Sorry we've been MIA for awhile - its been a rough month in the new year. Ryan came down with a cold the day after Christmas. Shortly followed by the rest of us getting sick. And then Ellie got a yeast infection from the antibiotics from her bladder infection and a relapse of her cold. And topped off by my sinus infection this last weekend.
Needless to say we are counting down to our vacation to Hawaii in the middle of February. Here's to hoping we can make it that far without getting another illness.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Mr. Mobile Man
SO its been a long time coming. I've been super slow to get these videos up of Ryan being mobile. We've had many developments since his first little scoot!
For a little while he tried to scoot one legged....
Then he actually started crawling - no video on this one yet.
And the latest and greatest is that he's walking!
I've also mentioned that he began climbing stairs a while back. And his attempt to go down them...
More Advent Activities
An update on my earlier post of the activities we did for our countdown to Christmas -
We also went to visit Santa at the River Park Square - waited in line on a Friday afternoon/early evening only to have little miss completely freak out when it was our turn. She cried immediately and took off running out the other side. Can't say that we didn't see that one coming - she wouldn't even tell the lady in line behind us what she wanted from Santa. :)
We took our now annual ride on the horse and carriage around downtown. This year it was a lot warmer than last year when we went and there was no line! In fact, we got our own carriage ride! As always we had a wonderful time!
Ellie had a couple nights with Nana (my mom) since we were at my work Christmas party. Their activities included making a button tree, playing with her Christmas sticker book, and watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated version). She didn't even get to watch the movie or wasn't too interested in it.
We made Christmas cookies one night, decorated them the next and then got to deliver plates of cookies to our neighbors! It was nice to see the people at our little end of the neighborhood and sad to realize that we don't see or connect with them often enough.
One night we made paper snowflakes - that was a hard one since she's not skilled enough or strong enough to cut all that paper. We'll try that one again another year.
Since it hadn't snowed yet, one of the activities was to make a snowman, but out of paper. She LOVED this activity.
Ellie and I made cinnamon ornaments one night - very cute! She gave some to each of her Nana's and even remembered to tell them that "you can't eat them - they have glue in them".
We finshed up the activies in Spokane by decorating a gingerbread house. I was surprised that she didn't try to eat a ton of the candy - probably because most of it was hard since I bought this one on clearance last Christmas.
We also went to visit Santa at the River Park Square - waited in line on a Friday afternoon/early evening only to have little miss completely freak out when it was our turn. She cried immediately and took off running out the other side. Can't say that we didn't see that one coming - she wouldn't even tell the lady in line behind us what she wanted from Santa. :)
We took our now annual ride on the horse and carriage around downtown. This year it was a lot warmer than last year when we went and there was no line! In fact, we got our own carriage ride! As always we had a wonderful time!
Ellie had a couple nights with Nana (my mom) since we were at my work Christmas party. Their activities included making a button tree, playing with her Christmas sticker book, and watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated version). She didn't even get to watch the movie or wasn't too interested in it.
One night we made paper snowflakes - that was a hard one since she's not skilled enough or strong enough to cut all that paper. We'll try that one again another year.
Since it hadn't snowed yet, one of the activities was to make a snowman, but out of paper. She LOVED this activity.
Ellie and I made cinnamon ornaments one night - very cute! She gave some to each of her Nana's and even remembered to tell them that "you can't eat them - they have glue in them".
We finshed up the activies in Spokane by decorating a gingerbread house. I was surprised that she didn't try to eat a ton of the candy - probably because most of it was hard since I bought this one on clearance last Christmas.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Ryan is 10 Months!
Another month has come and gone! Ryan is now 10 months old and has been a complete busy body.
Ryan now has 2 teeth - both lower center. He's working on getting another right now - my guess is his upper left.
He's SOOO close to walking. He can stand by himself unsupported, briefly, but then sits as if he's almost scared of falling. He can walk around holding on to furniture and move from piece to piece. He also loves his new walker from Nana and Pop Pop and has been actively using that. And still more this kid is a climber! I mentioned in his 9 month post that he can climb stairs, but its now a passion of his. He loves (literally giggles) as he climbs both sets of stairs at our house. The unfortunate thing is that he refuses to learn how to PROPERLY go down them. Videos to come...
He still loves food too! He's eating more and more solids and pretty much demands (by shreiking) that he get a mixture of finger foods, baby foods, and tastes at each feeding. Jared and I are pretty sure that at any given meal he is eating more than Ellie does. Not to mention there isn't a single food that this kid doesn't like.
He's had a bit of a cold (since Christmas) so he's not been the happiest of campers, but managing pretty well (so much better than when he had RSV at a month old).
And one thing that makes this mama so happy - he's such a mama's boy! He wants me to hold him and play with him all the time. With Ellie being so much of a Daddy's girl, its nice to have one of them on my side!
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