happy, happy, happy...

our ryan is 10 today!!

doesn't seem possible, but our second blessing is already ten

...the skateboard...

helmet, ebow pads, knee pads... we've got it all

...the lego brick cake...

and the red smiles everyone was smiling after eating the red cake

... the bionicle buiding...

everyone got a bionicle as a party gift (great idea amy)

so we built them and had bionicle battles

what's a bionicle?

happy birthday, snuggle-bug!

it's so much fun to have the home birthday party... but now i'm so tired : )

you know what assuming does, right?

if you put a child in the shower with instructions:

wash your hair with shampoo, and please don't forget to use the conditioner in your hair

wash your face and your body with soap

please be sure to rinse all of the shampoo, conditioner and soap off before you get out

you'd assume that somewhere along the lines the NECK would get a little sudsing... i was wrong.

this afternoon, i was getting a little ryan attention, and as i was soaking this up i began to look--really look--at his neck. it's grossly underwashed. what does he do in the shower for 15 minutes? it's not washing his neck, that's obvious. where is his mother?

anyway, fall is here and we're trying to come to grips with it! this weekend jacks, ryan and i are running our first 3K together. jacks read a book about running track in 2nd grade, and ever since he's mentioned how much he'd like to run. i've always held the conviction that people who run for fun are slightly mental; but when jacks saw the flyer for this Mutt Strut and asked me to run with him... i changed my thinking. i love that he asked me to run with him!

so now all three of us are running, and i can't think of a better way to spend our saturday morning... except maybe by scouring ryan's neck!