Weekend at the beach

We took Lisa's dogs to the beach just south of SF. It was a beautiful day to play in the waves. In fact, it was so nice we went again on Sunday. Ryker has no fear and we had to keep him from running down to the water without us.

Bed Time

Ryker decided that he absolutely did not want to sleep in his crib anymore. He also (finally) discovered that he could climb out. So, we extended the Stokke to the toddler bed. The entire nighttime routine is a bit trying these days:

Ryker, time for bed

No! No want to!

Ryker, let's go, time for bed

Why? Wanna play!

This goes on for some time. The other night, we even got a "whatever" from him when we told him it was time for bed. Isn't that supposed to come like years from now? We manage to get him in the shower with a promise of "toga" afterwards. He loves to have his towel wrapped around him as a toga and runs around screaming "toga! toga!" Go figure.

The Hummingbirds

Ryker started "school" last week. It is a daycare here in Noe Valley and I feel that we were very lucky to get him into it. He goes 3 days per week from 9:30 to 3:30 pm. They have trains! cars! sandbox! He loves it - even if he isn't sharing very well... Andrew takes him and picks him up on the Burley (bike). I'm not quite up to all of the hills here after hauling, cleaning and painting 12 hours a day...

San Francisco - Finally Home!!!

After Andrew took Keelin back to Northern Ireland, Ryker and I moved into a friend's house for a week to accomodate tenant move-in/out dates. Andrew surprised us by returning early to help us move into our new home (and 4th move of the month!). Ryker has been surprisingly adaptive to all of the change. Yes, the potty training has disappeared but he is coping pretty well considering what he's dealing with this month. Our new home is a two bedroom apartment that Andrew owns. We've repainted most of it this week. His shipment arrived from Dublin and we had to unload that (using a manual pulley system) and then bring my things from the other house. We worked almost non-stop on my birthday. Well, the only stop was to go to the grocery store to pick up pasta for dinner. When we returned there was the most amazing floral arrangement on the door step from the Lamms. You cannot imagine how good it felt to return to our disaster and have that beauty awaiting me. So, I cooked dinner while Andrew put Ryker to bed. Andrew and I then enjoyed our pasta and cheesecake in the living room, looking at the flowers and drinking champagne. All I could think was I happy I felt to be with my family in our home. The only thing missing was Keelin. That would have made it perfect.