9-10 Month Picures

Family day in downtown Geneva- Amazing fondue!

Ryan's 1st Haircut! February 19th, 2011
Ryan zooming around the kitchen with his walker while Joe makes us french toast for breakfast :)

Just playing in his room
Standing on his own for the first time- February 10th, 2011
Blizzard of 2011
Family day downtown Chicago- Ryan's first trip to the Shedd Aquarium

10 Months!

Well, it is officially time to start planning Ryan's first birthday party! 10 months and counting. This is most definitely shaping up to be the best year of our lives. Having Ryan has changed and molded our lives in such a way that we can't even begin to fathom what it was like without him. I am with him all day, everyday, but still at night when we put him to bed, I actually miss him! Joe and I just watch him on the video monitor and talk about how cute and sweet he is. Then I say "I think I should go get him" and Joe says "babe, don't wake him up" and I say "okay, fine...." It's a dialogue that happens often :) He is just so very loved!

We took him in for a weight check at 10 months and he gained almost 2 pounds in one month!! At 9 months I received the go ahead to let him eat anything he wanted with a few exceptions. He LOVES food!! All food really, except for the normal baby food purees. I tried making it myself and tried Gerber, he hates it all. But take the kid to Costco, and he will eat every sample they give away! It's so adorable to take him there, he just sits in the cart and waves at all the sample ladies... they love him! He loves to wave at people and if he is having a hard time getting someone to notice him, he will put both arms up in the air. Then he usually starts clapping. It's like he is clapping at himself for a job well done. Whenever we say "Yay Ryan!" He immediately throws his arms up in the air too, it's so cute! It's his world, we are just livin in it :) This boy also loves to dance!! If I start either singing or put on the radio, he starts wiggling his little butt and gets a huge grin on his face and sometimes starts laughing or clapping. He really likes the Justin Bieber Baby song, gets him going every time. He will be embarrassed by this years from now. :)

He is sleeping soo well now. I guess after months and months of a rough sleep schedule, we were due some good nights sleep! He is still napping really well too, it's nice to have some sort of a "schedule" He naps everyday at 10 and then again at 2, we'll see how long that lasts.

He will go down around 8:00-8:30 at night depending on when Joe gets home from work and sleep until 7:00! It's wonderful!

He is definitely teething again, so we are just waiting to see when those little teeth will pop through. Lots of drool until then!

I started going to the gym a few days a week so that Ryan will have some interaction with other children when I leave him in the child center. It was REALLY hard for me to leave him in there the first few times. Joe had to literally drag me up the stairs to the fitness floor the first time. And the first time he cried when I left... I almost cried. My friend Dana who I have been working out with just had to assure me that her daughter Mia did the same thing in the beginning and now she loves it. So far, she was right. He is getting better everyday!

Great news in the Santilli household... Joe will be starting a new job March 1st. He will be the Sales Department Head at the Lifetime Fitness in Warrenville, which is over 30 minutes closer to our house! So now I can go workout there and we can visit Joe in the middle of the day. We are very very excited about the transition and very proud of Joe, he will be so great at his new job!