Happy Birthday Ryker

I can't believe your 2!  Although sometimes you'd prefer to be 6, at least that's what you tell us!!  2 years ago you entered this world as our little sumo baby, large for your age (according to the nurses)!  My how we love you.  You have so much personality bottled up inside you.  You can pull the funniest faces... a mad face, happy face, scary face, surprised face, etc.  It's so funny!  You've mastered a sympathy laugh and can turn it on and off in an instant.  You love to yell at your brothers (hmmmm... wonder where you learned that from)!  You're obsessed with shoes and LOVE to wear them!  You remind me so much of Lucas & Kody... kind of a cross between the two.  You love to learn like Lucas did at this age and currently you love to point out colors.  You are also busy figuring everything out just like Kody.  I guess that's what happens when you have them to look to as examples.  You still despise nursery and will only stay (without hyperventilating) if either dad or I are in there.  We've tried a couple of times to have you sleep in a big boy bed, but so far you've freaked out both times and don't think it's fun AT ALL!  Unfortunately, buddy, this is going to have to happen sooner than later!!!  Here's a few of your favorite things right now...
Favorite Book: Little Boy (we ready this 100 times a day, I swear!)
Favorite Move: Tangled  (you request to watch the "horse moobie" all day long... sometimes we've actually seen this 3 or 4 times a day and you never get tired of it, but your brothers are!)
Favorite Food: Mac & Cheese
Favorite Song: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (as long as you get to jump and yell "beam")
Favorite Animal: A toss up between Puppy & Horse

You are so darn cute I could just squeeze you all the time!  Sometimes you're just like a mini adult as you walk around talking non stop and thinking you know everything.  It makes me smile!

For Ryker's birthday we decided to go play at the Trafalga in Lehi.  This was our first time there and the kids loved it!  We'll definitely be going back!  After church today he got to open his presents.  And much to his brothers dismay, he didn't need help!!  He got a new bike (which he's been riding inv sdvrrr the house for the past week), some new shoes, a couple of fun books, some popsicle molds, a tunnel to play in, a new swimming suit and some bath toys.  We ate homemade Ice Cream and Lemon Pie.  He even blew out his two candles all by himself.

Ryker... we love YOU!!

The Graduate

Lucas graduated from Kindergarten yesterday.  He has absolutely loved school this year.  Mrs. Price is an incredible teacher and he's really going to miss her.  He loves to learn and that makes everything fun and exciting.  He's enjoyed learning to read and we'll hopefully continue to work on that during the summer.

His graduation program was so cute.  We're glad Grandma Carole and Nappy were able to be here for it.  In case you can't tell what he says during his part, he says "From Monday to Friday I studied at School".

I can't believe my guy is growing up.  Watching him even gave me some watery eyes at times!  We are so proud of him and all that he as accomplished.  He is such a good boy and we love him so much!!

Walk-a-thon

Schools almost out which always means year end activities.  Tonight was the PTA walk-a-thon.  The students each have a card they have signed for each lap they do.  There suppose to do 25, but Lucas was done at about 18... which was just fine by me!  It looked a bit tiring just watching it.  They had activities for all the kids to participate in and pizza.  Of course everything costs "tickets"!!  The weather was nice and hot, but the kids had a great time.  Lucas chose to get his face painted as Spiderman for one of his activities.  Hence the pictures below...

Little Mishap

Last Wednesday I was down stairs working and Kody & Ryker were upstairs playing.  All of a sudden I heard a loud crash and went running up the stairs.  Somehow they had tipped the crib over and Ryker was crying (hysterically) and holding his hand.  They weren't in he crib or underneath it thank goodness!  I made an appointment with Dr. B and in the mean time he cried himself to sleep.  Once we got to the doctor he felt his wrist and then sent us for x-rays.  Which he HATED!!!  To make a long story short, he ended up breaking his wrist.  Not all the way through, just a little fracture, but still needed to be splinted. 

So for the last week we've been trying to keep his arm wrapped and in the sling.  Since it was his right arm, I thought maybe it would slow him down, but to no avail.  Although he did look pretty darn cute running around with a sling.  Unfortunately he had another mishap on Sunday when he fell at church and wouldn't move his other arm.  I ended up taking him to instacare where it was determined, after xrays, that he had dislocated his elbow!  They popped it back in and he was instantly fine...thank goodness!!

I finally gave up on the sling towards the end because he figured out how to get it off and it really wasn't staying on his arm anyways.  Last night he decided he's take the entire thing off, clear down to his arm.  So I'm excited to finally have it in a cast.

Today he was casted and Dr. B decided to go all the way up the arm since he hadn't been so good at leaving his splint alone.  He thought he might try (and succeed) at getting a shorter cast off.  So for the next 4 weeks he'll have a blue arm.  Thank goodness it was now and he'll have it off before we start swimming and all the fun summer fun.

And i hope I survive.. cause he's beating me up with it (not on purpose).  Every time I have to pick him up it scratches me.  My arms look like I've been attached by a dog!