The Wyman's

Sunday, April 24, 2011

One whole week confined to a small hospital room = A heck of a lot of activities

As miserable as it was, in a weird way it was kind of nice. We got to just hang. No house construction, no boat work, no house cleaning, no work.......just played with the little man. We did really miss Kya though. Ryker asked about here all the time. She wasn't able to come visit because he was in a quaranteened area of the hospital.

The gifts just kept coming.....

I wish I had gotten a picture of him in his hospital clothes. Here he is in the pants, but after the first couple days he didn't want to wear shirts so I didn't get him with his tie back yellow shirt. The whole outfit was sweet!

Ryker Cam

Ryker Cam - very artsy I'd say

Ryker Cam

A little hide and seek

I think you need to find a smaller partner to hide with you Ryker. Kara totally gave you away!

Ryker Cam

Cat in the Hat game: Seth going for the "under the trick-a-ma-stick with the fan between your knees."

There's that "big smile" I've been trying to get him to stop doing.

Headed to town, on a bus, until as usual they crashed into a deer, or maybe it was a porcupine this time. Should I be concerned that everytime Ryker is driving something; truck, forklift, backhoe, motorcycle, street sweeper, just to name a few of his favorite vehicles, he crashes. He always hits some sort of animal or building. Sometimes it is just a curb, but that one is totally realistic because he rides around with his dad a lot :)

We played a lot of "I spy" out his window

Best toy in the hospital: the bed

Ryker Cam

So Ryker is under the impression that I can actually play the guitar. He even requests songs. I can also make up sweet songs about just about anything. He likes to pick 5 things and have me sing a song about those five things....that part I am good at, but anyone that knows me, knows I can't actually play the guitar. Right now in his eye's though, I'm awesome! I'm thinking that if I want to keep the charade going, I will need to start lessons now. Then by the time he is old enough to catch on, I'll be able to play a few easy songs and by the time he's old enough to know better, I will be as good as he remembers.

Thank you Uncle Ty and Nikki. He still has his balloons and more than a month later, they are still floating.

Morning stretches

Squeezing playdough though a shaped hole never gets old....oh to be 2 again...

Lovin' the playdough necklace. He had no idea I could make such awesome jewelry. Just wait until we pull out the polished agates and hot glue buddy. You are going to see your mom create masterpieces!

Thanks Lacy, Megan, and Sara!

Styrofoam, you are no match for Ryker. Even in his sleep, he can break you!

Finally busting out of this sh*tbox! We had so much stuff to get to the car and Ryker would not let me take it out and come back for him. I asked him numerous times if I could just take a load and then come back for him and the rest of the stuff. Every time, I got a big fat NO before I even finished my sentence. His suggestion was to take him and a load and he would wait in the car while I came back for the next load. Hhmmm...he would rather wait in the car by himself than wait in this room he's spent any entire week in. I guess I would probably have felt the same. I had the nurse find us a wagon and we made the two trips together.

Thanks to everyone that came to visit, to Grandma Katha for taking care of Kya, to everyone that sent care packages and gifts, to Seth's crew for all the work they did in his absence, allowing him to jump off in Ketchikan to fly home and getting the boat safely to Sitka, and to my Mom and sister who dropped everything and showed up immediately to help out....Ryker, you owe your grandma a trip to Ireland someday.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Gimme that cereal!

Peek a boo

The new boat is equipped with a sweet changing table - good forethought Fred Wahl.

It is also great for naps. This was during the time that Ryker was so sick and the first antibiotic was not doing anything to make him feel better. We went to the boat because Seth had to do about a 5 minute task. Ryker was enjoying being on the boat so we hung out for a while. Then he fell asleep in the tophouse bunk for about 4 hours. We didn't want to wake him and the boat was so nice and new and clean (unlike our little house right now, completely cluttered with toddler toys and baby stuff) that we hung out on it for about 5 hours. It also has a sweet stereo system and a view that can only be beaten when the boat is in motion. We even got pizza and had dinner there.

Still sleeping...zzzzzzzzz....

Kya's turn for a nap

Now we are playing in the new house because there is a ton of room to run around when the weather is bad.

Ryker Cam

Kya looks a little worried about Ryker screaming "say cheese" each time he takes a picture

Ryker picked this Fun Factory playdough machine out with a gift card that he got from Children's Hospital the first time he had to go to the emergency room. He loves it. While we were in the emergency room a lady came in that was doing a research study. I'm all about helping in the for research sake, but I wasn't really in the mood and didn't want to put Ryker through anything. We listened to her even though my instincts were just to send her back out the door. She just needed to take some measurements, so I asked Ryker if he wanted to do it. I figured he'd say no since he hated it when anyone came in even just to talk to us. I must have sold it too well because without hesitation, he said he wanted to do it. I asked him if he wanted her to measure some parts of his body to help other kids. Then I told him he would get a gift card to buy something at Target. I figured the gift card is what sold him until a few days later when he kept telling people how a lady measured him and he helped some other kids. Can he really draw a straight line between that lady measuring him and it helping other kids? We explained it to him, but it just seems so abstract to understand. I guess he just believes what we say. Even though I'm glad we participated, I still felt a little like we were pimping our kid out as a lab rat, during a vulnerable time for him, for a $10 gift card.

Anyway, as we were walking into Target the next day, I asked Seth "What are you going to do if he picks out a $100 toy." "Buy it," he responded. His gift card was only worth $10, and he gripped that thing all the way home from the hospital and throughout the next mornning. He had been through so much that Seth wasn't about to tell him no, no matter what toy he picked. Oddly, of all the toys there, he picked one within the price range and that was age appropriate. And wow, has he gotten good use out of it! He loves that thing.

While Ryker was sick, Kya went to daycare sometimes and to Grandma Katha's because he needed so much attention. He talked about how much he missed her all the time. He wanted a picture of her. He carried it around for a day, then taped it to his wall when he went to bed. When they would see each other for brief periods, it was obvious that she missed him too.

Tiger? Where?

Oh, me. Sure, I knew that.

So Seth's mom brought the kids these tiger hats, but she didn't know what size so she got 3. I had Seth convinced that she got one for him too and that he was going to have to wear it to BEHS football games this fall. I finally told him the truth, but I still think he should wear it.

Ryker has to show Kya how to use all his old toys. I hate to tell you buddy, but she's got it down. This isn't rocket science you know.

First tandem trip to the mailbox.

We had to bust out the jumper a couple months ago

"Check out these abs."

Birthday party at daycare

The Crew

Ryker is not yelling in every picture. We've determined that this is his "big smile." When I ask him to do his little smile though, he refuses stating that he likes to smile big. I'm sure all our pictures will be like this for a few months.