Fall

Doesn't it feel like fall to everyone else? Maybe its just me. I loved the rain this morning, sometimes it is nice to have my kids in the house with me and no begging to go outside. I am always up for a rousing game of Candy Land on a day like this and so is William! I also love to fold the warm laundry as it comes out of the dryer. I had to laugh because for the last few days William has been talking about how he has to go to football practice (he is not on a football team, therefore he has no practice) on and on he has talked about going to 'foofvall' like Simeon and then after 'foofvall' he has to go to soccerball practice. Today he asked me what he would wear to football and I told him that I didn't know, he would probably wear football gear. He then proceeded to tell me exactly each article of clothing that he would have to wear starting with "Wilson's helmet, and then the thing that you eat in your mouth (mouth guard I don't know who he has been borrowing that from:) then the chin thing, it goes on your chin mom, then the pads, the big huge ones that are Sim's, then the blue pants. Mom I need to get blue pants, Wilson has to wear his." What a silly boy, he then tells me he will be ready to go out there and jump on people and he will tackle Sims but Simeon will not get him. Charley is getting so big I love to see him crawling around the house with a big smile on his face. I will post pictures eventually.

Poor Sleeping Habits

So the other night we went through our regular bedtime routine of putting William to bed multiple times. Finally I had given up because it was like 11:30pm so Ben and I were laying in bed and of course Charley woke up. I told Ben it was his turn to get Charley so he got up and left the room, as he was walking past he called to me and said "I will get Charley but you better go find William, he is not in his room." I found him out in the living room sitting in his chair watching a movie that he had turned on himself. You can see he was not very pleased at me turning off the movie and once again sending him to bed.

William called to me while I was working in the kitchen this afternoon and said that he was going to put his man down for a nap (the man is in his hand) not even 3 minutes later this is what I came into the living room to see. He is completely asleep. Silly William

Growing Up

Charley is now crawling on his hands and knees, he can get to pretty much anything he wants. He is only 7 months old I cannot believe it. One of his favorite things to do is dump out all of his toys and then hit them against the box to make as much noise as possible. He also likes to get to William's toys whenever he can.

Starting out Early

This is not a good picture but the other night we mixed it up a little bit and ate dinner in the living room. Charley had his eye on the ketchup the entire time and when we were cleaning everything up he took the opportunity to get to the bottle and was sucking on it. Ketchup is a Rydalch family favorite and we cannot eat a meal without it.

This is his Special Binky

I just had to post this picture, this is the only Binky that Charley will take when he is tired or sleeping. I took this picture today while he was taking a nap in his swing (because as of last night he is refusing to sleep in his crib.)It looks like he has the binky all tucked in with him and I like his fat little sleeping face.

'lil Punk Charley

This was just a cute little picture of Charley in a hat that William wanted him to wear. It looks great on him don't you think? We haven't really done a lot to speak of. William got signed up for preschool and we went and visited the school. He is so excited, unfortunately it does not start until Sept. 2nd it will be a long couple of weeks. Charley is now starting to crawl a little ways and can get around pretty well. He has also attempted to pull himself up on the couch multiple times, luckily for me with no success. I don't think that I am ready for him to be doing this already, he is barely 7 months!

Almost finished

So I have been working on William's tractor blanket for awhile, well probably about a year in a half. I can finally say that it is almost done. All that is left is to quilt it. I turned out ok if I do say so myself. obviously I am not a professional. I must say this however, before I start another sewing project I need to invest in a seam ripper because steak knives become very dangerous sharp objects in the hands of a very frustrated seamstress (there were many times when I wanted to just shred the silly thing.

Precious Moments

This is exactly what I want to do. He did this all by himself. he gathered up a couple of soft toys, nuzzled his little head down on a dolphin with a monkey under his arm and went to sleep. These are the precious moments when they learn to do things for themselves like going down for a nap. this made my day even though I was up all night with him and now he gets to sleep and I don't I am still touched to see his sweet little self sound asleep on the floor.