This afternoon Matt went to get Rylan from his nap, (usually I do that) and as soon as he walked in the room Rylan said "oh no" and laid back down covering himself with his blanket (earlier Matt had been in his room to tell him to go night night because he was awake making noise when he should have been asleep) then when Matt reached for him he said "no mommy" haha he thought he was in trouble or something!

Yesterday he was playing with his toy bus and when he moved it forward he made a vroom like car sound and when it reversed he started saying "beep, beep". Is it possible he really knows that big vehicles usually beep when they are backing up?

Yesterday we went to a Japanese Steak House with both sets of Grandparents, Mimi and Cody. Rylan was really interested until the fire part and then he wouldn't leave my lap! He really liked the food though! I kept putting chicken on his fork for him thinking he needed more until I realized that he wasn't finished chewing but was just stuffing more in!

Pictures from yesterday in the backyard!

I can't keep up!

Rylan has been learning so much lately that I haven't been able to keep up with writing it all down here so it is all going to be out of order in this post.

*He is starting to really make his own sentences. His favorites are "no daddy/mommy"

*When it is bed time, I tell him to go say "night,night" to daddy and he marches right upstairs and says "night, night daddy" and waves and blows kisses. It is so cute how he sometimes will walk away from him and then come back to wave and blow kisses some more!

*He has been hitting again. He seems to start hitting after hanging out with other kids that hit him. It is amazing how quickly he picks it back up again. Now he will hit me in the face when I am not paying enough attention to him then when I tell him "no, no!" he will reach out and hug, kiss and pat me gently and say "hi" haha he sure knows how to manipulate me!

*He has figured out the baby gate! We used to just be able to close it and not lock it. But just a couple days ago I realized he was really quiet while I was cooking dinner. I peeked around the corner and he was just sitting on the stairs right behind the gate (on the wrong side) grinning! So I started locking it! Well that didn't last long because he realized he could easily pull part of it out of the wall!

*Ever since he figured out how to close doors he has been obsessed with closing them all! If I pick him up out of bed and try to carry him out he will shout" dough, dough (door)" until I close the door to his room!

*We are starting to have to use "Time out" alot. It really works! I read somewhere to stay calm never get too emotional with him, just say "do you want time out?" 3 times then start to count to five if he still misbehaves put him in a corner and do not look at him. I am glad you are not supposed to look at him because that poor sad lip would make me give in I am sure of it!

* I have come to the realization that the dorkier the clothing the cuter it will look on rylan! Haha sweater vests, sandals, even sandals with socks, plaid shorts, polos with popped collars, bucket hats, preppy anything (that isn't always dorky, but always looks cuter on him than adults), water shoes, tight pajamas.

*He loves to sit in real cars and pretend to drive and wave "bye, bye".

*This morning he pointed at my wet hair wrapped up in a towel and said "towe? (towel)"

* He says "num, nummies and/or nummy when he is hungry or wants to eat something he sees"

* He is a very picky eater. It seems whenever I start to get really worried that he has been eating too much of bread, almond butter, crackers, cereal he will actually eat something healthy. He loves when Matt makes chicken noodle soup (with lots of veggies including kale) he won't eat it chunky, but if I puree it he will eat every last bit! He loves hummus too which makes me really happy! Mornings he will eat 8 grain hot cereal with some fruit mashed in, nancy's yogurt and some of his omega 3 oil (it is sweetened and delicious)

* He knows what I am telling him when I say that we need to get in the car to go pick up daddy from work. He will be about to escape into the street until I tell him that, then he will go climb in the car himself!

* He sings songs that he makes up in baby babble mixed with some words we understand. It absolutely melts my heart when he does that. OH IT IS CUUUTE!

* Ever since we moved into this place, we haven't had a tv downstairs which has been wonderful! We spend most of the day downstairs so he hardly watches tv! Except sometimes sid the science kid weekend mornings and sometimes monday since matt works from home. We all laze in bed and watch it together sometimes. He always has to be in between matt and I and get's very jealous if we snuggle at all. He says "no, no, and tries to hit or push me away from Matt"

* He loves to share, especially food. I don't think that he realizes that there isn't an endless supply of the food he gives away quite yet. I can't wait for that realization (insert sarcastic tone in my voice)

* He has definantly figured out that I am the sympathetic one. Whenever he get's in trouble with daddy he puts his sad face on for me . Or when he get's hurt he usually turns to me. I secretly love that :)

Okay well I am sure I forgotten to write a ton of really cute things! But I can't remember any more right now! I will try to get better at posting as soon as it happens!

Multi-tasking

Today Rylan grabbed my cell phone and held it up to his ear to have a conversation (in his language) and he walked around the room a little bit until he accidentally scrunched up a rug on the wood floor a little and he bent over to straighten it out while he was still talking on the phone!