Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Boy Can Walk!

Well, Ryan has decided that it is time to walk! He has made a lot of progress in the past week and I have made several attempts to catch them on video. I may have to put together all the clips, but seriously it is over 10 times of trying. Every time I got out the camera he either got so close to me and wouldn't walk away that I couldn't get him, or he became interested in something on the floor or just thought I was being funny so he would just sit and laugh. Finally I decided that I needed reinforcements and made Matt hold the camera so that I get Ryan far enough away to actually capture his mad skills.




You can enjoy this video here!



To mark this auspicious occasion, I bought Ryan some new shoes and sandals. Madi says that I mark every occasion with a shoe purchase, but lets be honest, girls have the market cornered on cute clothes. Shoes is all boys have. So check out these awesome ones. They are still soft sole like Robeez and Pedipeds but they have rubber traction at the toe and heel so they are a little more substantial for outside use. Also, I believe they are completely adorable. These people also make some of the cuter girl shoes I have ever seen, for those of you in the market.





We haven't been up to anything to exciting as of late. We have been spending time at the pool to keep away from the heat. We also enjoyed going to the zoo with Lindy and Anya. It was really fun and Lindy had my expectations set fairly low so I really enjoyed myself! I will post some pictures from that later, they are still on my camera.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Fourth of July

We had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. It was nice to have time to sit and not do anything. On the Fourth we went to the Shields for a BBQ and fireworks. Before we arrived I sliced off the end of my finger with a mandoline, I was prepping some onions for the burgers, which by the way were some of the best onions I have ever had. Anyway, when I think about the incident I still cringe because it was gross and I couldn't get my finger to stop bleeding, luckily the Hamilton's were coming to the BBQ and Dr. Hamilton was able to come to my rescue!
Ryan enjoyed the fireworks way more than we thought he would. He was entertainment for everyone else as he kept yelling out at the fireworks as though he was trying to boss them around. It was really funny and entertaining for all of us.
On Saturday we took Ryan to his first Braves game. Matt has been wanting to take him for a long while. The last game we went to was when Spencer was here and we had the MOST amazing seats like 5 rows behind the dugout. This time we sat way higher but we were on the air conditioned concourse. This was my decision and probably one of the best ones that I made. Whenever Ryan was getting fussy, I could just take him inside and we would enjoy the air conditioning and watch the game on one of the big screens. The following sequence of pictures is exactly what it looks like....Matt trying to interupt Ryan from watching the game so the he could take his picture.


Yes!



Yes!!!

What do you want Dad? Don't you know you're interupting the game?



All in all we had a fun weekend and we were sad when we had to return to our regular routine!