Thursday, May 20, 2010
Our Lives
Ryker likes to start his day by chilling on the couch and catching up on the previous day's stock quotes. The days haven't been blockbuster days lately, mostly because of his Blockbuster stock has been tanking.
At the same time Rock will eventually find his way to the table whatever Dad's put there. Sometimes he'll mistake leftovers from the night before for breakfast, and those days don't go well.
But today wasn't one of those days. Today was a good day.
Later Rock gets put outside to roam free, and Mommy and Ryker sleep on the couch.
After a while Rock realizes that he and his trucks aren't getting enough attention. This is not a good situation, and so he makes us take pictures of his trucks and tell them how much we love them.
He is very particular in how we take the pictures, and he positions the vehicles just so.
After he gets the trucks enough attention, he takes over the picture situation. He likes to take pictures of the best looking thing in the house.
Sometimes he will let someone else take pictures, but the subject matter doesn't change.
Eventually he will get his fill of his own pictures and starts to take pictures of Ryker...and his own feet.
After a while Mommy steps in and takes the pictures herself. Rock doesn't mind if Ryker has his picture taken, as long as Rock is in it also.
Eventually all of Rock's energy is burned out in the sandbox, the table and running in circles around Mommy while she tries to clean. That's when Ryker finally gets to chill comfortably on the couch without fear of plastic baseball bats to the head.
Rock's nap time is also a good time for Ryker to get some attention from the camera.
Luckily this teaches Ryker to love attention as much as Rock does, and if history has taught us anything, it's that nothing goes wrong when two brothers both want all the attention.
"Oh, he wants some attention? Bring him here and I'll let my left fist (I call him Thunderjack) show him attention!"
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Coach Nick
As some of you know, R & R's uncle Nick is going to school to be a football coach (and according to Mom he's also going to school to not meet girls and to not get married, but that's a post for another day). We recently had a chance to go to football practice for Nick's pee wee football team. As many of you would expect, he has a distinct coaching style. Here's the video we took of practice.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Rolly Polly and Rocko
Maybe it's the sleep deprivation talking, but we are really starting to get attached to our little guys. Ryker keeps getting cuter by the minute, and we love it when he is sleeping. He is so chubby that he already fills his car seat.
He won't do it for the camera, but the little guy has started rolling over! He likes to show off his new talent, unless it's time to eat...and for Ryker it's always time to eat!
Rock is still as adorable as ever, and he knows what the camera is and what to do with it.
DeA caught the boys in a good mood and willing to pose for some glamor shots.

Hmm, if I didn't know any better I would think that these guys like attention.
Things did get a little heated towards the end when Rock tried to get Ryker to suck on his wrist.
Ryker countered with an offer for Rock to suck on his fists.
I really wish I could figure out where the boys learned to pose for the camera...
Ryker is still our little rolly polly, but we are guessing that when he starts crawling he will burn that off like Rock did.
Now little Rock can eat all the Cool Whip and caramel topping that he wants and then burn it off in the backyard.
Rock also uses a lot of energy on messes; both making them and cleaning them. In the few weeks that we've lived here he's been working really hard making hand prints on the window. Today was the day he decided to clean them off.
Once he started cleaning windows he just couldn't stop. Now he has lots of clean window space to make new hand prints.
He is still in love with the sunshine in the backyard. He likes to get out there as early as he can, even if it's still a little chilly outside.
We took the boys down to Tacoma to check out the mall down there. The boys were so excited that they fell asleep in the stroller.
Next to the mall was a Winger's! DeA and I first started going to Wingers while we were dating in Rexburg, and then there was one close to our house when we lived in Midvale. We thought it would be fun to re-live some of the memories of our pre-kids marriage days.
It was fun to eat there again, but it sure wasn't as fun and relaxing as we remembered.
Hmm...I wonder what has changed...
Sunny Days!!
One of the biggest adjustments to living here in western Washington has been the dreary weather. Many a rainy day Rock has stood by the door, longing for sunshine (or a mother that doesn't mind if he gets muddy). Well, spring is finally here and has blessed us with some beautiful days. Rock has been soaking in the sunshine in our backyard.
Rock knows that the weather is like a woman, you never know when she's going to freak out on you, start crying and ruin your sunshine. That is why he plays fast and hard and replenishes his energy with Darigold chocolate milk.
He drank almost a whole jug's worth in one morning.
After he drank it all down he sucked on the lip for a while to get out every drop of yummy milk.
Rock spends all his time in the sandbox from Mawma and Bampa Judd, or roaming the edges of the backyard.
He never knows where his travels will take him, so he takes along a Cars cup with more chocolate milk.
He started setting up an outpost in the east acreage by leaving supplies and toys in strategic locations.
He is getting frustrated by his progress, since his supplies and toys keep getting picked up by his mommy.
Today I mentioned that I needed to go mow the lawn, so Rock tried to help me get started.
Even after I got the 'real' lawn mower going, Rock still helped...the same way that he's seen DeA help me.
Only four important days left!!!
Even after I got the 'real' lawn mower going, Rock still helped...the same way that he's seen DeA help me.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Apple Blossom Weekend!!
We've had some fun times lately. My siblings and a random boyfriend have been trickling in through Sea-Tac Airport to come into town for Apple Blossom. Grappy Dale took Rock back with him Friday morning, and then DeA, Ryk and I followed after I got done with work. Early Saturday morning we woke up in time to participate in the Pig Jig!!
It was wet and rainy, but everyone was ready to rock and roll.
Rock ran a good race, and was neck and neck with DeA towards the finish line...
and then she pushed him down from behind!! He face-planted right before the finish line. His mommy finished the race and then came back to help him. But he knew what had happened...
he knew and wasn't too happy about his Mommy's cheating.
The weather got better for the parade, and with the nice weather came out the babies. Babies bring out aunts and cousins. That's the way that nature works.
Rock liked the parade, but he liked asking for candy from everybody that he could find.
After the parade Ryker decided it was time to chill and take a nap. He likes laying like this, because it feels like a hammock.
Meanwhile, Rock found the meat hammer and starting swinging it at Grammy's plant. Mommy told him "If you touch that plant one more time I'll take it away from you!"
Rock didn't listen, and paid the consequences. The bitter, sad, meat hammer-less consequences.
I don't have pictures of Sunday, because Sunday is the day that we all got hit with the super-pukey-sucky-crappy flu crap. So, instead I'm going to show Rock doing couch yoga in his diaper
and show Ryker watching Rock and secretly imagining what would happen if he fell off the couch.
Don't forget to shop early and shop often!!
It was wet and rainy, but everyone was ready to rock and roll.
Rock ran a good race, and was neck and neck with DeA towards the finish line...
and then she pushed him down from behind!! He face-planted right before the finish line. His mommy finished the race and then came back to help him. But he knew what had happened...
he knew and wasn't too happy about his Mommy's cheating.
The weather got better for the parade, and with the nice weather came out the babies. Babies bring out aunts and cousins. That's the way that nature works.
Rock liked the parade, but he liked asking for candy from everybody that he could find.
After the parade Ryker decided it was time to chill and take a nap. He likes laying like this, because it feels like a hammock.
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