Mon - Last post from NJ?

hopefully it won't be too much of a teary goodbye, but tomorrow is the big day. we move on. we had such a nice family weekend bonding in teh house because of the rain. sun me and mommy went to lunch together and then to the park so daddy could get some packing done.

there are boxes everywhere, but in the midst of packing we played a lot with the couch cushions and made some nice forts out of them. then i ran and jumped into them knocking them over. i love it when mommy and daddy play with me! lucy even got in on the game and crawled into some of the cushion forts! what a blast!

today was my second to last day of school. i guess i am really gonna miss everyone there. they take such good care of me and teach me things everyday. most importantly they are cracked up by my antics... i am actually a pretty funny guy, now that i think about it. tomorrow is my last day though. i think mommy is going to pick me up and we are going straight to mom-mom's house for a few days before the house is ready. daddy is going to stay back until wed and get everything cleaned up and straightened for the new people. I hope they are nice. I think they have a dog just like lucy too. daddy and mommy think lucy will be stressed out by the move so i have to make sure she gets through ok. i have to pull her hair and sit on her just as much as usual, maybe more!

so, off we go, to the great state of PA! I have really enjoyed your comments and enjoyed writing this blog. i might ahve given you all the wrong impression about stopping the blog, its not because know one reads it, but just because i am getting older. soon enough i can express all of my thoughts without this blog. we will see though. the old man is still thinkin bout it.

have a great week everyone, wish us soooo much luck with our move!!

love,
the ry-man

Thu - Times a wastin...get packin!

Less than a week till the big move so we have been very busy at home. Not much time for an update. Thought I'd share a couple of pictures.

I mowed the lawn for daddy on father's day:




















Then me and mommy called Granpa to wish him happy father's day:

















This week I can tell has been pretty stressful for mommy and daddy. It started out with the oil tank removal. That was quite a feat. I didn't see it but mommy was home to take some pictures:




The good news was that the leak was not TOO bad. Still bad enough to cause problems though. Hopefully that all can get worked out soon though!
so wish us all luck this weekend with packing, couple more inspections to go, but we are on target according to daddy.

School has been great this week. Tuesday was favorites day so i brought in my favorite fire truck. when i got to school, we had to show everyone our favorites than share it with the other kids. then on wed was pajama day combined with water day! so, i got to wear my pj's to school and then in the middle of the day we got our suits on and headed out to the water table and sprinklers. it was great!!

hope you all had a great week, and please write in! haven't heard from anyone in a while. i know most of you are pretty busy though. can you believe you have been reading my blog for a year now? time flies dudes! daddy says its almost time to hang it up for some reason.

hope you like the mixed in pics too. i stole the idea from one of my neighborhood buddie's blogs (the jackson journal). His mommy writes his and puts great pictures in there. Daddy says she is a better picture taker than him though. Oh, and daddy told me to add my feed to your RSS aggregator (whatever the heck that means). daddy might start his own blog to explain stuff like that though soon. anyway, add this:
http://ry-man.blogspot.com/atom.xml

if you want a cool aggregator where you can add feeds, check out netvibes.com!

later!

Tues - Things are going well i think

can i just tell you all how much I love the outside! i mean, there is so much going on out there, there is so much to look at, and the terrain is very exciting. makes going in and getting ready for bath and bed a real bummer.

i have started noticing a routine though, and yesterday wasn't so bad. it seems that after dinner is over daddy or mommy usually take me outside to play. daddy says it is to work. he mows the lawn while I help him out with my mower. i can usually get the spots that he misses (or so he says). my mower though is not as loud as his and a lot of times it doesn't even start up till you push it a while. anyway, we usually play for a while, run into some neighbor at some point, play for a while and then daddy says, ready to go inside? Lets got put your mower away. I guess that is sort of my cue to get ready to go inside and go to bed. I didn't fight it last night because it was bath night. I learned this really really really funny trick. I think most adults know, but for you kids out there, next time you are in the tub, try it. Wait till your sitting in the water, then wave your arms like crazy splashing water everywhere! Watch your mommy and daddy run for cover while you crack up laughing!!!

The other trick I am learning is to take the cup that your daddy uses to rinse you off, fill it with water, adn practice your drinking from a cup. i am getting good at it, and fast too. The trick is, wait till daddy/mommy is soaping up your washcloth, or turning on the water, then get a quick drink in!!

So I am noticing more and more boxes in our house. Pictures coming down, things disappearing. this is all part of moving. we have to take all of our stuff from this house and move it to another house. i will carry the broom if they want, so they won't have to pack it. hopefully lucy won't take too hard to the move, though i keep hearing daddy saying that we are goign to have a big yard and a big house so we don't need to worry.
we told school about the move too. it will be very sad to leave there, especially with not knowing what is in store for me (new school?). i am sure i will be fine though, i think i am too young for it to affect me too bad!

cya guys later!

Tues - Whoa...over a week since i posted!

hey dudes and dudettes! been a while since I last wrote. I remember that I was just about to go swimming after I last wrote. that was our memorial day weekend.
since then though, things have been pretty busy. it was a short school week, only two weeks. monday was the holiday and then thu daddy said i could skip school and we got in the car, loaded up lucy and went to pop-pop's. mommy and daddy dropped me off because they said they had to go inspect our new house. They were gone for a couple of hours so me and pop-pop hung out most of the afternoon. We were out for a walk when mommy and daddy came back and i showed them my pretty much perfected wave. i could tell by the look on their faces how impressed they were!! We then headed over to mom-mom's house for dinner, and then mommy had to leave to go back to NJ for work the next day. lucy and pop-pop bill and daddy and I played ball outside while mom-mom sat outside and watched us. id have to say the downer of the day was the fact that I had to go inside and go to bed. i really really really don't like having to go inside!

Fri was a busy morning and i ended up taking a really long morning nap and then daddy adn mom-mom and I met pop-pop at a restaurant for lunch. wow, a restaurant, too bad cheapo mommy and daddy never take me out to eat! we had a great time and i entertained them with my ability to drink through a straw (yeah...i know...simpletons). then we headed over to mom-mom's work so daddy could work on their computers for a while. then it was back to mom-mom's for dinner and mommy's arrival. we played outside again for a while, and i again, did not like one bit coming back in side...grrr.

Sat and sunday are a blur at this point, i remember being at a baby shower, and mommy telling me to grab some diapers and get out of here while no one is looking. (he he, just kidding, oh and congratulations aunt tracy!) Spent some time playing the piano with daddy and I guess just hanging out getting ready to cause trouble and causing some!

Hopeyou all had a good weekend. It was great seeing you all!!