A Few Stories For Some Chuckles

Ryan has developed such a personality. He is very determined and inquisitive. As with most 14 month olds, “no” means “yes” and “stop” means keep doing it. Lately he has been making his Mommy and Daddy chuckle with what he does. Here are a couple stories that caused much laughter. Unfortunately, the camera was not out at the time, so nothing was caught in pictures.

Ryan gets a clean blanket every Sunday to sleep with at night. Most of the time he kicks it off, but Mommy and Daddy still recover him. Other times we will check on him and he is wrapped up in it like a burrito. Every morning when Mommy goes to get him out of bed, Ryan hands her the blanket and she folds it and leaves it until bedtime. Last Sunday Ryan again handed Mommy his blanket and Mommy threw it over the side of the bed because it was laundry day and he was getting a clean one when he went to bed. Ryan was not happy with that, grabbed the blanket and gave it back to Mommy. He insisted it had to be folded and left in his bed. I guess that is a trait he has gotten from Mommy because the bed needs to be made daily.

One morning while Mommy and Daddy were getting ready to leave for work, Mommy put some breakfast in the microwave to take with her. While it heated up, Mommy went to the bathroom. Ryan always waits outside the bathroom door for Mommy and Daddy each morning, so it was no surprise to see him there when the door was opened. This time, instead of barging his way into the bathroom, he ran into the kitchen, pointing at the microwave and yelling at Mommy (this usually consists of some sort of grunt or uh). Our microwave beeps if you don’t get things out of it right away. He just wanted to make sure Mommy knew that her breakfast was ready.

The weather has been beautiful this week and quite warm. Mommy and Daddy decided that Wednesday would be a good night to stop for Slurpees. Mommy and Daddy have given Ryan tastes of Slurpee before and he loves them. It is one of the few things he can figure how to drink with a straw. If there is Slurpee in hand and Ryan is being held, he will lean in to take a sip. Mommy and Daddy both got a yummy orange flavor that tastes like a creamsicle. While waiting to pay, Ryan leaned in to steal another sip and got a brain freeze. He had a look on his face that was partly surprise and part confusion. We so wish we had a camera ready at that point to catch that face.

This is just a sample of life with Ryan and how he makes us laugh everyday.