Friday, October 23, 2009
Where's Ryder... Again...
Yes... I felt it was absolutely necessary to use the same post title two times in a row! I always try to be creative in my titles, but seriously I was once again asking myself "Where's Ryder?" I think I should start a weekly "Where's Ryder?" contest! What do you think? I don't have a prize or anything... so I guess we'll play just for fun today?!? Bloggers if you guess right and win i'll give your blog a nice plug :) If your family and guess right... well.. let it build up your ego!!!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Where's Ryder?!?
So go back two days ago... The Lutz family is checking out at the grocery store when Ryder grabs a bag of Doritos from the checkout aisle and puts them on the belt thingie (Derrik and I don't know what it's called?!). I slightly remember Derrik telling Ryder we didn't need Doritos, but apparently we were both busy getting the groceries out of the cart, getting the coupons ready, and whatever else it is your doing at that point of time and the Doritos somehow got purchased.
Fast forward to this afternoon... Derrik grabs the bag of Doritos and a drink, and then plops himself onto his chair with his computer to play some Bejeweled Blitz. Ryder proceeded to steal the bag of Doritos that Derrik hadn't even begun to eat yet and was playing with them. We both let it go because he was obviously happy with the sound the bag was making and kept doing our thing.
Derrik then says to me "Where's Ryder?!" I said he was in the bedroom and not to worry about it because he's been playing in there a lot lately. Derrik freaks out on me about how he's going to get into his golf clubs making me feel like the bad parent... blah blah blah... SO I'm the one that gets up to go get him out of there. When I go in I see this....
"What Mom?! Dad gave me these to play with!"
And whose the non-attentive parent?!?!? HAHA!
Fast forward to this afternoon... Derrik grabs the bag of Doritos and a drink, and then plops himself onto his chair with his computer to play some Bejeweled Blitz. Ryder proceeded to steal the bag of Doritos that Derrik hadn't even begun to eat yet and was playing with them. We both let it go because he was obviously happy with the sound the bag was making and kept doing our thing.
Derrik then says to me "Where's Ryder?!" I said he was in the bedroom and not to worry about it because he's been playing in there a lot lately. Derrik freaks out on me about how he's going to get into his golf clubs making me feel like the bad parent... blah blah blah... SO I'm the one that gets up to go get him out of there. When I go in I see this....
"What Mom?! Dad gave me these to play with!"
And whose the non-attentive parent?!?!? HAHA!I made Derrik clean it up :)
P.S..... Ryder must have REALLY wanted this Doritos from the store HUH?!
P.S..... Ryder must have REALLY wanted this Doritos from the store HUH?!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Goldies
My boys love eating some "goldies" when we are at home in the afternoons. We use to get the regular size bag because it was the only size that sold "baby" goldfish. They are the same thing just smaller in size for little babies like our little man. Recently though we realized we needed to upgrade Ryder to regular goldfish because we were going through so many of the regular size bags. Now we have moved up to the huge family size box which will hopefully last us a little longer between purchases!!!
"Hey Chloe you want this one?"
"Da... Chloe licked this one for you!"
(do you see how funny Ryder's face is... he loves to test his Da)
"Here is one Chloe didn't lick"
"You think i'm kissing you to be sweet, but really i'm just stealing some goldies"
"Want some more Chloe... I know you hate that dog food"
"Just teasing... It's really for me... I don't care about a little dog slobber!"
A boy and his goldies
Ryder loving his new Halloween balloon
"Balloon, why do you keep floating back up there?!?"
"Do you see how talented I am now?! Standing and drinking my sippy cup... multi-tasker!"
The troops realize what Daddy has... Goldies!!!
"Hey Chloe you want this one?"
"Da... Chloe licked this one for you!"(do you see how funny Ryder's face is... he loves to test his Da)
"Here is one Chloe didn't lick"
"You think i'm kissing you to be sweet, but really i'm just stealing some goldies"
"Want some more Chloe... I know you hate that dog food"
"Just teasing... It's really for me... I don't care about a little dog slobber!"
A boy and his goldies
Ryder loving his new Halloween balloon
"Balloon, why do you keep floating back up there?!?"
"Do you see how talented I am now?! Standing and drinking my sippy cup... multi-tasker!"
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Pumpkin Patch
Today we headed out to the pumpkin patch to get our pumpkin for Halloween. We were all really excited... except for the fact that it was a hundred degrees outside! They told us the triple digits were done.... the weather man lies! Did anyone know that?! We went to a cute little farm about ten minutes down the road from our place and tried to enjoy it as quick as we could due to the heat. Ryder just hasn't done well with sunscreen lately. So until we find a solution we just try to limit his time in the sun and use no sunscreen. You can tell in the pictures how hot he is so we didn't push him to get "that perfect picture"... we got some cute ones though :)
I swear a GOOD family photo is 1 in a million... so the 1 out of 5 we got from the nice lady at the pumpkin patch wasn't going to cut it!
I swear a GOOD family photo is 1 in a million... so the 1 out of 5 we got from the nice lady at the pumpkin patch wasn't going to cut it!
