This is all happening too fast.  Dave was playing with him in the living room and I missed it.  Ryan rolled over for the first time and I missed it!  He rolled over 3 more times in the next 5 minutes which I got to see – and yep, I cried.

Okay, so it’s babble- but I swear he’s telling stories.  In the last 2-3 weeks Ryan has been keeping us entertained.  He’s “talking” quite a lot, punctuated by squeals.  We would find this endlessly entertaining, but Ryan is only good for a few minutes of “talking” at a time, when he’s in his best moods.  He will bless us with his ‘stories’ a few times a day though.

Dave thinks he’s reaching for toys.  To me it looks like wild flailing and accidentally hooking a fist around something.  Often my hair, necklace, or sometimes a toy.  He doesn’t seem to know he’s snagged anything.

I unofficially weighed him a few days ago (bathroom scale and math: me + baby, and figure he’s up to about 14 pounds now.  So hopefully he’s slowing down if he’s only gained a pound or so in the last month.  I was afraid he’d weigh 40 by his first birthday.

I’ve been pulling out all 3-6 month clothes that we have – Thanks again Eric and Em.  I’m shocked to find some of them are already snug.  Some 6-9’s fit and some of his 0-3’s still fit well- kind of confusing!

Ryan’s favorite thing is still to be held, more than not.  And I pretty much have to be up and moving for it to be acceptable to him.  Good for my innate laziness to be challenged in that way I suppose.  Funny that when Dave gets home Ryan can spend hours upon hours gazing adoringly up at his dad as he’s held by him without so much as a whimper…. traitor.