Try Not To Laugh

Frank Jr.

So today was a cold, semi-rainy day here. Rylan has gotten a cold so we decided to stay in all day. This afternoon I was sitting at the computer looking for internet deals and Rylan was playing with his trains. He has really started to sing "ABC" and "Twinkle, Twinkle" (well, tries to sing them anyway). As he was playing, he started singing all by himself and just kept singing. So luckily, my camera was right here and I decided to capture the moment. If you turn the music on the blog off, you just might here "twinkle, twinkle la la (s)tar". Oh, I love it!


P.S. Please excuse this highly messy room. This has now become the playroom and Rylan loves to spread himself out during the day. I do clean it up at night but usually by 7:00 a.m. the table has been moved and toys dumped out all over again for the day. I think tonight I'll weed out some toys...

Tire Swing

We all went to Grandma & Grandpa Tubaughs last weekend. Well, everytime we are there Rylan looks longingly at the tire swing and we always try to convince him to try it but he never would. Well, this time he saw it and decided he was big enough. So he ran right at it and was swinging away! We didn't even show him how to do it. After church I happened to have my camera and decided to show you all how cute our little "swinger" is.

Random Post Alert

Well, I think one of the best parts about being pregnant is the very detailed dreams you are blessed with once in a while. You know, those dreams. Well, I always think it's funny when I dream about someone I have not seen or thought of in years or from a movie that I haven't seen or thought of in years. This is what happened the other night. I had a very enjoyable dream about this:

MMMMM. Yummy. For those of you who don't remember who this is, he is in this movie:

That's right, I had a dream about James Bond. Don't be mistaken, it wasn't a dream about Daniel Craig, it was about Daniel Craig as James Bond. I told Seth about it (as I always do about my wonderfully random dreams) and we both laughed about it. Oddly enough, I was flipping channels that night and this movie was on! How crazy is that! So I watched it and got a double dose of my James. Then I put the 1st picture (from the ocean) as my desktop to be funny. Well, Seth got a laugh but in retaliation he put a picture of a swimsuit model. I laughed but it only stayed up for about 2 minutes. There's only so much I can take of that. Anyway, just thought I'd share. Aren't you jealous?

Do You Want To Go Nigh-Night?

This video is pretty self-explanatory but I'll just say that I was eating LUNCH one day not really paying attention and I looked over to see Rylan nodding off in his high chair. He NEVER does this. EVER. When I first looked over I said, "Rylan, do you wanna go nigh-night?" and his eyes flew open and he shook his head "nu-uhh" then quickly fell back asleep. It was so funny so I went to grab my camera to see if he would do it again. Here's is what happened... (by the way, I quickly took him to bed after this--he slept 3 hours!!!)

The Pumpkin Patch

So last Wednesday Rylan's daycare was scheduled to go to Kathy's Pumpkin Patch. This is the coolest pumpkin patch ever! For the last few years a bunch of young mothers in my branch have gone with their children and I have never been able to go with them so this year I really didn't want to miss out. So I took off work and went with Rylan and the daycare. He had such a fun time. It was a little chilly out but that's Autumn! There were 2 corn pools full of dried corn kernels and at first Rylan was a little unsure about all that corn, but once he got in and got playing he didn't want to leave. We found corn in some pretty crazy places that night!

After playing in the corn pool for a while, we all played in the play area. There were slides and water activities and little houses and cars and play horses and, and, and... Of course, Rylan mostly just went up and down the kid slide. He just loves those little slides! It's hilarious.

Unfortunately, the slide got him so excited that he pooped. So I carted him back to the car and attempted to change his diaper in the front seat. Too bad I didn't take the truck! So we finally got back to the playground and 10 minutes later---yep, pooped again! Argghhh! By this time he did not want to nicely comply and let me change his diaper again so I had to bribe him with some of my secret Symphony Bar stash (see below). After the poop fiasco, it was time to ride the tractor out to go pick a pumpkin. Rylan had fun riding in the trailer and going out to choose his pumpkin (I sort of helped him choose).

Finally, we went through a corn maze and he ran right through it:

It was really such a fun day and I'm so thankful that I was able to go with Rylan. It would have broken my heart to have missed such a fun day. He looked so cute running from one activity to the next with a huge smile on his face. It was one of those wonderful days that I was so incredibly thankful to be a mom to this little man.