New "home"

Yesterday we took Rylan over to Nana and Grandpa's house to watch him while we went on a date night. Whenever we drive over to their house I tell him that we are going to "Nana & Grandpa's house" because it is so cute to watch him get excited and look out the window in anticipation. I also tell him when we are going home because he get's excited about that too. He actually recognizes the the road a bit before our house now and say "home" in a really cute happy voice. It is a different voice than when he goes to Nana & Grandpa's voice. It is more of a calm relaxed cozy tone where as Nana and Grandpa's house tone is pure excitement and adventure!

Well this time when we arrived he threw up his hands the way that someone would announce something after a dun da da dunnn (drumroll) and said, "home!"

So now he has 2 "homes".

Already learning to drive!

Tonight while we were unloading the car after the Kirkland Wednesday Market Rylan hopped in the driver's side and started to pretend to drive while waving bye hehe I wish I would have gotten a picture!

Yam & Carrot Pasta

Rylan is a very picky eater, and he sometimes will seem to like something for a couple bites then stop or like it one day and not the next. I have a hard time feeding him as healthy as I would like, because if it were up to him he would just eat bread, almond butter, pasta and cheese. What seems to be the easiest thing is to sneak veggies into foods he already likes. I have to puree them to sneak them in because if I hide it enough for him to put it into his mouth, he will spit it out if he can! Here is a recipe that he has liked every time I have made it so far!

Boil flax rotilli pasta
Steam Carrots and Yams or Sweet Potatoes then puree them
Heat a skillet with 1 T coconut oil or olive oil and add some chopped yellow onions (a sweeter variety) approx 1 cup and let carmelize
Add minced garlic (I use approx 6 cloves or more)
Add another T of oil then 1T flour stir quickly then add approx 1 cup milk
Add grated cheese to taste (I used pepperjack)
Season with salt and pepper
When it is thickened and creamy add the puree and cook approx 2 mins to make sure it is warm.
Pour over pasta

Child Prodigy

So I know that this isn't new news, but Rylan is a child prodigy. There is absolutely no doubt about it. He is just smarter and cuter than all the other kids and I am not biased at all! ;)

Yesterday he kept amazing me with how much he knows that I didn't know he knew. Grandpa Greg told him to put something in the diaper bag and he went searching for the diaper bag, I have never told him to put anything in the diaper bag before! Nana told me that he actually has grabbed a diaper out of the bag when he needed his changed and laid down where he usually has it changed one time. That is absolutely shocking to me since he usually makes me chase him around and kicks while I try to change him haha! I guess it is the grandparent's touch. Out of the blue he tugged at his feet and said "feet" the only time I tell him what his feet are is sometimes when I put on his socks but I really didn't think he was catching on. Amazing. I have noticed in the last couple days he has started to get very imaginative with his play. He always is pretty imaginative but it seems to me he has reached a new level. Today he waved bye bye to me and then got in his car outside and started steering the steering wheel, then after a period of time stopped got out and said "hi!" and ran to me like he had been gone for awhile. So adorable!
Oh and here is a story perfect for embarassing him when he get's older! For quite some time he has been really jealous of Matt and I together. Every chance he get's he tries to squeeze in between us and if he can't shreiks and just started pushing us apart or hitting me and telling me no,no. But now we are realizing that we might need to hide when we kiss in front of him because he has been trying to kiss me for much longer periods of time now, he even shifts his head side to side and has a serious face the whole time. The other day he did it to Nana too! Haha he got up on top of her on the lovesac and basically tried to make out with her! haha it is so cute but we don't want him to do it to anyone else or in public or anything hehe!
Grandpa Greg taught him how to motion over "come here" without knowing it! For the last couple days Rylan has been motioning and saying "mon" to get us to follow him! It is adorable to see how proud of himself he is when he learns a new way to communicate!

More new words and more time outside!

This morning rylan put his hand on my forehead and said "head". And when he saw a toy stuck in a spot he couldn't get it at he shouted "out, out, out!"