Blog Disclaimer
Disclaimer: if you are here to see pictures of a cute little boy named Ryder who sits and smiles for the camera you have come to the wrong place. We are sad to disappoint you, but it seems that little boy does not exist anymore. Our camera subject has recently learned how to walk and seems to think there are far more important things in this world to go discover then to sit still for the camera and smile for mom. So you can either deal with pictures of Ryder doing his thing and not smiling for the camera until this phase ends (does it end?!), or hit the back button on your web browser and go back to doing whatever it was you were doing before because there will NOT be pictures of a smiling little boy around here... Sorry! It bums me out too!
How he crawls if he is on a surface he doesn't like
Relaxing in the cats bed watching the Phillies on t.v.
(I love when he plays in the cats bed because having cat hair all over his clothes is just SO lovely!)
Sometimes... Just Sometimes... Ryder does smile for the camera when I ask him to...
Trying to chase after his Daddy
How he crawls if he is on a surface he doesn't like
Relaxing in the cats bed watching the Phillies on t.v.(I love when he plays in the cats bed because having cat hair all over his clothes is just SO lovely!)
Sometimes... Just Sometimes... Ryder does smile for the camera when I ask him to...Like it?
Thanks for smiling big guy!
Gosh you know how to make your mommy happy and show her those pearly whites!
I think we got that perfect shot... Thanks!
Then he gives the "stink eye" look as we call it around here....
The whole purpose of these pictures was to get a cute picture of Ryder in his tie-dye Halloween shirt I made him.... so check the shirt out on the non-smiling little boy!
Thanks for smiling big guy!
Gosh you know how to make your mommy happy and show her those pearly whites!
I think we got that perfect shot... Thanks!
Then he gives the "stink eye" look as we call it around here....The "stop being sarcastic" look!
The whole purpose of these pictures was to get a cute picture of Ryder in his tie-dye Halloween shirt I made him.... so check the shirt out on the non-smiling little boy!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Just Hanging Out
Sorry for the lack in posting. There hasn't been too much going on around here, and it's kind of nice.
Ryder had a little cold through the end of the weekend, and I've seemed to have caught it. I hate being sick... especially when I still have to watch Ryder and still have to work! What happened to the good ole days when being sick meant doing nothing and laying in bed all day?
Ryder is doing great with his standing and walking. I'd say he still prefers crawling, but he will walk if you ask him to if we are walking to his room or something. He is standing quite a bit though while he's playing. His biggest problem is he wants to run instead of walk and usually trips himself. It's crazy how much he has grown up since his 1st birthday! He's going to be 14 months in a few days! It's just insane!
Ryder has changed his nap schedule on us. He is going down about an hour earlier for his morning nap and it's only about an hour and a half instead of three hours. It makes for a crazy Mommy when he goes down trying to get a shower and finish up work before he wakes up. I use to be able to do it easy... now he's always up before i'm even close to done! We have added a new afternoon nap that is about an hour if we are at home and a little less if it happens in the car while running errands.
Ryder lovessss to drink... his water and milk that is! We already had to move up to bigger sippy cups so I could keep up. At first we weren't sure if he was crazy over milk, but he definitely loves it. It's so cute to watch him stand all by himself while he throws his head back to drink out of his sippy cup! It feels like those days of drinking an ounce from a bottle and then burping were just yesterday :(
Funny story about Ryder.... We go to Target a lot. We just like to stroll around and pass time some afternoons when Ryder is fussy at home. We have been through the Halloween section probably a good dozen times since the stuff came out like two months ago. Ryder has always loved all the stuff in that section when they pop up or make their scary noises. It's never been an issue. Earlier this week Ryder and I are there by ourselves, and I walked past the witch (that has been there for months now and usually makes scary noises that make Ryder laugh). It is obviously dead because it's not making any noise, but Ryder literally looked at it and started hysterically crying!!! Terrified!!! I forgot to tell Derrik the story. So when we were there the other day I wasn't going to say anything and see if it happened again. Ryder literally saw the halloween section (not even the witch yet!) and freaked out!!! Hysterical!!! It is crazy to me how fear in instilled in a person from birth. We've never told him Halloween is suppose to be scary. How does he just know?
I recently took a bunch of kids cds I had sitting in the condo and put them in my car since the tv is in Derrik's car. Ryder shows no interest what-so-ever in any of this stuff, but the second I turn some hip-hop on he dances like crazy! He has such good rhythm! He loves all of his music toys and really loves the new show Glee on tv. He just dances away! Definitely didn't get this from his mommy and daddy!!!
