Good thing he's cute

Though he has certainly stressed me out lately as he exercises his independant spirit and gets some mileage out of his sin nature, Ryan sure is a sweet little lovebug and makes me laugh, despite constantly keeping me on my toes. :)

He is my hat loving, cuddly boy who makes a sword out of anything, love to shoot hoops and play trains, but is a good friend to his sister, and tries so hard to help me with his brother. I sure do love you, Ryan!



And, just so I remember:

"da mopes"-- the remote controls (in a sentence, "here's da mopes, Mama, watch tee-v please?")
"Ann Tate"-- Anna-Kate
"staw-babies"--strawberries
"I caaaaain't" (ie, drawn out a like "ain't")--I can't, quite Southern.
"I uv you mommy"-- I love you
"Mommy lay here (pats his pillow) and go night-night"-- what he says each night when I go in to kiss him goodnight. He puts his arm around me and hugs me and stroked my head. When I get up to leave it's, "two more minutes, K mommy?". :)
"lope"--cantelope
"Rella"--Cinderella
Piete's--pirates (a current huge obsession. I'm guessing from Larry the Cumcumber and "the pirates who don't do anything"..)
"pay Jesus"--pray to Jesus (ie, "I pay Jesus for mama, 'thank you Jesus mama, amen.'"