Today was beautiful and sunny so we were outside most of the day! I even pulled his highchair out there to eat! When we went inside for a little bit Rylan went and got his shoes and socks so I put them on then he got me my walking shoes. I told him I needed socks first and he went to a huge pile of clean laundry and dug through until he found 2 of my socks!

He just has me constantly in awe!

Tomorrow we are going to see Auntie Agatha (she is actually his godmom) it's super exciting because she moved to California and is making time for us while she is here just for the weekend! I can't wait!

Whoa just now as I was typing about Agatha Rylan said "bye, bye" instead of "dye dye"! He really wants to go "bye, bye" on an evening walk! So I guess we better get going!

28.6 lbs!

After the last post, I gave Rylan a bath, but before getting in the tub he watched me stand on the scale in the bathroom and then without any clothes on stood on the scale just like I did! So now I know he is 28.6lbs!

Here are some pictures from tonights bathtime, I went a little crazy with the camera as usual...

Such a little BOY not a baby :(

Today Rylan went into the bathroom and grabbed a fresh roll of toilet paper, teared a piece off and started to wipe the (wood) floor in the kitchen. Then with the same piece of toilet paper blew his nose (nothing came out) and then crumpled it up and put it in the garbage. I had no idea he knew the correlation between all those things! He amazes me pretty much every second! He also all the sudden knows where my cheek and hair is and he pulled my hand to his mouth to kiss it and actually said "hand" so sweet!

He was reading a book with Nana today (actually he started calling her nani or noanie). In a book with lots of different pictures of all kinds of things she asked him to point out "horsie" and he did! Then "helicopter" & "bike", and he did! It's hard to comprehend all that he knows right now!

He is always watching me carefully, trying to figure out how to do everything that I am doing! Scarey, I already have to be a good example!

Oh and the tantrums, he has those down! The high pitched scream is almost unbearable! Sometimes the tantrums are cute though. Today he went with Nana to go get her tire changed and in the waiting room they had some big legos and a table with chairs. He sat and played very calmly for awhile then grabbed a lego that wouldn't fit on top of the other legos he already stacked, he tried for a few seconds and when it fell he got upset and threw everything off the table! Nana got it all on her camera phone! So funny!

Sweet Potato Dump Truck

So I let Rylan have his toy dump truck while he was eating dinner and this is what happened...

Know X3

Know X3 = he Knows more than we Know he Knows!

So I already told you about how he has been throwing things in the garbage. Well I didn't know that he knows that the garbage can is called garbage. But sure enough today, I tell him to put something into the garbage and he trots right over to the garbage and puts it in without any hesitation! I didn't even have to point! We were awe-struck!

Last night I made him a bottle (he counts with the microwave as it is heating it up so precious!) and told him that it was "night, night" and we needed to say "night, night" to daddy. He ran up the stairs to daddy (he doesn't always actually say it, but we know he understands what is going on) and as I went to grab him he screams to daddy, "up, up, up, uuuuup" so Matt picked him up and hugged him then held him out to me and Rylan said, "oh no!" haha! But then I went and laid him down and he went down like a perfect angel!

Little Helper!

Rylan learned very quickly that little things that he finds on the ground go to mommy or Daddy, not in his mouth. He probably learned it alot earlier than other kids because of my jewelry making and the possibility of him finding something lost in the floor that could be really bad for him to swallow is alot higher than for most kids, so we have been very good about giving him ample encouragement when he hands little things he finds to me or Daddy. Sometimes it is just a fuzz ball and sometimes a bead or worse. Either way, I am very thankful that he feels proud to hand it to me! Funny thing that he is just starting to try and figure out is what I do with those things after he hands them to me. He watches very carefully and he has now figured out most things go in the garbage and some in my pocket. He puts paper things in the garbage and the other day he put his dirty diaper in the garbage.

