Bye, see you soon!

Today when Rylan and I went upstairs to tell Matt "bye" before we went to the store. Rylan very clearly waved and then said, "Bye, see you soon!" that is the longest sentence yet!

And then when we came back and I was walking with him up to the front door he was babbling and pointing at things, so I said "oh tree?" and he pointed up at a tree! I am so amazed at how much he knows that we don't know he knows!

Daddy is back from utah!

Yesterday Rylan helped me bake some banana bread (with no sugar and coconut oil instead of butter or veg. oil). He sat on a stool and mashed the bananas, stirred and added measured cups of flour and baking soda. He was so proud of himself. And the bread actually turned out pretty good!

Then I showed him how I cut potatoes and put them in the steamer. After I turned on the steamer I told him the potatoes are cooking now. Hours later I cleaned the steamer for some beets. When I turned on the steamer again he came running over and pointed at it saying "cooking!" I wish I could write it the way it sounds! He says it so cute and jumbled!

Yesterday Matt brought back a teddy bear for Rylan from Utah that he fell asleep with almost as soon as we got back into the car after picking Matt up from the airport. It is so cute how he hugs and snuggles it! Today I took off his shirt and he said "off" then he pointed at the bear (that has a shirt) and told me "off, off!"

Then this morning Matt tickled me and Rylan started tickling me and did the cutest thing with his tongue. He would tickle and stick his little tongue in and out with the movement of his tickle fingers! We need to get a video of that!

Matt made eggs with brocolli and cauliflower for breakfast. It was so good that Rylan actually ate some brocolli and cauliflower for the first time! And while we were eating I got a piece of it stuck on the outside of my mouth, Rylan kept saying "uck, uck" and trying to touch my face and then touch his mouth. It took me awhile to figure out what he was trying to tell me!

Later he pointed at the fan and said "hot", I told him "no it is cold" and he said "cole" and pointed to another fan and another one (we have 3 fans in our room right now!) saying it over and over!

Picked out my new shoes!

Today Rylan and I went shopping at Ross and he was so cute about so many things!

When we first walked over to the shoe aisle rylan excitedly shouted "shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes!" and held up his hands!

When I was trying on shoes he started getting really upset screaming "no mommy, no mommy" and then when I would put back on my shoes he would smile. At first I thought that he just knows my shoes to be the right ones for me to wear because he got upset about 3 pairs of shoes I tried on. Then I tried on a sparkly black pair (that I ended up getting) and he smiled. He actually helped me pick out my shoes today!

Then when I took him over to find him shoes he was not happy with any pair except some that looked exactly like a pair that was his first pair (of real shoes). Amazing that he remembered them!

We went to the purse aisle and he grabbed for one of the alarm tags on a purse (those bigger ones that that are black and plastic and they have to remove with a special tool during checkout) and he held it up to his ear and said "helwo" and babbled like he does when he talks on a real phone!

Later we went to Cousin David's wedding and on the way home from it he sang in the car and out of the blue started to sing the ABC's "a, e , i , u, o" to the correct tune.

For a few days he has been saying "hug" when he wants to be picked up and hugged. Yesterday he actually came up while I was stressed and busy making jewelry for the market and said "hug" "hi" and just patted me and held me. He could sense I was stressed!

Rylan said "Rylan"

Today was another big day for Rylan! In the morning he randomly pointed at my phone and perfectly pronounced "phone"!

And then in the afternoon Nana and Grandpa had him at their house because I was in the Kirkland Wednesday Market and he said "ball" and then plopped down on the lovesack and said "on tv". I am so amazed that he said that since he hasn't seen much tv for about 6 months. We don't have a tv downstairs right now, only upstairs. We spend most of our time downstairs so we end up not seeing as much tv.

Then he figured out how to climb up onto Nana and Grandpa's stool and when Uncle Forest and Aunt Debbie came over, Debbie took a video of him on her phone and when she replayed it back to him he said "rylan"!

Nana told me that he burped and she said "burp?" and he tried to burp again 2 more times haha!

Grandpa told him rocky rocky on the rocking chair when he was sitting on one. Then he repeated back, "rocky".

Uh oh all wet!

Today Rylan came in from playing outside and said "Uh oh ahmahwet" and pointed to his paints and shirt. He was trying to say, "Uh oh I'm all wet"!!!! He had dumped out a bucket of rainwater all over himself and wanted to put some dry clothes on! Awww it was adorable to see his proud face when he realized that I understood what he was trying to tell me!

Future Roller Coaster Lover!

Yesterday we took a walk over to brown bag for brunch and all the way there Rylan would anticipate any small hills or bumps and squeal/giggle and throw his hands up in the air like people do on roller coasters. It was sooooo cute and we have no idea where he got it from!