Easter Weekend!

Saturday-

This was Rylan's first time dieing Easter eggs. Last year he basically just watched (which is exactly what Addilyn did this year). He loved it and was so excited about everything. Yes... basically every egg was cracked from him literally throwing and dropping them into the colored cups...but they were still edable :)





He loved pulling them out of the colored die. As soon as it would surface he would say "Ohhh...Ball!"


He also enjoyed putting stickers on some of the eggs after they were dry. He was really into it and afterward would point to each sticker and just smile.




Daddy was such a trooper :)


Easter Sunday-

Addilyn - 8 Months Old


Rylan - 20 Months Old

(This kid was not in the picture taking mood! He would not sit or stand still for even a second!)

Mommy & Addilyn in our Easter dresses :)


When Rylan found his basket Easter morning, the first thing he saw were these Cars pajamas from the movie Cars. We bought it on Blu-ray about two weeks ago and he's basically watched it everyday since. It's the only thing that he wanted and it took us a while to get his attention back to the other things in his basket.


Addilyn got a book in her basket...I love this reaction after we gave it to her to hold!


She was really into it! She's recently started pointing at things when we read books to her. Before she would just smack the page and want to "taste" it. I love how she really looks and points at the pictures with her little pointer finger now.


Later that day we went to dinner at my Mom's and celebrated my sister Kimberly's birthday. My other sister Chrissy and her family were there too. It was a great way to spend our Easter afternoon!



(I don't think she liked them on her head very much.)

Utah's Hogle Zoo Trip

Two Saturdays ago we went to the zoo. It was suppose to be a pretty decent day, but we ended up wearing our coats the entire time. We still had a blast though! All winter long Rylan has been really into animals and animal noises! So we were really excited to take him to the zoo to see them real and up close! :)



Rylan made new friends!


Addilyn chilled in the stroller most of the time.


Family photo with the Rhinoceros.


Mommy & Addilyn in the Reptile Building (Nice and warm...and smelly too :/)


The Giraffe's were pretty friendly! So close!


Mommy & Rylan outside the Great Apes House.


Addilyn- Smiling as always!


We met up half way with my Mom and Chrissy's family. This is Rylan with his cousins Khloe and Kooper. They were so sweet to hold Rylan's hand as we walked around.


Before we left, Grammy paid for all of us to ride the train. It took us around to see more animals. Rylan LoVeS trains! He was pretty quiet throughout the ride, but I knew he was LoViNg it!!

(I have no idea what I'm saying in this picture, but check out how cute that little boy is.)


Addilyn was excited for the ride too!


Even after the ride, Rylan couldn't keep his eyes off the train.


He saw it drive by while we played at the Discovery Land Park.


We saw lots more of course. I'm such a first time Mommy at the zoo. I probably have a picture of Rylan with every animal. :) We had a great time and will definitely be going back when it warms up again!

The Big Tub

Addilyn has graduated to the "Big Tub" ... and she is LoViNg it!! :)

Play Time!!

Play, play, play... lots of play time around our house! We've had to learn to be creative with our play with Rylan needing attention and entertainment more and more and Addilyn getting older and sleeping less throughout the day. We basically spend a lot of the day playing since we also don't have a car to go anywhere until Daddy gets home. Aside from toys galore, we read lots of books, do puzzles, draw and color, run and dance to music, go through drawers and cabinets (Rylan loves to discover new gagets still :), kick and throw balls ("ball time"), and much much more. The photos from this past week are mostly the two of them playing. So nothing too exciting to see, but lots of fun to do! This is basically all that we do all day everyday! Can't wait for warmer weather and to start exploring the world outside of our home!!

Addilyn has been sitting up for a while now and she's getting pretty comfortable with making her way to all the toys on the floor. She's basically beginning to discover that there are more then just rattles and rubber ducks. :)


We build lots of towers and walls with the different blocks that we have. This past week Rylan discovered he could put things inside. We built a tunnel for all of his cars to go in and out of (I told him to smile and this is what he did)...


Rylan found a comb in Addilyn's room...he sat down right beside her all on his own and started brushing her hair (no prompts from mom either) I thought it was pretty cute!

Story Time

Kyle was reading Rylan and Addilyn a quick story before bed. It was cute how into it they both were...


Towards the end of the story Addilyn got bored and decided to entertain herself by grabbing Rylan's hair. (You can imagine that this didn't go over too well.)


