Ryan is One Month Old!

Well time flies! Tuesday marked Ryan's one month 'birthday.' Hard to believe.



Not only did Tuesday mark his one month, but it also marked his first x-ray and trip to the emergency room/hospital. Over the weekend Ryan developed a few cold symptoms which Monday progressed into a nasty cough. By Tuesday he was struggling to eat due to major congestion. We made a trip to the clinic where the ARNP did a chest x-ray (which came back negative), but our Pediatrician reviewed the results with us and recommended we go to the Children's Emergency Room at Sacred Heart. We had a great doctor there who decided against keeping us there, but did test and diagnose Ryan with RSV. It's slightly concerning since he's so young, but we've got an agressive plan to manage symptoms. We're using a humidifier, nebulizer with albuterol (every 4 hours for 3 days), Afrin for nasal inflammation (2 times a day for 3 days), and agressive saline and suctioning of his nose. We're 5 days in it now and the doctor said it generally takes 10-14 days to resolve.

Best Friends

We've got some very close friends who have a little girl, Jillian, whose only 9 months older than Ellie and they also just had a little boy, Kellen, whose only 4 weeks older than Ryan. Its a perfect situation! Last weekend we got to see them for Jillian's 3rd birthday and this weekend again just for some play time for the girls. Jillian got this super cute indoor trampoline for her birthday, which the girls clearly loved!

Miss Hollywood

Now that Ellie has to sit on one side of the vehicle (previously in the center) she's impacted by the sun in her face more. So I got her some sweet shades - which she adores. She literally wore them to and in the store the other night - yes night - the whole time we were in there.

Mobius Childrens Museum

We've all got a bit of cabin fever here since its still freezing cold and infact we had 4 inches of snow this week. So today we were bound and determined to get out of the house! So we took a trip to the Mobius Childrens Museum at Riverpark Square today for Ellie. She loved it. Its a really great place to have indoor activities and lots of different things for young kids (and older ones too).

Storytime with Dad

Sleepy Boy

Rocking

Ellie loves the baby swing now that we pulled it out for Ryan to use. In fact, she loves it so much she wants to use it. However, this was super cute since she actually wanted to swing with him.

Not a baby anymore

Well in literally less than a week, Jared and I realized (hard) that Ellie is not our baby any more - she's a big girl. Even the day I delivered Ryan I was lifting and picking up Ellie and she felt light as a feather at 25 lbs. And now that we have Ryan, she feels more like 50 lbs. Then it was only solidified by looking at these pictures this weekend. Last year at this time we were at Brayden's birthday party and this is a picture from that weekend.



Clearly from all the other recent posts, there is just a huge amount of change in our 'baby' from 1 year ago!

Sweet baby boy

Little Mama

Ellie has been such a great big sister!! She's really concerned about Ryan and quite protective too. When we first brought him home, she'd wake up in the middle of the night crying because she could hear him crying during his diaper changing. When Jared went in there, she said she was upset because "baby brother crying" and even had to come see that he was ok so she could go back to sleep. Her latest is to play with her babies and treat them like Ryan. So she puts them in the "seat" (bouncer) with him and puts the blanket over all of them. Then she'll pick up one of the babies and say "poopy diaper", take the baby over to the family room, grab a diaper and a wipe, lift the doll's legs with one hand, wipe the baby, take the wipe to the garbage and then put a diaper on the baby. She'll do that with a couple of the dolls, but over and over again in a 1/2 hour time frame, finally we just have to tell her that the baby just tooted. Soo sweet!