Today, not so fun

Okay, if I was talking to you I'd say "Don't even get me started about today!" and then I would relate the following story. This morning Ryan woke up at 5 am and it took a little while and a drink for him to go back to sleep. Then I lay in my bed tossing and turning trying to get back to sleep. I finally do and the the 6am waking. By this time I am totally exhausted since Ryan woke up when I went to bed last night at 11 too. So when he wouldn't go back to sleep I just left him in his room. Jay went to get him and he just kept crying. SO after a few minutes I went in again and calmed him down and got him to go to sleep. When we got up for the day things didn't seem to get better. Zach let the dog in with muddy paws. Ryan was yawning and fussy(wonder why?!) and I burned my waffles. Of course when I made the waffles I forgot that I used the last of the syrup YESTERDAY! So, I had to eat dry, burned waffles for breakfast. Yuck! Then Ryan would not go down for his morning nap(I tried for a really long time). I even tried napping with him. No dice. Yet Ryan can still make me smile, even laugh, in the midst of all this blahness. It's amazing; He's amazing. I love him, he's so fun:-)

Maizequest

Last night was fun. We went to Ring Factory night at Brad's Produce. They have this really great corn maze. The theme of the maze this year is dinosaurs. Inside the maze they have these clues and rubbing stations(where you rub a crayon over a raised picture) that you find to fill out this card they give you. It was lots of fun. Unfortunately when we got to the end of the maze we were still missing one of the rubbings. Since Zach liked doing them so much we let him decide if we should go back and find the missing Triceratops or just finish the maze. He wanted to go back. Boy did that turn out to be a disaster. We never found the rubbing station and we got totally turned around and lost in the maze. It got very quiet and we realized we were the last people there. Oops! We finally made it out(through the entrance). The guy that worked there was very nice about us being in there so long. He told us if we come back during the day the Triceratops would be easier to find. Since we had decided to do Maizequest(BTW-very clever name since Maize=corn in Native American)first we didn't get to do anything else. Needless to say we'll be going back to get a pumpkin at least and we'll probably end up doing the maze and hay ride too. If anyone wants to join us let me know; It's really cool. I didn't think a corn maze could be that hard!
Maizequest by flashlight

The Blog Abyss

I wrote a blog yesterday, but it disappeared. Sometimes they pop up later, so if you re-write it and post that you look pretty sill for posting about the same thing twice, so waited to see if it would come up. It hasn't yet. I guess it will join my other lost blogs in the blog abyss:-( I might try to re-write it later today, but right now I have to go play with some boys:-)

Addendum-It came up when I posted this one. A little bit annoying, but at least I don't have to re-write it.

Early Riser

Today Ryan got me up at 5:30 to make up for letting me sleep in until 9 the other day. Then he lulled me into a false sense of security by being quiet for about 45 minutes before crying again. After trying to get Ryan to understand that this is way to early for any sensible human being to be awake for about 20 minutes I thought he got the message. But as soon as I left the room he informed me that he is not a sensible human being because he wants to be awake. I stubbornly returned to my nice warm bed next to my semi-conscious husband who offered to go get Ryan for me. Ryan then joined us in bed. He was still for about 2 minutes and then decided it was playtime. Daddy had just gotten up to get ready for work and he thought this was a good time for everyone to get up. Needless to say I'm feeling a bit GRRRRRRRRumpy about the whole thing.

Getting a Little Laundry Done

I was folding laundry today and Ryan decided he wanted to help. So, he climbed in the basket. That was fun for a while, but then he thought he needed to help a little more. He started throwing the socks and such that were still in the basket out on the floor. It was too cute, so I had to take some pictures.

Little Laundry Helper

Here's another sock, mom. 

It's fun to throw laundry on the floor!