Good Bye Bottles Hello Counter Tops!

See ya never bottles, bottle brush, bottle drying rack and bottle dishwasher container things! My least favorite thing about babies has always been the bottles (I know Ray will laugh when he reads this because he has washed 90% of the bottles with Ryan). There are 6 parts to our Playtex bottles and washing 6 bottles a day get's really old really quick. Very excitted for the cabinet and countertops to be taken over by something else.

Ryan continues to be an AMAZING and easy kid. With Connor he fussed, cried and had fits on the floor for four long days...Ryan, one sippy, no problem and never looked back.

Very happy I won't be having bottles at Lake Okoboji this summer! Smiles.

11 Months Old Today

My sweet Ryan John is 11 months old today. I thought this picture turned out so neat I want to try to recreate the holding out the number one next month. I was going to say that he has not really had interest in stairs yet, but just now as I was putting Connor down for his nap I started to come back down to find Ryan on the 4th step. He goes tomorrow to Childrens Hospital to find out if he is or is not a canidate for Tubes to be put in his ears. I can't remember the last time he was off antibiotics and they said he can only hear at 15% so we are fairly positive they will say yes.

Ryan continues to be an awesome sleeper going to bed at 7:30 and getting up at 7:30 and takes two long naps a day still. He is starting to eat solids and my mind keeps going to him in one month digging into his birthday cake which I know he will love!
In Ryans hand you will find: a paci or a golf ball almost always
He is most happy: all the time, but especially if his mommy holds him or he is in the basement with all the toys
His favorite game is: picking up a ball and throwing it to Boji
He can: wave and clap and say mama and dada
He has how many teetH;  7 and an 8th poking threw
His bad habit is: he has biten a teacher once and his brother once (we were proud of him when he bit Connor because Connor deserved it)

Landscaping

Last week we had Delhi Landscapers come out and make a landscaping bed and plant 13 different bushes to our side yard. Very happy we did this it adds so much appeal to the house!

Brothers

 Took this one on my phone. They are getting sooo big

Jill's Thoughts

Ok i have no  pictures but lots of thoughts to share...kind of random but stay with me

• Connor has gone from not wanting to put a toe in the water to getting in the baby pool, then the first step of the big pool, the third step, jumping in off the side, being thrown up in the air, thrown up in the air and going under water. Now he "swims" to the steps or ladder if you hold his belly. Yay Connor!
• Ryan is a full fledged walker. I am very proud of him even though we had nothing to do with it. He has very fat (wide) feet just like Grandpa Dale and we are having a heck of a time finding a pair of shoes that will fit them
• Are you watching the ticker on the right side of the blog? How are my kids both about to have a birthday?
• Yay summer LAKE vacation is almost here and this year Andy, Alya & Maive are coming with us YIPPPEEEE!!

Happy 4th!

No big surprise that Connor was not the least bit afraid of a sparkler. Had an amazing night in Ashfor Glen Ct with sparklers, margaritas and neighbors that they write about in movies...these are the memories and traditions I hope we have every year on America's Birthday.

4th of July Weekend

I couldn't button the bottom of the onsie but besides that I was able to get Ryan to squeeze into Connor's first fouth of July outfit. * Can't wait to see pictures of Emma Clare in her first 4th of July outfit!

Charley

Liz brought Charley with her this week so we could do our 4th Craft. With 3 under 3 it took us about an hour to do the simple craft. Look at this cute-ness! Connor was very sweet with her and gentle (the exact opposite of how he treats Ryan these days).

walker man

In the last day or two he has given up on crawling completly and is so proud of himself!

4th Craft Project

I have recently discovered the website www.pinterest.com and it has all kinds of images for any kind of project you can think of (or recipe). I found this on it last week and looked like something an Un-Crafty person could handle.

The big negative for me was how expensive it was. I shopped at Michaels and didn't bring a coupon so it cost me approx $14 to make. The other sad part to me was I didn't wait for the wood glue to dry so my star fell off then I didn't get all the glue wiped off and I didn't recenter the star.