I HAVE A SISTER!!!

Sarah Ann Crill was born on December 30th, 2008 at 9:44pm. She tipped the scales at 7 lbs even, and is 20 inches long. Stephanie and Sarah are both doing well. Ryan will have to get used to the idea of sharing many things, Mommy, Daddy, his toys, and even this blog.

36 1/2 weeks

I will be 37 weeks on Wednesday. Ryan was about a week and a half early, so with any luck Sarah will make her appearance a bit early too, as I am definitely ready to be done being pregnant....

Santa

I can't believe it has been over a month since I have posted any pictures! Oops... Now that Matt is back from Phoenix (he demanded, I mean requested that I post pictures at least once a week when he was gone), I guess I have been a slacker. Anyway, my mom and I took Ryan to the mall to see Santa, but he wanted no part of sitting on his lap or even sitting on a stool next to him, so we didn't push it. Then yesterday, Matt and I took Ryan to see Santa arrive at the American Helicopter Museum, about 20 minutes away from here. As you can see, Ryan still wasn't thrilled with the idea of sitting on Santa's lap, but he did okay. He really enjoyed sitting in the helicopters though. I will post more pictures of that and some other stuff later.

My Little Red Baron

For some reason I had a hard time finding a cute Halloween costume for Ryan this year. I thought he was so cute as a giraffe last year, I guess it was just hard to live up to that. We went to a Halloween party last Monday at the house of one of the mommies in our Moms group which was a lot of fun. For Halloween we just trick-or-treated at Grammy and Pop's house and my mom's friend Sara's house. Ryan had fun though:)

Yay Phillies!!!

After the Phillies won the World Series last week, I had to go out and buy a t-shirt to commemorate the day (Ryan already had a Baseball Champ shirt that happened to be in Phillies colors). The last time the Phillies won the World Series was when I was 2 and this time my son is almost 2 which I thought was kind of funny.

Fun at My Gym with Daddy

Matt surprised us and came home for the weekend this past weekend so he was able to go to My Gym with us on Friday morning. Ryan and Matt both love when Matt can come with us. Dads just seem to be more fun with these sorts of things:) And Dad is definitely more fun than almost 8 month pregnant Mom!

Ryan Votes!

Ryan went to vote with me tonight. I should have had my mom take this picture vertically so you could tell we were in front of one of the voting booths....

Ryan and the Pumpkins

Fun at the playground

Silly with trucks

Ryan loves anything with wheels. Yesterday he was having fun driving his trucks on the kitchen table with his great grandmother. He was just laughing and laughing as they rolled the trucks back and forth to each other.

Pumpkins etc.

Fall Colors

Admittedly, none of these pictures have Ryan in them, but I thought I would post them anyway... I am thoroughly enjoying the changing of the colors this fall! I guess it is probably because we have lived mostly places where the leaves mostly just turn yellow, but I just really am appreciating the reds and oranges this year.

My Gym

Ryan always loves the ball pit.
My little climber.

Don't know what was so exciting that he was pointing at, but I thought it was cute...
Ryan making fishy faces.

Ryan and I take a class at the local My Gym every Friday. We also go there for some "free play" with the Mommies Group every other week. Ryan really enjoys it and I think it is great for him to run around and play for an hour.

Indoor Fun

Ryan checks out the cabinets to see if he can find a snack...
Ryan thinks about climbing up this big thing. Decides maybe Mom should carry him up and slide down with him. What fun :)
I know the flash kind of ruined this picture, but I love the smile on his face. This was such a cool, toddler sized inflatable Sesame Street thing for little ones to play in.

With the weather getting cooler, we have moved some of our fun indoors. Some people from my Mommies group met at this indoor play place for an afternoon playdate.

Ryan's words

I am continually amazed as Ryan says more and more words. Many of them I don't understand at all, and some are just so cute when I finally figure out what they mean. For example monkey is munga and elephant is anga. Airplane is some weird thing that is totally recognizable when you hear it and mostly unspellable - airpledane or something like that. Animal is animlay. His aunt Cathy is Gaga, which I think stems from the fact that she wears glasses (ga). He just started calling my mom something (which is good because she was starting to wonder if she was ever going to get a name, though I must admit it is also bad because now he can voice his displeasure about her not being here when she leaves). He calls her Tipty or Dibdy or something like that. The other day she was teaching him how to tiptoe and shortly after that, he started calling her Tipty, so I think that is why.

Just another funny note - Ryan is VERY into Little Einsteins right now (he used to be addicted to Jack's Big Music Show on Noggin, but now it is just rocket he wants to watch). So, I have been wanting to get him one of those ride-on toys for the driveway. At Target I saw a Little Einsteins one and it seemed perfect so I got it. It came with toys of the 4 main characters in the show. One of them is June. I think he has a little crush on June. He carries around this little plastic toy (like a Little People toy) wherever he goes and if he can't find her he gets quite upset. Pretty funny how attached he has gotten to her in just two days. I am sure it is just a phase, but it is the first time there has been one particular toy that he was so enthralled with.

Sleeping Baby

I can't believe how much Ryan has grown. I remember when we could lay him across the crib this way and he had plenty of room stretched out. Now he curls up and still his foot is hanging out. How do they grow so fast?!?!?!

I try to follow the rule of never waking a sleepy baby, but my mom made me get him up because it was time to go over to my grandparents house for dinner. It took him a few minutes to wake up, but then he was less cranky than I expected he would be.
Ryan with his beloved puppy (bubu - like but without the t)

Hot fun at Linvilla

We went to Linvilla Orchards yesterday. Ryan loves the playground there! It was just so hot and humid that we didn't stay as long as we would have liked.

A student again

I know this is Ryan's blog, but incase anyone is interested in what I am up to, I wanted to tell you about my newest project... I am taking an 8 week photography class online. It is a digital SLR class so that I can learn how to better use the amazing camera I got from my family and Matt for Christmas (a Nikon D-40). I am feeling a lot intimidated in the class as I mainly have only used the camera as a point-and-shoot camera and I think a lot of the other students actually know how to use the camera as it was intended. But, I don't get graded or anything so it is just a matter of learning as much as I can and hoping that the pictures I post for all of the class to see aren't totally bad. We had to post a few pictures for our "portfolio" at the beginnig of the class. These are some of the pictures I posted...