The past few months have marked more change, and the only reminders really that Ryan is still a baby are the rare occasions when he cries at night. Somehow, his night cry is still that baby cry. We have moments still when he takes his bottle of milk, and he's sleepy and cuddly, and 100% still my baby, but these moments are becoming rare. More often, bottle time, is wiggling, and pointing in a milion directions, and a slide off my lap as soon as the bottle is empty.
Since Ryan has pretty much mastered walking, running, and falling with ease, he's been working on climbing. He climbs everyhwere, on every thing. He climbs on the toilets, he climbs on the book shelf, he climbs on chairs by himself. He's figured out how to stand on the toilet and turn on the bathroom faucet, unfortunately, he has also figured out that if he turns the faucet, the water can go from running nicely down the drain to running all over the bathroom floor, which is obviously, much more fun.
Ryan is also looking more and more like a little kid. In the past two months, three top teeth have come in. Bringing his grand total of teeth to 5. His hair is growing like mad, but only in the back. I don't have the heart to cut his hair yet, so instead, we call him, MacGyver. Ryan has moved out of his 18 month clothes, and is in the end of baby clothes, and wears lots of 2T shirts now. 18 month was one of those sizes for Ryan like 0-3 month. He wore size 12 month from 6 to 13 months, and 28 month from 13 to 15 months. And now, its all 24 month.
He is also rapidly outgrowing the shoes we bought him when we were home. We bought him size 5 shoes, which were intentionally big so that he could go to spring in them. The shoe salesman was right, its spring and I don't see him staying in his shoes much longer.
Ryan had a wonderful visit with his baby cousin, Liam. Liam and his parents came to visit just in time for Ryan's second St. Patrick's Day. Liam and his family live in Ireland, and brought Ireland with them for our St. Patty's Day celebration!
And, we celebrated Ryan's second Easter. Last Easter, he could have cared less about his Easter basket. This year, the look of surprise on his face when he found a big basket in his play tent was absolutely priceless! We spent at least 5 minutes just looking at all the things in his basket before opening it up!
The biggest change in Ryan was definitely language. He has a huge animal sound vocabulary. He can do the sounds of cat, cow, fish, seal, bear, lion, dog, goose, monkey, sheep to name a few. He also now yells "go go go," (chug, chug, chug) when he sees a tractor. He yells because he loves tractors, and gets so excited when he sees them that he can't keep quiet.
Ryan also has words! Words happened during the end of 15 months, but they're there! Ryan can say "Dada," but he always whispers it, and its a very intentional, talking about Daddy, "Dada." He also says "up," and "ba ba" for bicycle. And, the most impressive, NO! "No" took me by surprise. I had made Ryan a lovely piece of salmon for lunch one day, he took two bites, spit them out and said very big, very clear, and very emphatically, "NO!" Thanks kid! But, its very exciting to see his language grow and change.
Ryan has also started dancing. We dance to songs, we dance to chants. Ryan loves dancing. Most dances are twirls, but he also shifts from side to side during some songs too. He loves music. Ryan does the hand motions to "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes," and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."
It has been a real adventure with Ryan these past few months. I will try my hardest to post at the end of this month, just because too much happens in one month to wait for another.
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