BIG News!!!

Usually I only update about once a month, but there is some pretty great news to share! Ryan is so excited that around March 29th, he will be getting another little BOY cousin! My brother and Jen found out that their little bundle of joy will be a boy! They came to breakfast with a blue bib for Ryan and said that they got him a present... but that they would need it back. I'm pretty slow sometimes, but I understood immediately. Our family is really excited!

Ryan has also really learned a lot these last couple weeks. He is now able to sit in a normal highchair at restaurants, which doesn't seem like it would be a big deal, but just try telling Ryan that. He was looking at everyone like "look at me, I'm a big shot now!" He was smiling and laughing and looking at people at other tables like he couldn't understand why they weren't all looking at him too.

The sippy cup that he used to just hold and bang around, now is grasped by both hands and brought directly to his mouth. He loves to drink from it, it's adorable.

He is able to get around pretty easily now when he is on the floor. There is no word to describe how he gets from A to B, but he does it quite well. He scoots a little, then rolls then scoots again, backward, forward, whatever really. Yesterday he scooted himself toward our TV and knocked all the DVD's onto the floor....and then rolled his way over to the end table next to the couch and dumped out a basket full of remotes and things. He's quite proud of himself.

His jumper is still his favorite toy, he always has other little toys in the trays in the jumper and when he drops them onto the floor, he looks down at them, trying to figure out how to get it back and then finally looks at me. I go pick it up and then he smiles at me like he is saying thank you, he is so polite already :) He loves to blow raspberries now too, if you do it to him, there is a good chance he will do it right back. It's very cute...until he does that with a mouth full of squash, which has happened more than once, that was nice.

Still doesn't sleep through the night, I am just going to have to make my peace with the fact that our child hates to sleep at night. We are up with him several times each night, but this phase won't last forever, so I guess I just need to relish in the fact that our little baby needs us at night. Plus Joe said that, "it's okay, I enjoy our priceless pillowtalk" Pretty witty for being such an off hour. That was last night at 2:00 AM after we had spent 20 minutes talking and watching Ryan rock back and forth in his crib faster than we have ever seen... soon enough he is just going to take off flying. He enjoys practicing his skills at all hours of the night. Just wait until he starts crawling.... then we are really in for it.