Catch Up

I figured I better catch the blog up before the big FIRST Birthday festivities this weekend!! 

Last weekend Alan & I had some alone time together, which doesn’t happen very often.  Friday evening we came to MD so he could get fitted for a tux, then had dinner with some friends.  Saturday we woke up early and met up with my brother then rode the bikes up to the mountains.  I was taking pictures from the back of the bike!

It was a beautiful ride, we stopped for breakfast, then headed to my Aunt’s house for my cousins graduation party.  My mom drove all the grandkids there and we spent a great day with my side of the family.  We don’t get together often so this was such a nice treat!

Poor Ryder trying so hard to get to those itches!

  

Maisy being passed around from Yaya to all her sisters!

 

I love my husband, he’s such a good sport!

And Ryder looooooves his cousin Kacy!  (A little too much sometimes, huh Kacy?!)

I love my cousins too <3

That was such a nice visit, I can’t wait until we can all get together again.  There has been another visitor in the area this week…Pappy Weir has been visiting over at Nana & Pap’s where the kids go all week.  I love him, what a sweet, funny old man!  I promised him we’d get a picture together before he left, and I always try to make good on my promises.

Other than that, just the normal stuff going on around our house.  You know, Ryder being a super hero, the kids eating chips off the floor, and Maisy walking everywhere.

I can’t believe my baby girl is going to turn ONE already!  She’s so grown up already.  Off to get working on party preparations…get ready for Birthday overload coming soon :)

Doctor Daddy

Somehow I don’t think I mentioned that Ryder got his cast put back on Friday!  After a 2 week break we decided to move forward with one more round to reinforce the new skills he gained.

 

He did so well getting the cast back on and immediately went right back to using lefty.  He shocked us by being able to turn the reel on the fishing pole with his left hand!

This morning Abby emailed me to check on Ryder and I expressed some concerns I was having about how much he has been complaining about the itchiness inside his cast.  This cast was waterproof and the new material was much tighter to his arm, so I couldn’t see down in his cast to check on his arm, nor could I slide anything down in there to take care of his itches.  After reading my email she called and said she wanted it to come off immediately.  His arm had broken out pretty bad from the last cast and since we re-casted so soon she didn’t want to leave it in the cast if it was already getting irritated.  She asked me to bring him up there as soon as I could, but when I called Daddy he told me there was no reason to drive that far when he could take it off. 

LOL yeah I had the same reaction…huh???

But I trusted my husband and to Doctor Daddy’s office we went. 

He Prepped

And Snipped

 

And Tugged

And Pulled

(Little Sister was there for support)

And within 5 minutes, the cast was off! 

It was definitely a good decision because his arm is pretty irritated.  He made me sit there and scratch it for 5 minutes before we could even go wash it.  At one point he told me “Don’t Ever Stop Scratching!!!”  Poor thing, I’m sure it’s been bothering him so bad.  But it’s off now and he’s a happy guy to have both hands back.  We’ll see what happens from here…

Father’s Day

“Daddy’s Little Buck” and “Daddy’s Little Doe” would like to wish their Daddy a VERY Happy Father’s Day today!  We are so lucky to have him in our lives.  The kids are probably too young right now to realize that, but one day they will be so thankful for the man that he is.  Seeing the bond that he has with each of them makes me fall more and more in love with him if that were even possible.  He’s committed to these kids and so involved in their lives…and he puts up with me and my nagging!  What more could we ask for?!

A very special memory that I know Alan will never forget and that Ryder will love to see one day…

My flash doesn’t like moving objects at night time, but as you can see Ryder got to take his very first ride on his Daddy’s motorcycle last night!!  It was just a short trip from our house to Poppy’s house, a few streets over, but they were both as happy as could be!

Hope everyone had a good Father’s Day!!  I know we did :)

Another Busy One

Another busy weekend, come and gone!

Friday after work me & Ryder dropped Maisy off at home with Daddy and headed into our town for their annual festival!  This weekend is a huge deal in our tiny little town, they do the Fireman’s parade one night, a huge parade with floats the next day, fireworks, a carnival, all that fun stuff! 

So Friday night we headed to the Fireman’s parade.  We had the hook-up and got great parking and great seats (thanks cousin Joni!!) and absolutely enjoyed ourselves.  We got there a little while before the parade was going to start so we walked down to the carnival.  Ryder played the balloon/darts game and won a stuffed turtle, then played the little rubber duckie game and won this huge hammer!

We stopped for ice cream on our walk back to the parade from this awesome fire truck ice cream shop…

Then it was time for the parade.  I brought Ryder’s Monster Jam ear muffs because I figured the sirens would be super loud…which they were but he LOVED every second of it and didn’t want to cover up the noise (only every now and then with his hands!). 

He was excited to see his cousin Jamie go by in this fire truck…especially because Jamie has taken him to the firehouse and let him get on this truck before.  Ryder told me to watch for the yellow truck because that’s what color Jamie’s was…he was right!

The Fireman’s parade was so cool and I loved having the one on one time with Ryder doing something he enjoyed.

The next day Little Sis wanted in on some fun, so the 3 of us (Daddy was doing a side job) headed back for Day 2’s parade.  The ice cream truck was parked not far from where we were sitting and Ryder spotted it immediately, so him & Maisy got to enjoy some ice cream on this hot summer day (is it summer yet??). 

Me & Ryder sat on the sidewalk for this parade because as the floats went by they would throw candy out to everyone.  Ryder got to hang with his oh-so-cool cousin Cameron while Maisy enjoyed her spot in the shade.

 

As part of the festival they do a beauty queen contest, and as the winner rode by on her convertible I had to get a picture of Cameron’s face, he was saying “oh yeah, this is nice, she looks good, we got good seats!” LOL

Luckily Ryder was more into his Nerds candy than any pretty girls going by!

Maisy joined us on the curb for a while, she loved the floats that played music and was dancing her little butt off.

(Look how light Maisy’s hair has gotten!  Sorry, just now realizing that.)

After the parade Ryder wanted to show Maisy the carnival, so we walked there and Ryder got on this train…his very first carnival ride!

And this would be them 2 seconds after getting buckled into the car!

We headed home for nap time, but the day wasn’t over yet.  When they woke up we headed over to Poppy’s for some good old fashioned playing in the dirt!

(That is blood all over Ryder’s shirt!!!  When we got in the car to head to Poppy’s he said “Mommy a bunch of ketchup is coming out of my nose!” and I turned around to find him covered in blood…so bazaar!)

Today Paw-Paw came to Church with us then came over to play with the kids for a little while.  Then we left and headed to Mikayla’s 4th Birthday Party!!  :)  It was at the bowling alley so of course the kids had fun celebrating with her.  Unfortunately my camera battery was dead from all of the prior action it got this weekend so I don’t have any pictures from today. 

Oh, but one more thing, Maisy’s 2nd tooth popped through! 

Shew, if only we had one more day to sleep off all of the action!