Ryah has given us a few scares in the last couple of months, I just wanted to share a few with you...
That is just a sneak peak. Don't worry, she is ok! Haha! Brian was watching her while I was at work and she was just hanging out in her room playing. Well, Brian heard her fuss, just a little, not a cry, more like a, "Hey, I am stuck" fuss. Well, she was, but he didn't know. He thought she just wanted Brian to come get her, so he called out to her "come out here Ryah". She didn't say anything for a min or two, then a little louder she did the same sound. "Come out here Ryah" Brian said. When she didnt show up or make any other sounds, he got up and went to go find out what that silly little girl was doing...
Don't ask how she did this. She didn't start crying till she saw Brian. Poor girl just wanted a little help getting out of a sticky predicament! I LOVE THIS GIRL!!! HAHA
Some real scary things she has done though is she lOVES blueberries and grapes. Every once in a while she would get too many in her mouth and choke, not cough and gurgle, but get some lodged in her throat and not be able to breath in or out or cough. The only way I knew is because I was sitting right next to her and felt a little hand on my leg and looked over to see this look of TERROR on her poor pretty little face and it took 0.01 seconds for me to figure out she was choking and I stuck my finger down her throat and pushed it down further till she swallowed it all on her own. A little scary but we both survived!
Another time I went swimming with some friends in my friends back yard and Ryah was walking around the pool on the pool deck. She loves walking anywhere and everywhere. My friends little four year old boy dropped his floaty in the pool and was trying to reach it. I was in the pool and didn't want him to fall in so I pushed it over to him. I was watching little ryah walk around the pool and the second I took my eyes off her to push the noodle over to the boy (a process that took less than 1 second) she had slipped and fallen in and was face down in the pool. WATCH YOUR KIDS AROUND WATER!!! Luckilly I was anticipating her getting too close (and was originally planning on being right there if she DID decide to jump/fall in) but the second I took my eyes off her was the second she fell in. I was only about 2 seconds away from her and she was only under water for those two seconds, and I grabbed her, brought her above water, and gave her a hug, wiped the water from her face and nose, and she hugged me again and was just fine...walking around the pool on the pool deck once again. (Dont worry, this time I was right by her side).
Ryah has fallen on her face a few times, bled a few times, smashed her poor little pinkey till her nail died and fell off, and fallen off her share of high objects, but the one that probably scared us the mose is when she fell off the table. She is not a sit-still-er. A still sitter. A person that sits very still...at all...ever...and I had her on top of the table in the living room, (I moved the dining room table and chairs so I could sweep and mop the kitchen) and she was sitting in her little chair eating some lunch...cheese, grapes, something of that sort. Well, as I was sweeping, she had scooted herself backwards by pushing on her heels until she moved back, and further back, and further back, and right off the edge of the table. I promptly knew exactly what had happened and I dropped the broom and ran over to her. She cried of course but as soon as I picked her up, we danced and sang and I rubbed her poor back, (which later had a bruise from where it hit the back of the chair she was sitting in) and she was just fine after that.
Here are a few other fun Ryah moments...I LOVE YOU GIRL!
This girl loves to put on cloethes and shoes...
Oops...
I LOVE YOU GIRL!I wanted to put a few things in words before I forget.
Some things Ryah says:
Me=Grammy
Bompa=Grampa
Nunny=Bunny
Mom=Mom
Dad=Dad
Shoos=Shoes
MMMmm=Yum!
Whew-ee=Stinky
Beepee=Peepee (Haha)
Some animal sounds she makes:
Dog
Horse
Pig
Monkey/Gorilla
Snake
Duck
Bee
Cow
Coyote
Sheep
Some things Ryah signs:
More
Food
Please
Thank You
All done
Milk
Up
Down
Help (which is really just holding her hand out for me to grab and help her)
Night Night (really just blows kisses)
More food please or more milk please (she will do all three signs to make a sentence)
Funny things Ryah does:
Blows on her food.
