Lately ...

I cannot even begin to document everything that has been going on lately but I will try ... Our little mister is growing up so fast.

His personality is the best.  He is such his own little person.  I am sure that all moms say that about their kids but Ryland really has a great personality and is so funny.  He makes us laugh all the time :)

He still loves all sports ... loves to play them and loves to watch them on tv. Loves to kick balls, loves to swing a golf club, loves to catch balls, loves to bounce balls.

Breakfast is his favorite meal of the day.  I think he eats enough at breakfast to last for the entire day.  During the week he eats cereal most of the time.  He ALWAYS has to eat 2 types of cereal.  He will pick his 2 boxes of cereal out of the pantry each morning and then take them over to his chair.  He has been eating 4 or 5 small bowls of cereal every morning.  But now we are trying to get him to only eat 1 big bowl of each cereal (2 total) so that we can get through breakfast time a little quicker.  On the weekends he loves to make blueberry muffins.  We have an animal muffin pan with 8 animal shapes.  Ryland picks out 4 of them for himself and then he gives me 2 and Tab 2.

Ryland loves his routine!  This morning I drove "daddy's big truck" into work so that I could get it cleaned and he was not happy about it at first because that was the car that he was "supposed" to go to school in.  And Codi could not ride in my car with them (yes - Codi goes to school every morning with them in daddy's big truck!)

Ryland has been pushing the limits with not listening and pitching your typical 2 year fit.  It is hard for Ryland to unwind after he starts throwing a fit ... nothing is right even if you give him what he is asking for.  Time outs are hard because he does not want to stay in his time out spot.  Got to love the terrible twos!  Lets hope this stops when he turns three in December!!

Ryland has zero interest in potty training.  All of the excitement that we had back in the summer is gone.  Lets hope he is ready soon.

Ryland is already excited about his 3rd birthday!  We talk a lot about it.  And he tells us what kind of cake he wants.  Originally it was Sponge Bob (ummm - no!) and now it is Lightning McQueen (much better).  One time I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday party and he said that he wanted to take his friends to Publix to get sprinkle cookies.  Now that would be easy!!  We still have not decided on the birthday party details but I need to get them confirmed so that I can order and send the invites.  December is going to be here before we know it!

Ryland is going to die when Dash (elf on the shelf) reappears next month.  He is starting to talk about him and Santa Clause again and how they are in the north pole together.

Ryland is really into counting stuff right now.  Counting cars, road signs, chicken nuggets, anything!

Ryland is getting really good at recognizing all of his letters.  We are working on him being able to spell his name.

He LOVES his "tennis shoes".  He has moved from wanting to wear his crocs every day to now wanting to wear his tennis shoes every day.  They allow him to run faster and jump higher :)  I am a little picky about shoes for him and I do not like most tennis shoes that are out there for toddler boys.  But I love the gray New Balance tennis shoes so that is what he has.  And after they started falling apart from being worn so much and being washed so many times in the washer I got online to order a new pair and found out that they were sold out of his size!  Luckily my mom was at the outlet last week and was able to find them in the New Balance outlet store so now he has a brand new pair.  Ryland was so excited!  The first night that he had his new shoes he had to put them on and go outside to see how high he could kick the ball!

Food loves ... apples, grapes, chick-fil-a, cereal, muffins, cookies from publix, avocados (he is back to loving these!), grilled cheese sandwich dipped in tomato soup, marsh mellows & raisins, sauces to "dip" his food in and cheese pizza (he has started to not like toppings on this pizza).

Most of the time he has to have shoes on.  He does not like to go barefoot unless it is bed time.

He loves to whisper secrets or when he is sneaking up on something. 

He loves to hide and have us find him.

He loves Cars and Toy Story!

Got to love our Ryland!