11 Months!!

Running around the house yelling with his walker
Basketball

Happy after a nap
Playing with his cousin Jackson, they are too adorable together
LOVES Penny!
Ryan's first pets, Henry and Nemo. Grandpa Nelson bought them for him, he likes to watch them swim around :)

Only one more month until this little boy is ONE year old! This has flow by faster than I ever imagined it could. Yet at the same time, I have zero recollection of what our lives were like before Ryan was born. I miss the newborn stage at times, but for the most part, watching him grow has been so exciting! Luckily, Robert and Jen's baby is due in less than 3 weeks, so I can hold one again soon! :)

Ryan took his first real step on March 8th and by March 9th, he was able to take 5 steps at a time. It's very adorable to watch! He can crawl faster than any baby I have ever seen, so I think he will prefer to crawl for a while. We'll see!

He still loves bath time! LOVES it! Sometimes if he is crabby during the day, I strip him down and let him play in the tub. The minute we get into the bathroom, he crawls up the tub and stands up and looks at me, he is ready to go! He plays with his toys, splashes around and likes to see the water go down the drain. Mostly, he enjoys standing up, and then sitting down trying to see how big of a splash he can make. Very cute...and also very wet. I have to have a towel on the floor next to the tub to soak up the water as well as a new shirt handy for myself.

One of his favorite toys is a little basketball hoop he got from Grandma and Papa Derus for Christmas. I taught him how to put the ball into the hoop. So now he thinks that everything that has a hole, needs something to go inside of it. Smart kid, right? Well, the other day he opened the bathroom cabinet, took the hairspray out, and then proceeded to drop it into the toilet... hilarious, but not exactly where I want my bottle of hairspray! He makes me laugh every day thats for sure!

He is a GREAT sleeper now! If someone told me 3 months ago that Ryan would be sleeping about 11 hours straight with no wake ups as well as napping twice a day, I would have told them they were crazy. But it's true! It's wonderful! Doesn't happen every single night, but for the most part, he is a great sleeper/napper now.

He is also a very good eater. Last week him and I went to Lifetime and after my workout I was starving. So we went into the Cafe and I ordered the turkey and swiss cheese sandwich for Ryan and I to "share". Well, that didn't work out so well, my little munchkin ate the WHOLE sandwich!! I'm sorry, let me correct myself, he was sweet enough to leave me the crust. Next time I will have to order more food!! He loves mac and cheese, grilled cheese, nilla wafers, yogurt, chicken, pasta, meatballs, bananas, I don't know why I am listing right now, he loves almost everything. This week I made him some pasta with hidden veggies to get him to eat more vegetables and luckily he loved it... otherwise I would have wasted about 4 hours of my life because thats how long it took to make it! Now it's all frozen into 2 oz. cubes in my freezer, ready to be defrosted when he is hungry. Feels good to feed my baby such healthy meals.

Now, we are just waiting for the weather to warm up so we can enjoy the outdoors again!