Ryan Loves Dogs and Dirt

Ryan has managed to crawl out onto the back porch to play with the dogs boxes and then when the sliding door was open and the dogs were out there with Mike he managed to make it out there!!

In one picture he has dirt on his face!! This week he also tasted dirt, while out front being supervised kinda--Mike is redoing the flower bed and there was a huge pile of dirt that Ryan grabbed a handful to taste!!  He was more upset when we took it out of his mouth!

Ryan's New Favorite Place!

Now that Ryan is crawling everywhere--we are busy watching.  He still very much enjoys the dogs bowls--we put the water up once he is on the ground because of incidents like the above! However he likes to get there food bowls and bang them together.  He thinks that is hilarious!!! Which it is!! 

What he likes now is to be in the front window like the dogs.  We have a small window with a ledge next to our front door that our dogs are constantly looking out of.  Ryan now pulls up on the ledge and looks out too!!  It is really funny when Ryan is looking out the window and the dogs are above him looking out as well.

Thankfully he has not fully discovered the stairs-- I am waiting because I am sure it is days away as he is really starting to pull up on anything he can reach.  Then this is him stuck under his walker--not sure how he got there but he did!!

Army Crawl

Well Ryan's crawl is not up on all fours its more Army style!!  Whatever works for him--everyday he is going farther and farther on his own--exploring his house in a whole new light.  However this is a video of him crawling to his favorite place and talking the whole way there. 

The big sigh you here in the background is Dixie watching this event unfold!!

Dog's Water Bowl

Well the time has arrived!! Ryan is mobile and his favorite place to go is the Dog's water bowl.  The dogs are great and just stand there and watch him play with their stuff. Here are some photos we took while watching him pretend he was a dog and try to drink from (or eat) the bowl.

        

I got there and now I am going to eat the bowl!!

     

Then he played with the bowls.

Its really fun to watch him just play and laugh.

Changing Times

Here are some photos of Ryan over the past couple weeks.  He is trying sooo hard to be mobile he still rolls everywhere and is learning to scoot.  Every now and then he kinda army crawls.  He is getting so big and eating everything like shown here eating ice cream with Daddy!!

Ryan playing with his cousins, messing eating, cleaning up after eating, and rolling under my exersacuer!! Fine times lie ahead once he is really mobile.

Ready for February

Well the year started off rough for us, so it can only go up!!!  

Ryan started the year with double ear infections then got a stomach virus.  We think I gave it to him because I started the year with it.  Ryan then gave it to Mike and several of Mike's relatives!! (We really are sorry, didn't mean to at all) Unfortunately Ryan's lasted the longest about 10 days---10 very long days!!  We went through lots of clothes, diapers, pedialyte and crackers.   Then do to the illness he is now a formula baby!! Which is a bitter sweet thing for me!! OH and through all that we ended up with TWO teeth--bottom middle ones, which teething is fun too!!!

Next we went to a specialist for his arm--a Physical Medicine and Rehab doctor where they performed two tests on Ryan's arm.  The test was to stick needles in my child's arm and the other test was to shock him all while hooked to a monitor looking at the nerve and muscle readings.  (the docs did say Ryan was one of the best babies they have ever done the test on--he cooperated and let them do everything with little fuss) The test went well all looks good except his deltoid.  The nerves and muscles in the deltoid are not as strong as they wanted.  We will continue physical therapy and going to specialists.  The doc said we would watch and see how he progresses-- but there is a small chance he will need a what they call a secondary surgery around 18mos to rework the muscles which is where the next specialist comes in.  We now have to see an Orthopedic surgeon for an initial eval and his opinion.  All is good because everyday he is making progress. Mike and I are very optimistic about the whole situation and trust the doctors opinions.  

Well that about rounds out the month so far hence we are ready to start February on a healthier lighter note even though we still have a week and a half until we are there.  Thankfully we are all back to are happy selves now!

The Giggling walker

This is a video of Ryan and Dixie playing.  Dixie is a little unsure of the walker and Ryan thinks its great!!

The laughter is the best thing a mom and dad can ever hear. Mike and I stood there and watched this go on for about 20 minutes. It is great--Ryan loves his dogs they always make him smile.