Rylan is usually the one crawling all over this huge elephant. I decided to put Addilyn on it for once and she LoVeD it! She started screaming and laughing...


Sweet little girl...

This past week...

Smiley Addilyn!!


Rylan- dumped the blocks, pushed the bucket all the way to the kitchen, turned it upside down, climbed on top, opened the drawer, grabbed the hot pad... all on his own. :)

The Garbage Truck!

Okay... I can't believe that I'm actually going to post about this, but Rylan gets soo happy and excited every time I just had to.

So you know how pathetic your life is when watching the garbage truck has become a normal part of your routine every other day. We live in an apartment complex with no vehicle during the days to go anywhere. Kyle takes our only car to work which honestly hasn't been so bad with it being winter and freezing outside (I don't really want to go anywhere). So with no vehicle we've had to become creative with our days. :)

Over the winter it has become a tradition in a way around 10:00am to watch the garbage truck. Right outside Rylan's window is a perfect view of the nearest dumpster to our apartment. In our living room and kitchen we can hear the garbage truck for a little bit stopping at all the other dumpsters before it gets to this one. When Rylan hears the loud noise and banging of the dumpsters he goes running to his room to where he can see it!

He'll wait and wait....
Rylan waiting for the garbage truck.


Until it finally appears!! I love his reaction every time!


This is what he can see from his window. :)


On this particular day Addilyn was actually watching and really into it (she normally just looks around the room or at Rylan).


She was so funny, she giggled every time there was a loud bang noise. I'm just glad she was smiling rather then crying.


I asked Rylan what he was looking at out the window. This is him grinning as he said "tuck" (truck).


I guess it's not that pathetic. Rylan loves to watch the garbage truck and calls out "more, more" every time after it drives away. It's just silly how something so small to us, like the garbage truck picking up trash, is soo exciting in the eyes of a little boy!

February 22nd we celebrated Kyle's 26th birthday! Of all the days both children could have been sick, they picked Daddy's birthday. However, my mom bravely came over that evening to watch the two of them so we could go out to dinner to celebrate his big day! A few photos:

Sick little Rylan fell asleep on Daddy.


This was Rylan... allll day long. He has never been so sick to where he slept on the couch literally all day only waking up for 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there. It was so sad. He's usually bouncing off the walls and can barely sit long enough to eat all of his lunch.


That evening after the medicine set in, Rylan and Addilyn both woke up enough to watch Daddy make a wish!


Addilyn enjoying Kyle's birthday balloons!


Rylan is now 19 months old. He loves to try to sit in Addilyn's things around the house like her bouncer, Bebe pod seat, her toycastle (an exersaucer), and even on her blanket. He thinks it's so much fun!


Rylan is really into trains right now. He'll make a train out of everything. Here he is lining up his cars to make a "car" train... Everything that drives is "Choo choo" to him.


Addilyn is 7 months old. She has two teeth now on the bottom (hard to see in this photo, but they're there)!


This is Addilyn's signature look! She never took a binky ever since she was a few weeks old. She'd spit them out and her fingers would slip right in. The funny thing is that it's only her two middle fingers...every time! I find it frustrating (because I can never take those cute little fingers away like I could a binky when she gets a little older) but for now, she's pretty darn cute!


She is still constantly full smiles and such a happy baby!


I love her expressions! This photo makes me smile!


Rylan is finally learning to share a little with her. He's learned to ask nicely instead of just yanking every toy she has away from her. He loves to hold, hug, and try tickling her. And he greets her every morning with a very high pitched "Hiiiiii" when he sees her for the first time. It's the sweetest thing!


Reading some books before bed. I couldn't believe I got everyone to smile at the same time.


I taught 5th grade for three years before I quit to stay home with my two adorable kids. Every March 14th our grade would celebrate pi day (3.14). We'd do some activities in math to teach what pi was and depending on the class I taught we would even practice some pi math with measuring circles and so forth. The kids would bring in pie that day and at the end of math we would stuff our faces with yummy slices of a variety of pies.

Well, I couldn't pass up this fun excuse to enjoy some yummy pie so we celebrated pi day this year too for dessert. Rylan LoVeD it!! He kept saying "Mo Peese" (More please) over and over and even after I took him down from the high chair, he came over to me for another bite and then to kyle and so forth. It was a fun little tradition to start even though I'm no longer teaching.


Sweet Addilyn was just staring at me as I ate it and I felt awful. So I couldn't help myself; I had to sneak her a little taste. Oh man... she LoVeD it!! Look at that smile!! :)