swimming, swamming

we had a breakthrough at the keys this year. At Heidi's suggestion we got Rye some water wings to try to get that kiddo to break his death grip and swim (somewhat) on his own. So, we broke them out in the pool and lo and behold, he did it! He was not to excited at first, and admittedly there wasn't much actual swimming going on, but he did float on his own and occasionally pretend to kick. Progress! Here he is holding himself out of the water, notice Trev's "I'm ready" hand. ;)

He's happy, I swear, he liked it. Ok, not so much here, but before I got the camera (of course) he was loving it. Oh well.

Not one to waste time, Rye and Trevor immediately started working on some tricks. Here's their best one.

Tada!!

Florida Family Fun

Pants on Fire

Scenic Florida Keys

Here are some shots of the beautiful place we visited. Thanks Mom and Dad Taylor!!

Florida Keys: The boat

the boat.

I love going out on the boat.

Rye is also becoming a big fan. Mostly when he's allowed to drive though. Oh and don't even think about steering while he's driving, he finds that highly offensive. I'm so glad he likes going on the boat, of course I did threaten to disown him if he didn't, but I still think his love is genuine.

Here are some pictures of our week in the Keys with Trev's family. on the boat.

boat, boat-boat-boat.

Rye, 21 months

Some people out there....have indicated that I've been slacking in my blogging regularity. Indeed, tis true. I have many a reason, but none very interesting. So, i'll be playing catch up, but not for a while, for reasons to be explained later (criptic indeed!).

For now, here's a recent shot of our dear Rye-Guy. He will be 21 months tomorrow. Wow. He's gi-normous and everyone thinks he's already 2. He's walking and trying to talk. He's doing more in depth playing, ie, stacking, arranging, driving, building etc He loves playing with Zoe, LOVES cars and still has quite the affinity for Diego. He is a pretty good eater, a great sleeper and overall a pretty easy-going kid. There is an increase in the disobedient/defiant tendencies. (loads of fun) but i guess that goes with the approaching birth date...

He loves his buddy Avery (my friend Heidi's 4 year old). Yes, Avery hung the moon. What else...? Well, Rye's just starting to show some interest in the whole "graduating" from the diaper issue. Not enough to act on, but progress. He thinks sneezing is funny and echos everyone's sneeze with a "choo" of his own (fake, mind you). He still loves to pray and read his bible. We pray a couple (hundred) times a day. So odds are, you've been prayed for recently by Rye. ;)

He's very attached to me lately. Maybe because with traveling and Trev out of town, we've spent a lot of time together. He is giving great hugs (initiating them too, which is the best) and some good open-mouth fish kisses.

Ok, well that's a bit of the newness of Rye. More later. Enjoy the picture. It's a good one.

Easter some more

i'm too lazy to edit and upload the new pictures, so here are some as-yet-unshared older pictures from Easter

i love both their expressions in this last picture, ok and Rye's in the picture above too

the end