2010 Class Photos

It's time for class photos again. This is Ryan's 4th year in having a class photo taken. Yup, he has been at Tinytown for 4 years now. This year's photo will be the first one without his good friend Michael. Michael left for Canada a few months ago and Ryan still misses him.

He was very close to the 2 boys that are in the centre of the group photo but they have just left to go to primary school. Ryan is one of the youngest here so all his friends here will leave before him.

It always amazes me how the photographer can get all of them to smile :)

Birthday Party Again

Yes, Ryan attended another birthday party again today. It was Jorden's birthday and he turned 5. He has to make new friends at daycare as all his friends have turned 5 and gone to primary school.

Here he is playing at Chipmunks playland.

Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World

There was a half price family pass deal to Kelly Tarlton's recently and we thought it will be great to take Ryan. He hasn't been there before and we were sure he will enjoy it.

It was a good thing that we got a special deal for it as we don't think the visit is worth the full admission price. Don't get me wrong, it was a good day out but we were out of there in 1.5 hours.

Ryan had a really good time there. He was running around as if it was a playground and we had to really keep an eye on him as there were a lot of people around. He said the penguins were his favourites. They were my favourites too :)

Enjoy the photos.

August 2010

This post is of nothing in particular. It's just a general update. Hence the topic is the month of the year.

Ryan went to his first circus show a couple of weekends ago. It was an acrobatic circus so there were no animals. He didn't enjoy the bits that were a bit slow but overall, I would say he liked the show. His favourite was the clowns. Again, I didn't get any photos as they didn't allow any photography in the tent.

I have some very good news to share. Some of you may remember that I said Ryan refuses to sleep by himself not long after he turned 1. In the last couple of years or so, one of us will always have to be sleeping with him. We had no idea when and how we can stop this ridiculous charade. Well... lo and behold... that day has finally arrived and he has been sleeping by himself for a week now. He was pretty good the first night but wanted to go back to the old way on the second and third nights. We said no and he has been pretty good since. He is still asking for us to go to sleep with him before he goes to bed every night but we always say no to him. I guess his philosopy is it never hurts to ask   :)

He had his Plunket check up last weekend and everything is looking good. The nurse said that he's a lovely boy and speaks really well. Oh, she also said he is a big boy but his weight and height are in proportion so it's fine.

What else... haircut! One of the things we don't like doing is taking him for a haircut as he hates it with a passion. We only go when it's really necessary and the weekend that has just past was one of those times. I asked if we should go as his hair looked silly and that he will be really handsome after a hair cut. He said no initially but agreed to it eventually as he wanted to look handsome. That was his exact words to me. We got to the hairdresser and he was good the whole time. It took quite a while as he didn't want to use the clippers but he was singing nursery rhymes to entertain himself. We kept chatting to him to keep his mind off it as well.

That is all the update I have for now. Most things are looking quite positive :) 

Party and Movie

Children nowadays have such a busy social life. Ryan has lots of parties lately. He went to a birthday party at an indoor rock climbing place. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take any photos as he wasn't brave enough to climb on his own. There were only a couple of walls that he was able to do and even then I had to hold on to him. The part he liked best was letting go and floating back down on the floor :)

We took him to the movie after the party... his first real movie. He has been asking for a long time to go to Toy Story 3 but we have been busy and haven't been able to do it. Anyway, I have to say he was pretty good. He only asked to go to the bathroom once. It's pretty safe to say that we can take him to the movies if it was for something he really want to watch.