Picture Time

Things have been slow the past little while...I find myself tired from being up in the night, and yet the pace is really slow since I"m not working. I'm finding the best thing so far is that I am no longer pregnant. Someone told me I'm just glowing from being a mother, uhhh no, I'm glowing because I'm not pregnant anymore. I wasn't pregnant for 23 years but I didn't appreciate it until now! Not being pregnant is the best thing ever, I can eat what I want, when I want. Not to mention, it's been so long since I wore most of my clothes, I've forgotten what is in my closet and I feel no need to go shopping because it's like all new clothes again.

Speaking of clothes, I've found that the sizes in baby clothes can only be called a loose guideline, a REALLY loose guideline. Ryan is still almost too little for some of his NEWBORN sizes but he is ready to wear some of his 9m clothes, you'd think there would be a little consistency.

Ryan just began sleeping in 5 hour stretches, this makes for an easier night and I'm hoping it continues, or becomes longer. He is a pretty mellow baby, must get that from his dad. I wish I could say something really exciting had happened. Ryan had his one month birthday, we took a picture to mark the occasion. Doesn't he look thrilled!!

On Saturday we went to have some pictures taken. We were nervous that he would get all fussy once the camera started going, because we have heard so many people complain about this. The girl that took the photos was fantastic, she wasn't all obnoxious in his face and he did great. We got some great pictures. They took some of him naked and we thought he would pee on the photographer like he always does on us, but he didn't...until she lifted up the black sheet and there was a big fat wet spot on the thing underneath!! I guess it happens all the time, but we know we can always count on Ryan to pee as soon as his diaper is removed, and to poop as soon as he has a clean diaper on. Here are some of my favorites from Saturday. We had our favorites framed and haven't decided where to hang them all...

(yes that is Matt's hand, isn't that cute!)

The pictures in frames aren't as gigantic as they look, I took them from a funny angle to avoid the glare from the glass! We thought we would get some sleeping pics but he was alert and happy the whole time, the photographer even caught him smiling even though he still does it kind of involuntarily.

This is his hand and foot print that I took, posted as promised. I have to choose a picture to go in the middle but I was pretty impressed with my craftiness....being that I am not at all crafty ;) The little plaque has his name and birthday on it.

Now that this is the LONGEST post ever filled with nothing of much importance, hopefully we will have something really exciting to post next time! Hope you enjoy all the pics sis!

The End of Summer?

It has been hot here and tomorrow is the first day that the temperature is not expected to break 80. I am excited about this, as family members may recall the time I cried in Idaho Falls because it was SO hot (I was maybe 12 years old and I'm pretty sure it was like 85 degrees) Hopefully the cooler weather stays...but by the end of the week it is expected to return to the low 80's so we shall see, I like going for walks but I get hot by the time I return home.

Nothing too exciting has happened since our last post...which is fine with us! Ryan is getting bigger everyday and seems to look more and more like Matt. We thought that he really looked like me, but his face seems to change all the time. I have yet to get a picture of his funniest face, he puckers his lips and looks like that freaky kid from the movie Zoolander (you know at the end?!) that is my goal and as soon as I get it, I will post it. I don't seem to have my camera ready whenever he does it....

I took his hand and foot print today, you know for those frame things...once it is assembled I will post a pic, but I have to say that getting the prints was much more challenging than I thought it would be. The putty stuff only looks good when you press down nice and hard. I did it when he was sleeping but it seemed as though he was trying to sabotage me in his sleep. I finally got some good prints but it took over an hour! HA! Luckily he continued to sleep through the whole thing. And here are some pictures.