Thought I'd post these before I forget. Trev came up with what I found to be a brilliant game--Ryan sits in the basket while he pushes the basket around the house. So it accomplishes two of my daily goals--expend Trevor's energy while at the same time entertaining Ryan. If I remember right Trev kept this up for a good ten to fifteen minutes, perfect time for getting lunch together.
Weeeeee!
After a few laps of pushing Trev would announce it time to rest and jump in the basket with Ryan for a while before hopping out to start again. At some point Trevor thought it'd be fun to throw toys in too, but then noticed that Ryan would hold onto the toys instead of the edges of the basket. So captain safety declared that it was most important for Ryan to hold on and got rid of the distracting toys. He was probably on to something there.
Ryan is finally old enough to sit in the big sand areas and play rather than try to jam all the dirt he can manage in his mouth. So happy day! We went to a 'big boy' park this weekend. It has higher climbing things for the daring. Trev continues to be a braver monkey lately. He'll get himself through the big catapillar things on his own and is trying to figure out how to climb up poles but still needs a little help. We start up gymnastics again next week after stopping for the summer. I'm thinking he'll love it again.
Ryan not eating sand
Trevor on top of the catipillar
They both had a lot of fun in the little tunnels. Ryan thought it was hilarious when Trevor would pop in and out. And sometimes he just found it pretty exciting sitting in the tube period.
Where'd Trevor go?
He just remembered a funny
Later that day we went over to some friends' house to play games and visit. There were three little girl babies there, all of them under six months. Trevor enjoyed trying to make them laugh (until it got boring of course) and had most success with one of the twins, Jessica. Ryan didn't seem to notice much that they were there except when he occasionally got kicked in the face. Girls. Sheesh. But he did get to play with exciting pink toys part of the evening.
Ahhh aren't they cute?
And this was from a different day--Trevor was making thankyou bags to put his thankyou cookies (dinosaur shaped with extra sprinkles) for his teachers. I put Ryan in chair number two and we managed to avoid any falling disasters. The sitting on the chair was novel for a good fifteen minutes or so. Trevor and Ryan are moving up in their daycare rooms tomorrow. Trevor will be a Hummingbird and Ryan a Teddy Bear. I think it's a bigger switch for Trevor because it'll be more preschool focused and more kids per adult. I guess they get to take real field trips and all that too this year. He's pretty excited about it and dubbed himself a Hummingbird a couple weeks ago. Ryan is blissfully unaware, but seems to be reasonably adaptable for his age so I'm thinking it'll work out okay. I start work this week by going to the agency retreat in Apple Valley. It's just two days, but sort of carries the impending thought that school is indeed starting again.
Ryan has been pretty busy growing in some teeth in the past couple months. I think the two bottoms started early June and now he has four on bottom and four coming in on top already. I was trying to take some pictures to show his top ones, as requested by Grandpa Steve, but it's tricky because they're not fully grown in and he seems to smile without showing the chompers.
And I just thought he looked cute in this one.
And off topic, since teeth aren't really required here--Trev and his favorite part of cooking
