Mikey likes it...

the saying should totally be changed to "Dylan likes it" because man, this boy can eat!! Dylan will pretty much eat anything we put in front of him. On rare occasions when he doesn't want to eat, he is pretty sneaky about getting rid of his food: he hides it in between his leg and his high chair or puts his hands behind his head and drops it behind him. Generally though, he loves to eat and is also very protective of his food and doesn't like to share it AT ALL - notice the 4 donuts in 2 hands?

Dylan loves his munchkins (or munkshons as Ryan calls them) and gets more of them than he should, but he is the same way with fruit too, especially grapes, blueberries and peaches. Actually, he is the same way with any food you give him. We recently went to a concert in the park and I got Ryan a snack because he ate all of his chicken at dinner (Ryan is not a good meat-eater and says chicken make him "vomits"). Because Dylan was eyeing the cookie like a lion eyes a steak, I felt bad and bought him one too. I think he was pretty happy about it:
I didn't get one for myself but I wanted to have a little taste so I tried to take a piece of Dylan's. Big mistake.....

so I gave it back...

Lesson learned: Don't mess with a boy and his cookie! Look at that belly!!!! Love it

Spiderboy Ryan

I am so behind on the blog, I am not really even sure where to begin. How about a superhero story?? Ryan has been obsessed with superheros lately - he loves playing with his superhero action figures, reading books about them and constantly begs me to make up stories about Batman, Superman and the rest of the Superfriends. I am sure you can imagine his excitement then when we went to a birthday party today and Ryan found out the face painter at the party could turn him in to ...

SPIDERMAN!!! Ryan was thrilled with the way his face came out and insisted everyone at the party call him "Spiterman" and would not answer to Ryan. He also insisted that we keep the makeup on until Jay got home from work 4 hours later and asked me every 10 minutes for the first 2 hours "How does my face look? do I still look like Spiterman? If my face comes off, I won't be Spiterman anymore"

As we were walking home, we talked about the party, how much fun we had and how much Ryan really looked like a superhero. When I looked over at Ryan, I realized he had stopped dead in his tracks, had a look of horror on his face and was staring at his hands. I said "Ryan, are you ok? what is wrong?" and started to get really nervouse because he looked pretty crazy. His answer?? "OH MY GOODNESS. Somepin is coming out of my switches. There are some webs coming out of my switches and I REALLY AM Spiterman. Uh oh, look over there, down the street. I see Catwoman over there. You see her? She is stealing all the jews. You see them mommy? you see all the Jews?" LOL. After I quickly canvased the area to make sure that there was nobody in earshot (there was and they were cracking up laughing), I asked Ryan what he was talking about. It took a while but I finally figured out that he was calling his wrists his "switches" and was pretending that webs come out to catch catwoman and the jewels (not jews) that she was stealing. I absolutely love Ryan's imagination and creativity but I think going forward, maybe I will encourage Catwoman to steal something else, haha

After a little "building climbing", catching some bad guys with his webs, and setting a trap for Catwoman who conveniently hid in the stroller with Dylan, I thought it was time to move inside before the rest of the neighborhood got trapped by Spiderman's webs or called security.

Ryan, you are the cutest and funniest Spiderman ever!!

Memorial Day Weekend 2010

I love long weekends and what a great weekend this was! We had close to perfect weather all weekend and had a great time hanging out with the family. Aunt Erika and Uncle Richie decided to make a last minute trip up to NY on Saturday and we couldn't have been more excited to hang out with them! We spent the day on Saturday at Grandma and Papa's house having a barbecue, trying to build things out of "Better Blocks" (i think we need to give those to Richie since he was the only one that made anything halfway decent) and playing with some sparklers that Erika and Richie brought.

We even sang Happy Birthday to Grandma a few weeks late although I am not sure why Grandma got one candle in a cookie for her birthday while Ryan got 8 candles in his "half-birthday" cake.

I always say this the day after Erika and Richie leave but I miss them already and really wish that they lived closer. I had so much fun telling stories and laughing with them until my stomach hurt on Saturday night after the kids went to sleep.

Sunday morning, we headed over to Omi and Poppy's house for another barbecue. Since it was pretty warm by 9 am, we decided to fill up the kids pool so that it would have time to warm up by the afternoon. I don't think the bottom of the pool was covered with water before Dylan climbed in, clothes and all, and Ryan stripped down and jumped in too.