A couple days ago I worked really hard, (mostly while Rylan was napping) on fixing up our backyard. I made a flower bed by the fence in the corner and flattened out the part of our yard that was indented and sloping because of my dad's golf net and mats that he moved to their new place. I dug up lots of rocks and pine cones were everywhere. When Rylan woke up I put out a bucket for collecting rocks and another for pine cones. I showed him where each goes and he amazed me by immediately understanding completely! He would pick up both pine cones and rocks then sort them at the buckets! He was so excited to help, it was absolutely adorable.

He recently figured out the relation between shoes, jacket & clothes and going outside. When he wants go outside he will bring me his shoes, my shoes, his jacket, my jacket. It is irresistably cute, I just have to take him outside when he does it. Luckily we have a backyard now, so it is easy to do!

We have been going for alot more walks since we moved and he loves them! If we leave the stroller open, he will constantly climbs up into it. He even closes the tray over his legs, which is kinda hard to do. He is also figuring out how seatbelt's latch and get's angry when we don't let him do it himself (even though he cane't do it himself yet!

After his bath I always wrap him up in a towel which reminds me of when he was a little baby that needed to be swaddled. I realized the last couple times that I say he is my little baby whenever I wrap him up and carry him because now when I wrap him up he immediately says "baaaby" and smiles :)

He is all about climbing lately! He hasn't figured out how to climb out of his crib yet, but he likes to climb on top of things to get to light switches and tables. He easily climbs up on the coffee table, chairs, the couch & the bed. He actually learned how to climb a medium size ladder the other day when Grandpa Greg was watching him! Oh that reminds me I wanted to note some cute things about Grandpa Greg (my Dad) and him! One cute thing I wanted to be sure to tell Rylan is how Grandpa Greg calls the coffee table Rylan's science lab because he puts all his toys on it and figures out how it all works. Nana didn't think it was necessary for them to get a coffee table and Grandpa Greg insisted they needed one for the play room because Rylan needs a science lab at their house too!

Another cute thing about them is that Rylan loves going in Granpas big truck and looking at all the tools. And a few times when grandpa has been over picking up more of his stuff from the garage he let's Rylan hang out with him. Well I came in to check on them one day and Grandpa had sat Rylan on an upside down bucket and grandpa was sitting on a box and they were both drinking their water. Grandpa was saying, "After all that work we need to have our water break, this is our water break". Hehe that just melted my heart! I ran to get my camera but couldn't get there in time (of course!)

For a few months he has been saying what sounds like "hi-yo" and it just dawned on Matt a couple weeks ago that he is trying to say "Hello". So cute!

Early Entry to the Terrible 2's!

Last week we decided to go out to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner with Rylan. Usually he is an angel wherever we take him but lately it seems like he might have started becoming a terrible 2 yr old early! First he did something that was bratty/cute that I have never seen him do before. When they brought him a plate with his own bread and some banana slices they set it kinda far from him so that he couldn't reach it all that well so Matt pushed the plate towards him so that he could reach it better. Well in a quick jerky movement he pushed it right back where it was. Well then Matt thought, maybe he didn't get that he was trying to help him so he slowly pushed it back closer again trying to explain (in case he might understand a little). And Rylan looked at him with this really funny kinda irritated look and stared at him while he pushed it back again. It was like he was saying," I want it there. don't you dare touch it again!". Well we thought that was just so cute until about 20 mins later when he started getting a little fussy so I got out his little mini etch a sketch so that he had something to do. Well he had a little tantrum with it and flung it behind him so far that it actually went halfway under a booth that some people were sitting at (that place was packed)! SO EMBARASSING! What are we gunna do with this kid?

NEW WORDS:

potty

oopsy

Last night Rylan really freaked me out when his cold that he has had for 2 weeks turned into a fever! The highest fever you have ever had 103.8! I called his doctor's e-pager at 9:58 pm and she calmed me down and told me to put cold wet socks on his feet to bring his temp down as well as put him in the bathroom with a hot shower going to get his stuffy nose cleared up. It worked woohoo!