Air show

Today we headed down to Marietta for the airshow at Dobbins air force base. It was so freakin' awesome!! I still can't get over how cool the planes were and the rush from seeing six Blue Angels flying right over us! When I grow up, I want to fly one! Ryan loved the first few planes - smaller planes that made cool smoke designs - and most importantly weren't loud. The fighter planes and Blue Angels would go ripping by right over us and that was super loud, and therefore super scary. But he said he liked the red plane (the one pictured below flying straight down while making curly smoke rings). Daddy and Mommy loved the Blue Angels the best though :) And Abby doesn't have much to say about any of them - I think she must be the only person in history to fall asleep with six Blue Angels showing off over her head!

Ryan-ism for Auntie Sarah

Last week, I took the kids to a pumpkin farm with their little friends Asher and Andrew. As we were driving home, I was asking Ryan about the day and what he did and what he liked, etc. We got talking about the fish he fed and the goats too. And then he mentioned feeding ducks too. I said, no buddy, no ducks today. No, feed ducks with Sarah, Maxim. Okay ... why, yes we did feed ducks with Auntie Sarah ... two months ago! And then he says three white ducks. Okay, I don't know if I should be impressed or scared!! :)

Six months old

Happy six month birthday Sweet Abby girl! Abby is doing great - tall and skinny with a big head. :) She's sleeping twelve hours at night and usually takes two good naps. She's still nursing, but we've just started some real food too. It's not as fun & exciting this time around, just messy, so we kept putting it off! But I think we're making progress. She rolls all over the place and can sit up for a few seconds at a time before slowly falling over. And of course she's super cute! We love you baby girl!

crazy amounts of fall fun

Sometimes I don't blog because I can't think of something to blog about. Other times there is too much going on and I am overwhelmed and don't know where to start. This past week or so follows into the latter category - so much going on, I don't know what to say :)

Ryan just turned three and we have been having a wonderful time celebrating. There is a whole album dedicated to his birthday festivities in my picasa album, so check it out for the story in pictures. Lots of fun, cupcakes, family, friends, pizza, and everything else that makes turning three great. Happy Birthday little man, I love you Bug!!

We've also done all sorts of fun fall things - a hayride at Ryan's preschool, the Cumming fair, the pumpkin farm, a corn maize, watching our Bulldawgs finally get a win - and all this in the last four or five days! Busy busy indeed, but such a great week. We've enjoyed spending time with lots of family, Aunt Lolly & Uncle Brian drove down for the corn maize (alright, maybe not just for the maize). And Ryan's loved spending time with his buddies Asher and Andrew.

As always, even when I can't keep this blog up to date, be sure to check the picasa pictures page. A picture tells a thousand words or something like that right??

More Ryan-isms

We were at Ryan's three year check up and he had several funny things to say.

As we were leaving, he got to pick out a sticker. "Probably only one. Other peoples need stickers too." Woohoo, learning to share and think of others!!

We're sitting in the car and I'm skimming his notes before leaving. I'm trying to read the new charts with Ryan's height, weight, etc. Out loud to myself and Ryan, I said something along the lines of if I'm reading this right when you're 20 you'll be 6 foot, 160 pounds. From the back seat: " I have two foots!!" Ahh yes, silly mommy, even at 20 you'll still only have two foots :)

Destin ... in pictures

So we took off for a quick and spontaneous trip to Destin over the weekend. It was soo great to get away for a few days. Abby saw the ocean for the first time and loved the sand on her feet. Ryan also enjoyed the sand, although he wouldn't go near the water. It was windy and choppy, so we didn't push it, but unfortunately it rained on Sunday so we didn't get to go back to the beach. So no actual swimming and we never got to stick Abby's feet in the water. Oh well, guess we'll just have to go again soon :) We took lots of nice walks, ate some good food (love me some mahi-mahi at Pompano Joe's!), played at a playground, walked the shops, etc.

Ryan's at school right now and his birthday is tomorrow, so I am off to work on his presents, so this is a quick post and you'll have to get the jist of our trip with the pictures below. And there's of course plenty more on my picasa page (although it's no longer public, so if you are reading this and can't see my photos and want to, send me an email and I'll make sure you get the special people link).

Ryan's fort

Ryan had a great time hanging out in his "tent" under the table yesterday. He enjoyed bringing way too many toys in there and having me close his door (blanket) when he was inside. Abby also had a turn in the fort, although she didn't share his enthusiasm. Neither did poor Sampson.

Ryan-ism III

Ryan's talking so much and so well that I can hardly keep up with all the silly things he says! But there was one yesterday that I thought was particularly funny ... Apparently we bribe him with t.v. too much. As we were driving home from church yesterday, Ryan kept asking to watch Super Why, his favorite pbs show.

"Watch Super Wise! I have been good!!"

compare & contrast

So we'll see if this works ... my goal is to have two videos show in this post, one of Ryan and one of Abby. A few days ago I was watching Abby jumping in the jumperoo and thought, hey there is a video of Ryan doing this, I should go watch that video and see how they compare. So I'm watching the video and I notice it's from Feb 25th and I do the math in my head and determine Ryan was 4 days shy of being 5 months old in the video. hmm, pretty close to Abby's age, how old is Abby today? hmm, hey, she's 4 days shy of 5 months old! Let's take a video! So I promise I'm not cheesy enough to plan this (or smart enough, too much else to think about these days), but yes they are exactly the same age doing the same thing. So how do you think they compare?

ps - I don't think Ryan really understands videos yet. He thought I was taking pictures, hence the repeated "cheeeeese" and the request to "see" the picture on the back of the camera :)
ps2 - yes, Ryan had batteries in his jumperoo and Abby does not. I am that mom. I am not afraid to take batteries out of noisy toys. :) Although honestly I have thought about putting them back in after remembering how much Ryan liked the noise and lights. So in reality I'm really just lazy.