Derrik got his holiday schedule today. We will be getting on the planning process very soon and figure out where and when we will be in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He gets a full week off for Thanksgiving and three weeks off for Christmas!!! I wish that money was growing on trees because we'd be home for all of his off time, but it's not. We will be spending Thanksgiving here in Arizona since it is so close to Christmas. We can't buy plane tickets twice in a month... just won't work. For Christmas we need to work around Derrik's basketball schedule and also keep our pets in mind. With not knowing anyone in the area it forces us to put our pets in a kennel which is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E!!! Plus it's kind of cruel to put them in a cage for three weeks huh?! And we'd have to get a rental car... so with all that said we will probably be up there for about two weeks and can't wait :)
We have been spending all week handing out flyers for Derrik's upcoming baseball clinic on the 24th. It seems like they are going to have a pretty decent turnout already. Handing these flyers out has made us find a lot of the parks around here and they are amazing!!! They just don't have parks like this anywhere else we've lived. They are all so nice! They all have basketball courts, baseball fields, softball fields, play grounds, bike paths, tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, skate parks (we've told Ryder he's never allowed to go on one of those!), and walking paths everywhere! They are all so nice and Ryder loves being in his stroller at these places :)
I'm out of stuff.... I was hoping to have something to say between every picture, but i just can not think of another thing to ramble about for this last space. I told you we didn't have much going on so i'm sorry I bored you with this post, but i've been told I was slacking so I figured something was better then nothing!
Ryder had a little cold through the end of the weekend, and I've seemed to have caught it. I hate being sick... especially when I still have to watch Ryder and still have to work! What happened to the good ole days when being sick meant doing nothing and laying in bed all day?
Ryder is doing great with his standing and walking. I'd say he still prefers crawling, but he will walk if you ask him to if we are walking to his room or something. He is standing quite a bit though while he's playing. His biggest problem is he wants to run instead of walk and usually trips himself. It's crazy how much he has grown up since his 1st birthday! He's going to be 14 months in a few days! It's just insane!
Ryder has changed his nap schedule on us. He is going down about an hour earlier for his morning nap and it's only about an hour and a half instead of three hours. It makes for a crazy Mommy when he goes down trying to get a shower and finish up work before he wakes up. I use to be able to do it easy... now he's always up before i'm even close to done! We have added a new afternoon nap that is about an hour if we are at home and a little less if it happens in the car while running errands.
Ryder lovessss to drink... his water and milk that is! We already had to move up to bigger sippy cups so I could keep up. At first we weren't sure if he was crazy over milk, but he definitely loves it. It's so cute to watch him stand all by himself while he throws his head back to drink out of his sippy cup! It feels like those days of drinking an ounce from a bottle and then burping were just yesterday :(
Funny story about Ryder.... We go to Target a lot. We just like to stroll around and pass time some afternoons when Ryder is fussy at home. We have been through the Halloween section probably a good dozen times since the stuff came out like two months ago. Ryder has always loved all the stuff in that section when they pop up or make their scary noises. It's never been an issue. Earlier this week Ryder and I are there by ourselves, and I walked past the witch (that has been there for months now and usually makes scary noises that make Ryder laugh). It is obviously dead because it's not making any noise, but Ryder literally looked at it and started hysterically crying!!! Terrified!!! I forgot to tell Derrik the story. So when we were there the other day I wasn't going to say anything and see if it happened again. Ryder literally saw the halloween section (not even the witch yet!) and freaked out!!! Hysterical!!! It is crazy to me how fear in instilled in a person from birth. We've never told him Halloween is suppose to be scary. How does he just know? 
I recently took a bunch of kids cds I had sitting in the condo and put them in my car since the tv is in Derrik's car. Ryder shows no interest what-so-ever in any of this stuff, but the second I turn some hip-hop on he dances like crazy! He has such good rhythm! He loves all of his music toys and really loves the new show Glee on tv. He just dances away! Definitely didn't get this from his mommy and daddy!!!
Derrik got his holiday schedule today. We will be getting on the planning process very soon and figure out where and when we will be in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He gets a full week off for Thanksgiving and three weeks off for Christmas!!! I wish that money was growing on trees because we'd be home for all of his off time, but it's not. We will be spending Thanksgiving here in Arizona since it is so close to Christmas. We can't buy plane tickets twice in a month... just won't work. For Christmas we need to work around Derrik's basketball schedule and also keep our pets in mind. With not knowing anyone in the area it forces us to put our pets in a kennel which is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E!!! Plus it's kind of cruel to put them in a cage for three weeks huh?! And we'd have to get a rental car... so with all that said we will probably be up there for about two weeks and can't wait :)
We have been spending all week handing out flyers for Derrik's upcoming baseball clinic on the 24th. It seems like they are going to have a pretty decent turnout already. Handing these flyers out has made us find a lot of the parks around here and they are amazing!!! They just don't have parks like this anywhere else we've lived. They are all so nice! They all have basketball courts, baseball fields, softball fields, play grounds, bike paths, tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, skate parks (we've told Ryder he's never allowed to go on one of those!), and walking paths everywhere! They are all so nice and Ryder loves being in his stroller at these places :)
I'm out of stuff.... I was hoping to have something to say between every picture, but i just can not think of another thing to ramble about for this last space. I told you we didn't have much going on so i'm sorry I bored you with this post, but i've been told I was slacking so I figured something was better then nothing!
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