Rylee Jay

The other day it was remarked by somebody that Rylee looks just like me and acts just like her dad. Her response? "Whoa, that scary." Yes, the child has fine tuned the art of sarcasm. Another funny one, we were watching discovery channel one day and there were donkeys on. The narrator was calling them "asses" and Rylee was appalled. So Ryan and I explained that sometimes people call donkey's that but that we'll stick to donkey, just to be safe. So a few minutes later some pigs come on the screen. Ryan says "Look Brooklyn, there's mom and Rylee," To which Rylee retorts, "Well, I'd rather smell like pig than like a$$." I know, we shouldn't laugh, but how can you help yourself sometimes? She really just grown in leaps and bounds this school year. Not just in height, but in all kinds of ways, and her witty and sometimes mean sense of humor is just one of them. You can always count on Rylee to pick on her dad, to start a fight with her sister, or to throw her mom's shortcomings in her face. While this doesn't sound like such a good trait, it really is cause for much laughter in our house. She's just funny. Even if it's a mean funny. Other things she's done this year, well, as much as she picks on her dad, she has really become his sidekick. Always wanting to go fishing, or help in in the yard. They love to watch TV and eat junk food together. And they especially love to pick on me and Brooklyn together. She has also developed her first crush. Cute little Garrett only lives a few houses away and the poor kid has Rylee and friends walking the dog by his house many times a day. She loves buying things or doing things for people. She loves to clean windows or organize closests. She can often be found spending her allowance on her teacher, me or Brooklyn. As funny mean as she can be, she actually loves to spoil people. Anyway, there's only 3 weeks of school left and it's just killing me that she is almost a 3rd grader. How did this happen?

So this is a picture of her before school this morning. It was Wizard Of Oz day and she was the Cowardly Lion. We tried to make her hair look like a wild mane and we also made a tail (which drove Rusty crazy.) But the main reason I took this picture is to see the nice lump on her noggin. She was doing flips out of the swings at school yesterday, and well, she missed her landing. She wouldn't let me take a picture yesterday, but it was about 4 times the size. Just one more way she's grown up. She used to be a little wimpy, but that seems to be changing.