"Look Daddy! It's the Grand Nebula!"

Ryan is constantly amazing us with his knowledge of various landmarks from different countries such as the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids in Egypt, and our personal favorite...The Leaning Tower of Pisa. (Ryan once was in Fred Meyer shopping with me and saw a picture of the Leaning Tower that a lady was holding and he said "Look Mommy! It's the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy!" The lady did a quick doubletake when she realized this was a 4 year old who was recognizing this famous landmark.) Well tonight was no exception. We were leaving Grandma & Grandpa's house and he skips out to the car with Tom and notices how bright the moon is. He says to Tom "Look Daddy! There's the moon. Oh, oh and look Daddy! It's the Grand Nebula!" After Tom picked his jaw up off the driveway, he asked how Ryan knew what the Grand Nebula was. He said "Oh Daddy, it's from Little Einsteins (a very popular Disney preschool series on TV). Grand Nebula is a big star." We decided on the way home, who needs school?? We'll just set Ryan up with the DVD series of "Little Einsteins" and let him learn all about music, geography and science from them.

Ryan's other favorite terms from "Little Einsteins" are adagio, moderato, and allegro. He likes to listen to music and tell if it is "happy or sad songs" based on how fast the music is played. If it is allegro (or fast) it is declared happy music. If it is adagio (or slow) it is a sad song and if it is moderato it doesn't really feel "anyfing". This boy is wise beyond his years! Can't wait to see and hear what else he comes up with!

"See this finger? It's telling you to LEAVE..."

Ryan is always full of such expressions and sometimes when we are disciplining him it is hard to keep a straight face. This was one of those times. Ryan is at the age where he wants to do everything "all by myself". Well, last night he was not getting ready for bed like he was supposed to, so Tom told him that if he didn't get busy that he was going to come in and help him get his jammies on. Ryan kept giggling thinking that was funny, dancing around (with only his underwear on!) in the bathroom, etc. So Tom went in and said that was it and that he was going to help him get dressed into his jammies now. Ryan looked at him with his "fed up face" (see below) and pointed towards the door and said to Tom, "See this finger? It's pointing out the door NOT in it. It's telling you to LEAVE!"

Tom continued to help him and then when Ryan was getting the point he finally made up a reason to leave the bathroom long enough to share this story with me and we had a good (silent) laugh about it. With Ryan, you sure know where you stand when he gives you that "evil eye".

Part of Ryan's bedtime routine EVERY night (and I mean every single night!) after he gets his jammies on, he comes bounding in like Tigger and makes this "hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo" sound (like only Tiggers can make) and stands proudly with his jammies on and waits for you to tell him he is handsome.

We always joke that we hope that he outgrows this part of the routine otherwise his future wife will have to tell him he looks handsome in his jammies every night too! For right now, it's pretty cute though....