9 months old

On the same week Ryan turned 9 months he also got a new Grandpa AND Grandma is no longer living under the same roof as Ryan. Ryan ADORES his Grandma Donna and since he was born Ryan has had a wonderful Grandma to be around a lot. Ryan lights up with the biggest smile every time he sees her. It is bittersweet but because of Grandma Donna's happiness it is more sweet than bitter!

Ryan had a tough week this week with an ear infection in his left ear - even with his tubes! It came with some horrible non-stop diarrhea and a rash that looked like a giant red burn on his bum. He was miserable there for a couple days. But he is feeling a little better and just has a bit of a runny nose left (which you can see in some of the pictures).

Our baby boy is growing and getting big. He has a spitfire of a personality and a couple months ago started babbling and squealing. Ryan can be VERY loud!

Ryan is crawling every where and getting into everything.

Ryan is eager to play with people and wants to be held and then when he is held by someone he is jumping out of their arms for something.

Ryan now has 5 teeth. With those teeth has come interrupted sleep and shorter but more frequent naps - boy does he fight the sleep!

Ryan is already getting ready to move onto the next phase of walking by pulling himself up on stuff. Unfortunate for Ryan though, once he pulls himself up on things he can't always work out how to get down so he just cries - it is actually kind of funny (am I just the meanest mom ever)!!

He is still the cutest thing around and I just love watching him crawl around with his chubby little hands and wrist getting everything from Brody's puzzles (which really makes him mad) to computer cords.

Enjoy the recent pictures