Crawling!!

Ryan is officially crawling. He has been doing a sort of slither for awhile now but has just within the last week or two he has gotten really good at doing an army crawl. And over the last few days he has gotten very quick at it. I am really surprised at how quickly he learned to go so fast at it! He has been in to everything lately. We have had to put the outlet plug covers on and put up all cords. We are trying to figure out what to do about the fireplace but for now just try to keep him away (we were trying to wait on baby proofing until we moved so we didn't have to do it twice but that didn't happen). He has learned how to open drawers and cabinets now as well. While I cook dinner he has been enjoying playing with some dishes. This keeps him content for awhile so I can get dinner made or clean up. He has also started pulling up on a few things. But is still very shaky on his legs. Also, our big news (if you haven't heard) is we are officially under contract and have sold our house! We have already had the appraisal and the inspection. The inspection went really well and the buyer wants us to fix only one minor thing. We haven't gotten the results back from the appraiser but he told the buyer's realtor that he didn't see any problems. Praying that goes through smoothly. We have begun looking in Frankfort for a place to rent and are hoping to move at the end of May or the beginning of June (our closing date is set for June 15ht). Right now the plan is to rent for a couple of months and then have a new house built. Here are a few pictures of Ryan from the last two weeks.






We went to the park one day. He wasn't for sure what to think of the swings but enjoyed being outside.




I took him down the slide a couple of times. He seemed to find it fun.




Crawling! He is getting much better at his form and speed.




Here he is eating some of the food off the tray that I dropped. Appearently he didn't want to miss one bite, lol!




He has started standing much better and even uses me to pull up a little.




Playing in the kitchen with our dishes.




Eating the spoon.




I put the package of toilet paper in front of the drawer to try to keep him out of it but he got sneaky. He enjoyed playing with the toilet paper and then realized he could get up on it and still get to the drawer.




You can't really see what he is doing but he is chewing on the tag of his toy. You can give him any toy and he will chew on the tag. He searches for tags on just about anything to chew on it.




He has now learned how to scope water with his cup and drink it. All his cups have holes in the bottoms of them to let the water out but with this one he has learned that if he is quick he can drink the water.

8 months!

Ryan turned 8 months old on April 2nd, he is getting so big and is so much fun!! He babbles all the time (da da, ba ba and na na are sounds I can decipher so far). He still isn’t crawling but he does an army crawl and is getting better and better at that. He rolls every where and turns in circles. He is doing great at sitting up and is getting more graceful at laying down when he decides he is done sitting up. He knows his name and when you are talking to him (and has done all this for some time I just haven’t written it down). He is such a happy sweet baby and I feel so blessed to be his Mommy.

We celebrated Ryan turning 8 months by going on a picnic. Ryan enjoyed being outside, feeling the breeze was a new thing and it was so neat to watch his face. We sat by the lake and fed the ducks. We had a great Easter. We gave Ryan his Easter basket that morning and he was so excited (although I think that had more to do with Jonathan and I being excited and he was playing along). We got him his first bible, a Veggie Tales Golden book, a stuffed bunny, a new rubber ducky for the bath and some Gerber puffs. Our church had a wonderful service and then we had lunch with my family. It was so nice to see them and catch up. It was entertaining watching Ryan try to eat the puffs. He would get frustrated if they stuck to his hand and couldn’t get them in his mouth. But as the week progressed he got really good at picking them up and getting them right in his mouth. Now he is a pro.

Ryan has had a rough go of it this last week though. He came down with a cold about a week and a half ago. The cold moved into his eyes (as it usually does) so I took him back to the doctor and they gave him some more eye drops. After using those for a few days his eyes cleared up. However, the doctor said that if he continues to get conjunctives we will need to see a specialist (he has had it multiple times so far). We found out Ryan now weighs 19 lbs 5 oz. Over the week he began to feel better; however, over the weekend he started getting worse. I knew something was wrong because he wasn’t acting himself so I took him back to the doctor (at the risk of seeming like an over protective/hypochondriac mommy). And I am so glad I did! He has a double ear infection and an infection in his throat. They put him on some antibiotics (again) to help. He had two rough nights were he woke up multiple times during the night just wanting to be held. I can’t remember the last time he woke up once in the middle of the night let alone multiple times so I knew he was in pain, it was heart breaking. But, praise God, he is starting to feel better and had a peaceful nights sleep last night.


Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.


My backwards baby. He loves chewing on the bottom of his ring holder.

On our picnic Jonathan was trying to get Ryan to look at the ducks, he just wanted to look at his Mommy!

Ryan and me getting ready to feed the ducks.

Playing in the grass for the first time.

My cutie pie!

Easter morning getting into his basket.

His expression when he got his bible. He looks shocked.

His Easter outfit. This is the best picture I could get at the time, he was more interested in my cousin's dog.

Trying to pick up the puff.

Success!!

He made the basket all on his own.

Sitting in his big boy car seat. He really liked it. We haven't installed it in the car yet (our car seat goes to 22lbs so he is still under the weight limit) but I think we are going to this weekend since he liked this so much.