Seven Months Old!

Ryan is 7 months old today! This was a very eventful month! It started out with our first fall retreat with Ryan at Camp Doniphan. Ryan was a champ, but was sick the whole time. Dan and I directed this year, so we had to stay, but he got conjunctivitis and his poor little eyes were so sad! But, after one dose of drops, he was perfect and happy again! He also started on rice cereal, carrots and peas! He LOVES his solids! I remember it taking Courtney many days of poking down rice cereal before she would open her mouth for it, but this little one opens his tiny bird mouth for every bite! He hasn't spit anything out so far! The most fun thing of all this month was seeing Ryan start to crawl! He has been getting up on all fours for a few weeks, but finally made some steps! We have had to quickly baby proof again now that he is everywhere! 

For some reason, 7 months seems very old! lt seems as if with all his growing and changing and new tricks lately that he is growing up too fast! I know he is still just a baby but that one year mark is coming up very fast (but don't worry, I've been planning and pinning things for his first birthday since before he was born). 

A pretty fun rainy day

On fall weekends I usually have an agenda of some pumpkin patch, trail, or outdoor place for us to go. I was bummed that today would be rainy, but it turned out just fine!

We started the day with a pumpkin pancake. Then, Courtney and I went to Brookside to the farmer's market and the Reading Reptile. It made me want to come home and paper mâché a ton of book characters for my classroom! Courtney loved it there. She loves the Strega Nona book series and we found several more to read that we've never seen before.

We came home and made a few fall crafts: bats and glitter pumpkins. I can't tell you how much I love she's a craft girl like me!

Also, the pictures are all out of order. I'm still getting used to the blogger app.

Courtney, hide your tiny princesses!!

Ryan is crawling! Two days ago he was still doing a lot of rocking on hands and knees. Then, yesterday he just took off! He does a combo of crawling and scootching to get what he wants. Most of the time it's something of Courtney's! Now, we need to baby proof!

Retreat Photo Shoot

We had our church retreat at Camp Doniphan this weekend. We were able to sneak away for a few minutes into the woods to take some pictures! I was hoping to get some of Ryan for more "official" 6 month pictures of Ryan. He can't really sit up that great yet, so getting some good poses was tricky. He did great in our family shots though! Enjoy!

Bench picture

I have four nieces and nephews. They used to always take cousin pictures when they were at my mom's house on a bench outside. When Courtney was born I was excited to get her in a shot. The older ones don't love it anymore so this is fff (forced family fun). But yay for Ryan's first bench picture!

First Day of Preschool!

Courtney started preschool last week! We are very thankful she is able to go. It has been quite a fiasco since Dan and I both work and don't have grandparents that can pick her up from the babysitter and take her. An opening came up at Blue Springs High School preschool program (where meemaw Jody works) and she really helped us work out transportation and getting in! Thanks Jody! Courtney goes on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays from 9:00 - 1:15. She has 4 different buddies (high school kids) who come in to work with her. She gets plenty of playtime with the other kids though. She has come home with some creative projects and some curriucular activities, too! 

Here are all the obligatory first day of school pictures!

Walking into school like a big girl!

Meeting a new friend. 

Two of the projects that came home on the first day. The Kissing Hand - she traced her hand, cut out a heart and drew a picture of her and Ryan. The other is a painting.

When we pulled up to the school and I turned off the car, she said, "Okay mom, I'll have a good day".  That almost made me tear up that my little girl is big enough to just head on it to a new school, no big deal! I 

Six Months Old

Ryan was six months old on September 14.  Ryan has grown so much this month! The most fun thing was that he started to roll all over the place! He is under the couch, almost to the hall and able to get wherever he wants! He has been pushing way up off of his chest and we've even found him in full push up position a few times! He will get up on his knees and rock like he wants to start crawling. It won't be long!

He started going to Tina's full time and loves his time there. I am sure all the little girls keep his attention. He sleeps better and takes better naps there than he does at home! Another great thing that we've noticed is that Ryan no longer hates the carseat. We took a trip to Overland Park a few weeks ago and he was awake, happy and looking around the whole way! It was a miracle.

Ryan got his first illness a few weeks ago. He was diagnosed with croupe and an ear infection. He hated taking his medicine (duh). Whoever gives infant babies medicine flavored like bubble gum is an idiot. How about we make that medicine tasteless, hmmmm? They have tasted breastmilk (or formula) and that's it. Anyway...I had that argument about everyday with Dan as we tried to make him swallow his medicine.