Outdoorsman

From the day he came home from the hospital, Rylan has loved being outside. Anytime he is grumpy or fussy, all you have to do is take him outdoors (even if it's freezing) and he'll calm down. Sometimes, all you have to do is take him to a window and let him look outside. The hike this past weekend was no exception...even though it was naptime he was alert and happy the entire time, riding on Kelly's back.

Purple Mountains

We took advantage of the beautiful weather to drive to Shenandoah for a hike. One of Brady's favorite bedtime songs is "America the Beautiful," so he was very excited to be driving to the purple mountains. The weather was perfect and the boys and Maggie were great hikers!

Daddy's Helper

Hokie Nation

Under different circumstances, it might pain us to say this, but...Go Hokies!

Defintion of Entire

Brady: Dad, do you know what entire means?
James: A tire?
Brady: No, “EN-tire.”
James: Do I know what entire means?
Brady: Yeah, like at the end of the day. Entire means at the end of the day.
Kelly and James look at each other, in complete confusion.
Kelly (perplexed): Entire means at the end of the day?
Brady: Yeah, Entire is at the end of a long work day.
Kelly: Like “Daddy had to work the entire day?”
Brady: No, entire, like at the end of a lot of work. Like Papa.
James & Kelly: OHHH, REtire?
Brady: Yeah, retire.

Look, Mom - no hands!

Rylan finally realized he is able to stand today. (I have a video of this as well, but it's not particularly exciting!)

He actually even took 3 steps today as well!

Get your blanket!

Rylan has added a new game to his repertoire...we toss the green blanket across the family room, he crawls at top speed over to it, and attacks it - grabbing it and wrestling it into submission.

Speed...I am Speed...

Storytime

Favorite Food...

Can you guess what it is? Rylan's absolute favorite food to eat these days is strawberries, but bread and apples (preferably whole) are also top contenders!

Look what I found!

Brady was a very serious egg hunter - passing by numerous eggs to pick out just the ones he wanted!

Brady offered Rudy some egg-hunting strategy...


Rylan collected FOUR eggs at the under-3 egg hunt this afternoon. He was pretty proud of himself!

Happy Easter!

The Easter Bunny sent Brady on a scavenger hunt for his basket. The bunny brought the boys their swings for the swingset!

Playground is finished!

Well, we still have to mulch...but it's close!

Easter snowman

Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Fuzzy new cousin

In or out?

Fish head

Ready for SCUBA?