Rye's Birthday List

per request Rye has compiled his birthday list:

CD's such as:

Psalty's Singalongathon, Maranathamarathon, Hallelujah Jubilee!

Psalty's Kids Praise 1

Psalty's Family Christmas Singalong

Psalty's Singsational Servants

basically any Psalty except Kids Praise 2 (Joyfullest Noise)

Anything Diego such as: Dominos

Books,books or books

toys

or DVDs (these are just examples)

Giant Lego blocks: like these

Lincoln logs

Travel sleep mate: like this

Winter clothes 18 months

Books: Any Dr Seuss books besides Fox and Socks or Hop on Pop

Llama, Llama Red Pajama

Puzzles, especially the kind with the knobs so he can pick them up easily.

and any other wonderfulness that you would like to get him!

Un, Deux, Trois

Three new paintings I finished recently. I'm really diggin' em. Hope you do too.

See all at www.brianaelizabeth.com

11 months: The Interview

In honor of Rye's 11th month, he has agreed to do an interview with us in order to bring us up to date on the latest happenings. For ease of reading I will also include a translation for those of you who don't speak baby.

Briana: Rye, thanks so much for finding time to meet with us in your busy schedule.

Rye: mama-baba-ahhhhh!

Translation: No, thank you Mama for compiling these little tidbits of my life these days.

Briana: My pleasure, now lets talk about your recent achievements, this has been a big month for you, hasn't it?

Rye: Mmmmm, boo-gaa-babbababaaa

Translation: Yes it has. This past month I have started crawling and am now up to about 5mph! Also I have been shaking my head "no" instead of screaming when i don't want something (sometimes, at least). I've also been pointing to what I want which makes it so much easier for Mama and Dada to get what I need.

Briana: Wow, what great feats! Now i hear your Mom is also especially excited about another trick you learned....something regarding a cup....

Rye: AHHHH! Mama, baba, goo-dada ba

Translation: Oh yea! I can now drink out of a sippy cup!! This is very exciting to me, but more so to my Mom, I think.

Briana: Exciting times indeed. How have you been sleeping this month?

Rye: a-goooob!

Translation: Good, but I'm starting to need less sleep during the day. Sometimes I take 2 naps, sometimes 1, it just depends. But i'm still sleeping great at night.

Briana: Guess you love your sleep like your Mama, huh?

Rye: Mama

Translation: (none)

Briana: Any special interests you are developing?

Rye: Duh!!!! Uh, uh, DUH!!!

Translation: DIEGO! I love Diego! I get so excited when Mom lets me watch him and I even recognize pictures of him and get really excited about that too! AND even if you start singing the song I recognize that too!

Briana: Wow! That's great. Diego and Dora can teach you lots of great things and keep you entertained when Mom and Dad have to get something done. Now, I understand that you have an even bigger month ahead of you?

Rye: ma-baba eeeee agooo

Translation: My birthday! My very first birthday is coming up in less than a month!

Briana: Wow, that is exciting. Any special plans?

Rye: ahhh-la-uuueooo

Translation: Definitely. But, they are a surprise, all i know is that Mom asked me to compile my birthday list and i think that there will be monsters at the party. Also, my friends, and something called "cake" but I don't know what that is. I think it will be fun.

Briana: Sounds fun. I'm sure your Mom and Dad will come up with some great ways to celebrate. We'll have to check back in with you and see how it went. Thanks again so much Rye for squeezing us in between your naps and playing with blocks. It's been a pleasure chatting with you.

Rye: Mama

Translation: Thanks, you too Mom.

Birthday Boys

Yesterday marked Rye's 11 month birthday and today marks my dad's 55th birthday. So, in honor of such remarkable occasions, here are some shots of 2 of my favorite guys hard at work...

Happy Birthdays!

p.s. Rex, looks like someone else is being "groomed" now! heheheheee

Crunch, Crunch, Crunch, I'm a Goat Out to Lunch

Rye has been perfecting his pointing skills lately. Here he has combined them with his eating skills...

Even when resting he always keeps his finger in "ready" position in case the immediate need to point, arises suddenly.

This past week we both had a cold so naturally everything was a really big deal. Getting cheese when you want bread is definitely something to cry over...

Lately he has been very aware of the camera and has started smiling as soon as we start taking pictures. I have not prompted this at all and never say "smile" when we take pictures, but none the less... even in the middle of a food related meltdown, I pull out the camera and.....

Great Grand

There's grand, and then there's GREAT Grand.

Here's Rye with his maternal's paternal, great grand. Follow that?

that's my silly boy. these were taken about a month and a half ago....apparently i had a bunch of pictures on my camera i had forgotten about.

Intensity

Here is Rye's serious face.

Here are my Dad and Kaley's serious faces.

Family resemblance?

Wuv, true wuv

meltdown

it's official, Rye has his first all out temper tantrum today. Luckily my friend Heather and her daughter Alana were here to witness it which was great because temper tantrums are the sort of thing that you like to share with your friends (ahem). I should have stopped and taken a picture of him but i was a little caught in the moment, so to speak.

The blessed event stemmed from my spiteful cruelty in taking away his teething biscuit so that he might actually eat some of his lunch. Mind you this was done with malice in my heart. Rye so thoughtfully expressed the error of my way by throwing his head back, flailing his arms and screaming at the top of his lungs. He even manged a couple of giant crocodile tears as further evidence to the extent of his pain and heartache. Heartache indeed. Its'interesting during such um, shall i say, learning experiences?, to take note of the thoughts that run through one's mind. Here were some of mine:

-oh please stop, this is embarassing

-he's not stopping

-oh there are tears

-ok, he's going to stop now

-nope, still not stopping

-what should I do?

-ok take the puffs of the tray before he throws....

-too late

-ok express to him (in various methods) that this is not ok

-yea, ok THAT worked (sarcasm intended)

-i can't believe he hasn't stopped

-he's never acted this bad before

-oh gosh (this sums up dread for the inevitable future)

-ok try to feed the spinach again maybe that will distract him

-nope

-ok try ignoring him until he's done

-still continuing....

-wow i wish Trev was here to see this

-ok he seems to be calming down lets try the food again

-nope, oh great here we go again.....

and so on and so forth. I"m sure all of you veteran moms are smiling and nodding right now and a good bunch of you are thinking "just you wait". That's the problem, i have an idea of what's to come and honestly prefer my little pumpkin of 'whatever is fine' love to this hellion that landed at my dining room table. sigh....and the joys of parenting continue.

for the record though his 'fake cry' face (which shared equal airtime with 'authentically very upset' face) is adorable. ok, well my little angel is awakening from his blissful slumber so i bid you ado...

Rye: Crawling

As some of you facebook followers know, I ran out to Target the other day for dogfood. I was gone a whopping 45minutes, i come back and look who decided to start crawling....

I like how he doesn't realize it's an accomplishment until Trev praises him. Silly boy.

Silly boy crawling during the brief window when Mom isn't there. grrrrrrrrr

10 pictures to celebrate 10 months

hope you weren't counting because that was definitely more than 10. that's the good thing about having your own blogs, you don't have to follow the rules, even if they are your own! come on though, with all these amazing pictures, could i really have limited myself to just 10? no way!

hope you enjoyed these 1/10th as much as Trev and I do.

p.s. Becky, notice the book?