The last week

Last Saturday we had Ryan's baptism. We were lucky enough to have my entire family here.





It was pretty funny. The priest asked Ken to do the first reading and then handed him the book. Ken immediately started reading out loud. He had no clue the priest wanted him to do it in front of the entire church. So after a practice run Ken got up and read perfectly in front of everyone.



We headed to my parents house for Thanksgiving. Ken sat on the computer playing poker with Brian the entire time and I sat at the kitchen table making snowflakes. Boy, it was nice to have some time for ourselves! Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Brian and Ryan.

Us

Everyone

Ryan's Small Party

Unfortunately, today was a busy day. Chris and I decided to make cupcakes for Ryan. Well, during Ryan's first nap Chris was at school. So we had to wait until Ryan's second nap. We started as soon as Ryan fell asleep. Ken came home at 4:30, Ryan was still asleep and we were able to ice the cupcakes.
As soon as the cupcakes were iced we woke Ryan up. Chris had soccer today at 6:00 and I had my parenting class at 6:30. That meant we only had about a half hour for cupcakes and dinner.

We didn't have enough time for dinner. So we all had dinner after our activities. Thank you Ken for cooking dinner tonight.

Ryan wasn't really sure what was going on. After a quick try of the cupcake he decided he liked it. Ryan kept looking at us and laughing while eating the cupcake. It was almost like he was thinking "my parents lost their minds, I am eating tons of sugar.

At the end, he was our typical birthday boy. We decided to give Ryan his presents on Saturday when my family is here.

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Hide and Seek

Chris's lip is healing. He says it doesn't bother him but I beg to differ. He holds his lip up when talking so many words sound funny. Yesterday I had to keep asking "what?"

I love when kids play hide and seek. I think it is so cute that they think since they can't see you, you can't see them.



After a quick hide and seek game Ryan was off to play soccer. I remember when I taught Chris to kick a soccer ball. He would crawl to the soccer ball, pull himself up, kick it and usually fall over. Ryan will only try to kick the ball if he is holding onto the table or couch. Instead he just walks into the ball and thinks it is wonderful that it rolls forward.

Chris's Accident

Chris fell off some playground equipment while at daycare. After an hour of being home his lip already looks better. Ken originally thought a tooth was loose but after further inspection we decided it was not. We tested to see if there was any pain by giving him an Oreo. Just ask Ken's mom...Oreos and Children's Tylenol fix most injuries. Since he bit down on the Oreo with his two front teeth we figured they were not bothering him. There was no need for the Children's Tylenol this time.

Art

Ken decided to let Chris paint. He covered the entire table in packing paper and let Chris and Ryan have at it.

Here is Ryan wondering what happened to that orange crayon he was using! Ken said that he was helping Chris and when he looked over Ryan was chowing down on a crayon!


Chris hard at work.


I love that the boys are shirtless with bibs! Sometimes Ken is so funny.