Every night after dinner I do the dishes. Kelly is gone at this time of day almost every single day so the boys head toward the couch where they run around the length of the L shaped couch, jump to the coffee table, wrestle, laugh, and cause other sorts of little boy mayhem. Tonight I took a break from washing dishes to videotape the events. Rycie was crashing repeatedly on the couch and having such a blast. Note in the video which boy is more daring. And please ignore my awesome parenting skills getting the kids to stay off the end table. Ahem.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The big 3-0
Yesterday was my 30th birthday and Kelly really wanted to do something special for me. We had a sitter lined up for last Friday but ended up having to cancel because it was too cold to do what he had initially planned on doing. I instead decided that I wanted a cookie cake and to go out as a family for pizza on my birthday. So Kelly and the boys headed to the mall last Friday to order this beauty:
He sprung for the mini m&ms and also asked for an extra pound of frosting on the side because frosting is my ultimate weakness. The cookie cake was awesome, I loved the look of it and it was delicious. I promised Cason he could have a piece after eating a good breakfast because I knew I wouldn't be able to wait all day until he was home from preschool.
I'm usually terrible about customs such as candles, singing Happy Birthday, etc. So yesterday we made sure to light a few candles and Kelly sang.
This is during the Happy Birthday song. Bryce doesn't sing but I don't know what was up with Cason. He didn't sing and made this goofy face the whole time Kelly was singing.
Not sure why my kids both insisted on eating their cookie cake with a knife!
Not long after breakfast I headed to the gym while Kelly got the kids ready and took Cason to preschool. Coach Frogger made up a special birthday wod (workout of the day) that everyone had to (got to?) do. Kelly and I have been doing the Elite programming at our gym because we are training for a competition next month. The Elite programming is for just 10 of the members right now and is designed to hit all of our weaknesses so we can improve on them. So I had to do my Elite wod first and then I joined a friend to tackle my birthday wod. The only problem was the two slices of cookie cake that I ate after breakfast. That proved to be a very bad idea and I wished I would have waited to enjoy my cookie cake but I managed to struggle through both workouts.
That night for dinner we stopped by our current favorite pizza place, Mr. Jims. We stuffed ourselves with breadsticks and pizza and then headed home to put the kids in bed so we could watch a movie. I had a great birthday filled with all of my favorite things: my family, CrossFit, pizza, and frosting. What more could I ask for?
He sprung for the mini m&ms and also asked for an extra pound of frosting on the side because frosting is my ultimate weakness. The cookie cake was awesome, I loved the look of it and it was delicious. I promised Cason he could have a piece after eating a good breakfast because I knew I wouldn't be able to wait all day until he was home from preschool.
I'm usually terrible about customs such as candles, singing Happy Birthday, etc. So yesterday we made sure to light a few candles and Kelly sang.
This is during the Happy Birthday song. Bryce doesn't sing but I don't know what was up with Cason. He didn't sing and made this goofy face the whole time Kelly was singing.
Not sure why my kids both insisted on eating their cookie cake with a knife!
Not long after breakfast I headed to the gym while Kelly got the kids ready and took Cason to preschool. Coach Frogger made up a special birthday wod (workout of the day) that everyone had to (got to?) do. Kelly and I have been doing the Elite programming at our gym because we are training for a competition next month. The Elite programming is for just 10 of the members right now and is designed to hit all of our weaknesses so we can improve on them. So I had to do my Elite wod first and then I joined a friend to tackle my birthday wod. The only problem was the two slices of cookie cake that I ate after breakfast. That proved to be a very bad idea and I wished I would have waited to enjoy my cookie cake but I managed to struggle through both workouts.
That night for dinner we stopped by our current favorite pizza place, Mr. Jims. We stuffed ourselves with breadsticks and pizza and then headed home to put the kids in bed so we could watch a movie. I had a great birthday filled with all of my favorite things: my family, CrossFit, pizza, and frosting. What more could I ask for?
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Long overdue Rycie update
Thanks for taking this picture for me Lacy!
Rycie is now 20 months old and it's been awhile since I've blogged about things he currently does so here we go.
He's talking a lot more now (although I'm probably the only one to really understand him) and stringing a few words together here and there.
He's apparently part Japanese, who knew?!? He has been saying "hai!" for "yes" for months now. It's completely adorable and I will so miss it when he learns the word "yes".
Like most little boys, he LOVES balls. Any ball really but especially footballs and basketballs. He points them out anytime he sees them, has to hold a ball if he sees it, loves balls on his shirts or Cason's shirts, etc. He always wants to watch the older boys play basketball when we go to the park. He will just watch in awe for a long time. A few times I have let him take his basketball and if no one is on the court, he will make me shoot baskets over and over. Basketball is my least favorite sport (I hate it) and I'm terrible but it's nice to have two little kids cheer for me the few times I manage to get the ball in the hoop.
