blatant random silliness

"oh! look at this"

Dylan has many favorite books, but on this particular day (as it can be most days) it was all about the dragons. He loves his book called "Hide and Seek Dragons."  I attempted to distract him by pulling out the play doh, but he just continued to want to read his book for the umpteenth time. So, I made dragons out of play doh. Which he loved. He kept saying "Hey Mister Dragon!" and "that's a green dragon, that's a pink dragon". 

So, yet again, Dylan is not napping today.  I'm hoping it's just a phase he is going through.  This makes the fourth time in a week and a half that he hasn't napped.  I'm lucky that he will sit in his room and have "quiet time" for an hour or so on days he doesn't nap.  Little turkey.  Let me rephrase that.  Little sleep-deprived turkey.  Because he doesn't recoop the naptime sleep he misses.  We get him to bed an hour earlier than usual, but he doesn't tend to sleep any later.  Which results in meltdowns the next day (like we experience yesterday after him not napping the two previous days).  *sigh*

One of the cutest things he does these days is put a very emphatic "oh" in front of some of his sentences.  Like "oh! look at this" when I wear a necklace or he finds something appropriately cool.  He also says "oh! that's a good smooch" after giving a kiss.  Or, "oh thats a good hug".  Such a cutie boy.

Spring is upon us here and we have been enjoying every moment that it's not raining.  Dylan loves to go to the water creek (Is it wrong that I'm a little sad that it's no longer the "wa wa ceek" that it used to be?).  He especially loves that I'll bring his boots along and let him actually walk into the creek and splash a little.  This, of course, means that I have to go into the creek too.  The first time we did this (when we took these photos) it was a colder day, which meant cold, cold water to my feet (I was wearing my holy crocs).  Yesterday it was a lot warmer so it wasn't so bad.  

Give a boy a stick and some mud and he's a happy boy. Oh, and then let him slosh into the water. Then he's really happy. Until it's time to go home that is.

Dylan and I traverse the water creek.

We also did a lot of kite flying in the early days of spring.  Our first attempt was using a stunt kite, and it did okay, but tended towards nose dives more than staying in the air.  So, we bought some cheap kites from Wal-Mart and had much better success.  We may do that again this afternoon.  And since a picture tells a thousand words, here is what happened before we got into the water creek.

As you can see, on this trip to the outdoors Dylan insisted on bringing his dragon book. And he just sat in the wagon "reading" it while Denny and I flew kites. This next little progression of photos shows you what happened next.


"Mommy read it!"




And finally he notices that there's a big Tigger and Pooh kite in the sky. Funny boy.

wow, has it really been that long?

Dylan and Denny sing Rosanna to each other.

So, yeah, it's been quite awhile since I've written a post for ye olde blog.  Over a month actually.  I haven't been that delayed in awhile.  Oh well, I'll try and see what I can remember from the past month and move forward.  The first big piece of news came in early March when Denny came home from his two month deployment.  I'll have to give him a guest spot on the blog so he can share some of his adventures  and photos with you all.

We've loved having Daddy home.  The first couple of days, Dylan didn't want to let either one of us out of his site.  He kept saying and pointing "this mommy, this daddy, this Dylan". We've had lots of fun as a family. We like to go for walks, fly kites, splash in puddles (or through the water creek). Springtime is making us very, very happy.  

On our first afternoon together, Dylan had fun "planting trees" with Daddy.


Dylan plants a tree on Denny's head.

We started swim class at the beginning of April. I unfortunately have also fallen behind in uploading my videos. I have a really cute video of our first swim class that I'll try and get on Flickr soon. We'll just have to make do with a picture.


Dylan loves kicking in the water.

The first class he was ready to get in the water, but once we did he said "go home" for the first few minutes until he settled in and had fun. The second class, he cried because he didn't want to go in, but once we did he was just fine. And ever since then, we tell him we are going swimming and he gets very excited and is ready to go. He does really well in the water and is very good at kicking and moving his arms in the water. He's getting close to blowing bubbles....maybe in the next week or two he'll be able to.

Our other really big news is our new kitty cat Sunshine. We've had her for almost two weeks now. She is a very sweet kitty, and Dylan looooves her very much.


Sunshine, in full on kitty stretch.

We found her at Petsmart, and she was a Humane Society adoption. Dylan and I went to scout out the kitty situation the week before and I saw her and she was so sweet. So, we took Denny back and decided she needed to come home. My friend Tina watched Dylan for me on Monday morning so I could go and pick her up. I brought her home first and got her food and litter all set up, and then went to get Dylan. He came in the door and spotted her. I had to strip off his boots and pants because he'd been splashing in puddles on the way home form the garage. And he could barely contain himself long enough for me to get the wet clothes off. He crawled around behind her and kept saying "that's a kitty cat!" For the first couple of days he'd also ask to pet her by saying "want touch her" and waiting for us to say it was okay before he did. He's been very good about being gentle with his petting.

 I think the funniest Sunshine/Dylan adventure came a couple of days after she came home with us. Dylan had decided he was not napping that way ("no do it! wanna play"), so it was after his "quiet time" in his room. I'd let him out and he spotted sunshine and started following her around. I let them be and would check on them every few minutes. The first time I checked, They were in Dylan's closet and Sunshine was under the dresser. Dylan was trying to get to her. So, I pulled him out and she followed. And I left them alone again. I came back to check and this time they were in my bedroom. Sunshine was in the wardrobe, and Dylan was leaned over trying to get in with her. So silly. I left them alone one last time, and this time when I came back in the bedroom I couldn't find them until I looked a second time. This time, Dylan was sitting in our closet on top of Denny's shoes and the shoe rack. He looked so zonked (poor tired no nap guy). Sunshine was in the back of the closet. I so wish I'd had my camera upstairs because this little scene was priceless. Sunshine has been so good with Dylan, she hasn't once tried to claw or bite him.  She's very tolerant and loves people.

Dylan's first look at Sunshine.


Dylan, after unsuccessfully trying to get under the bed with Sunshine, instead walked his feet up the side of our bed. Ta da!


Dylan inspects Sunshine's eating methods.


Dylan and Sunshine reading in the playroom.

I think I will end this post here. I'll continue with more tales of kite flying and creek splashing soon (and I mean it this time).