Hmmmm, finger paints. What IS this stuff? 

soon after this picture bryce started to look like the incredible hulk . . .covered in GREEN! (and i stopped taking pictures, and started cleaning up!!) 

oh happy day!

Happy sweet sixteen Lizzie!

We love you!!!

A Day in the Life of Bryce. . .

enjoy some pictures from our day today!

I had such fun at The Little Gym today!! I got this smiley face stamp on my hand! See? I wonder what other adventures we will have today! 

After my nap we took a walk to the mailboxes, and then we put our feet in the swimming pool. When we got home, I built this TALL tower out of blocks! 

I had a MAJOR tantrum when Mommy told me I couldn't watch my elephant movie (Baby Einstein's Baby Noah) but I had already watched it today. . .gotta wait till TOMORROW now. Rats! 

While Mommy was cooking dinner, I chewed on a lemon. I like lemons. 

I made a FABULOUS mess during dinner. I even have a green bean stuck between my eyes! Tonight I ate ravioli, ground beef, green beans, peas, and applesauce. I am showing you my big MUSCLES, just in case you forgot how STRONG I am! 

i brought all these diapers into the office from my room. (at least they were clean!!) Night night!!! 

at The Little Gym

Bryce and I started attending The Little Gym today! Bryce was a little hesitant about the mass of noisy children at first, and wanted to go do his own thing, but he had a GREAT time! He ESPECIALLY loved running up and down the big foam ramp, walking on the balance beam (with NO fear whatsoever) and hanging - yes, HANGING, all on his own on the parallel bars! He was excited at the prospect of "hanging like a monkey" and he grinned from ear to ear as he realized he was doing it all on his own!!! What a proud and excited monkey he was! We played with a parachute, blew bubbles, and played with balls too! He likes his teacher, Miss Lisa, and he made friends with the smiley face stamp on his hand, as we left. He has been pointing at it, and even gave it a kiss when we got home. SO sweet!!!

Sooo, is it next Monday yet, and time to go back to The Little Gym??? I am quite sure Bryce would have stayed the entire day if they would have let us!!!

Showing off his pj's with feet. . .this TOTALLY confused him at first. It has been so long since he wore pajamas with feets!!  

Where's Bryce?  

Someone really should convince Bryce. . .

Can someone please tell Bryce that 5:30am is not really an acceptable time to be up in the morning? Granted, it is SOOO much better than 2:30, 3:30, 4:30 AND 5:30 (which were the normal nighttime wake-ups for quite sometime) But you see, now that I am finally getting to SLEEP at night, I am starting to remember how fond I am of it. So, if Bryce could grasp the "see you when the SUN COMES UP" concept, that would be just swell. In the meantime, if anyone else is up at the unfabulous time of 5:30am, give me a call, or come by with a big old frappachino, and we will watch Baby Einstein together. (Because this week, as Bryce is eating his first breakfast of the day - at 5:45am, he starts making quite loud elephant and lion sounds, which means "I want to watch Baby Noah, please, dear mommy of mine."
On an accomplishing sidenote, Bryce has finally decided that perhaps, after MONTHS of persuading, drinking milk out of a cup, as well as wearing a BIB are not so horribly abusive after all!!! He has had a cup of milk two days in a row, and as long as the bib is the terrycloth towel kind, with the hole cut out for his head, he actually LIKES wearing it!!!! Oh well for the pile of shirts he has wrecked with food stains, and the three bleach pens I have gone through in the meantime! Happy days, clean shirts (well, mostly clean shirts) and calcium rich bones. . .truly, what MORE could a mommy ask for!!!??

crazy boy!

Good Clean Fun! Soap boxes make FABULOUS blocks!!! 

this is what eric looks like, thanks to a week of work, massive amounts of schoolwork, pulling countless allnighters this week, PLUS preparing to preach a sermon on Sunday.  

sweet and sheepy 

Top 10 Bryce Pastimes of the week

(in no particular order, because i just don't have TIME for THAT!)
10. empty the cans and cake mixes out of the cabinet and stack them on the floor
9. close a door, knock on it, and then get mad if you don't go open it back up for him!
8. watch his videos and look at his pictures on the blog
7. water the flowers
6. splash in the bathtub
5. drive trucks on the table
4. snuggle in bed and read books
3. eat yogurt
2. crash down on piles of pillows
1. play Ring Around the Rosie

goofy family photo fun!