Happy Birthday Ryan!

I can't believe it has been a year since Ryan joined our family! What an amazing little boy he is. We are so blessed to have our sweet little Ryan. For those we have not been around lately, Ryan has developed quite the personality. He is still very cuddly, but has developed a very strong, determined side to him as well. He gets into EVERYTHING, and we have a hard time keeping things out of his reach since he climbs on anything he can get on top of and has managed to get up on the couch unassisted.

I don't think he really knew what to do with the cake at first. He obviously figured it out....

A couple of Ryan's firsts

Ryan's first haircut, which was about a month overdue! Kristan cuts all of our hair, and was so sweet enough to come over to our house to do the boys' hair. I don't know what we're going to do when we move this summer. Maybe we'll live close enough we can make periodic visits and get our hair cut!

We discovered that Ryan can stand on his own! He has done it several times, sometimes while playing with something and still keeping his balance. When he realizes he's not holding on to anything, he just plops down and takes off to the next thing. He doesn't seem too interested in walking. I think if he was motivated, he could just take off.

Ryan's new skills

Ryan is finally interested in something other than pureed fruits and rice cereal. (And I don't think Caden appreciated his Cheerios being nabbed.
I guess the hard floor hurt his knees. He would do this "bear crawl" in the kitchen, and drop to his knees as soon as he was on the carpet.