Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Made in China

Recently, because Ryan LOVES dogs, Daddy bought him a toy dog crate with a little stuffed dog and some accessories inside. It's blue, and is decorated with red pawprints all over the top.

Ryan: How did those pawprints get on there?

Mommy: I think your little doggie must have dipped his feet in red paint and then walked all over it.

Ryan: I don't think so.

Mommy: Well, how do YOU think those pawprints got there?

Ryan: The Chinese people put them there.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Ryan's first real theater movie experience

So Ryan and Daddy went to see a movie today. A real one, at the theater. They saw Bolt. Ryan was mesmerized.

About halfway through, Daddy says, Ryan said, "This is the biggest TV I have ever seen!"

Then, on the way out of the theater, he said, "Daddy, can we get a TV like that for OUR house?"

Sounds like the big-screen TV obsession has started early!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

The unbearable burden of having a cute butt

So I'm sitting in the kitchen a few days ago, and Ryan walks up, turns around and drops his pants.

Ryan: I just want to show you my butt.

Mommy: Why?

Ryan: Because it is funny.

Mommy: Why is your butt funny?

Ryan (with a big sigh and resigned tone of voice): Because everybody loves it.


Yes, it's such a burden to have a butt that everyone loves. :-)

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

unbidital cord

Mommy: (pretending to bite Ryan's toes): I am going to eat your feet all up!

Ryan: NO! I need my feet to walk on.

Mommy: Then I will eat your hands all up.

Ryan: NO! I need my hands to grab things with.

Mommy: Then I will eat your neck all up.

Ryan: NO! I need my neck to wiggle my head around. (Wiggles head)

Mommy: Then I will eat your elbows all up.

Ryan: NO! I need my elbows to move my hands around. Like this. (Sticks out arms and wiggles hands.)

Mommy: Then I will eat your kneecaps all up.

Ryan: NO! I need my kneecaps to move my feet around. Like this. (Kicks out leg and shakes foot).

Mommy: Then I will eat your belly button all up.

Ryan: NO! I need my belly button to click my unbidital cord into.

Mommy: (laughing too hard to come up with another body part)

Friday, July 18, 2008

Keep in mind, this child is not yet three years old

Today in grandma's car, we passed a billboard with a picture of a saber-toothed tiger on it, advertising Natural Bridge Caverns. Then we hear this from the back seat:

"Why is that animal extinct? Why are they all gone? Why did they die? Why are there no baby saber-toothed tigers? Why didn't the saber-toothed tigers lay eggs so that they could hatch and baby saber-toothed tigers could come out?"


Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Things that go bump in the night

Ryan is a pretty fearless little dude. But he had his first real nightmare last night. He came to wake mommy up at 2:30 a.m., chin quivering: "Mommy. Wake up. A tractor crushed my toys." That must have been quite a dream. It took 20 minutes and two stories to get him back to sleep.

The night before, looking at picture books of animals, we started reading about a wolf. He looked up at me with his huge blue eyes full of fear and whispered, "Wolves blow down houses."