Sickness around the house!

Ryan not only learned to crawl a couple weeks ago, he's now pulling himself to a stand, walking along the couch and just crawled up his first stair yesterday! Oh my. Nothing is safe anymore! And with this new found exploration has come a cold. Ryan's first cold is pretty nasty. It started with a cough, and now he's got a ton of phlegm and a runny nose that won't stop. The poor kid HATES the bulb syringe, but I've got to do what I've got to do. I'm not sure any baby likes a suction device stuck up their nose.

Ryan also just celebrated a 1st birthday party with his local friend Samuel. Samuel turned 1 this past weekend, and Ryan got to have some cupcake and pizza! He did well in eating it, but I didn't let him have much. I'm saving the big ol' chocolate cake experience for his 1st birthday.
I do have pictures, however, our computer is seems to also have the "flu", so downloading pics take forever. So, they're not up yet.

Payton is also sick. She's been ill for a while now - just not eating much and some vomiting. Poor girl. In fact, she's outside right now eating grass. Soon she will be inside to puke it up. She was on antibiotics last week, but now that those are gone it's like she's not feeling well again. I guess it just takes time and puke to acclimate to Colorado. I'll be sure to keep you posted on her status, and Ryan's, as time goes on!

Ryan Crawls!

Ryan made his first moves toward crawling a few weeks ago, but he finally figured out the coordination and moved forward just the other day. March 1, 2010 was the day he truly made progress! I was able to catch it on video, so enjoy!

Now, only a few days later, he is able to crawl all over the house. He's made it the front door, into the kitchen to Payton's food bowl and he's been scouting out the baby gate keeping him from falling down the stairs. When he was about 5 months old I predicted he'd be crawling by 8 months! He's a little early. So now I need to make a prediction on when he'll walk, but I still have to observe him a little bit more before making that guess.

He makes us so proud as parents. We love our little Ry so much!