Sunday, January 27, 2008

Ode To Cole...A Haiku

The teething baby
Needs Orajel and kisses
Why not born with teeth?????????????????

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Splish Splash They Were Takin' A Bath


I Caaaaan't Beeeeeelieve Yoooooou!


I'm Hit!!!!

(In Maniacal Tone): Muah ha ha!!!


Bath

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Morning Thoughts With Ry


Mom: What do you want to wear today Ry?
Ry: Einsteins shirt! (A shirt with Leo on it, a charcater from the cartoon Little Einsteins)
Mom: Great, we've got a mission! (They say that on the show) What should our mission be?
Ry: To party!

Monday, January 14, 2008

Random




Applause, please

Ah, the little things. So Cole is now clapping, which is really cute. I know, this is big BIG excitement! Here's a quick video with some apologies in advance:
1. The shaking is me clapping so he'll imitate me
2. He get so pumped up about the event that he pukes at the end. Sorry about that.

More Pancakes Please

Ry thinks that the higher his voice goes the more likely we are to do something for him...

Mysterio Predicts...Your Baby Will Eat Manhattan

Our good friends Sue & Dave and Melissa & Jim also had babies last year. Melissa bought everyone these Mysterio shirts for everyone -- the concept is you buy the shirt and it comes sealed. You open it and Mysterio tells you what your baby is going to be when he/she grows up.

They all wore them around the same age (a few months I think)...which one of these things is not like the other?!

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Morning

This is one of those mornings that I arrive at work and take a deep breath and say...thank goodness I'm here.

Phil works 3 12-hour shifts a week. This is wonderful because it means that he's home with the boys 4 days out of the week. The downside of this is on the days he works, he leaves the house at 5:30 am and doesn't get home until 8:30 pm (because he works in Philly).

This means that Mom is on duty 24/7...essentially 2 full time jobs (at least that's how it feels :-). I know it sounds like I'm complaining...really I'm not...I'm just venting. Mostly because of my morning:
  • Wake up at 6:30 am and look at the clock. I usually wake up at 5:30. Must not have set the alarm correctly and now I'm guaranteed to have a bad hair day
  • Lie in bed for a minute going through my closet in my head. Hear Cole stirring in my crib which means he's not making it to his usual 7 am wakeup call
  • Throw on some clothes and brush my teeth. Hair in ponytail
  • Get Cole up and go into Ry's room. He opens his eyes and starts crying
  • In the car on the way to school, Ry's granola bar breaks in half and this launches him into a total panic and is crying & screaming "Mommy fix it!!!!" Have to pull over and explain to him I cannot put the granola bar back together
  • Pull into school. Get Ry out of the car and put him on the sidewalk. Apparently the Granola Bar Incident of 2008 was still on his mind and he throws himself on the ground for tantrum (#1)
  • It rained this morning so said tantrum occured inside a puddle
  • When I went to put Ry on the sidewalk, I dropped the bag with their daycare stuff so there are bottles and baby food rolling around the ground. One went under a car and I'm on my hands & knees fishing it out (remember it rained...I'm wearing cute jeans...they're now soaked)
  • Get Cole out of car. Ry refuses to stand up and walk so I'm forced to do a time-out in the parking lot. This begins a tantrum (#2)
  • Finally get him inside and throw him in a chair in the lobby for another time-out. I bring Cole to his classroom and leave Ry there. Parents dropping off their kids are giving him the look of (a) I'm so glad that's not my kid and (b) What mother would just leave a hysterical child to cry alone in the daycare lobby?!
  • Finally scoop him up and bring to classroom. His pants are soaked (please refer back to tantrum #1) so I have to replace them. Apparently I haven't updated his extra clothes in awhile and need to squeeze him into pants that are 2 sizes too small. This doesn't fly and he launches into tantrum (#3)
  • Get him into a chair for breakfast. Teacher puts a muffin and peaches in front of him. The little bugger looks up at me and says "Ry Ry's happy now."

Need I say more?

Friday, January 04, 2008

Where Does The Time Go?!

I was looking for something on my computer today and found a bunch of old Ry pics...these are from right before we moved into the new house so they're just about a year old. It's so crazy how quickly things change!



New Baby

Liz & George had their baby...George III was born on New Years Eve!