Ry's Bday!

Around the time of Rylan's birthday, life became........very full. I felt very blessed because we were running our tails off, but it was a good kind of stressed. Lots of birthday plans, lots of playdates with friends, and lots of therapy appointments. Blogging had to go bye bye for a bit. I feel terrible, because I didn't blog on Rylan's birthday. I've never skipped a birthday. I am sure he's noticed.

I have a giganticly annoying minor case of OCD that isn't the kind that results in a clean house, but results in me not being able to skip 1.3 months of blogging and just say "okay, we had a good November/December-here's January." So, we're backing up. Have Fun!!!!

We had huge plans for the weekend after Rylan's birthday, so for the day of his birthday, we went to a playdate with our playgroup and took cupcakes. Then, we made whatever Rylan wanted for dinner, which was ham and pineapple pizza and applesauce and cupcakes. Kids got good taste.

Then we opened presents. I pushed this ABC puzzle on him because he needs ABC help with his Developmental therapy. Then he got a TON of legos. He loves legos*** Loves them. Really loves them.

Putting the ITTY BITTY TINY PIECES TOGETHER

For both kids birthdays, we kept it semi small (read: bought way too many presents but didn't have a party) because we had a trip to Branson planned to go to Silver Dollar City and stay at a nice house and celebrate their birthdays with their cousin, Zoe, that has a birthday in between Max and Rylan's.

Here are some pics of Max (2), Rylan (4), and Zoe (6) opening presents. No chaos. None at all.

Grammy made a dairy free cake and it was delish. All of the presents were so nice and we loved our cozy house that we rented. Loved it. Stay tuned for Day 2!

***I am not emotionally ready for legos. They are so freakin small and all really wants is the little lego men.

Jax turns two

I have trouble writing that title. The reason why, is that my friend, Jacki, had Jax six weeks before Max was born. As in, in six weeks MaxRo is going to be 2. I have no idea how that happened.

Jax is a deliciously precious kid, that I LOVE LOVE LOVE. Last year at this time, Jacki had some babysitter issues and we took Jax for a day or two a week. He slept in the morning and my kids slept in the afternoon and so he and I got to bond in our afternoons. He's my friend. And now he's two and he's really smiley about it. He had a kick awesome party at the Wonder Place.

Max was a safari guy

Dunno

There was produce shopping

Max took over as cashier

Ry helped

Evil Knieval strikes again

Drumming with friends, always scary to have drumsticks in Max's hand

Max's new friend, Addi, sees a camera

"Hiya Dada!"

"Hi Max's dada!"

Rylan and Chloe made a very serious cake

Side note, Chloe's mama and I went to nursing school together and lived together during our first few years as nurses. We were trouble. Fun trouble. Like dancing at the Electric Cowboy trouble. Now we're both mamas talking breastfeeding and sleep schedules and preschool curriculum and my how times have changed.

Finishing touches

Then there was a potluck of sorts

Max's train. He was obsessed

Obsessed I tell you

And, finally, the much awaited cupcakes appear. That's Jax on the left with the cape. Lurve him.