He also loves books. I will often notice that he has gone missing and is really quiet and those are usually the times I find him in his own room sitting in his red chair quietly looking at his books. He also loves to go in Cason's room, pull a Curious George book (and pretty much only the Curious George ones) off Cason's shelf and sit in Cason's blue chair. He will turn the pages and look at it for a few minutes, then literally TOSS the book aside and run to grab another. I guess we still need to work on how to treat books.
Cason likes to say "3...2...1...Go!" like at our CrossFit gym so anytime Rycie wants to run, he will say "3...3...Go!"
He loves to run around the house with Cason. Every day, usually several times a day, they will just start running around the house, chasing each other, making crazy noises, and laughing. Those boys play together a lot more these days, wrestle a lot more, and make each other laugh a lot.
Because Bryce is the polar opposite of his brother, he has shown NO interest in the alphabet but instead prefers numbers and colors. He likes to try to count and if he sees multiple items, he will just throw a number out there.
Rycie: 4!
Me: 4? You see 4 balloons?
Rycie: Hai!
Me: That's three balloons. One, two, three.
Rycie: Hai.
So we're obviously still working on that. He also will hold up a few fingers and say a number. Every once in awhile, the number he says and the number of fingers he's holding up match. Probably just a fluke.
He is very interested in what color things are. He likes to say everything is yellow. He knows the names red, green, blue, yellow, orange, white, and purple. But he doesn't actually know his colors yet. He gets them right once in awhile but again, probably a coincidence. But it's still cute!
He recently started calling the dog "foo". My best guess is he associates the dog with feeding her so he is trying to say "food"? But yeah, he wants to throw the ball for foo, he hears foo barking, looks for foo under his high chair when he's eating. He'll have to learn her name because we're not renaming her.
He still likes his tiger but lately he's been fancying the stuffed leopard Grandma G. brought him at Thanksgiving. I was going to make him a tiger cake for his birthday but I guess if he likes the leopard better, it will be an easy change. I'll have to see which he prefers in May. Hopefully he hasn't moved onto something else altogether because I already bought the cake pan.
For at least a year, Kelly has been doing a chant that goes "Rycie Rycie Rycie Roo Roo Roo", sometimes with a rhyming line after that. He taught this to Bryce so now if you say "Rycie Rycie Rycie", Bryce responds with "Roo Roo Roo".
Both boys love the indoor trampoline that Grandma and Grandpa G. got them for Christmas and Rycie recently learned to get some air on it. He jumps on it several times a day and always wants us to come watch him. He gets a huge grin on his face every time he jumps. He hasn't quite figured out how to jump on just the floor but he's got it dialed in on the trampoline.
And here's just some cute pictures over the past month or so.
Cason was throwing rocks in the pond, which was apparently hilarious.
Rycie is now 20 months old and it's been awhile since I've blogged about things he currently does so here we go.
He's talking a lot more now (although I'm probably the only one to really understand him) and stringing a few words together here and there.
He's apparently part Japanese, who knew?!? He has been saying "hai!" for "yes" for months now. It's completely adorable and I will so miss it when he learns the word "yes".
Like most little boys, he LOVES balls. Any ball really but especially footballs and basketballs. He points them out anytime he sees them, has to hold a ball if he sees it, loves balls on his shirts or Cason's shirts, etc. He always wants to watch the older boys play basketball when we go to the park. He will just watch in awe for a long time. A few times I have let him take his basketball and if no one is on the court, he will make me shoot baskets over and over. Basketball is my least favorite sport (I hate it) and I'm terrible but it's nice to have two little kids cheer for me the few times I manage to get the ball in the hoop.
He also loves books. I will often notice that he has gone missing and is really quiet and those are usually the times I find him in his own room sitting in his red chair quietly looking at his books. He also loves to go in Cason's room, pull a Curious George book (and pretty much only the Curious George ones) off Cason's shelf and sit in Cason's blue chair. He will turn the pages and look at it for a few minutes, then literally TOSS the book aside and run to grab another. I guess we still need to work on how to treat books.
Cason likes to say "3...2...1...Go!" like at our CrossFit gym so anytime Rycie wants to run, he will say "3...3...Go!"
He loves to run around the house with Cason. Every day, usually several times a day, they will just start running around the house, chasing each other, making crazy noises, and laughing. Those boys play together a lot more these days, wrestle a lot more, and make each other laugh a lot.
Because Bryce is the polar opposite of his brother, he has shown NO interest in the alphabet but instead prefers numbers and colors. He likes to try to count and if he sees multiple items, he will just throw a number out there.
Rycie: 4!
Me: 4? You see 4 balloons?
Rycie: Hai!
Me: That's three balloons. One, two, three.