Bites my toes to make me laugh
Raspberrys (blows on) her arm or hand to make the noise
Holds the phone up to the ear and blabs or laughs like she is talking to someone
Lays down on a pillow and snores (wonder where she got that from)
Picks up Pooh Bear (bigger than she is) and wrestles him
Pulls herself up (litterally does a pull up) on anything, but mostly the freezer and the oven handels
Smacks her lips when she likes something yummy
Dances
Bounces up and down and screams when she gets excited
Waves her hand in front of her nose and says "Whew-ee" when we aske if she is poopy
Grabs my finger so that I will follow her somewhere
Takes her dirty diaper and throws it in the trash
Plugs her nose when I say, plug your nose
Blows bubbles in the water
Plays peek-a-boo (puts her hands over her eyes, or mommas eyes, pulls them away, and says Eee shis...which means..."There she is")
Grunts when she picks heavy stuff
Copys when we coughs, laughs, and anything else she can say/do
Does things to scare herself so she can turn around and run (literally book it) to momma for hugs
Gives kisses willingly. If she sees someone crying or sad, she will walks up to that person and give kisses...to stuffed animals too
Gives knuckles and high-five
Points to her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, lips, chin, and everything else she knows
Goes to get her shoes out of her closet in her room when we say "you wanna go outide?"
Takes the keys out of the bowl on the table and tries to put them in the door
Blows kisses when we tell her night night
Waves bye bye
Knocks on the door
When we read a book, if she gets to a familiar page, she will mimick hand gestures or words
Says Amen and folds her arms
Wipes her nose with tissues or wipes
Picks everything off the floor and hands it to you (she learned that from daddy, he is a clean freak)
If she sees me wiping down the appliances or mopping the floor she will insist that she has a towel to do it herself
If she is holding a stuffed animal and I say "rock the baby" she will grab it with both arms and rock it back and forth
Bring a small ball to you and turn around and back up so she can sit down on it and bounce
Does tuck, pike, straddle
If I have her in the shower, she will stick her tongue out and try to catch water on it
If I say "roll" she will stands in front of me and puts her hands on the floor with her legs straight and butt in the air and her head on the floor and I have to help her do a sommersault.
She loves watching football with daddy
Wont sit still for nothing =)
Sticks her hands in the air when we say "touchdown"
EATS EVERYTHING...and a lot of it
Holds stuff up to her mouth and grunts because she likes the way it sounds
Changes the channel (or so she thinks, really just pushing buttons on the channel changer)
Loves her evening walks with momma and daddy
Pretends like she is lifting weights when she gets in the garage
When swimming, I will sing "ring around the rosies" and when we get to "all fall down" I will take her under water and she will blow bubbles out of her nose
Brushes mommas hair and puts on her make up (for pretend)
Pushes chairs across the floor because it makes a loud sound
Runs away screaming and laughing when we say "Im gonna get you!!!" (so cute)
Is SO tickleish
Loves sweets! =)
Knocks on the wall when we put her in her crib (this freaked us out the first time she did this because we had no idea she was awake and all the sudden we heard knocking and scared us to death)
Runs back and forth in her crib
Loves sleeping with all her stuffed animals all over her and her favorite, her bunny, on her face
Loves pointing to pictures of family and having me tell her who it is...if it is her, she will point to herself
Knocks on doors, rings door bells, turns on and off lights and anything else that turns off and on
When I get my nail polish out, she will take out a color out and pretend paint her toes
Helps clean up her room
Closes doors and drawers when I say close/open
Puts on her headband (usually ends up over her eyes)
Pulls EVERYTHING out of the cupboard (usually big bowls) and bangs on them like drums, or puts them on her head like a hat
Brings me books if she wants to read
Follows mom and dad around everywhere
Likes to wear glasses/sunglasses
If she spills, I will give her a rag and ask her to clean it up and she will
When I put her down for a nap, she will spend sometimes an hour in there just playing and talking and I go to peek my head in to see what she is doing and she will hurry and lay down again like she is sleeping so I don't see she is awake!
When I get her up in the morning she always has so much to say.
I ask her to go sit down in her chair so we can eat and she will take the tray off, sit down, and try to put the tray on, then she will sign food.
