I hope he never learns how to say, "No."

Ryan is growing up so fast. He is definitely not a baby anymore. Recently, it has come to my attention that he has achieved full blown toddler status. He runs, he plays with cars in a functional way ("vrooming" and all) and he can climb onto the sofa all by himself. He has been picking up words pretty quickly the past few weeks. So far he can say:

-Ball
-Dog
-Hot
-Dad
-Bird
-Juice
-Book
-Yea

We are officially out of the 0-5 word zone and on to the 5-10 word zone! He is so smart.

The other day Zach dropped some ice on the floor. Ryan ran over and picked up an ice cube and with a semi-shocked face said, "Hot!" (sounds more like "Aught!")

I rarely wear make up during the week anymore so when I do Ryan is always very intrigued by my mascara. This started from an early age. When I wear mascara he tries to touch my eyelashes and pull the mascara off. He's weird like that. Anyway, we were in the backyard training Roxy and I leaned down to give her a treat when Ryan came up and started trying to grab my eye lashes. Annoyed, I said, "Stop trying to poke me in the eyeball!" Recognizing a word he could say, Ryan excitedly said, "Ball!" (sounds more like "Bah!")

Whenever the dog is chewing something she shouldn't, Ryan says in a stern voice, "Dah! Dah! Dah!" while pointing at her. He's such a good little dog master.

Ryan and I were reading in his room before one of his naps. He was very tired so he had his binky in. It was a guessing game book. We got to the page about rectangles. The page we were on describes an object that is "shaped like a rectangle and you can read it." Without blinking an eye, Ryan pops his binky out and says, "Book." (sounds more like "Bouh") then pops his binky back in. Genius!

Ryan answers, "yea!" to any question. One evening he got really frustrated about something and was shaking his head and hands and whining. Zach calmly asked, "Ryan, are you freaking out?" Ryan completely stopped and with a straight face answered, "Yea!"

Ryan was playing with Zach's phone in his carseat and somehow called me. I was sitting in the front seat, so I answered. He was captivated for the rest of the drive while I talked to him and asked him questions. He babbled right back into the phone. It was a nice little conversation.