{24 months}

Look how much you’ve grown..
age:  2 years
date: 10-26-12
Weight: 22.3 – 1%
Length: 35 1/2—73%
Head Circ: 47 cm – 11%

-When you see a spider you call it “ahh” I must have influenced you a little too much.
-When you don’t want to do something we ask you to, you’ll put out your hand and say “NO, NO, NO”.
-When we say prayer for dinner both dad and I will peak at you and you are usually copying what we do. Dad was rocking back and forth so you copied. It makes us giggle every time.
-You are such a good little helper when you want to. You are big into closing the front door when we leave the house. You also like to close the car door. What a gentleman.
-You are a very pikey eater. Last few weeks you have gone on an eating strike, only drinks for you. You are living off of chocolate milk, V8 fusion, water, and orange juice. The only solids you’ll eat is cheese, mac and cheese, hit and miss yogurt, pancakes and French toast.  What were once your go to foods, you now don't like. That is why you are at the 1% for your weight. I can’t get you to eat!
-You are wearing sized 24 month top and 18 month pants and size 6 shoes.
-Your all time favorite toy is anything from: cars, trucks, airplanes, and trains. You rotate playing with all of these everyday. You say”Pruck” for Truck. Too cute!
-You aren’t talking very well.  You only have a few words that you will say like; “uh-oh”, “meme” for mom or dad, “pruck” for Truck, “No”, and “No way”. When we ask you to say a ward you give us a glare. It’s hilarious. Hopefully in the next few months you’ll start to use more wards. When we ask you to say things like thank-you, please, drink, more, etc, you just give us the sign language thinking that's what we want but we want to move from signing to speaking more.
-Words you can sign language; Please, milk {drink},Thank you, food, please, and more. We are working on all done.
This describe you.

You like love to make messes, play in dirt, throw laundry all around the room, pull out all your toys and run around the house with only your diaper on. You are 100% BOY!
Ryker boy, our  life would be boring with you. We love every minute we get to spend and experience life with you. You help us to slow down and focus on what is important and take each day how it comes. 
Happy Birthday SON!

A family’s love

“The love of a family is life's greatest blessing”

“You may be little in size, but you bring loads of happiness to everyone around you.” 
-Author Unknown 
Happy Birthday little guy!




“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.” - Mignon McLaughlin

Halloween

This year we went with Little Dragon. I know that you were the cutest little dragon out there, we would crack up every time we saw your fat tail bottom. SO DARN CUTE!


You could not stand to have the hat on your head. The instant I put it on you would quickly pull it off.

In the morning we headed to play groups Halloween Party. You guys decorated pumpkin sugar cookies and you only ate the sprinkles. Then all of you decorated a brown paper bag and you chose awesome purple and black spiders, it’s your favorite bug right now. Once you were done you walked around the room to each of the moms and went trick-or-treating. It was so much fun.

{Abby,Amy, Halle, Parker, Ryker, Ryan, and Brady}
In the evening about 5:30pm Nana and Gramps came over and ate a Pizza and came trick-or-treating with us.

Look dad, “ I got a sucker.”

The Briggs family came with us {Travis, Mckenna- Hermione from Harry Potter and Urijah- batman}

Waiting patiently for the Youell’s to open the door.


You were so excited about these spiders, they are magnet and you would pull them on and off the door, while you waited for them to open their door.

Suckers were your all time favorite, when you saw one in your basket  you would stop, pull it out and eat it for a little bit, then when you got another, the sucker you had would quickly be given back to us to have us open the new one. You tasted about 4 that night.

Getting distracted and stopped to touch the orange cat.



It was a beautiful fall evening to go Trick or Treating. You got the hang of it, putting your basket out when people gave you candy, mom and dad said Trick or Treat and you got all the candy!
Every year gets more and more exciting, we love to experience all the little joys in life with you.
Happy Halloween my little Dragon!