Drinks bath water (not very funny, actually kind of gross, but what can I do)
Hits her chest and howls like Tarzan
Puts on different shoes becasue she can't decide on which one to wear
Puts my phone in her shirt because thats what mommy does
Walks backwards towards a little can we have sitting on the floor until she feels it behind her legs and then sits down on it. Sometimes she will go grab a book and "read" it while on the can.
Get toilet paper off the holder and hand it to me and as I do my business she will wave her hand in front of her nose and say..."Whew wee" (stinky mom!
That is all I can think of right now. Here are some cute pics of the last few weeks
We got her some new Sunday shoes
This is the face I see when she gets into the cupboards and pulls everything out...you should see the mess she made
The "life sized" Pooh Bear she likes to wrestle with
We were hanging out at Grammys and she saw an aunt
A fathers love
Waiting at the Dr and reading her fav book, Goodnight Moon
She LOVES shoes. She couldn't decide on which shoe to wear so she wore both! =)
Hangin out with her friends, Calan and Pooh
Beautiful blue eyes
She likes to try on sunglasses and regular glasses...these are daddys glasses
She LOVES animals. I will take her on walks and she will make animal noises as we see them...dogs, horses, pigs, etc.
We LOVE this little smarty pants!
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Hello everyone. Ashley and Jake are my cousins and they are such an uplifting couple to me and my family and I wanted to share something with all of you that will hopefully touch you as much as they have touched me.
If you visit their blog, you will get a little bit of information about their family but I want you to focus on little Ryan. There are a few links to the right of their blog that you can get a little more information about him but what I wanted you to read is below. It is also the most recent post on her blog.
Attention all friends and family! I know this is short notice but I have been working a lot lately on special ways we can honor Ryan on his birthday coming up and after talking with the Assistant Nurse Manager of the NICU at UWMC the past few days she said the best and most useful way would be to donate fleece baby blankets and preemie layette's. I have a special plan for embroidering four blankets to be given to families in need representing the four days we had with Ryan with a special word embroidered representing the four main precious things he taught us : hope, strength, love and courage! Each blanket will come with Ryan's story.
I thought I would let family and friends know that if they wanted to celebrate Ryan's birthday with us by honoring him and serving another family they could bring by (or mail us) a fleece baby blanket, they prefer fleece because it keeps the preemies warmer outside the incubator, or a preemie layette that families will be a able to choose from for their babies, to our home before August 17th (before noon). We will be at UWMC the 17th in the late afternoon for my OB appointment and will distribute these gifts to the NICU then to be distributed on August 21, 22, 23 and 24... the four days of Heaven we call them, the four days we had with him. SO we love this and think it's a great way to honor Ryan and help other families. Hope you do too. Thank you!! Let me know if you have any questions :)
She is such a sweet mom and Jake is a wonderful father. If you would like to help, let me know and I will send you her address.
Ashley, good luck with everything and I will send you what I can soon!
I started my gymnastics class, if your kids aren't in them, they are missing out! =) We have so much fun, here we all are stretching.
This bottle was full before she decided to dump it all out.
I handed her a rag and told her to clean up her mess and she did. What a smarty pants!
Opening and closing doors, drawers, and anything else is her new favorite thing.
Ryah learned that if she pushes the button on my camera, the flash flashes, so she took a bunch of random pictures of random things. This was one of them...I just had to post it cause she is so darn cute! 
Another picture Ryah took. Not sure where she gets her stellar picture taking skills! 
All day Ryah kept waiving to me. I had to get a picture of it.
More waiving while drinking her milk
Ready to go swimming, one of our favorite summer activities
I am the neighborhood nail painter...
We went to my cousins babys birthday party and her in laws have chickens, horses, and dogs. Ryah loved all of them...(until the chicken pecked her finger). Here are a few pics of the fun day. 
Ryah got some new clothes from her great Aunt Janet. Here is one of my fav. shirts!
Summer so far has been fun. Can't wait to get out of the heat and go to Brians family reunion though.
Does anyone that lives close to me have a carpet shampooer? I know I can rent one from Frys but if someone has one then I won't have to go to Frys to rent one. Thanks!
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