a couple days.

So with all that going on, we had a well deserved couple hours at the pool today. I've said it before and I'll say it again...Ryan LOVES the water!! It's just so fun to watch him. He has such a good time, whether it's in the bath, in our small 8ft. round pool out back or in the big community pool. I am thinking I need to invest in a water camera so I can take more pictures without worrying about getting our camera wet. At any rate, I got a couple pics and a short video:

He went down this slide probably 50 times (not kidding!)

sliding down

and here's the video (click on "view original post" if your reading this on FB):