Working Out

To keep in shape Ryan and Dad work out together. Here they are doing some push ups. Today we went to the mall. We went to see the dogs at the pet store at one end of the mall then Ryan had to sprint to the other end of the mall to see the fish at the aquarium store. Dad and I were right behind him. Our own personal trainer. A couple other funny things Ryan has been doing..just to share with you. We like to play games in the yard, such as hide and seek, tag, racing, ring around the rosie and make believe. When Ryan plays hide and seek, sometimes he cheats. He will count "1,2 ready or not here I come"or "10 ready or not here I come". The other day Ryan was pretending that he was having a birthday party for the rocks. The rocks had pretend party hats, cupcakes with blue frosting and balloons. What an imagination..Then yesterday, we had a fly in the house and he wanted to read a book to it but he couldn't get the fly to stay still.
He really makes me laugh

Playing with birthday toys

Since Ryan's birthday we have been playing, playing and more playing with the toys he got. And playing with non birthday toys as well, like holes Scrappy has dug.

Ryan playing in his water table. He just loves water!
Reading some new books and doing some puzzles.

Water painting.

Ryan on his new tricycle wearing his new Scrappy tee shirt and his new helmet.

Here is Ryan playing in a very muddy, messy dirt hole Scrappy has dug.

He was covered in dirt when he came out.

And of course, watching a Mickey Mouse and Bob the builder DVD's he got for his birthday too.

2

Here are Ryan's TWO year pictures. He had to have as many props as he could. He couldn't just sit there with nothing in his hand or playing with something, except for one picture. There were teddy bears, plush dogs and balls all over the room. The lady had a little yellow ball which looked like one of Scrappy's balls, so Ryan called it "Scrappy ball".But he was very good and smile in almost all of them. Mickey, Ryan and Scrappy ball.
Balls and Ryan

He says "hippity hop"

The only one he stood for a second without any props.

GQ

Two Years Old

Ryan did well at his two year appointment at the doctors. He did try to leave out the door a few times and the doctor had to stand in front of it so he would not. He also would not let the nurse nor I get his height. Finally, I laid him down to change his diaper with no one in the room and marked his head then his feet on the paper with a pen. Here Come The Terrible Two's!

He is 33 1/2 inches tall and 28.2 lbs. He is in the 55% for his weight.

At 24months Ryan can:

• speak in three to four word sentences
• can speak much more the 50 words
• can be understood what he is saying 98% of the time
• carry on a short conversation
• can draw circles and lines
• build blocks with 8 or more (little blocks)
• He knows his name if you ask him "what is your name?"
• He can read/spell the letters in his name
• He can identify pictures in a book as well as people in the pictures
• He can identify some numbers and letters
• He knows all his colors and shapes and can count to 20 with help (sometimes he says 1,2,3,7 hee, hee it is so cute)
• knows all his body parts
• I know their is more but I can not think of anything at the moment

Ryan's favorite foods:

• carrots
• any fruit
• cake, mostly the frosting
• cheese balls
• freeze pops

Things Ryan likes to do:

• playing with friends
• going to the mall with Mama ( to go to the pet store)
• watching TV
• going outside
• listening, singing(especially at 5am Mary Had A Little Lamb), playing(on his drum, that my lovely sister got him) and dancing to music
• reading books
• water (swimming, splashing, bathing etc.)
• going places such as Mommy and Me and the Library
• playing

Ryan's dislikes:

• Not getting his way( for example Ryan some times wants to watch TV ALL DAY LONG, but we don't let him)
• loud motorcycles
  

08/17/09 Ryan turns two

We begin Ryan's birthday with giving him one of his presents, a tricycle. He loves it! For our snack we took it outside on his new picnic table, he ate honey dew melon and drink apple juice. Mom and Dad both had to work that day, so we finished celebrated Ryan's second birthday at night when we got home. We sang Happy Birthday again with a candle and Ryan had to blow it out again. Then he got to open more gifts from us. Scrappy helped open gifts and even gave one to Ryan too. Here Ryan testing out his new tricycle. He says "Weeeee"
Putting his new picnic table to use. If you ask Ryan what are you eating he will say "Eating cantaloupe and honey dew melon."

Happy 2nd Birthday Ryan!

Playing T-Ball with Scrappy

His present from Scrappy. A tee shirt with Scrappy's picture on it.

Ryan's Second Birthday

One Year Ago

Here are just a few pictures from Ryan's second birthday. I will upload more later. Why Do we buy toys? We should buy the boxes.

Mickey Mouse birthday cake

Ryan wearing a party hat

His shirt says "I'm this many 2"

Eating birthday cake

Happy Birthday

Ryan singing Happy Birthday, getting ready for his second birthday.