Hooray Daddy's Home!

Hooray Daddy is finally home from traveling the far east...was visiting Tokyo, Shanghai, and Beijing. He really enjoyed his business trip and got to meet a lot of interesting people and got to have a little fun too. He went to the Chinese Opera, ate authentic Chinese food (which by the way in case you are ever in China consists of Duck tongue and shredded jellyfish) needless to say Greg prefers American Chinese food. I have to laugh he even insisted that we go out to dinner to our favorite Chinese restaurant The Little Kitchen in Westport last night so that he could eat some "real' Chinese food. He also did some bargaining at a Chinese silk market. He describes it as a big huge warehouse of "pirated" goods everything knock off you could imagine. He said it was 7 floors of wall to wall merchandise. The merchants would yell to him "mista mista how much money you got?" Greg said that was a fun experience he came home with a huge duffel bag of stuff for us. Don't worry no toys with lead paint.

So we spent a relaxing weekend at home. Greg got to spend a lot of quality time with Ryan. Here are a few things that Ryan can do now:

When asked the following...Where are your teeth? Ryan can point to his teeth or yours?
Can point to your belly button or his.
Can't point to his nose but can say it.
Can turn light switches off can sort of turn them on with help.
Can pucker up and kiss you when asked
will open his arms and come running over when asked to hug me
Can say Mama, Daddy, Diyyan, thank you, hot, nose, Na Na for nurse
Can sign more, light, eat when he is hungry, and milk
We all know Ryan is always hungry but he will actually go over to the refrigerator when he wants milk and he goes over to his high chair when he wants to eat.
He loves to do whatever mommy is doing...loves to brush his teeth and his hair
loves to help mommy clean up in the kitchen...likes to sweep with the broom and throw things in the trash (not always trash though)
Will sometimes put his toys away in the baskets when it is time to clean up
Likes to play in the laundry basket and put clothes in the basket and take them out
Has become part mountain climber...a recent development...will actually climb on/off the couch and ottoman, climb and stand on the arm of the couch, climb and stand on his learning table and then on the coffee table (yeah we had to move the learning table to the center of the room b/c he now only uses it as a step stool not to play with)
Has mastered the stairs going up and down!
While shoveling snow on Friday before greg came home I gated him in the kitchen and left the door open so I could keep an eye on him. He just stood there staring at me with his face pressed up against the glass with his tongue out. It was really cute.
And he loves to clap his hands and dance to music.
Now literally RUNS around the house giggling/squeeling in delight if he gets out of the gates.
Oh and his most favorite thing to do is tip Dylan's water bowl over....poor puppy had learned to drink and eat when he can...he never knows when or if we will remember to put his water/food bowls back down.
Oh as Greg calls it "baby mutiny" when he throws food off his tray he has lost interest in....yes even his arrowroot cookie today at dinner while Greg and I were trying to scarf down our food. We will resort to feeding him first then feeding ourselves after he has gone to bed so we don't have to inhale or abandon our dinner. Or we will end up with "baby mutiny" all over the dining room floor. We actually think he may have regretted throwing his arrowroot cookie because he peered down at it while frowning and pointing....oh well.

Could think of so much more that the list could go on forever. Ryan has changed so much can't even remember where we were only one year ago. Seems like time is going by so fast. We can't believe he will be 14 months tomorrow. He is so full of life full of energy. He is constantly moving and constanly learning new tricks. I love trying to imagine the world through his eyes.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I heard everyone in MA got tons more snow today. My parents got a total of 15 inches. Maybe we will have a white Christmas this year.