Rycie: Hai.
So we're obviously still working on that. He also will hold up a few fingers and say a number. Every once in awhile, the number he says and the number of fingers he's holding up match. Probably just a fluke.
He is very interested in what color things are. He likes to say everything is yellow. He knows the names red, green, blue, yellow, orange, white, and purple. But he doesn't actually know his colors yet. He gets them right once in awhile but again, probably a coincidence. But it's still cute!
He recently started calling the dog "foo". My best guess is he associates the dog with feeding her so he is trying to say "food"? But yeah, he wants to throw the ball for foo, he hears foo barking, looks for foo under his high chair when he's eating. He'll have to learn her name because we're not renaming her.
He still likes his tiger but lately he's been fancying the stuffed leopard Grandma G. brought him at Thanksgiving. I was going to make him a tiger cake for his birthday but I guess if he likes the leopard better, it will be an easy change. I'll have to see which he prefers in May. Hopefully he hasn't moved onto something else altogether because I already bought the cake pan.
For at least a year, Kelly has been doing a chant that goes "Rycie Rycie Rycie Roo Roo Roo", sometimes with a rhyming line after that. He taught this to Bryce so now if you say "Rycie Rycie Rycie", Bryce responds with "Roo Roo Roo".
Both boys love the indoor trampoline that Grandma and Grandpa G. got them for Christmas and Rycie recently learned to get some air on it. He jumps on it several times a day and always wants us to come watch him. He gets a huge grin on his face every time he jumps. He hasn't quite figured out how to jump on just the floor but he's got it dialed in on the trampoline.
And here's just some cute pictures over the past month or so.
Cason was throwing rocks in the pond, which was apparently hilarious.
Monday, January 10, 2011
First day of preschool
We didn't enroll Cason in preschool last fall for a variety of reasons. A few months ago, he started talking about preschool again so I started looking into our options for next year. I have a few friends from church and a few friends from our gym that raved about a preschool nearby us. We toured it in October and liked it but weren't ready to enroll him anywhere yet. A few weeks ago, I started thinking about it again and asked my friends from the gym some more questions. They said so many good things that they convinced me that was the school for us. It's tough to get into so I called last week to see if they had any openings now so we could get a better chance of getting him in there in the fall. They were booked up but said they might have an opening soon. Well the next day, they said the spot was ours if we wanted it. We decided to go for it so Cason started back to school this morning. He will go on Mondays and Wednesdays for five hours a day.
I talked it up to Cason ever since last Thursday when we found out so he was really excited to go. I got him this cool shark backpack on ebay a few months ago so he was showing it off for the obligatory first day of school pictures.
And Grandma and Grandpa G. got him this cool penguin lunchbox for Christmas, which he was super excited to take.
Just being goofy.
He was looking at books right before we left and insisted on taking this Curious George book in the car with him.
Cason did much better than I expected. He was excited to go there this morning and when we got inside and met his teacher, he was quiet but not upset. He found his name tag right away and hung his lunch box up. I said goodbye to him and went to the office to fill out some paperwork. A few minutes later I was ready to leave so the director said she would go check on him. She came back and said he was laughing and having fun.
When I picked Cason up, his teacher said he participated in everything except when they had play time inside with trikes and stuff, he just watched for most of the time and then started playing at the end. That sounds exactly like Cason, he likes to observe for awhile before he jumps in to things. Cason told me that he had fun and was really excited to go back on Wednesday. I checked out their calendar and it says they are talking about rocks on Wednesday, one of his favorite things ever! I asked Cason what his favorite part of the day was and he said craft time where they made a rainbow for the letter R.
I talked it up to Cason ever since last Thursday when we found out so he was really excited to go. I got him this cool shark backpack on ebay a few months ago so he was showing it off for the obligatory first day of school pictures.
And Grandma and Grandpa G. got him this cool penguin lunchbox for Christmas, which he was super excited to take.
Just being goofy.
He was looking at books right before we left and insisted on taking this Curious George book in the car with him.
Cason did much better than I expected. He was excited to go there this morning and when we got inside and met his teacher, he was quiet but not upset. He found his name tag right away and hung his lunch box up. I said goodbye to him and went to the office to fill out some paperwork. A few minutes later I was ready to leave so the director said she would go check on him. She came back and said he was laughing and having fun.
When I picked Cason up, his teacher said he participated in everything except when they had play time inside with trikes and stuff, he just watched for most of the time and then started playing at the end. That sounds exactly like Cason, he likes to observe for awhile before he jumps in to things. Cason told me that he had fun and was really excited to go back on Wednesday. I checked out their calendar and it says they are talking about rocks on Wednesday, one of his favorite things ever! I asked Cason what his favorite part of the day was and he said craft time where they made a rainbow for the letter R.
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