Cute Sayings for the Day

A few cute Ryan sayings from today:

(While he was protesting being made to go potty): "Mommy, I don't have to go potty. I don't think that my pee is at home."

(After I pointed out a police car and told him it was a K-9 officer): "Does that police dog get to drive the car too?"

(After I told him that he needed a bath): "I don't need a bath. Look, I wiped all of the stinky off" (as he rubbed a towel across his belly).

:-)

Rexall Returns!

  John, Ryan and I went to a moms' club sale this Saturday and we found a replacement for Rexall, Ryan's beloved riding turtle! His handle had snapped off a few weeks ago and Ryan has been begging us to fix it every day. We tried duct tape, super glue, u-glue, scotch tape (and sometimes a combination of all of those) without success. Without the handle, it is pretty hard to ride and I've been looking online for a replacement. You can buy them but I was shocked to learn they were around $100! (He received Rexall as a gift). Luckily, I found one in the ride-on toys room at the sale for $14. Ryan rode it out of the sale and has been SO happy ever since!

   Ryan seems to sense that something is up.  He's been mentioning babies a lot lately, and he's been telling me "I want to always be your baby." I assured him that he always will be our baby, even when he's as big as Daddy. He thought that was funny.  :-)
   He's still working figuring out the whole 'difference between numbers and letters' issue. Today he was playing a game with his toys and said 'On the count of 'S'.... one, two, S!' But he can count up to fifteen, only omitting the extraneous numbers 11, 12, and 13.
  Today he's happily playing with the surgical hairnets that John and I brought him from the fertility center. It is so cute to see him wearing a scrub cap and watching 'Diego' on tv.

  Why all of the potty drama? While it has been a few weeks since Ryan has had an accident, it is not for lack of trying on his part! I have to remind, nag, bargain, plead, and finally drag him to the potty. He then refuses to sit to pee. He also does not want to stand to pee. Yesterday he told me that he wants to keep his pee inside; he also told me that he already took all of the pee out of his penis and put it in someone else's penis (?) We've tried talking to him about it, to see where the problem might originate, but I really think it is a control issue. Even bribes aren't working anymore, so I just make him sit there until he goes (and he always goes a LOT).
    The moodiness continues, too. He will be happily playing with a toy and then suddenly say he doesn't want it anymore. No apparent reason, but he'll cry like his whole day is ruined. He usually wakes up very happy, but lately even that has changed. I know it will be a challenging day when he wakes up cranky, even after a full night's sleep.
    This weekend, John, Ryan and I went to Rainbow Play Systems to check out a jungle gym for the backyard. They have an indoor playland, with about twenty full-sized playsets set up for people to try out. Ryan was in AWE. He didn't know where to start. He would climb up the steps or ladder quickly but then cry for us to bring him down. He was afraid of the height and the slides and the rock wall. John and I began talking, saying maybe he's just not ready for a playset yet (knowing full well that he was listening to us) and then he started going down the slides and climbing the rock wall on his own. Since then, he has not stopped talking about it. Someone from the company is going to come out this week to measure our yard and show us how a set would fit within the yard. Ryan keeps insisting that we don't need to wait for the 'mans' to come out and that he will build it himself with his Handy Manny tools. :)

 Carnival Day was a success! Many thanks to Granddad for helping me set up the night before and then coming to help with games at the carnival itself! Ryan had a wonderful time. He got to go around twice (both the morning and afternoon carnivals) since I had to work both sessions. He was a pretty exhausted little guy by the end of the day but overall he was very well-behaved (not counting the time he left his class and went looking for me; a mom found him starting to leave the building...again.) He dressed as Spiderman, and I wore mismatched clothes, pigtails, and bright purple and teal eyeshadow. It was so great to see how much fun the kids had playing all of the games and dancing.
 Ryan was really good about helping me clean up after the carnival, too. He helped carry things back to the classrooms and took garbage to the trash can. I got him an ice cream cone on the way home as a reward.

 I went for my appointment on Thursday and was told that I needed to come back for ANOTHER appointment on Tuesday (today), with a possible harvest date of Thursday the tenth. So we had to order more Follistim (with John and Dana driving down to Oakley to pick it up, since it wouldn't arrive by mail in time) and I have continued the shots. I give them at Ryan's bedtime, right before we read his nighttime stories. He's so used to the routine that he's started reminding me that it is time for my shot!
  My next appt is today at 315pm. I'll know for sure when the egg harvest day will be. The good news: IRH opened a West Chester office! So now I have a quick drive to get my bloodwork and ultrasounds done. And I didn't have to find anyone to do the carnival set-up (which was good, since our volunteers have been backing out left and right!)

     I haven't posted in a while because Ryan has been sick for the better part of three weeks. He's on his third round of antibiotics for bronchitis and a double ear infection. He's been (understandably) grumpy and clingy for most of February. The thing I can't understand is how HYPER he gets when he is sick. He alternates between extreme bouts of running, screaming mischief and total lethargy. He has also been in a very big 'Mommy' phase, where he only wants me to do anything for him. He has been fighting me on everything, from going to the potty to brushing his teeth. He wants me to do it all for him. I drew the line when he started asking me to hold his penis down while he's on the potty! He's finally doing better now and returned to school today. It was a good break for both of us!
  Ryan has started tracing his hands with markers and crayons, and he's getting pretty good at it. He's still really into all things aquatic and loves the new ocean book I bought him from the school book fair. Playdoh is a big hit again, after a few-month hiatus. (It is funny to me how he cycles in and out of playing with different toys. I couldn't get him to play with his playdoh for a long time, and now it is all he wants to do.) Legos are also a big fan favorite. He loves to build rockets ever since we watched the space shuttle Discovery take off a few weeks ago.