Ryan - Ten Months

I know tomorrow is Ryan's first birthday so I'm behind about 2 months, but I will promise to catch up quickly!

Just before his baptism, Ryan turned 10 months.  Already? The 10th month was a big one for Ryan.  He started crawling and wanted to be on the move everywhere and all the time! It was funny how one day, he just started crawling.

There was no well check this month so his stats are based on a guess and a drs appt he had around the time:

Weight: 18 lbs 14oz

Height: 28 inches

Ryan started eating more stage 3 type foods and started a few finger foods.  We also gave him a sippy cup although he wasn't very interested in that. So far, he still seems to like to eat whatever he is given. And still only breastmilk!

Ryan is sleeping about the same... maybe a morning nap if we are home and usually a 2 hour afternoon nap. We still start bedtime around 7:30pm and he's up around 6:30am.  Very different from my other kids who would usually sleep in for me!  This month has been up and down with sleep too since he came down with RSV (again). Seriously! We are a magnet for RSV I think. Both Caitlin and Ryan had it in early January.  Neither were feeling very well for quite a few days. Poor kiddos.

Evan wanted to make a sign too... I think he did a pretty good job!

Ryan got two top teeth this month (so that's 2 on the bottom and now 3 on the top). That might also have contributed to some of the sleepless nights.

Ryan LOVES to wave and does it often. He also likes to imitate people and sounds they make. He loves to clap and still put everything in his mouth (usually things I don't want to go in there).  Having a baby with 2 older siblings is much harder. I'm constantly worried what Ryan might find to put in his mouth. I will be so glad when this stage is over.

It was a very busy month with all the Christmas activities and family visiting. But what a great first Christmas for Ryan and our family!  We are excited to start off a new year as a family of 5 and are so happy to have Ryan. He is very loved by all of us (dog included now that he drops food on the floor!).  

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Ryan's Baptism

It took us awhile to get Ryan baptized... we had to do a lot of coordination to figure out a good time to do it.  But, we finally got around to it in early January when we had everyone in town to celebrate Christmas and Caitlin's birthday.  The Westburys (Barney and Christine - Barney has been friends with Bryce for a very long time) are Ryan's godparents so we also had to coordinate with them. Only Barney was able to come to the baptism but we are so glad he could come!

Ryan is ready for the service to start!

Giving him the sign of the cross

Getting one of the oils from Deacon Dennis

Being baptized - he didn't mind one bit!

I think Ryan liked his candle which was lit from the Christ candle. He really wanted to grab it!

After the service, I took the opportunity to snap a bunch of family pictures since we were all there. Now just so you know, Barney had some horrible flu the night before/that morning. Poor guy!  He toughed it out for the baptism.

Thanks Deacon Dennis for baptizing Ryan!

Also, Caitlin and Ryan both were getting over their RSV (yes, they had RSV again... we are a magnet for it I guess). Caitlin was hit particularly hard so she was a little out of it...

Team Stacer!

He would not sit still for a photo. The second you set him down he was off crawling.

My little angel

My three angels!

Ryan and his godfather

The Stacer Family

The Hammel Family

Ryan's first cousins!

The grandparents

After the ceremony, we had a lovely brunch at our house with a few friends also.  It was a great way to celebrate Ryan and the beginning of his spiritual life in the Church. Thanks to Barney and Christine for being his godparents! They are incredible role models and we are so blessed to have them in his life.  We are so lucky that each of our kids has such wonderful godparents.. we love expanding our little family with them!

Christmas!

After so many weeks of waiting, it was finally Christmas! The kids were so excited for Christmas morning this year. After a traditional egg nog toast and waiting for family to arrive, we opened presents. 

Ryan's first Christmas presents!

He liked tearing the paper...

And eating the presents! His big gift this year was a temporal thermometer... I mean, what do you get an almost one year old who has 2 older siblings? Not much this kid needs...

Caitlin got lots of great presents including a Sofia the First doll, Doc McStuffins costume, clothes, a movie, and a gymnastics outfit!

Evan opening his presents... he got:

This cool Lego Ninjago sword, some more legos, a Jake and the Neverland Pirates playset, some playmobil, and clothes.

Caitlin being silly...

Ryan's first Christmas!

Kids playing with the new toys.. kept them occupied for hours on Christmas which was great!

And the 3 babies celebrating their first Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas PJs

I forgot to include the Christmas PJ pictures in the Christmas Eve post so here are those... too many cute ones so this can just be a post dedicated to pictures! Enjoy!

The cutest of Santa's reindeer

Christmas Eve - Church!

We made it to church on Christmas Eve after our cookie decorating. The service was lovely (and packed).  We took some pictures afterwards rather than fight the traffic back to the house. Here are a few of them.

Evan and Caitlin in front of the tree

Ryan

Attempt at a family shot

Mommy and Ryan

My three gifts

Once we got home, we took some pictures by our own tree while we waiting on dinner.

Ryan!

Ryan and Chelsea - aren't they so cute?

My three precious people

Baba and Chelsea

Mommy and Ryan

After dinner, we got the kids to bed... they were SO excited for Santa to come. We put out our treats for Santa and read our Elf on the Shelf book one last time. We said goodbye to Candycane (our elf). And then it was off to bed until Christmas morning!