Toddlers!

This toddler business is not for the weak. Ryan is CRAAAZY. We had wedding receptions to go to both Friday night and Saturday, and of course Todd was at work Friday and in the wedding on Saturday, so I was on Ryan patrol. That boy can move fast. Saturday Ryan could not comprehend why he couldn't go be with Daddy on the altar (Todd was best man), so he and I spent the ceremony in the Sunday School Room. Then we were at the reception (at Stein's) before he fell off a barstool head-first and wen Splat! facedown. I looked at him and then I looked up, and it was like everyone in the room had frozen and all had these horrid looks of shock on their faces. I was more worried about someone turning me into DHS than I was about him I think. How did he manage to fall when I was less than 6 inches away? He ended up not being hurt, but he was already feverish and sleepy, so we went straight home. Some wedding. Sunday we went to Walmart and he kept trying to get out of the cart, and Monday we went out for supper and he wanted out of the high chair the whole time. He has also been in timeout again (he's only 15 months!) and knocked his head 3 times in the past 2 days and keeps climbing out of the bathtub.

He isn't that bad though. He does funny stuff too. Last night he poured and entire container of fruit puffs onto the carpet, then laid right in the middle of them, shoving them in his face as fast as he could. He kind of rolled in them too. Very funny!

He has also started breaking my heart. He now cries and tries to escape from the high chair every time I leave him at daycare, and Terri says he cries when the other kids' mommies pick their kids up. I wish I didn't have to send him to daycare...I just keep reminding myself that everyday I go to work I am getting free health insurance for my family, and that alone is worth something.