Sitting Up

Ryan has been very determined to learn to sit up. His muscles are now just getting strong enough for him to do it for a few seconds. I try to put him in his bouncy chair and he just tries to sit up in it. What am I going to do without the bouncy chair???

The move is getting closer and closer everyday and I just may start to freak out about it soon. This weekend we are going to try and get the house clean so we are not bringing too many dusty items! Our friends are having a garage sale tomorrow and we are going to try and sell our elliptical. Keep your fingers crossed for us. Then our plans for next weekend are to pack all the stuff we need for the move and designate what the movers need to pack and what is going to the trash. The following weekend my Mom and I will fly to NJ with the boys!

Boys

Here is a picture of the boys cuddling on the couch this morning. Of course as soon as I say I want to take a picture Chris doesn't want to cuddle with Ryan anymore. Possibly Chris doesn't want people to know that he loves his little brother.

Handsome

Here are some pictures of Ryan. Karen sent him this outfit a little while ago. From day one she said she wanted pictures of Ryan in it. Here you go. He is so darn cute!

And another one with his matching bib on.

Argh Ankle

Today I had Ryan sitting on my lap facing me. I was letting him try to sit up and he would fall into my chest. Well during one of the falls he discovered he could get to his foot and put it in his mouth. So he looked at me and "argh" came out of his mouth and he let his mouth fall on his foot. After a couple seconds I said "hey you" and he looked up. He again looked me in the eye and said "argh" then fell on his foot. It was so funny and I was laughing out loud. I decided to say "hey you" again to see what happened. We must have repeated this game about 7 times before the timer went off for dinner. It was awesome.

While this was going on Chris was playing with his new friend, Ankle. Ankle lives in the United States, is like Ryan but can walk and play, just can't talk. He also informed me that I will never be able to see Ankle. He then put a bunch of clothes into a bag and said it was a bouncy for Ankle. He had to then get on a plane to give Ankle the bouncy. When I tried to talk to him he quickly informed me that he was really far away at Ankle's house.

Family Tree

Here is a picture of the Family Tree Tracey made me for my birthday! Pretty cool! I have been wanting this for at least three years now!!!!!

We decided to go out to dinner. I finally got oysters after a year of waiting. I forgot how much I love them! At dinner boob obsessed Chris got me a gift certificate to Victoria Secrete and Ryan got me a gift certificate for a spa pedicure. Ken gave me an IOU for a bike! So with the gift certificate my parents gave me and the left over one for Christmas I have some serious shopping to do this weekend! After all that shopping I will have to use the pedicure! What an awesome birthday.

We didn't get to have cake today because we got back from dinner so late and Chris was really looking forward to it so we will have cake tomorrow. Thanks to Karen we got an awesome cake and Ken didn't even have to worry about it! The cake came packed in dry ice and Ken dropped the dry ice on the floor, then stepped on it! After it was all cleaned up we had some fun making spooky smoke. I bet Karen didn't know she gave us two gifts wrapped in one!

The Boys

I thought this was a really great picture. I have never seen Ryan smile like this before. Of course it is also rare to get a smile out of Chris too. He is working on smiling though.

Here is Chris being a goof ball. He came out of the bathroom like this. I think he would have wore his pants all day like this if I let him.

4 Months

Here is Ryan's 4 month picture. It is 2 days late but I figured he hasn't changed that much in 2 days. I am glad I remembered today.

I laid Ryan down today and walked out of the room for a couple minutes. When I returned he was on his belly! He has not figured out yet how to get from his belly to his back yet though.

Swim Lessons

I brought my camera to the YMCA today to try and get some picture of Chris interacting with his friends. They didn't come out that great because if the subject is moving the picture tends to get blurry. Anyhow, this is one of my favorites that I got today. Chris and his friend always get separated when they sit together because they splash water and fool around. So while the kid in the middle of them was swimming they decided to talk.

Chris swam the length of the pool 4 times. He does not feel confident yet that he can swim by himself. So instead of swimming to the other side he swims to the teacher and begs her to hold on to him. She is to the point that she refuses to hold him. Then each time he gets to the side of the pool he screams "I did it all by myself." Sometimes I wonder what goes through his mind!

More Funny Pictures!

I told Christopher that I was going to get my camera. By the time I got back this is what I got. Ryan flat on his face and Chris playing with his toys! Boy oh boy does this little one want to crawl.


Ryan waiting for the water to fill in the bath. He was really watching the computer!

This was the look I got when I was ready to take him to the bath.

It Must Be A Full Moon!

Today started out as any other day. Kids were happy and loving life. Well, Ken is working 6:30pm to 6:30am for a few days. So I had to take Ryan to the YMCA with us today. It wasn't a big deal and Ryan did great. He fell asleep in the middle of swim lessons (about 10:45) and slept until 1:45. When he woke up I feed him and decided that the boys needed some time outside since it was a beautiful day. Off to the park we went. This is where the day turned around.

Ryan started getting fussy at the park and fell asleep in his stroller. Chris and I decided that we would go over to the lake. Ryan slept in his stroller as Chris and I hunted for rocks and sticks to throw into the water. It was great. When it was time to leave Chris would peddle his bike about 5 feet and then stop. It got frustrating so I gave him points on the road to peddle to without stopping. He soon lost it and was hysterical peddling his bike. I had no clue why and he would not talk to me. Finally we got home and he quickly calmed down. He told me the reason he was crying was because he wanted to stop at another park on the way home.

This is when Ryan loses it. He would not stop crying and I had no idea why. I fixed him a bottle and he stopped crying to eat. I was able to make part of our dinner before Ryan started crying again. This time nothing was calming him down. Finally at 6:00 I decided I was giving him a bath and putting him to bed. He calmed down in his bath so I figured he would be fine until bed time. Wrong again. He ate another bottle and feel asleep. 15 minutes later he was screaming again. Chris and I finally ate our dinner at 7:45! Between 6:30 and 9:00 Ryan was sleeping for brief time periods and then hysterically crying. I gave him another bottle at 9:00. The poor kid was either sleeping, eating or crying. I seem to remember this same situation with Chris, only Chris was 2 months old and the doctors said he had acid reflux. I am hoping that Ryan just had a really busy day and was overtired or overstimulated.

Mr. Tomato Head

Yep, in my house it is not Mr. Potato Head it is Mr. Tomato head. I keep telling Chris that it is potato but he refuses to say it. Well, last night we decided that we would be potato heads too!

This is Ryan's new favorite position. Every time I put him down he puts one hand in his mouth and the other hand goes right to his foot.

My Mini-Vacation

On Tuesday morning I woke up with a very bad sore-throat and very flu-like symptoms. So I called in sick, and spent the next two days very crabby and very tired. Then on Thursday I had a vacation day, because I was planing on going to Dallas to visit with Karen and Howie, but since Minnesota was getting hit with approximately 16 inches of snow, I decided to stay put. So now Minnesota is digging out of the 16 inches we got last night, and I am ever-so grateful I have this mini-vacation, because I know work is HELL!!!!! By the time I get back, they will have cleaned up all the snow, and all the stranded-pissed-off passengers will be on their merry way, and I will not have had to be a part of it in any way. I want to thank the germs and virus that invaded my body---you could not have picked a better time!

The Boys

I found a couple of Chris's old outfits for Ryan. I remember when I took this picture of Chris because after I went to the mall to meet Kati. Well, I don't think they boys look anything alike! I do however think that they are both pretty darn cute!