10.31.10

This post is so past due but life has been busy! This is the delayed post about 10.31.10.

Halloween is crazy in our neighborhood! I am new to the whole trick or treating thing...so I am surprised by how many people do it! Since Michael is a big Star Wars fan, we had to dress Ryan up as....YODA! And Micheal was none other than Obi Wan Kenobi. Did Obi Won Kenobi wear cowboy boots?

Ryan liked playing with his light saber :) (it was hot for a little while, so we had to take off his warm coat...but he kept his hat/ears on :)

I love this face! (attitude...not a typical Ryan face :) We took him to a few neighbors house's and only one person was home! But Ryan racked up! They were so sweet! They had bought a whole bag of fish crackers just for Ryan...and gave us some camo clothes that their grandkids had outgrown! Another neighbor was leaving for the evening, so she brought over Ryan's candy before she left...a marshmellow candy corn that she thought Ryan might be able to eat. (He is not able to yet but it was a sweet sweet thing to do!) We had a few visitors for the evening:
Also, not pictured were Grammy, PawPaw, Papa, Nana...and momma of course! We gave away a lot of candy that night... Ryan sorting through it :)

Happenings

I am SO behind on my blogging. I will try to catch up soon!

Here are some things that have happened in the last couple of weeks:

1) Ryan is officially waving! I love it. He waves with his hand facing back towards him :) He says "Hi" (really it is haaahaaahaa).

2) Ryan will give high 5's! Fun!

3) He is doing less crawling and more hopping. I think he thinks he can move faster that way. And he IS pretty fast with it!

4) Since he turned one, I weaned him from all breast milk to where he is now on all whole cow milk. It did not seem to be a hard transition for him, thank God. He is doing great. Oh, and letting your milk dry up…NOT the most fun thing ever :)

5) I took Ryan to the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor who thinks that all of the symptoms that Ryan has (runny nose, cough, chest congestion/rattle) all stem from acid reflux. Ryan was on medicine for that when he was about 6 weeks old and the medicine helped so much! But I took him off the medicine when he seemed to outgrow the reflux (the spitting up). He also had 2 ears full of wax and had fluid in both ears with a ear infection in 1. The doctor cleaned his ears out and put him on medicine for the infection. Ryan is back on reflux medicine and I am praying that all the other stuff will go away now that we are hopefully treating the problem and not just the symptoms.

Ryan has also been having a hard time eating anything with any texture to it or basically anything more than stage 2 baby food. He will get choked up and throw up whats in his tummy. Poor thing. The doctor said that is also a sign of reflux. Again, I am praying that the medicine works to help it so we can move on to some yummy food and not baby food anymore!


6) Ryan likes to crawl over to us now and pull up on our leg. I will be standing at the sink and he will crawl over and pull up to his knees looking at me :) like "HELLO...don't you want to pick me up?"

Just a few happenings that I wanted to document...

The day...

Today, Ryan's first birthday, Michael and I both took off of work and got to hang out with the birthday boy! We really enjoyed being together. We slept a little late, got to do a few things around the house and ran birthday errands :) One thing the Michael was really looking forward to was getting Ryan his first pair of cowboy boots! They aren't exactly what Michael wanted to get him... real legit cowboy boots won't go on his feet yet because he really needs to be walking before they will work. So we got some "real" looking ones that have velcro in the back :) They are really cute!

Another big event this week was turning the car seat around! He looks so grown up now that he is turned around!

We had a couple of gifts for Ryan to open today...he wasn't that interested in the whole opening thing. That ought to be interesting at his party of Saturday!
We tend to forget to take family pictures on big occasions...and today was no different! I remembered after Ryan was asleep so we went ahead and took one anyway :)

November 10, 2010

Ryan,

Today is your first birthday! Your daddy and I cannot believe it has already been 1 year since you were born! It seems like maybe a couple of months ago that we brought you home from the hospital...not a whole year.

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You are a very special boy. You bring us SO MUCH JOY! You have SO many people who love you...from the people that I work with, people we go to church with, our friends, your great aunts and great uncles, your cousins, your aunts and uncles, grandparents, great grandparents...and of course your momma and daddy! You are a loved and blessed little boy!

We have watched in amazement as you have grown from a little bitty baby to a not so little baby to now a little boy. I love that people still call you baby Ryan...I hope this does not go away anytime soon! Watching a child develop is truly a great miracle! God sure is gracious to let parents be involved in this miracle.

There is nothing like seeing you smile at us, hearing you "talk" to us or hearing you laugh. You like to cuddle with us and we love every second of it! During the past week, you have started following me when I go from room to room in the house. I am glad for you to have a little freedom...I know it must feel good!

We feel like the most blessed people in the world that God chose us to be your parents! We look forward to the years ahead...but don't want them to go by too fast! We will cherish each day that we have with you. We love the person that you already are...and look forward to seeing the person that you will become!

We couldn't love you more,

Your momma and daddy

Last weekend, we went to Dallas to visit the Johnsons. We started out Wednesday after work and spent the evening with Uncle Ernest and Aunt Glenda. Michael had a meeting in Tyler the next morning so after that we headed up to Dallas! It was a perfect, clear, cool day and Michael thought about going to the Dallas Zoo on our way through. I am SO glad we did! We had the best time! I had not been to the zoo in years. We were so impressed! First thing we did was head to eat :) They have a restaurant that has a glass wall that looks into the lion cage...crazy. You can see how close we were to the lions! Giraffes are amazing! Beautiful. This is Michael and Ryan in a safari jeep...they are hard to see. Every time I see an elephant, I always think hefalump (Chelle called them that when she was younger...is that from a book/movie?) There was a big part of the zoo that was set up with a jungle feel. They had a big monkey area but this is the only big one we saw. He was asleep like a boy...spread eagle :) Michel and Ryan=Swamp people Penguins!!!! I love this sweet face. They had a big kid area at the zoo...lots of animals to pet and lots to learn about animals. Ryan got to pet a goat! He wasn't quite sure about it. I love his serious face when he is trying to figure something out. On Friday, the Johnsons had work and school so we went to McKinney and shopped in their oh so cute town square! I have heard about it from several friends and was so glad to get to see it. Wish we had a town square here! We ate lunch at a very cool English restaurant. Michael's ancestors are from England so he was very excited to eat there. This was our appetizer: That evening we went to Gloria's with Natalie and Brandon. We love that place! Ryan got to try the black bean dip...it's not spicy or chunky. They bought Ryan his first Baylor hat and shirt :) What a boy! (for some reason we don't have any pictures of Nat, Brandon and Peter...sorry!)

Saturday we hung out and the girls went shopping. Love going shopping with Nat and Caroline...they always dress so cute so I try to get ideas from them! That night we watched Baylor (Nat and Brandon went there) beat Texas. That was a big deal! We had a great weekend away...headed back to Lumberton on Sunday morning so we could be home for trick or treating in our neighborhood...