9 Months (Already!)

Well, Rylan is officially 9 months old today.  A lot has been happening in the last couple of weeks, and although the majority of it has revolved around Avery, Rylan's been making some milestones of his own.  About 3 or 4 weeks ago, we made the call, Rylan had begun crawling.  He had been making some movements here and there that somewhat resembled crawling, but one day he finally went about 3 foot and that was that.

A couple of days later, he began saying mama, and also says da (rather than dada).  Hopefully he will get the hang of it by Father's Day.  And lastly, a week ago Monday, he sprouted his first little tooth.  He will absolutely NOT let anyone see it.  I just happened to feel it sticking my finger into his mouth after feeding him that day. (I know, I'm such a great mom.  Shove my finger into his little mouth just out of curiosity.)

He is pulling himself up to everything.  Most days after his naps, he is standing in his crib waiting to grin at whoever happens to walk into his room.  (Which is me, who am I kidding?  Like anyone else is home .)  Once he's standing, he's cruising around all the furniture like he's ready to walk any day.  I know (or at least hope) that we have some time before this happens, but holy cow, he's growing up so fast!

Rylan's 9 month checkup with Dr. Thomas was last week.  He's weighing in right at 20 lbs  (45th percentile) and is 29.5 inches long (80th percentile).  Still growing, growing, growing.  His legs are getting to be too long for his 12 month clothes, but his little waist can barely keep 18 month sizes up.  His hair is continuing to come in, looking very red at times, but as we know with Avery, early hair color can be deceiving.  My guess is he will have the same blond hair as his sister, and I will once again, be the only brunette of the Unruh clan.  Eyes are still blue as the sky, so I'm guessing that's the permanent color as well.

Rylan's continuing to do something new about every day, so hopefully I can do my best to keep everything documented. Happy Wednesday!



Easter Festivities

Yet another holiday, come and gone.  Easter weekend was busy, but fun of course.  Avery and Rylan started their full weekend on Friday night at the BPU Easter Egg Hunt.  Rylan got his goodies handed directly to him.  Avery had to work a little harder to fill her basket.

The only picture I could get of her standing still, therefore, the only picture that was not a big blur.

Rylan hanging out with Daddy, looking as photogenic as ever.

Saturday was spent in Salina.  We don't get out of town for fun very often, and since we knew our Sunday would be a very full day already, we headed north to the mall and a few other stores.  Avery loves shopping; Rylan is learning to like his umbrella stroller a little more.  He still seems a tad concerned when big sister is pushing him around the narrow aisles at J.C.Penney's though.

Onto Easter Sunday: we woke up and had breakfast as usual.  However, the Easter Bunny had definitely paid a visit to the kiddos overnight.  After Avery tearing into both their presents, we got the little man dressed first.  I must admit, he was born to look good.  And he knows it too.

Avery got ready shortly after, and then immediately wanted to head outside to the "special surprise" (codename for playset) and swing her Easter away!

Loving the wind blowing through her hair!!!

Mom and Dad came over for lunch, and then we headed to Unruhs for Easter dinner that evening.  A very fun day for everybody!



Time to Enjoy!

After many hours under the sun of constructing the playset of Avery's dreams, she has finally gotten to enjoy the spoils of having swings and a slide at her disposal.  Rylan has even gotten in on the action; we purchased him a baby swing last weekend.  Now he doesn't have to sit on a blanket and watch his big sister get to have all the fun.

Ages 3-10, my foot.

Latest Project...

Two weekends ago, this is how we started our weekend. 

This is how we spent our weekend.

This is all we had to show for our work at the end of Saturday. Sigh.

Onto Sunday.  Started a little earlier.  Weather was even warmer.  Enjoyed some classic rock from Pandora while working in the backyard.

 Our helper was beginning to figure out that this wasn't a doghouse we were putting together!

Beginning to take shape!

 This was how we ended that Sunday.  Progress had been made, yet still quite a disturbing amount of lumber and hardware remaining in the garage.



Midweek: Rock climbing wall complete!  Now patiently waiting for the slide and swings......

Here we are at the end of last Saturday.  One of the most beautiful sights we could see when we woke up the following morning! Now if we could only figure out what all the extra hardware is for....