Opening Day - Take one

Today was opening day for the Yankees - the final opening day in the "House that Ruth Built". Jay and I have been looking forward to the game for weeks and took off work so that we could go with Michael and Jasmine. We even got Ryan ready for the game (he was staying home with Elizabeth but said he planned to cheer from home):

Ryan even called Aunt Erika to discuss the game and the starting pitcher, Chien-Ming Wang.

The weather did not look good, but we were all hopeful and headed out to the stadium with our brand new ponchos, just in case (thanks Jasmine!!) After a two hour rain delay, the game was canceled and rescheduled for tomorrow at 7:00 p.m.

We look pretty happy for a bunch of people who didn't get to see a game right? Hopefully, we will have better luck tomorrow. Let's go Yankees!!

Show me your muscles

I think that I have mentioned before that Ryan really likes to help put the groceries away. He dumps out the bags and carries everything in to the kitchen, one by one, and then hands it to Jay or me to put away. Now that we have a car (hooray!!), we decided to go to Stew Leonard's this weekend and really stock up. As soon as we got home, Ryan got to work. He brought in the cheese, the paper towels, the vegetables, but I couldn't believe it when I turned around and saw him bringing this:

That is an 8 pound bag of oranges- 8 pounds!!! I am not sure what Ryan weighs now, but I am pretty sure that bag is about 1/3 of his weight. If they had a toddler weightlifting competition, I am pretty sure Ryan would win.

Tattletale

Ryan is a tattletale. We were eating dinner at Jay's parents house for Brian's birthday and Ryan was playing on the floor. He started playing with something that he shouldn't and Amanda, Brian's girlfriend, told Ryan that he shouldn't play with it or he might get hurt. She was completely right and if I saw him doing it first, I would have told him the same thing. Well, Ryan stood up, stared her down, and came running over to me saying "mama, mama". I said, "Yes, Ryan, what do you need?" and he started talking a mile a minute saying who-knows-what but I am pretty sure he was telling on Amanda. How do I know that? As he was talking, he pointed right at Amanda, then pointed at what he was playing with and back at Amanda. It was so obvious what he was saying and while I tried not to laugh at what a snitch he was, it amazed me how much he really is able to communicate without using real words.

Bubbles

The Hunt

Ryan's first Easter hunt was so much fun. We hid the dyed eggs (plus some brightly colored plastic eggs) all over Omi and Poppy's yard and then began the search. It took Ryan a little while to get going for two reasons:

1. I think some of the dyed eggs were not bright enough for Ryan to see right away. When he saw bright ones, he would going running for them, but would run right by some of the paler ones.

2. He insisted on using his shopping cart to transport his eggs rather than the basket. It is not the sturdiest wagon, and Ryan had a pretty tough time pushing it over the grass. It became even harder when he decided that he wanted to hold his basket while he pushed the wagon.

Somewhere along the hunt, Ryan realized that the plastic eggs had chocolate, jelly beans etc. in them and then things really got moving. Ryan ditched both his basket and wagon at that point because they were slowing him down but then he was running around holding all his eggs. Poppy helped him put them in his pocket and Ryan was quite happy with this solution.
By the time the egg hunt was over, Ryan was covered in chocolate and was drooling pink and blue from the jelly beans.

Thank you Omi and Poppy for the great Easter egg hunt! We had a blast.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! When Ryan woke up, we went downstairs at Omi and Poppy's house and Ryan immediately saw his Easter bucket and wanted to play with it. Half the stuff wasn't even in it yet so we decided to save the rest for a rainy day.

Thank you Grandma for many of the Easter goodies and to McDonald's for providing the Spongebob Squarepants.

Easter Eggs: Dyeing for the Hunt

Ryan's Omi made about about three dozen hard-boiled eggs for this year's egg hunt and she invited Ryan and I over for egg dyeing. Of course, I love doing crafts with Ryan and therefore couldn't wait. We put Ryan in some play clothes, covered the table with plastic, covered the floor with newspaper and got ready to begin. We had so many decorating options: dye, stickers, crayons and even glitter (we decided to save that until next year).

Ryan was more of a banger than a roller, but he had fun and only cracked about half-dozen eggs. Rather than let the broken ones going to waste, Ryan let us know he would give them a good home.

I told you, the boy loves eggs.