Sweet Side

We are delighted to share photographic evidence that Ryan is a sweet, loving boy. For example, he loves his Baby, which is the same baby I used to carry around by the hair patch when Mom was pregnant with Ryan. He sleeps with her, takes her to school in his backpack, and makes sure she is comfortable when she needs to nap.

One day he told us, "I have a baby in my beddy. It's so sweet, you can talk to it. But we don't punch it.". When I asked him how it will come out of his belly, he said "I'm gonna throw it up". We aren't allowed to touch Baby, because, he says, "I'm her Daddy". He even sets up "movies" for him and Baby.

 

He also loves Blue Blanket. There's something about that heavenly soft middle next to the satin border- perfectly cuddly. Ryan says it's good for bedtime because "When we go to sweep, we gwow bigger. That's what Dad told me yesterday".

He's learning to use his words really well to ask for things that he wants. Like, when he brought Mom the box of crackers and said "My beddy wants a snaaaack". When she asked him to please pick out something healthy like fruit, he smartly turned the box around and said, "But these are healthy for soccer".

He is starting to understand the power of his wicked good sense of humor. This picture was taken right after he made his first official joke. He and Mom were smiling at a baby in the restaurant, when that baby gave Ryan the stink eye. So, he turned to Mom and said "Baby be like, huh?" while making the same stink eye face to Mom. She almost died laughing.

He's learning how to set up elaborate imaginative play scenarios, like when he set up a barbershop for Dad. 

He paid close attention to detail, with the precision of an artist. And when Dad got scared, he was very gentle: Kind Barber. 

He's also "reading" books to us, basically paraphrasing the stories as he remembers them on each page: Cutest Thing and Bear Book. We're a little more than a third of the way through his Terrible Threes, and we think he's going to come out of it pretty awesome.