Ryan's First Birthday

Well I did go grocery shopping last week. Go me. It was Ryan's birthday on Wednesday. We mostly celebrated at home with special breakfast, dinner, and cake. After school we went to the park to play. Ryan really likes being outside. Scott was actually working and missed dinner, presents, and cake. That was a bummer, good thing he won't remember.

Ryan is so cute and funny. One of my favorite things that he does is he will be crawling and stop and put his head on the ground and look upside down. It's so funny. Just picture an arch with a baby back and his head down, it's funny. He also does this crazy fast bear crawl. Scott got a great video at church today. He loves being outside and he will escape any chance he gets. He is walking around furniture and takes a few steps independently here and there. I love his sweet smiles and any time he sings or babbles. He is just the cutest!

On Halloween I took the girls to story time but it wasn't great. It's supposed to be a preschool story time but there were all babies there and it was super babyish. Oh well. I was in charge of the games at Corbin's class party. I haven't been able to volunteer very much this year so I don't even know most of kids' names which is a bummer. We played toilet paper bowling and pumpkin ring toss. Anna got us free tickets to The Farmstead but it was a bit of a bust. It took us about 45 minutes to get there (normally 15-20) the traffic was insane! When we got there it was just really crowded and hard to try to actually do anything with so many little kids and one adult. Luckily Anna helped me out a lot. Corbin was able to go and do a few fun things with Dejah. The little kids enjoyed playing in the corn boxes. Ryan was being a crabster and Piper ran off with Lexi a couple of times and I decided to get out of there. It is a fun place to go but not when it's super crowded and you only have one parent there. We came home and ate dinner and went trick or treating. I did our little cul-de-sac with the kids and Scott got home and took them to the neighborhood across the street. I took Ryan home because he was being a crabster. His back gums look really swollen so he may be working on some teeth. After the kids ate tons of candy they went to bed and Scott and I watched The Village.

Saturday I painted practically the whole day and finished both bathrooms. Now the only room I have left is Scott's office. It will be the hardest to do for sure. It's full of Scott's crap and Scott most of the time. Ha. Not sure how I am going to paint it. I'm excited to be done painting. I've never been more grateful for a small house. Exhausting work for sure.

Gabby Quotes:
Me: "I need to text my mom." G: "Who's your mom?" Me: "Granny's my mom." G:"and Nana is daddy's mom. It's funny that grown ups have moms."

G: "Mom, brothers are pretty annoying."


Ryan's 1 year stats:
Weight: 22 pounds 8 ounces 50%
Height: 29 3/4 inches 50%
Head Circ. 48 cm 89%


Pipers' 1 year stats?
Can you tell she's my third? I can't find the slip. She only weighs a little over 17 pounds. She is 5th percentile in weight, 50th in height and I don't even know what her head circ. is. 

Corbin and Gabby's stats:

It looks like Ryan is my chunkiest baby. Corbin was the tallest at 12 months, Piper was the tiniest. All my babies have big heads, it's to fit their big brains right? Ryan is so dense. He doesn't look very chunky and really he isn't. He hardly has any rolls on his arms or legs but man he is thick!

Birthday Decor

Love this boy! I made him a dirt cake because he loves to eat real dirt.

"Bowling pins" for Corbin's party.

Cow Train

Piper is more brave than Gabby. She refused to go.

Luckily there were vendors handing out free stuff and someone gave this guy a drink and it helped keep him happy for a good while. He is so darling!

Gabby walked on the spider web. I'm surprised she was brave enough to handle that. I didn't get a picture in the corn box but she and Piper both loved it.

Candy, candy, candy. (Don't worry Nana, Gabby actually wears her beautiful princess gown you bought her a lot but I rarely sweat the small stuff when it comes to what Gabby wants and she wanted to wear that costume). 

And Piper wanted to wear this one. Whatever!

Ryan got right in and busted into the other kids' candy.

Gabby insisting on trying on Corbin's 12 month devil costume.

The best part of this video is when Gabby starts laughing and it makes Ryan start laughing too.

This boy is fast!