Ryan's First Crush

I think Ryan has a crush on one of the girls in his gymnastics class. He loves watching her do things and we always seem to end up doing the same things she is doing during free time. What really clinched it for me was when he tried running across the room at circle time. When I caught him and pulled him back he said, "Want girl!"

You Decide

Before you think I am mean, Jay wanted me to post this.

Last night Jay was going to run to the store for milk and bread. This is what he had on. He couldn't understand why I was laughing so hard. He kept trying to explain that he used to always wear wool hiking socks and Tivas and how cool that was. Somehow I just don't think his black dress socks with shorts and Burks(or any shorts, socks and sandals combination for that matter) looks cool. You decide.

Sandal Boy

"What? Black and brown go together."

Video

Feeling inspired today I picked up the video camera (that I charged last week since it was dead last time I tried to use it). I wanted to try to capture some precious moments of Ryan's toddlerhood. Now I remember why the camera has been in the closet for months. He kept coming up to the camera to look at himself and friend Ben(?) in the picture. So I turned the viewer around in a feeble attempt to get him to stay in front of the camera. I haven't checked out the footage yet, but I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of close ups of Ryan's nose and finger. I did manage to pry him away from the camera for a few minutes. He even did a forward roll and some log rolls for me. I have to upload the footage and see if there is anything worth sharing.

Imagination at Work

I am constantly amazed at the sophistication of Ryan's play. He is into imaginary play. He will get his cars or trains and have them talk to each other. It's not uncommon to hear him tell his trains to "Be fareful"(translated- be careful) or have one tell the other, "I coming." He also give his smaller toys rides on his bigger toys(especially his ride on train). It's so cute to watch him interact with his toys. I hope some day he is able to interact with his peers as well as he interacts with his toys! Sometimes he is great with friends, but we still need to work on sharing toys. I guess it's easier to play with the toys because they do what he wants them to do.

Cool

Jay had the day off yesterday for Veterans Day, so yesterday kind of felt like Saturday. We had a nice relaxing day. We did some shopping in the morning. We actually went shopping to get Ryan a winter coat. Sears was having a great sale and we got him a whole snow suit 1/2 off. We happened to pass the baby section and I was commenting on all the cute girl clothes, so Jay said, "Why not get started buying the baby clothes now?" So I did:-) It was so fun!!! All the sweet little rosebuds and frillies were so cute. I could see this becoming a problem. We are going to need lots of tights because I just love the little dresses. I got to take a nap and a nice unhurried shower. Jay and the kids played outside in the leaves. It was so nice to not have the day packed with plans. All that relaxing was great. The best part is this morning I didn't have to get up and rush off to church. We get to have one more relaxing day this weekend. Well, mostly. The boys and I have to vacate for about 3 hours this afternoon so Jay and his small group can watch the new Star Wars movie together. Tomorrow we really have to kick it into gear. We have church at 9 then a birthday party at 11:30(that is about 40 minutes away) and Jay has a leaders meeting in the evening. Somewhere in there we have to make sure Ryan gets a nap and the kids get fed 3 good meals.