The water was ice cold and I am not sure how the kids could stand it but they had a ton of fun - there are no pictures of Ryan because he insisted on swimming in his underwear. The boys played for about two hours in the pool - driving their cars through the water, splashing each other and just jumping in and out, or in Dylan's case diving in and out. Once it seemed like they were getting cold, we dried them off and they went to go play on the swings.

Even though they were busting out of the seat, they were cracking up laughing and holding on to each other like best buddies. When I went to take them both out, Ryan said "I am just going to 'lax in my swing by myself now" so we took Dylan inside for a nap, gave Ryan a neck pillow and 5 minutes later......

we found Ryan like this. He slept like that for about 45 minutes until his neck pillow fell off and then he came inside and went back to sleep on the couch. While the kids napped, Omi and I challenged Poppy and Jay to some Sequence and I am happy to say the ladies were victorious!! Overall, it was a very relaxing day which culminated in Dylan getting another haircut. His hair grows very quickly and sometimes the sides look crazy. Jay has been asking me for a long time if we could cut it with the clippers and I have always said no. Poppy has always done a great job cutting Dylan's hair but because Dylan doesn't really sit still, it is really hard to cut it with scissors. I finally gave in on the buzzers this weekend and I have to admit - it was much easier, faster and I think that it came out great! Thanks Uncle Brian.

We woke up to another day of a cloudless sky on Monday and decided to see if we could get tickets to the Yankees game. Stubhub didn't fail us and we got some cheap seats in the upper deck and headed down to the stadium for Dylan's very first Yankees game.

The Yankees played the Indians and as the Yanks took the field and Andy Pettitte took the mound, Dylan was in total awe - the stadium was loud, the field was bright and we brought food a plenty - there was enough going on to keep him distracted, occupied and happy for the first 5 innings.

Ryan on the other hand, did not care at all about the game and would not still. Every 5 seconds, he was "very very thirsty", "very very hungry" or wanted to sit where Dylan was sitting.

Around the 5th inning, he was on the verge of falling asleep and sat on my lap for the next two innings. Both boys though did get up to sing YMCA and Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

Going in to the 7th inning, the score was 2-1 and then A-Rod hit a Grand Slam followed by a homer by Cano. As you can imagine, the crowd went wild.

By the end of the 7th, the score was 8-1 Yankees, the kids were pretty cranky and we were all hot so we figured we would head home and beat the crowds. Ryan fell asleep on the subway before we hit 125th street, Dylan fell asleep in his high chair while eating his dinner and the Yankees won the game 11-2.

This was a great weekend to kick off the summer and hopefully the rest of the summer will bring more fantastic times - Happy Memorial Day

Happy Birthday Dylan

Happy 1st Birthday Dylan!! I will write more tomorrow but here is a little sneak preview. When Jay and I got home today, we invited Uncle Michael over to have some birthday cake with us. After Dylan opened some of his birthday presents (which Ryan cared about more than Dylan), it was time for cake. Obviously the cake was a bigger hit than the presents!!

Dylan - we hope that you had a wonderful birthday. We love you so much and can't wait to see what fun things the next year will bring!! xoxxoxoxox Happy Birthday little boy!

Subway

When you go out to eat, do you ever think about what is going on in the kitchen? Who makes your food? Is it clean back there? Well, wonder no more!! If you are a frequent visitor of Subway, this is what might be going on in the kitchen:

The other day, Jay went to get the car inspected across the street from Subway and left the boys with mom while he talked to the guy - when he came back, he found this. I think Ryan must have been sucking in his stomach because he is not that skinny.

Dylan, Where are you?

It has been a very long time since I put up a video so here is a short one until I can get some more up

Grilled Cheese

Grilled Cheese has always been a big favorite in our house - for a long time, Ryan asked for it everyday for lunch.

Last week, Dylan got try grilled cheese for the first time and loved it - he finished a two slices of bread, two slices of cheese sandwich in half the time Ryan did.

I think that Dylan must have been afraid we were going to take some of the sandwich away and decided to double-fist when he only had two pieces left.

What did Dylan do when he finished his sandwich? Started eyeing Ryan's - haha, that boy sure can eat!