A cape...or a hooded towel

It has been a little slow around the Reckers' house lately. We are just enjoying Ryan more and more everyday. His new obsession is his belly and everyone else's belly button. It is no fun when he tries to pull my shirt up in public to look at my belly button. He has become quite opinionated when it comes to his food. He definitely has food that he refuses to eat now. Some of his favorite foods are cheese, waffles, spaghetti (he goes nuts for it and cries when it is all gone), peas, strawberries, grapes, breakfast sausage, taco meat, eggs, tomato soup, and anything sweet. He still loves his books, and loves our neighbors cat. He runs around the front of their house saying "kitty, kitty, kitty.." If Lucy the cat happens to be out, he follows her everywhere! Elmo is still one of his favorite things. Ryan has started transitioning to 1 nap a day. Occasionally we will still get 2 naps out of him. I am not forcing it either way and letting him decide what he needs. He still loves to be outside and since it is beginning to cool down a little bit, we have been spending much more time outside. We went to our neighborhood's Labor Day celebration yesterday and there was a band playing at the Amphitheater. Ryan ran up and down the hill countless times and would stop occasionally to dance to the music. We were exhausted just from chasing him around. Ralphie and him have become quite good buddies now that Ryan has figured out that Ralphie loves to be fed. Food has really helped their relationship. When Grandma Bobbi is around, Ryan wants nothing to do with Rob or I. It is Grandma all of the time. She loves every second of it!


Here are some recent pictures of him playing with a couple of hooded towels. I put the duck one on him one day and he left it on his head for at least 30 minutes. It was so funny and so cute. Grandma Bobbi got to see the cuteness, so she found this Elmo towel and brought it over this weekend. Again, he left it on his head for a good 45 minutes this morning while we were playing.