Look Mom! Two of um!!! - Glimpse into Motherhood Week 2

I walked into Ryder's room this morning and found this:



We have been potty training for a few days now and everytime he uses the potty he gets a sucker. Apparently he's been saving them. Ryder understands numbers and has a grasp on quantity. He knows what "a lot", "many", and "few" mean but he insists that if there are more than two things of something that there are "two of um"!

Here is my photo for Simply Modern Mom's Project 52, Glimpse into Motherhood, Week 2
He's almost crawling! He will stay like this for a few minutes just rocking back and forth before finally flopping forward. His face perfectly depicts his fear and excitement about learning something new.





Ever since he cut those two bottom teeth he has been making this face. I think at this point in time he was grunting at Ryder for not sharing suckers with him.



This would have been a very cute picture if I would have just tilted my camera a little more. Oh, well. I still love his face and the way that his blue eyse shine.


All of these photos were straight from the camera with no editing applied.


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This really happens?

Ok, maybe I wasn't very imaginative when I was a kid, or maybe it's because I am a girl. I don't know. But when "Toy Story" came out when I was a child, I didn't believe that kids actually played with their toys like that. And then "Toy Story 3" came out and the opening scene is an adventure that is being played out by Andy's toys. All I could think was, "Yeah right, who really plays with their toys like that?" Well, today I have answered my question. MY KIDS!!!!



Nolan has just recently started to get up on his hands and knees and of course Ryder thinks he is acting like a horse. So today Ryder was a cowboy, Nolan was a horse/prisoner, and I was the mean sheriff. Ryder had this entire adventure played out for us. He would ride his horse(Nolan) into town, followed by other [invisible] cowboys on their pillow pet horses, and start riots. Buildings (blocks) would get knocked over, money (many stacks of baby wipes he found in the bathroom) would get stolen and put into a loot bag, boulders (balls) would run over and crush the trains of the town, and the cowboys would stand on top of buildings (Storage cubes) and shoot people. When Sheriff Mommy realized what happened she captured one of the cowboys (Nolan is both a horse and cowboy now) and put him in jail (upside down laundry baskets work great for this). Soon after, Ryder shoots the sheriff and rescues his horse. ha!



We had acted out this adventure for about an hour and half. Only interrupted by Ryder having to go potty. When he had finished his "business" he wasn't interested anymore and moved on to his room to play with his train table.



How many of you have children who play with their toys Toy Story style? What has been your favorite adventure?