Written.

Basically whenever I tell my Mom a story about Rylan, she says, "You should write that down". At first I thought she just thought everything I wrote about him was cute, but then I realized she says it for EVERYTHING I tell her, not just the cute things. She also says it for the I'm-ready-to pull-my hair-out-AHHHHHHH! things.

Maybe she intends it to be a form of therapy, or maybe she wants a record of the successes of my motherhood (No, I did not strangle him when he emptied my dishwasher onto the floor, stripped my Christmas tree, and dumped out all of the laundry baskets in the same 5 minutes). Who knows. Anyway...she's right, I should have written it all down sooner, but here are a few...

For a while there, Rylan was calling Jesus "Uncle Jesus". I promise I didn't teach him that.

We made a Grateful Chain for Thanksgiving. I asked Rylan what he was grateful for and he said, "Bathroom fan, guest bathroom fan, green fan, white fan, ceiling fan, air conditioning." Rylan has a thing for fans.

After Alex left on his mission, Ry guy started calling this doll Baby Alex ("baby A-yix"). He would take him everywhere, change his diaper when I changed Evie's diaper, give him a bath by dunking him in the water barrel outside, give him rides on Rylan's firetruck (shoves the firetruck, Baby Alex goes flying off. "Oh! Saw-yee Baby Ayix") ,put him to bed in the cupboards (Good night Baby A-yix, I love you! SLAM!!), etc. etc.

Rylan calls baby Jesus' manger a carseat.

My mom also told me to write about the day he threw up three times, required round the clock breathing treatments, and pooped in the tub. It was a Sunday, so Trevor was gone from 6:30 to 5:30, and I was also feeding Evie every 2-3 hours. There. I wrote about the whole day. Because that's all I did.

He found my pincushion and stuffed the "pokies" into the gap between the piano keys and the wood in front of it. I guess the pins finally worked their way down because now I can play those notes again.

To be continued....

Hannah on the go taken Oct 19 2009

Amanda Stockdale and Tyler Ray at Grandma James' at 2009 Thanksgiving

Austin, Debra and Andrew Pond. One of the Stockdale girls

Grandma James in Utah. We visited for Thanksgiving and have a pleasant visit with her and the families that live there. We ate Thanksgiving dinner with Alan and Linda and Lindsey. We visited with the Stockdales and Tom's family We attended the Logan Temple and the Salt Lake Temple . It was a nice but quick trip

Scott and Brain Ray playing the piano at Grandma Ray's house. They're getting good!

Rylan Ray and Noah James looking at Grandpa Ray taking pictures, Noah and Rylan are second cousins and only a month apart. They turn two in 2010