HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIDGE!!!

My baby boy turned 2 yesterday. He woke up really early he must have been excited... Ok, he asked or a bottle then wanted to go back to bed. Yes, he is still on a bottle. The "rule" at our house is off the bottle by 2. We we haven't made it yet but that should be the next thing to come. Grandma Marlene says she'll take it off of it when he stays with her for 3 days in December while Dusty and I go to Vegas.

Ridge is a fun kid. He will give you a heart attack if you pay to close attention to him. But if you don't pay close attention to him he'll get hurt. He loves his brothers and is so excited to see them. He loves to wrestle and tackle everyone. He wants things his way but can't really talk to tell you what he wants. He usually only says one word at a time, and it isn't fun trying to guess what that one word it. Bottle - Baa, Outside - Owww, Drink - Dri, Eat - EEEE, he can say mom and dad very well. He usually screams those words all day long. "MMMMMOOOOOOOOMMMMMM" - then says something like "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD" and I get to guess what that means. He has the cutest blue eyes and a fun loving personality. He loves his "G'ma WEEN" (Grandma Marlene). The other night we had put him to bed and heard the door open and shut a few times. I thought he would come walking out but he never did. Dusty and I were getting ready to go to bed so Dusty went to check on him and couldn't find him in his bed. He looked in his closet and couldn't find him, went to our room and nothing. He went to the boys room and still couldn't find him. He finally looked in the hall closet and he was wedged between the vacuum and the wall sitting up sleeping. I wish I would have got a picture but I fell bad for him so I just picked him up. He must have went in there closed the door and just went to sleep. He never cried to or made a peep. We love our little Ridge!

SERIOUSLY... RIDGE

People probably think I don't try to protect this boy but I really do... He is just CRAZY!!! I can't imagine what he would look like if he fell the other 20 times a day I actually caught him. At least once a day he falls off my counters - the other 100 times I get him off before he does fall. He jumps from couch to couch to coffee table - and usually misses a few times. He climbs on top of the bath tub and tries to jump out, I usually catch him before he falls to hard. He runs everywhere but doesn't quite pick up his feet so he trips alot. I would be scared to death to take him to the doctor because he always has so many bumps and bruises. On Sunday we were getting ready for church and him and Rayce were playing on the top bunk. Rayce tripped him and he landed on his eye and hit the bar across the top. He bled for quite a while but we still went to church. A couple days before that he was climbing in his windows to see the cows. He fell out and bounced back and forth between the wall and the bed and hit is ear. You can see the big purple bruise. After church he was running to the car and he tripped and scratched his nose. Really, he is crazy and the worst part is that he is VERY independant. He has to do EVERYTHING on his own. Get in the car, out of the car, up on something, even get his own bottle out of the microwave. He won't let you help him do anything. I hope this isn't a sign of what is to come in the future because if it is I better save more each month for him and his hospital bills!!!

OCTOBER 31, 2009

This year we carved pumpkins a little late. We usually do it 2 weeks before Halloween but we did it the night before. The kids still had a fun time. We usually go to the corn maize also and this year we didn't. It was kind of crazy with Bailee in the hospital. Next year we'll try to do a little bit better.

On Halloween there was a carnival at the school. We were going to go then decided not to -crowds and 3 kids don't go together :) We dressed the boys up then went to Roosevelt and hit the boys house, G. Grandma Olsen's, and a few houses around there. Then we went out to Grandma Marlene's for Pizza and breadsticks. The boys had a lot of fun. Hopefully one year we will do the carnival but I haven't braved it yet... And next year we'll have 4 kids so it isn't looking good to do it then either!