Finally...A Blog

Here it is! I finally have finally entered the blogging world! I don't know how many times I will update. I like to write what's going on though so it could be every day or every other day. I guess we will see! Most of my stories will most likely be about my most favorite person ever Ryan. He is growing up so fast. I can't believe he will be 2 in less than a month! He played outside by himself for the first time today. It is so nice out. I was out side with a short sleeve shirt on and it felt great! Usually when I try to get him to play in the back yard by himself he just stands at the door until he gets bored of standing there and then just cries until I let him back in. I went out with him today and ran inside to grab something. When I realized he wasn't standing at the door crying and he was actually exploring the back yard, drawing on the cement slab with his sidewalk chalk, playing with his sand box tools, and trying to figure out how to get to the front I decided to stay inside and get some cleaning done in the kitchen. We have a big sun room that is only windows so I can stand in the kitchen and see where he is the whole time so between Nick and I watching from inside he was okay.

Ryan was sooo fussy when he decided he was hungry for lunch. He refused to eat what we fixed for dinner last night and I know he likes the stuff we made because he has eaten it before. So since he refused to eat it he didn't have anything to eat before bed. Then he didn't eat a very big breakfast either so he was probably very hungry. I told him I was making him a grilled cheese sandwich and I couldn't make it for him fast enough. He stood in the kitchen crying with tears streaming down his face. I decided to be tricky and put some broccoli in the grilled cheese so I was very pleasantly surprised when he ate most of it. He ended up falling asleep in his high chair while he was eating so I think he would have eaten all of it if he wouldn't have fallen asleep. I wish I would have taken a picture before I got him out. It was so cute. He was sitting in the chair with his head laying on the side sound asleep but he was holding his sippy cup with both hands like he grabbed it to take a drink but fell asleep before he got it to his mouth.

We are making progress with the house. I have about 1/4 of the hallway left to texture and then the guest bathroom to texture which hopefully won't take to long since half of it is the shower, cabinets, and the mirror. Then my texturing will be complete! Yea!!!! After that Nick will paint the guest bedroom and we will decide if we like that color enough to paint the hallway and guest bath in that color. We also may repaint Ryan's room. We chose a color that we thought was a light brown but after we painted it and it dried it turned out to be this mix between brown, pink, and purple. It isn't too bad but I think it is ugly and it is definitely not a color for a little boys room. After we paint the bathroom Nick will put the base boards back down and then put a new toilet in so we can have a second bathroom again yea!!!. Right now Nick is painting the door that he is going to put up between the kitchen and the laundry room so the washer and dryer won't be so loud now. Then he will need to finish putting the base boards and chair rail up in our bedroom and the base boards back in the guest bedroom and hallway and the shadow boxes in the living room and we will be done!!! Woo hoo. We want to have it done by the 27th for Ryan's birthday party so it won't be much longer! I can't wait!