True Love

I think that the movies have got it all wrong. True love is not bringing flowers home every night, planning elaborately expensive dates and saying all of the right things at the right times. That would be romance ( which is nice. brett... I still like all of that). True love is more.

Brett has shown me many times what true love is. Tonight, for example, I realized that I threw my wallet away... I know, I know...

But anyway, I threw it away and then took out the trash to the dumpster(i did not know my wallet was in there at the time). Brett offered to go jump in the dumpster and find it for me. When he came back, he said it wasn't in our bag of trash. Then I remembered that I threw it away in a smaller Target bag, which was next to that bag of trash... so he went back to climb in the dumpster again... LOVE!

That caused me to reminisce about other such experiences.

1. When we were still dating, I got the stomach flu and Brett would hold my hair back for me as I, you know... love.

2. Once, we were playing indoor soccer and this big guy was trying to take the ball from me. Brett ( not as big) ran up and rammed into him and pushed him away from me ( in the legal, soccer way). i thought it was the cutest, sweetest thing ever.

3. When we were in New York my metro card fell to the bottom of the toilet (it was like $75 sitting at the bottom of the toilet) and he got it from me... wait, did he do that for me or the money? Either way - that is love.

4. Brett went out to lunch for work and specifically saved me some of his sweet potato fries because he knew I would love them.

Brett must really love me.

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Still Growing

I took Ryan to the doctor last week and he is definitely growing! My baby is a big boy!

Height: 32 inches. That is 2'8"... weird thinking of it that way. 75 percentile.

Weight: 28 lbs. 90 percentile.

Head: All I know is that it is off the charts big. The doctor asked me if his head has always been that big (we went to a new doctor). That is why they had to cut him out of me!

Words: Ya, momma, Dada, bird, dog, balloon "boon", ball "ba ba", more, banana "na na", uh oh, Elmo ( he really works his lips to say this one),

And now for your viewing pleasure... Ryan pointing to his body parts with bed head! It took me a while to find the one he wanted to start with. He is so opinionated - maybe that is why his head is so big!

Look at what MY kid can do!

Isn't it funny - and appropriate - that whatever your kid does, you think it is the great thing in the world. You think they are the smartest, cutest, funniest kid on the face of planet earth! This is how I feel about Ryan... I mean, he really is.

Until you try to show them off.

Ryan recently started folding his arms before he eats or whenever he sits at a table. It is so cute! And of course, we thought he was brilliant. So, when we were over eating dinner with some friends the other night we were about to say the prayer and I said " Wait! You have so see how Ryan folds his arms - it is SO great... he is SO smart ( I just thought that last part)"

There was a pause as everyone had their eyes on Ryan - waiting for the arm fold. He just stood there - staring back - probably wondering why everyone was looking at him. And then, right behind him, little Paige, who is a month younger than Ry, folds her arms! Ryan still just stood there. That sure humbled me! So, maybe Ryan is just normal for his age, but I am proud of everything he does - and doesn't do!

Ryan's First Tie

He looks so grown up!