Our nightly scream fest.....

Every night before bed Ryan likes to get a little loud. His once subtle squeals have turned into full out screaming. We noticed that he is even more animated when his brother Grant is holding him. Here is a video of the two of them doing their thing.........

You Did It!!!!

Ryan got a late start at trying to get his walker to move thanks to silly mommy who didn't have the walker lowered as far as it could go. He has been working hard ever since and it will not be long before he will figure out he can go forward too. First taste of freedom!!!

The Legend Lives...........

Okay so this may be inappropriate but very funny........

Sprinkler time!!!

Grant had a blast playing with his new sprinkler! Ryan even tried to get in on the fun:)

Summer Time!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let Summer begin! We have been taking advantage of the sun being out as it has been very rainy here in Missouri.

The sleepovers have begun. Momma Maddie and Ava stayed the night this weekend and they all had a blast playing together. Going to miss this when it's time to go!

Walgreens trip gone bad.......

My mom bought Ryan some t-shirts that she thought he could use to sleep in so I had to take some pics......poor thing!

Hard at work......

Ryan has really been working on getting his toys. He can now grasp, pinch, and switch hands with his toys.

Stroll'n

Up until this point Ryan has hated his stroller. Basically he hates anything that involves him being placed on his back. We have started to notice that he is becoming more patient with it so we attempted it once again. Success!!! He had to have his bottle the entire time but we didn't have to take him out of the stroller at all. We'll take it!

Baby Toes......what is better than that.....

I have a million pics of Ryan but you cannot beat a cute picture of baby toes!

Your baby can read in action!

Thanks to late night infomercials JR could not stop talking about getting Ryan the "Your baby Can Read" program. I have seen the DVD's a time or two because we have friends that bought it for their baby. I told him that we have plenty of time as Ryan was only two months old when he visited from Iraq. Dad was persistant and explored ebay to see if he could get it cheaper so that I would be persuaded. Daddy won because he found it for Thirty dollars!

Right now all Ryan cares about is the musical parts on the DVD and the rest is too boring for him. I thought it would be funny to take some cute pics of Ryan reading and convince his dad who is in Iraq that it was a miracle.....Ryan can read! Dad's a smart fellow and caught on to my sarcastic antics but it was a lot of fun. Ryan continues to watch his baby can read DVD's because now I really do want to see if it works....I'll keep you posted:)

wubbanub.....or thumb.......

We have a serious thumb sucker on our hands and have been trying every binky out there to fix this problem. The pacifiers that they give you in the hospital are sold online and come with these cute little animals attached to them and they call them wubbanubs. I bought several different animals in hopes to solve the problem. It is working in these pics here but we are finding that he just cannot resist the fingers and thumbs! Oh well.......I guess we will deal with that later and take comfort in the fact that if he is sucking his thumb then he is happy and quiet......something all tired mommies can appreciate:)

Another cousin!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a great picture of Grant and Ryan's newest cousin. The tech is 90% sure it will be a boy but we find out for sure at the next ultrasound on May 25th. We love you already!

Too Short....

So we thought we would get him a walker since he is very active but it turns out he is way too short. Looks like another month or two before his poor feet can touch down.

He does however, enjoy sitting in his walker and playing with all the toys on it. It also gives mommy a nice break:)

I'm on a boat....

Grandma bought him this nifty boat in preperation for our vacation this summer at Gulf Shores! He will be around seven months then and I can't wait to see him playing on his own in the boat.

March update in May......hmmmmm

So it's been pretty busy around here but I thought I would try to play catch up once again:) Here are some cute pics of a common 3AM feeding that turns into a 4am play time. He is only 2 months old here so I am happy to report that his sleeping patterns have improved.....some.