Double Order of Chiseled Beefcake

As most people who meet him know, Rock certainly isn't shy about his body. Even when we do get clothes on him, he will 'accidentally' spill so that they have to be taken off.
The other thing he isn't shy about is his love for yummy Washington apples. Mmm...apples.
Ryker isn't shy about his manliness, either. He has no problems hanging his lil' baby man boobs out there for the world to drink in giant gulps.
DeA has been experimenting with Rock's nap time. He had gotten use to taking longer and later naps, which make him want to stay up until way late, sometimes past 10. Well, things are a work in progress, and sometimes he just takes matters into his own hands.
DeA has also experimented with 'rest time' for Rock. That's when she put a DVD in his bed and lets him chill while she has alone time. Sometimes rest time becomes nap time.
Rock really likes nap and rest time, because that means he can roam free. When Rock is around Ryker is constantly worried about love taps to his head. But when Rock is gone, he can play with any toy or remote that he wants.

His crawling is getting better and better. He loves knowing that he can track down his mommy whenever he wants.
Rock knows that there is more to being a man than being super chiseled. You also have to useful around the house, that's why he's learning how to mow the lawn.

Ryker's excited to become old enough to mow the lawn. His daddy is excited for that as well.

The Park and MANSON!!

We had some beautiful sunshine the other day, and Ryker wouldn't let it pass without going to the park. We loaded him up into the swing and he went nuts.

At first he wasn't sure if he was supposed to kick back and enjoy it, or sit forward and dominate the swing. Ryker dominates everything that he does, so he chose domination!!
Happy, laughing domination

Rock was a good big brother and helped Ryker master the swing.

Friday night we took off for Manson to spend conference weekend with my Papa Dale and Mama Rae. Rock slept in the car the whole way, then woke up as we tried to lay him down in his bed. He was wired, so he took laps around the house on his bicycle. At least this time he gave Mama Rae a hug before riding.

Ryker took advantage of Rock's bike ride to cuddle with Papa Dale.

The apples were ripe on the trees, so Rock helped Papa Dale pick a few boxes for us to bring home. Rock and his Cheetos were a big help.

"Hmm...we need to come up with Cheeto flavored apples!!"

Finally Rock buckled down and got to work, by putting an apple in the box.

We got home on Sunday, and Rock got right to work making elephant trunks with his Play-Dough factory. He'd squeeze some strings out, and then yell "Elephant dunk!"

Factoria!!

Our church building is right next to the Factoria Mall, so after an activity the other night we shot on over to enjoy the mall. Ryker liked riding the mall pony.

We took Rock to Cold Stone to enjoy a $.49 kid cone. He chose bumble gum, because it was blue.

As he got closer to the end of his cone he started scouting out a new flavor. He kept asking for some green, but mean old Daddy-O said no.

The mall has a hurricane simulator, and DeA thought that Rock would like the loud noises and the strong winds. She liked it.

Rock wasn't as thrilled as she thought he'd be, and asked out immediately. Then he sat there crying and yelling "MOMMY!!"

"Mommy!!!"

My parents were getting bored with an empty, quiet house, so my dad came over and stole Rock. While Rock and his grandparents partied, DeA and Ryker came down to the Puyallup Fair with me while I worked the chiro booth. Papa Dale finally brought Rock back on Tuesday. We met at a local Mexican restaurant to make the exchange, but Rock wanted to negotiate some terms.

Meanwhile, little Ryky got pretty used to the peace and quiet of a Rock-free house. He was free to roam and drool on whatever toys he wanted, and he slept better than he has before.

Look, he's so peaceful, so serene. Now he's back to being jittery and nervous that he'll get smacked in the head.

Video Proof!

RYKER!!!

The other day Ryker was reading some old blog posts before nap time. As he was drifting off to sleep he thought about how cute the baby was in all the posts. During his nap he had an epiphany (don't worry, Ryker didn't know what it meant either. Click here for the definition): That baby wasn't him! He remembered that he'd never lived in Iowa, he's never been to Macey's house and his name isn't Rock!

He demanded to know why Rock had so many blog posts all to himself, while Ryker had to share all of his posts. He even threatened to call one of his grandmas to demand that they intervene.

He went and found Rock's favorite rubber block and tried to gum it to death out of frustration.

He was so mad that if you didn't know he was mad you'd think that he was super happy and learning to almost pull himself up on stuff.
Well, by now he was happy, because Mommy was about to come in and pick him up and let him munch. Our little baby Gyker is usually happy, unless he's not getting attention.

Here is our little Ryky trying to climb. Adorable.

Fishes!!

The other day DeA went running on the treadmill. She wore her yellow Saul Run shirt, and some black capris. After running she was going to take Rock and Ryker to the park, but before she could load up Rock he ran into his room. She followed him, and by the time she got to him he had pulled out a pair of sweats and his yellow Saul shirt. He put on the sweats and then rolled them up till they matched DeA's capris, and put on the shirt. He looked at her and said "My running clothes". Then he climbed into the stroller and wanted to hold Ryker. So he did, all the way to the park.
We're getting a little leery of Rock treating Ryker like a puppy, so we went out and got Rock some new pets!

There's Rock with his two scared fishies.

He helped us put them in their temporary fishbowl, and was super-duper proud of himself. We did have to stop him from shaking up the little goldies.

He likes them.

We put them up on the mantle, away from little boy hands. Occasionally we let Rock stand on the fireplace and feed them, blow kisses at them and scare them gill-less.DeA shot this cute this video of Rock bonding with his new minions.

Speaking of Goldfish, even though Rock has bonded with his goldfishes, that doesn't mean that he can't sit back at church and munch some Pepperidge Farms Goldfishes.