He continues to yell at you until you make eye contact. Saying "What?" is not enough. "Mom, mom, mom, mommy, MOM, MOM, MOM!!" (or dad or Jaxon)over and over again until eye contact is made. It can drive you near insanity at times and the rest of us usually get yelling at the other person to just look at him.
He is completely irreverent during family prayer at night and will refuse to say prayers some nights until we give in and tell him it's time for bed. Then he becomes completely undone and will cry until he can say his prayers. Yeah, he's 2.
He loves his Mr. Bink. I tell him often that Mr. Bink is going to go bye-bye but I just can't bring myself to do it. He goes down for nap and bed so great. I guess I should just gear up for it and toss the dang thing. He's had the same binky for over a year now. Eventually it's going to break right? My only consolation is that he doesn't want it until he's tired so he doesn't walk around with it in his mouth. I'm justifying. It will be gone soon. Well, before kindergarten anyway :)
There was a day not too many months ago when he cried and clung to me when I dropped him off at nursery. Now he is waving and yelling goodbye as soon as the closing prayer is said. He loves nursery. One Sunday we were talking about nursery as we were getting ready for church and I asked him "Who are you going to play with in nursery today?" He responded with "Ree, Jessen, baby Jesus!" He loves nursery and playing with his buddies Reed and Jensen.
This look usually comes with a plead to be held...in which I usually oblige. Good thing he's only 22 lbs. One day he'll have to walk on his own. When I tell him he's a big boy he tells me "Me Baby!". Yeah, we're working on that too.
He was such a brave little man during his last round of allergy testing. Notice the two bandages on his arm? They were able to get the blood draw on their second attempt and we didn't even have to drive to Primary Children's to get it done! His reward was the skittles and he earned every last one of them! He did so great.The results came back so encouraging. Just for a reference point for all you non-allergy folks out there: anything less than .35 is considered normal (meaning there is no allergy) and a high level of allergen is anything 3.51-17.5.
In April Ryker's results were: Milk 28.1, egg 2.45, peanut .90, cashew 1.41
Now, 6 months later, his milk has dropped to 7.1, egg is now .98, peanuts are .31. He didn't run the tree nuts on the blood test, but they still came back positive on the skin test.
With results like this I can actually begin to believe that he'll out grow these allergies. There is a very slim chance he'll outgrow the tree nuts. Only about 3% of people do. Hopefully they drop even more in April when we go back!
He still doesn't eat hardly anything at all (hence his weight). He loves chips and salsa, corndogs (but just the corn part), fruit snacks, and chicken nuggets. Last night I caught him trying corn (wahoo!) and he didn't even gag and spit it out! There's still hope.
Ryker had a blast at Lagoon on Jaxon's birthday....that is until they told us he couldn't ride the rides anymore. We thought that when we called and asked if kids 2 and under could get in for free and they said 'yes' that meant he could also ride the rides. Silly us. Apparently he could walk in to the park for free but he couldn't ride the rides unless we paid for the ridiculously over-priced child's ticket.
Luckily he was able to steal a few rides before we learned of our mistake. Here he is excited to ride Puff the Magic Dragon with Brian.
After he was banned from the rides he enjoyed pushing his stroller around while we waited for Jaxon to ride. His stroller was just as much fun as the rides, and it was free. 
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