My apologies for being so absent lately. The past month has brought my busiest work time of the year, Todd's busiest work time of the year, Ryan's 3rd birthday, surgery for Ryan, selling our house, hopefully buying another and learning the sex of baby #2!
Happy 3rd birthday to the most energetic, adventurous, curious, fun little boy we know. He celebrated on his actual birthday (Feb. 23rd) at school with Thomas the Train balloons and train cookies that he helped make. I can't believe how grown up he looks in the first picture! He's still about 3 feet and 35 pounds, but he's stretching out and now that he's potty trained and doesn't have a bulky diaper on, he appears even older.
The weekend after his birthday we celebrated with family and friends at a Finding Nemo pool party at Matt Ross Community Center. The kids could have cared less about the cake and just wanted to hurry up so they could go swim:). It was so sweet to watch Ryan blow his candles out this year because he actually understood what was going on.
March Madness has a new meaning for our family and is in full swing for us. The week following Ryan's 3rd birthday, he was scheduled to have his tonsils and adenoids out (if you're older than 3 it's outpatient surgery and you don't have to stay overnight). We visited the hospital a couple days prior for a pre-op tour which helped us all better prepare for the events that day (not to mention, it was interesting for me to be on the patient side of things at Children's Mercy), then we returned on Friday the 2nd for his surgery. They let him take one "comfort item" so Scruffy (the stuffed dog he has permanently borrowed from his cousins Jack and Olivia) got to go into surgery with him and got an ID bracelet just like Ryan's, which is still on as his collar. He was a trooper up until he came out of anesthesia when he went from real crying to the a constant drone of fake crying for a good 15 minutes until he fell asleep in my arms. Once he was under and the surgeon got in his throat she discovered that his adenoids were enormous and we learned that was the cause of his "Darth Vader breathing." He's already feeling much better and after a week at home with me and getting more sleep than usual, he returns to school tomorrow. It will take several weeks for any results to fully set in but we can already tell he's starting to snore less and we're hopeful that being able to breath through his nose will help him sleep better, talk clearer and generally be in a better mood.
Daddy, Ryan and Scruffy before going into surgery.
Since we had lots of time together at home this last week, we learned about bugs and made some crafts. I don't think it matters what the craft is, as long as it includes googly eyes:)
I wrapped up my big event at work and busiest time of the year on Feb. 11th in time for Todd to start his busiest time of the year from February through April. We were planning to put our house on the market for sale by owner at the end of February to see how it faired and were under contract within one day. We did the showing the night of Ryan's birthday and began house hunting immediately and are in the process of negotiating a deal on a house but it's far from final so we're keeping our fingers crossed it works out on the new place.
Somewhere in the middle of our March Madness, we learned that baby number 2 is a boy, and our due date is still August 2nd. Todd and I are both very excited to have another boy however Ryan still asks for a baby sister so we'll see how that pans out.
Other fun pictures from the past couple months...
My cousin Mandy and her family were in KC to celebrate Bell's birthday and we met up at Union Station where the kids had a blast playing hands-on with everything. It was so good to see their family, and we're glad the kiddos got to play together.
digging fossils
exploring the helicopter with Bell, Brad and Daddy
Just being silly with Mommy. He found the Scotch tape, brought it to me, and told me we needed to make piggies. We had done this once months ago and I had no idea he'd remember.
Lots of good, silly fun, but oh so flattering:)
Our little squirt loves to slide, and the surface doesn't even have to be slick. But when he discovered the long, slippery hallway at Aunt Kelli's house, there was no stopping him.
