Much Better

And…we’re back “on” again!  Ryder woke up Tuesday morning saying “Naaa-neee”, basically letting me know that my only option was to take him back to his Nanny’s house!  And that I did, so that made everything MUCH better for him :)  No more being afraid, no more tears, no more separation anxiety, he’s back where he’s comfortable and can be happy again!  Although, something tells me that he was still missing his Mama – this is where he was when I got there for lunch AND at the end of the day to pick him up:

Of course I’d like to think he was waiting there for his Mommy, but truthfully he loves the outdoors and was probably either watching for birds or dump trucks! 

One Word Wednesday

**FULL**

Off Day

You know how most of the time, things go according to plan…same routine, same schedule, nice & easy…and then every once in a while you have one of those day’s that is just “off”.  Well that was us today.  We had an off day.  Vicki took the day off so I set it up for a friend of ours to watch Ryder for the day since she stays home with her daughter.  Sounds simple enough, right?  Wrong!  Ryder was NOT happy about me leaving him.  I dropped him off at 6:45 and he was still crying at 8:30 when I finally decided to leave work and go back and get him.  He wanted his Mommy so bad, it was breaking my heart.  So that just set the tone for the day.  He did not want me to leave his sight for the rest of the day, I was allowed about a 2 foot radius actually, anything further than that was too far and he was screaming for me to come back!  Hello separation anxiety!  Hopefully this phase will pass soon.  He went through a stranger anxiety phase that only lasted about 2 weeks a few months back, so hopefully this one will go as fast as it came.

Speaking of separation anxiety, the past few weeks he has been having a fit when we bring him into the nursery at Church.  It’s horrible, I can hear him screaming during the sermon, he can’t calm himself down once he gets so worked up about us leaving him in there.  This is so out of character for Ryder too, if you’ve ever been around him you know that he doesn’t cry or fuss much.  I don’t know what to do to make it better…any suggestions?!

This evening, I finally decided to get him out of the house so he could switch his focus and stop living in fear that Mommy was going to abandon him again…so we headed to walmart.  Simple enough, right?  Wrong again!  As soon as we got there I realized he had a diaper blow-out.  Nice.  I won’t even go into the it-was-so-horrible-I-had-to-bring-poop-boy-inside-and-buy-him-a-new-outfit-details…just trust me, it was bad.

So, now I’m ready to turn the switch off on our off day.  Tomorrow is a new one, and something tells me it will be MUCH better than today!

Spring Blog Party

Another get together with our blog friends!  Always fun…I love these girls…and these kids…and these get togethers!  Glad there’s always another season or holiday ahead for us to use as an excuse to get together!

Just a few random pics I managed to snap during playtime:

 

Ryder & Mikayla, the love birds found eachother.(Mikayla’s Daddy is really not going to like this one!) Look how passionate they are!

Thanks so much to Patty for having us at her house!

Oh Boy…

Time to move the mattress down!!  (Imagine how surprised we were to walk in and see that this morning!)

 

And a lock on the cabinet probably wouldn’t hurt either!

I guess this is why he’s considered a “toddler” now!  Can’t wait for the adventure’s this toddler has in store for us…I see they have already begun :-)

One Word Wednesday

**Spring**

Random Videos

We have been taking so many videos of Ryder lately because it seems like he’s always doing something new or cute.  Here’s a few I thought I’d share:

He’s getting so strong, he can pull up and play at his toybox now!

Here he is having his first bite of deer meat, and doing the sign language for “more” and “eat”!

 

And just because I think this is absolutely adorable, here he is eating a banana like a big boy!