2 year stats

MaryRyan had her 2 year old check up at the doctors on Friday. She is 27 lbs (50th percentile) and 3 ft tall (90th percentile). Huge growth spurt since her 18th month check up.

fresh tomatoes

excerpt from today's school blog:

While playing on the playground, Vanessa brought fresh tomatoes out for the children to explore. Some of the friends were eager to taste them, while some friends just looked and touched them. It was really interesting to watch the friends' facial expressions as they tried tasting the tomatoes. It was a really cool, unexpected learning experience!

I'm going to guess by this picture that MaryRyan did not like the taste of fresh tomatoes.

foamy soap

MaryRyan is happy to be back at school. When I dropped her off on Monday she ran right in and over to her friend Grace, bear hugged her and turned to me and said 'bye mommy'.

Here are some pics of her playing with 'foamy soap'. All the other friends covered themselves from head to toe. I guess she doesn't like to get messy?

summer vacation 2010

today at school

This is a picture from one of her school blog posts this week. The caption her teacher put under it was:

Mary Ryan had her firefighter hat on, dress up shoes, and then grabbed a bag and said, "Bag, Bye Bye,"


It made laugh.

visit from Tim

Tim and Lisa Kirk stopped by this morning for a visit. The Kirk's are moving back to Boston at the end of the summer. We're going to miss them!

Fear? What fear?

We took MaryRyan to the pool and she had a blast. The pool has a slide just for tots MR's size and once MR got the hang of it she could stop going down it. Her first few times down, she flew down and immersed herself right in the water. I thought we would have a traumatized toddler on our hands but she thought it was hilarious and wanted to do it again. Growing up a pool rat myself, I am thrilled she is fearless of the water!