Three weeks ago, Ryan’s Aunts Karen, Julie, Kim and Val and Grandma Lola bought him a nice truck for his 2nd birthday.  Until today, he’s been a bit hesitant to ride it.

We were outside playing, and I talked to him about the truck for a while, then encouraged him to give it another try.  He decided he’d hop in and give it a go.

He doesn’t quite have the steering thing figured out yet, nor the accelerator…but he had fun and it’ll be no time before he’s the King of the Road.

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We took Ryan to the zoo today and had a great time.  On the way home, he treated us to a song.  This is great stuff!

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Ryan turned 17 months on Saturday.  We were at Reno’s in Lansing having pizza with him and someone had left a bunch of balloons at the table from a party.  We gave them to Ryan and he had a blast knocking them around.  Unfortunately, we didn’t have our better video camera with us, so all I got was this cell phone capture, but it’s still very cute.

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Just the other day, Ryan figured out how to stand up without holding on to anything.  Once he got it the first time, he did it every time following without a hitch.  In this video, he shows how he figured out how to do it by starting on his hands and feet.  The very next day, he figured out how to do it without even using his hands, just by getting up to his knees and standing from there.  We don’t have any video of that yet, but here’s the video of him going from all fours.  You’ll also see how far he can walk and how well he turns corners.  He’s a fast learner!

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I caught a good video short of Ryan today making some noise and having a good old time.  He’s 7 1/2 months old here:

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Well, his 2nd and 3rd, anyway.  I was playing with him on the floor tonight doing some “tummy time” and he wasn’t fussing about it like he normally does.  He was staying strong on his arms and looking purposeful.  Suddenly, he started to tilt to his right, extending his left arm and then lifting it.  Pretty soon, he had rolled from tummy to back for his first time.  It was like he just knew what to do.

Jen was nearby but missed the first one.  We put Ryan back on his tummy and he did a few more for us, this time on video.  I guess once he had it figured out, it was no problem from there.

Second rollover:

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Third rollover:

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This is my first post to test video embedding on the site. It’s a short video of Ryan at 10 weeks, taken by our Nikon S10 digital camera. It is a digicam with video capability, so it’s not exactly hi-def, but could be very nice for uploading bits of video up to our site.

Here’s the little guy getting around in the morning:

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