Happy Birthday Aunt Tara

Happy Birthday Aunt Tara!
Happy Birthday Aunt Tara!

Hope you have a great day.

Love your little monkey!

Aunt Tara's Birthday Weekend!

Our Family
MaMa and PaPa B and Ryan
Olivia crawling backwards

Aunt Tara and Ryan
Ryan eating his first french fry. Did pretty good

Ryan and Olivia
Sweet Olivia

Playing with their toys

So we have been celebrating Aunt Tara's 30th Birthday all weekend. Her Birthday is Monday, but we started celebrating on Friday night. Aunt Julie, Uncle Trevor and Olivia drove up for the the festivities. Friday was a much needed night out for all of us. MaMa and Papa B babysat Ryan and Olivia while we went to have sushi. We sent MaMa B a text to see how things were and her response was " Ryan and Olivia are outside and the dogs are in. Everything is fine!" Cracked us all up.

Saturday we had lunch at a local restaurant with about 25 family and friends, then headed over to Tara's for cake and presents. Olivia and Ryan were playing on the floor with their toys. It was so fun to watch them interact with each other. They kept taking toys away from each other. Olivia has grown so much and can crawl backwards. They were both chattering up a storm. We have already determined when they get older, Olivia is the one that will be talking Ryan into doing something he doesn't want to and Ryan will be the quiet sly one that will say, ' She made me do it'.

We had more family and friends over at our house last night and grilled some beef and chicken kabobs. They were delicious.

Anyway thats all for now. We are heading to Steeleville for the church chicken dinner. I am sure we will have more stories later. Here are some pics of Ryan and Olivia. Enjoy

More Laughing and Eating

Ok, the past few days Ryan has been in a great mood. Laughing, talking, gibbering and smiling. So tonight during dinner, he just kept laughing. I shot almost 3 minutes of video, shortened it to 42 seconds, so here you go
Enjoy!

My First Baseball Game and Easter All In One Weekend and Now 16 Months Old

16 Months Old Today

Playing with my new ball

Ryan and Mama B playing with his laptop

The Easter Egg Hunt

Ryan holding his first Easter Egg

Mor Mor Jo, Great Uncle Gerry and Ryan

Ryan finally letting Mama B hold him and play without whining or whimpering

Ryan is waving

All Decked out in my Cardinal Gear, getting ready to go to the game

At The Baseball Game.

Four Generations

Ryan finally woke from a much needed nap. He can sleep through anything

Yes, Ryan had a busy week. The Easter Bunny came to our house, along with Mama and Papa B and Great Grandpa. Ryan went to his first Baseball game last Saturday with Tim, Papa B and Great Grandpa (and Scott B.) He had a great time. He fell asleep on Tim for about 2 hours! Yes, only waking up when Pujols hit a grand slam. I think they all enjoyed themselves.

We went to church on Easter Sunday and Ryan decided to fall asleep during Mary Gene's sermon and proceeded to sleep through the rest of the service, through the organ, drums and cymbals too. And I thought I could sleep through anything, but this little guy has me beat!
Easter was at my aunt Charlie and uncle Gerry's. A great relaxing day. Food, beverage, golf, hockey and an easter egg hunt. We tied the older kids hands together to slow them down from trying to get all of the eggs from the little ones. This year, Ryan was the only little one. Madisyn and Aiden were not with us, since GG passed earlier in the week. So Tim carried Ryan around and had him pick up some eggs. He did good at picking them up and dropping them in the basket. It was entertaining watching the big kids try to pick up eggs and put them in their basket while having their hands tied. I am sure the neighbors were thinking about calling family services!

Well Ryan started waving this week! His therapist said he started waving on Monday. We were waving back and forth all week long. He is still a little inconsistent, but is getting better. Repetition is the key.

I bought him a ball yesterday and he thought it was the best thing ever. Tim was playing with him on the couch and he laughed everytime you gave him the ball or took it away. Cracking himself up when we bounced it on the floor.

Anyway here are more photos of the past week.

Enjoy

Hanging out with Mom on Good Friday

My Crazy Boys!

Ryan trying to eat the tray for his Bumbo. Crazy Mohawk Hair.
I am so cool
Today, Ryan's school was closed and I was able to take a vacation day and spend the day with him. We didn't do much, but hang out, sleep, eat and laugh. The little guy sure can laugh and smile. We are preparing for Easter. MaMa and PaPa B are coming to town...
That is all for now; here are some photos from this week. The little guy is getting so big wearing 18-24months, and some 2T as well!
Lets Go Blues!!!!!!!!!!!

We want to send our prayers to cousins Aiden and Madisyn who lost their great-grandma this morning. She fought a tough battle. Now she has peace.