Birthday cake, Necks, and Pasta

My Grandma Richards', my mom's mom, birthday was February 12th and we weren't able to go to her birthday breakfast so I invited her and my grandpa to come over for dinner last Sunday. My mom got to come too.

It was so fun to have them come and spend some time with them. My mom brought a cake to celebrate Grandma's birthday again. I was trying to get Ryan to practice blowing on the lighter, but he wasn't really getting it. He can blow sometimes, but he definitely forgot when he had that glowing thing in front of his face. :)

He kept making this face when he would look straight at the lighter, lol.

Grandma blew out all the candles! She was so excited that she did it. It was so cute. :) She is such a fun grandma and we love her very much.

I was excited to give Ryan some of the cake to see what he would do. I think we are in for it on his birthday. He loved it! I'm a bad mom and gave him two pieces. Too bad watching him eat veggies isn't as much fun. :)

Seeing him eat the frosting off of the table and his bib was hilarious! He wanted to make sure he left no crumb untouched! I think he is going to have a sweet tooth like his mommy. Uh oh!

I LOVE feeding Ryan noodles with sauce. He goes crazy for it! I was feeding it to him one at a time on a fork. I would have the noodle hang off the fork so he could grab it and he thought it was the funniest thing in the world! I got the cutest giggle every time I would put a new noodle on the fork. I also love how messy his face gets! I always get cute pictures! As you can see, this was definitely a bath night!


This sequence of pictures, cracks me up! For some reason I wanted to get in on the pictures, but it took 4 times for us both to be looking at the camera! LOL we are so silly!

Can you see how much I love him in these pictures?! Seriously, overflowing with love. He is such a cute boy!

I woke up on Monday morning and hurt my neck looking at the clock. It was a wonderful way to start out the day! Luckily my mom came down and helped me with Ryan so I could relax and rest. On Tuesday, Jared stayed home from work for a few hours to help me out. It was so appreciated! My neck hurt so bad!

I still had to work in the evenings so Jared rigged up this thing for me. I wanted something that would keep the hot pad on my neck while I worked on the couch, and he was a genius! It's a towel with painters tape. It helped a ton! But looked quite silly!


This morning I was getting Ryan's breakfast ready and, of course, we have the safety latches, but haven't drilled them into the cabinet we keep our food in, so Ryan gets to play with whatever he wants when Mommy isn't paying attention. This morning he pulled out the spaghetti noodles just as I was turning to check on him, and I saw them all fall onto the floor. Instead of getting mad I grabbed the camera. He wouldn't look up and smile, he was so entranced by these noodles! He learned that he could break them and was doing that for a good while. Let's just say I had to go to the store today to get some more noodles for Sunday dinner! :)

(and if you were wondering, I do have 50 more pictures that look just like this. I can't help it. :)

We've had a great week so far and can't wait to start this weekend! We have lots of fun planned with family and friends. Someday we will have a weekend where we just sit at home. Someday far in the future. :) I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!