Studly Daddio

Kyle after the Gate River Run (15K) here in Jacksonville. He rocked it.

Savannah

Nan (my mom) came in town Saturday and we headed for a quick trip to Savannah to meet up with all our Henman cousins! Tricia and Rob live there now and we had a fun lunch at a cool place in downtown Savannah and then... the kids played with Tricia's incredible Lego village. Which included a CAR WASH. We had a really hard time when it was time to leave!

Above: Tucker playing with Hannah (3) and Lucy (4)

Below: Cousin Nancy & I.

To Scottsdale we go...

We had a fun dinner at Ragtime in Atlantic Beach last night to celebrate Nan's birthday a little early...

because...

We are off to Scottsdale tomorrow and Mimi and Nan are ON DUTY!

Best of luck to them!

Twinsies

The Courtrights in Chicago sent these ADORABLE pajamas for the boys! Mac grew tired of the photo shoot...

Making our way through March

Sweet John McCormac Ryan... greeting Daddio after work.

Mac in the firetruck outfit.

Tucker in the firetruck outfit.

Tucker at work cooking "Lincoln Log Stew"... yummy!
And there is no doubt why our house is constantly a disaster. He likes to dump and then play.

Tucker's newest hobby. He got some incredible clubs that are just his size and he is all about practicing. I often say my full time job is keeping Mac alive and Tucker playing golf is just yet another hazard!

The baby boys

Flashback to Tucker at 3 months -- Oct 2005

Mac does NOT like my camera. When I pull it out, he stops smiling. It's a bummer -- Tucker was a ham for the camera. it might be that he didn't have a big ole lens coming at him. I don't know.

Can you guess which naked baby is which??? Probably because Tucker's arm is in the picture of Mac :) and Mac is a bit chunkier than Tuck (although hard to tell) but dang do these two look alike!



More of my sweet Mac. I've been really picture happy the last few days. I just think he is at SUCH a cute stage. That's saying a lot for me -- I normally don't get obsessed with babies until they are about 9 months old~

Mac Baby!

Finally taking some pictures of the Mac Baby!

3 months

* Still a TER clone

* Starting to really laugh

* Still not sleeping through the night

* So, so sweet and happy!

* Already working really hard to roll over

Tuckerisms 2

"Mama, there are so many leaves on Daddio's windshield.... That is NOT adorable."


5:15 am just after he woke up Mac for the first time by screaming from a bad dream:

"Mama, I'm on the lookout for monsters." I explain that monsters are pretend, only in books, etc. He replies "Ben from my class says that monsters come out in rooms when they are dark."

Thank you Ben.

Sweet little friends

A tribute to these two precious monkeys... Livvy & Tucker.

After observing them (& Miller who is just a little bit further behind right now) we found ourselves very sentimental about them growing up together!

These are in no particular order. Just a ton of sweet times.

They have always had so much fun together!

We are so grateful.

August 08 (Tucker 3, Livvy 2)

The first time they met... Tucker just 1 & Olivia Jane 6 weeks?

Tuckerisms

At Southside Methodist Preschool there is an option to do "Extended Day" from 1-3. I have never really had a need to use it and never really have given it a thought. Until a month ago... when Tucker started begging to go to "Extended" (that's his slang for it. Picture him saying it like a 16 year old valley girl. It is hilarious.)

Leave it to my son to BEG to be away from me for more hours of the day. In the past few weeks, I pick him up and he proceeds to tell me "Cole is staying for Extended." "Ben is staying for Extended." (All in this same teenage/sarcastic/mom-you-are-so-uncool-for-not-letting-me-stay voice.) This is the same voice he uses when he tells me what people had for lunch that day. "Susie had OREOS." "Hayden got to have CHEETOS." How does he even know what an oreo is... or a cheeto??? Apparently they are good enough that he can observe their enjoyment enough to covet the junk food! Again, I'm so uncool because I pack healthy lunches.

Back to "Extended." So, today, Tucker got to have his dream fulfilled. I left him for Extended. He has been excited since Wednesday when I told him he got to go Friday. "When is it Friday?" "Am I still going to stay on Friday?" over and over...

When I came to get him this afternoon he was beaming. Other than telling his teacher that her bum was too big for a tricycle outside, all went swimmingly. Until we got in the car and he turned on me. "Why don't we get to go to Miss Jennifer's for a playdate now?" Hmm. What? I ask why we would do that. He goes on to say he is "really mad" about not going over there. Then he waits a few seconds because I don't respond to him and he says "I'm really miserable about that decision you are making, Mama." Then, "I'm cross!" He picked out all the negative words he knows ("Cross" is from Thomas, of course - they always say the engines are cross instead of mad and we had a 10 minute conversation the other day trying to explain what the word miserable means. Apparently he can now use it in context :))

This kid is a piece of work.

Hanging on.

If only we were still at the beach. I can't believe it is already almost the next weekend. UGH! Perhaps if I post a few more pictures we can hang on to the weekend a bit longer.

"the babies"

The hilarious part is that all of the children call each other "baby." But Bo & Mac are the real babies.

Mac & I spent about 7 minutes on the beach this day. It was windy and he acted as if he was drowning/choking every time there was a gust of wind. Needless to say, we just gave up & went inside.

I LOVE this picture. Tucker looks like an old man in his sweatpants, with his hands folded looking down at his feet. And Olivia is just checking him out.


The whole crew. It takes a lot more tries to get a good one these days. Thank you, Jess, for your hard work! :)

i heart kirkwood.

My mom sent me this picture this morning from the KHS basketball game last night. Most of you know how much I loved high school. This picture helps explain why.