{28 months}

-You are talking more and more and we love it! It’s fun to hear your little voice and how you copy what we say.  Some fun words you say are, “E suck" {it’s sick}, I want Roar {dinosaur or monster inc movies}, No money, Epad {ipad}.
-You are starting to like Nursery. You’ll let dad leave after a few minutes.
-You kiss our lips and say “bye”
-You are still an extremely picky eater. I have tried everything to get you to eat, but you will only take one bite and say, “icky”. Everyday is a battle, if you could you would eat junk food all day.
- Your favorite movie is Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and a close second is Monster’s inc. You have them pretty much memorized and will growl or say a word when they do. Too darn cute.

-You are wearing size 6 shoes, size 4 diapers, and 2T pants and shirts.

-You like to do puzzles and are really good at matching shapes.

-You have quite the imagination, I like to sit and watch you bring the toys to life.

This is what you do for your mom and dad’s heart…

We love you and we are truly grateful to have you as our own.

Blocks

You were quite excited when I pulled out the Rainbow jumbling blocks to play with. You stacked, knocked them over and lined them up. 
As I was watching you all I wanted to do was kiss you, but I opted out to let you play.  But I did it after you were done.
    
I love those kissable toes.   
I love those kissesable ears.

Those kissable hands.

Those kissable nose and forehead.

The smellable hair.

Those kissable checks and lips

My little kissable boy, you need to slow down and stop growing. I want you to stay little forever, but I know that won’t happen so I try to enjoy every day with you.

VMT news

 
We have some exciting news… Dave got a promotion at work which we have been waiting for and a raise. He is now account manager over the truck market. This will give him more experience and more work to do. I am very proud of him and all of the hard work he puts into his job. Way to go Dave!!

Best Buds

The instant you two see each other you run and give the biggest hugs. You love to tackle your cousin to the ground and pin him there.  You two love each other like brothers and I love seeing tender moments like this.

Time-out

We haven’t been very good at putting Ryker into time out. But, lately he has started to see how far he can push us with not listening. So we started time out again, and these photos show you how it kills him to have to sit there for 2 minutes.  We couldn’t help but snap a couple of pictures.
Ever since then he has listened better and when we start counting to 3 in most cases he’ll run over and obey.
     
Dave and I got Pedicures for one of our date nights. It was a nice time-out for us.
  

Valentines 2013

Dave worked from home, so we were very spoiled to have him home all day with us.

In the morning we made Valentine cards.
      
Then off  to a couple of friends houses to give them Valentine’s. Chocolate milk with a teal stripe straw.

Handing out Valentines to daddy. He got a large card and a painted mug for his hot chocolate at work.
      
Britnie and Spencer came over to exchange Valentine gifts. Spencer got chocolate milk with a stripe straw and Britnie got a homemade large card.
 
xoxo Our little Valentine! xoxo
     
 
Being silly
     
I surprised {gift} Dave with Red Lobster take-out.  He was sooo surprised! We enjoyed Parrot Isle Jumbo Coconut Shrimp, Lobster-Artichoke-and-Seafood Dip and a Lobster Pizza. Top this all off, Dave made Italian sodas.
 
Trying to blow out the candle. 

listening to daddy’s prayer. {I know, but I had to take a shot of this precious moment.}

I sent Dave up stairs while I made the dessert. I made a chocolate caramel fondue.  It was a perfect ending to our dinner.

Getting lots of love from my boys!
            
My sweet husband gave me dead sea salt body and face scrub and an Alexandrite necklace. I am one spoiled girl.
Happy Valentine’s Day! xoxoxo