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):