Terrific Tuesday

 My kids LOVE the fountains!! These were taken a few weeks back, but I hadn't had a chance to post them.  Oh I love seeing their smiling faces and hearing them squeal with excitement. 

 

Happy Birthday Uncle Jeff

This week Uncle Jeff came into town for his birthday.  Today's his birthday, but we got to start playing with Uncle Jeff on Wednesday when he came into town.  We are blessed to be able to play with him until Monday.  He has to go back home on Tuesday morning.

We LOVE Uncle Jeff sooooo much and are always so excited to see him!!! Thanks to him, my son is obsessed with football.  :) Jayce loves to play rough with him and Uncle Jeff always seems to teach him something new.  This time we decided to take Uncle Jeff to our favorite place! Bouncing Bear! Of course, everyone had a super fun time!!! Before we went, Uncle Jeff had been teaching Jayce to "play dead" so there are some pictures with Jayce sticking his tongue out....that's because he's 'playing dead'. :) I'm so glad that my son....and daughter(even though Ryleigh doesn't appreciate Uncle Jeff yet), has such a fun Uncle to play with!!! Layne has always been the "cool uncle" to his nephews and now Jeff is the "cool uncle" to mine! It's so fun. 

Here's Jayce playing dead.

Look at that hair!!!! He was jumping and his entire head of hair was standing up! SOOO FUNNY!!!

Oh we had such a great time!!! Thanks Uncle Jeff and Daddy for getting to go with us this time! We love both of you soooo soooo much!!!

Blog Design

Like my new blog design?! I sure do!!! My very good friend, Erin made it for me!!! I LOVE IT! Check out her crafting blog! She so super creative.  I just love it.

14 months

I am a day late, but yesterday Ryleigh was 14 months old! I just can't believe how the time is flying by! Ryleigh is getting better and better at walking. I think by the end of the month she will be walking like a real person. :) HA. Ryleigh is such a riot! She is so much more clingy to me than Jayce ever was. It's nice sometimes, but other times it's annoying. She's been crying when I leave the room and then comes and tries to follow me. Once I leave that room and don't pick her up she loses it. She has finally started saying 'mama' which I love! Ryleigh is learning to scream at Jayce when she doesn't want him doing something to her. It's kinda funny, but oh my gosh she can scream! She can finally drink out of a sippy cup, but really enjoys drinking out of a straw. She drinks more when she drinks from a straw. She can say quite a few things. She loves to say "daddy" and it's soooo cute to hear her say it. I've got to get it on video so that we can remember it forever. She accentuates it. It's more like "Da-Deeeee." Here's a list of things that she can say:
Mama, Ju (for juice), nana(for banana), Daddy, Bu-bal(for football), Ja-a(for Jayce), ahh-duh(all done), Buh(for Buzz Lightyear), taa-tu(for thank you), up, and uh-oh . I can't remember any of the other things she can say right now. I will update it if I can remember more.

She can sign "all done" and "more". She can also tell you what a cow, lion, and chicken says. She also grunts when she wants anything that you have...like food or drink or your phone. :) She loves loves loves to pretend to talk on the phone. She loves to be outside. She loves to be on the trampoline "jumping" with her brother. She of course doesn't really jump, but she really thinks she is. She just bounces up and down as her brother jumps all around her.

She is a pretty good eater except for veggies. I can not for the life of me get her to eat veggies. The only thing she will eat is a sweet potato. She spits everything else out. She loves fruit though and she loves meat. Maybe one day I will get this girl to like eating veggies. Anyways...that's it for now. I'll try to keep up with what's going on with my RyRy a little better. Oh how I love that precious baby girl!!

Bouncin Bears

There is a new place that has just opened and it has become our absolute favorite place to go! It's called Bouncin Bears. It's an open jump place. It's sorta like Pump It Up, but mostly has open jump times instead of mostly party times. It's got the best bounce houses ever! And the coolest thing about is that they have bounce houses for Ryleigh's age! How awesome is that?!!? They really encourage parents to play with their kids which I think is so fun! Jayce LOVES it when I go down the slide with him or do any of the obstacle courses with him. Ryleigh also loves being able to go to the same places as her big brother. It's such an awesome place for the family go to. Also it's not very expensive! They don't charge the adults at all. So you only have to pay for the kids. Any child under the age of 2 is FREE, so for us it's not bad at all! I like cheap fun! :) Here's some pictures of our new favorite place!

Baby Buzz

Jayce is really into rocking babies and putting things to bed. I find him sometimes in Ryleigh's room rocking his Buzz Lightyear and then a few minutes later I will find Buzz in Ryleigh's bed and Jayce will tell me that he put Buzz night night.

So, yesterday morning Ryleigh was taking a nap and I was in the shower. Jayce came into the bathroom and told me that he put Buzz to bed. The first thing I thought was that he went into Ryleigh's room and threw Buzz into her bed. Luckily he didn't. I asked him if he put Buzz to bed in HIS bed and he told me yes. Phew! I was very relieved. So I didn't think much about it, but after I got out of the shower I walked past Jayce's room and saw that his door was closed. I also heard his noise maker on so I decided to go into this room. Not only had he put Buzz to bed, he turned on his noise maker for Buzz and he gave Buzz his blankey. SOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!! I didn't think at the time to take any pictures. But I swear it was the cutest thing ever!!!! I walked out into the living room and asked him, "where's Buzz?" and he said, "Buzz is night night Mommy."

Sea World!

This past weekend we got to go to Sea World! Layne's dad had a conference this past weekend in San Antonio and so his parents asked us if we would like to go to and stay with them. It was an awesome hotel and so we said of course! While we were there, we got to go to Sea World. I had never been before and so I think that I was the most excited :) I told Jayce that morning that we were going to go and see some really big fish and he was ecstatic. He absolutely LOVED the Sea Lions and of course Shamu. Ryleigh also enjoyed Shamu. She kept waving to the whales. SO CUTE! We also enjoyed the water and seeing all the other animals they had.

I couldn't believe how HOT it was. There isn't a lot of shade at Sea World, so it seemed like we could never get out of the hot sun. Pretty much going to the shows is the only way to escape the sun. So we tried to strategically plan when we were going to a show so that we weren't in the heat at the hottest time of the day. The kids did great with out getting much of a nap that day. Ryleigh didn't really get much out of it, but she was free. So she just enjoyed being with us :) Jayce had an absolute blast and he can't wait to go back. He was free also which was great! Layne's mom found a coupon in the newspaper the week before we went and so we got to buy adult tickets at a child's price and it was also good for TWO days! So we get to go back again. They don't expire until January so this Fall we will be going back for sure!!! I will be so glad to see everything when it's not quite so hot.

Our stud ready to fight the sun.

YAY!!! Sea World!!!

Not quite ready to take pictures. He got sunscreen in his eyes.

Spray bottles make everything better.

Oh Mom, I'm sweating already!

The sea lion show was so cute! Jayce kept his eyes on them the whole time! He was even laughing a couple times. So cute!

Penguins!

The SHAMU show!!!!

Jayce was in awe of those huge whales! He was so tired, but he kept his eyes on them. When it was over he crashed in the stroller.

Ryleigh enjoyed waving at the whales.

I don't know if you can see Ryleigh's expression, but she's looking at that penguin like, "what the heck is that and why are you so close to me!?"

SOOOOOOO tuckered out!!
Thanks Nana and Pop for a GREAT weekend!