Just can't get enough...

Posing for Granny J

Lovin' Dora and Boots...

This is what happens when your pig tails are pulled too tight...

I just can't handle how cute she is here...

Pony tails on either side...TWO of them!!!

Black and white version of a previously posted picture....

Holden and Ryan stopping to see what all the commotion is about...

Ryan is proudly displaying her three incoming teeth

Still not liking that bow in her hair...

Granny J took a few more pictures and I can't help but show y'all. These were all taken this week and last week and somehow she seems to capture Ryan at some of her cutest moments. And I can't believe she has enough hair for pig tails, TWO pony tails at 14 months old!!!

And pose...

A precious profile shot

She takes requests, show tunes from the Noggin channel

Stopping to pose for a moment

Looks like we cought someone in the midst of rehersals...

Will she ever like bows in her hair?

Blowing kisses to her fans...

Riding off into the sunset...

Grandma totally has a better camera than me so when she gets the itch to take pictures with her camera, I can't help but post them. My pictures look kinda like a two year old is attempting to stay in the lines of a color page, you get the picture. Anyway, speaking of getting the picture, Grandma had a photo shoot this week with the kids and Ryan was more than obliged to be a willing model for her. I can't believe how fast she is growing, saying so many words and doing so many new things. I swear she learns something new every night in her sleep, she amazes me every time she wakes up. Just gotta love her...

Rock band, part deux...

I guess one night of ROck Band wasn't good enough!!! We had so much fun initiating Jaren and Drew on Friday night into the rock band mania, we were on the phone Saturday morning planning to party that night!!! We even invited Garet to come and grace us with his singing abilities, he performed "Wanted (dead or alive)" courtesy of Jon Bon Jovi. Take a look at the boys, you won't see much of Joe because he's chillin' on the couch and playing the guitar. Then we have Drew on the drums, but watch carefully because it seems that Drew missed the tutorial that Jaren took the night before!!! It was awesome to watch and we all want you to know that even though the guys aren't ready to go on tour yet, they still have a couple die hard groupies to capture all the fun along the way!

Rock Band part une...

We have gotten back into the Rock Band mode this past week and invited Jaren and Drew. Well, we actually initiated them into the Rock Band mania because we started on Friday night and they didn't go home until 1:00 in the morning!!! By Saturday, we were on the phone making plans to plug in the microphone again that evening. We even invited Garet because he too is a Rock Band-aholic!!! We got the country song pack and RB I and blasted out tunes all night long. Jaren had to take a short tutorial on the drums before she would commit to playing. She practiced really hard!!! It totally payed off, right?

Doing Laundry...

is one of Ryan's "favorite" things to do. When I say that Ryan loves to do laundry, that really means that she likes to sit on the floor by any given dirty clothes basket and pull the dirty clothes out. She sometimes separates them into dark and light but not always. She then comes up to me and shows me some of the dirty clothes, I guess to let me know that they are dirty and need folding. Oh, and did I mention that she likes to do the OPPOSITE with the clean clothes? When I fold clothes she likes to unfold them and put them back into the basket. Usually I tell her no but she gets to laughing so hard I had to see what all the fun was about...behold the belly laughter!

She FINALLY said it!!!

Ryan finally said "MAMA MAMA" for me!!! It did happen a couple weeks ago, August 16 to be exact but at least it happened! I have waited a long time for her to say my "name" since she has been saying Joe's "name" since she was about seven months old. It was totally worth the wait!