Happy 1st Thanksgiving!!

Tab, Ryland and I all drove south to spend Ryland's 1st Thanksgiving in Brooklet with Jerry and Sharon and all of the family down there. It was a lot of fun with a lot of good food.

I will add some pictures soon. The weather was 80 degrees so needless to say we were not dressed in winter clothes and we were outside all day long!

Birthday Zip Lining in North Georgia Mountains!!

I had a great time celebrating my birthday with everyone on the north Georiga zip lines yesterday!! Since I was 9 months pregnant on my 30th birthday last year I really wanted to do something fun this year for my birthday. And I had a blast! The day started out by meeting everyone for brunch and then we all drove north to the mountains.

Here are some pictures from our afternoon out in the wilderness and on the mountain tops ...

Was that a first step ?!?! I think it was !!

Ryland has mastered the stairs!! He can speed crawl up them and then back down. And I do have to say that it is the cutest thing ever!! The nice thing is that we have 3 steps up into our bonus room upstairs which has been a great place for him to practice. Tab really worked with him last week while I was traveling for work. And then my parents keep him last weekend while we went to Savannah for a wedding and they practiced with him out in Douglasville. So far we have really only let him crawl down the 3 stairs in our bonus room because he likes to start going down head first and then flips his body around by stair 2 or 3.

During all of the stair crawling practice last week Tab sat Ryland on the bottom step and put out his hands for Ryland to walk to him. And he took his first step!! When Tab told me I was not 100% convinced that we could call that his first step but when he did it again last night I totally agree!! He bounced his little butt on the step a few times and then stood up and took a step. Now if he can just convince himself that he can take more than 1 step before falling we might have a walker on our hands soon!!

And I do have to say that our favorite thing to do every night before bed is to play chase as a family. We all go upstairs after dinner and have so much fun chasing each other through the hallway, bedrooms and bonus room. Ryland LOVES this and laughs so hard as he speed crawls away from us or into our arms when the other one is chasing him. And Codi and Bailey join in sometimes and Ryland gets a big kick out of that!

Time to Rearrange!

We had a weekend full of moving stuff around, building new cabinets and packing up clothes that are too little!

Ryland got sick on Wednesday afternoon with a high fever and throwing up so we kept him out of school on Thursday and Friday. He was feeling a little better so CC and Pops kept Ryland on Friday night and brought him back on Saturday morning. So that meant that Tab and I were able to sleep in and wake up and watch tv in bed which we never do anymore. Once CC, Pops and Ryland got here we then had a productive Saturday of all working around the house.

Tab moved his office from downstairs to the upstairs bonus room. We then turned the downstairs bedroom into Ryland's playroom with all of his toys and pack-n-play.

My dad and I put together a new bookcase that we put into Ryland's bedroom closet. Now I have somewhere to put all of his little shoes and another place to store books, extra diapers, etc.

We also packed up all of Ryland's clothes that are too small and moved them to the basement. I can now see the bed in the guest bedroom now that the pile of clothes is gone!

Now it is time for me to get ready to leave to meet all of the girls for brunch and a movie. And then I have to pack this afternoon since I am leaving bright and early in the morning for Orlando. I will be gone until Wednesday night ... which is my longest trip away since having Ryland. I just hope he is feeling 100% again before I leave.

Tooth #7 is a Sneaky Little Thing

We had no idea that Ryland was getting a new tooth but earlier this week my mom saw something new shining in his mouth. And it was tooth #7 ... right there next to the 2 on the bottom! Yay for tooth #7!! He is going to be able to eat steak before we know it!!