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Cute moments

Ryan the Giraffe

Matt's Exciting News

Matt got hired by the Atlantic City National Guard for a part time job flying F-16s! He is very excited and we are glad that he is happy:)

Roll Call

I have been trying to post some really cute pictures of Ryan (although I guess I think they all are!), but the blog site seems to be having technical difficulties. So, a friend of mine recently did this on her site - I love getting comments from people on the site and I am curious if anyone is actually looking at it, so if you are out there reading this and seeing what Ryan is up to, post a comment letting me know you are there, even just a simple hello. I will keep trying to post pictures.

Ryan has started pulling up on things and standing holding on them for awhile without us holding on to him. He is also learning to climb stairs - not sure how I feel about this... I have started occasionally giving him real food, just bananas and sweet potato so far, but he seems to like it.

Hayride

Ryan and I went on a hayride with some friends tonight. It was a lot of fun. Ryan really liked the hay:) The weather has finally cooled down - it was perfect fall weather!

More Cool Features

Another cool thing that Memory Manager can do is allow you to bascially erase things you don't want in the picture. In this picture I didn't want the cups and bottle and whatnot in the picture, so I "erased" them. This was my first attempt at doing this, so it isn't perfect, but you get the idea!

Cool

I have always loved the Creative Memories photo software - Memory Manager, but I am finding new reasons to love it. Check out what I did to this picture. It was a full color photo, but I was able to make everything black and white but the rose. Very cool!

8 Months Old

I can't believe Ryan is already 8 months old! He is definitely gaining on Pooh, as you can see! He has 2 teeth on the bottom and 4 on the top. He has the army crawl down and is trying to master regular crawling. He is starting to pull himself up on things, mostly Mom. He can get into a sitting position on his own.

In other news, (yes, there is life beyond Ryan) Matt finishes his training with Continental today! Yay Daddy!!! As of October 1, he is officially Mr. Crill, not Maj. Crill, at least until he works on getting hired by a guard unit. So, we are looking forward to seeing more of him - he will be home from Houston this weekend.

Why does Grandma keep putting me in boxes???

It's Hard to be a Baby

Ryan fell asleep in the high chair at Mimi and Pop's at dinner tonight. He slept like this for about half an hour. Silly little boy...

Happy Baby