Oh BOY!!

Today is the big day. We get to find out the gender of baby #2 (that is it's name for right now). Bryce is betting it's a boy, so he said that I have to bet that it is going to be a girl, so that way I will be wrong with all of our children so far. I agreed. I don't mind a little opposition even though I thought it was going to be a boy too. Ryann however says that it is going to be a girl. She is still getting use to nodding her head yes and shaking it no, and everytime Penney asks she shakes her head no it's not boy and yes it is a girl. It kind of freaks me out to think that it might be another girl, just because of all the drama and fighting and everything else a girl would entail, but I think it would be fun either way. I am more anxious to make sure all it's parts are growing okay. Well Bryce is the winner 2 for 2. He is definitely a BOY!! His legs were spread wide open and everything, playing with it and everything!! Bryce was pretty giddy about it. He really wants a boy, and he even promised me that we could go shopping afterwards. He told me that I could shop until my heart was content! I couldn't believe my ears. Luckily for him shopping for little boys isn't nearly as fun as shopping for little girls! But I took him up on his offer and shopped for 2 days straight. Although my heart isn't nearly content yet, and we still have a lot of shopping to go. I had no idea how expensive clothes are, and how much you need sheesh! We were so spoiled with Ryann I have only bought her maybe 2 things.

It is so exciting to start your little family, and ours is feeling a little more complete. I can't wait for our little guy to get here. I can't even imagine how he is going to change our lives, but I think once he is here I will wonder how we ever got along without him. I already love him so much!!

13 Months

• Ryann grew two more teeth, and is getting better on eating different things, but her favorite is cheetos!!

• She loves to climb on everything, but climbing isn't enough she has to stand. It kind of freaks me out!! She has even learned to climb onto the couch all by herself


• Ryann takes one nap a day usually between 12 and 3 and she sleeps for 2 hrs.
• Ryann loves playtime with dad when he gets home. Usually right in the middle of our bedtime routine. she will get off my lap and go find dad to play with. She will go and open our bedroom door to find him and then crawl away as fast as she can to escape his tickle torture, or him throwing her on the bed. One night she went to go find him, but he had already gone to bed. She opened the door all excited, but when he didn't come out to get her she sat by the bed crying, so I let her up onto the bed, and she pulled the covers off of his face and started laughing. Watching them play is probably the cutest thing that I have ever seen. Another night she crawled to go find him and I saw them cuddling on the bed watching the movie beauty and the beast. I just sat there and bawled. I have also found them just sitting on the bed talking to each other. I love to just watch them from a distance especially if they don't know that I am watching them. So now Ryann usually goes to bed around 10 instead of 9, but I don't mind too much I love it when they have their daddy daughter time!
• She learned how to stand up on her own without holding on to anything, and she is quite proud of herself

• She loves going for rides in her cousins toy jeep and car. She made me push her around for over 2 hrs one day. I was telling Bryce about it and he said that when he has had enough he starts "rock climbing" in the jeep (going up and down the stairs), and that kind of freaks her out just enough to where she is ready to get out, but it looks like she kind of likes it to me. Plus there is no way I would be able to do that! Thanks to Bryce Ryann is kind of an adrenaline junkie. There isn't a lot that scares her.

• Ryann has learned about going outside, and she has learned to like the grass. I use to leave the door open to let in the cool air, and for a while Ryann just sat by door and would look at side, but Lucy taught her that going outside is fun too. Now I can't leave the door open without Ryann crawling on the rocks, but She always points to go outside. She loves to swing and go down the slide. She has even learned to crawl up the slide all by herself and then she goes back down on her belly. She also loves to play in the dirt. Luckily Penney and Tommy haven't planted any flowers for her to pick yet!Ryann knows how to blow on things. I tried to teach her to blow on her food, but when that girl is hungry there is only one thing on her mind

• Ryann gives the best kisses!! If you make kissy sounds at her she will lean in towards you with her mouth wide open. She has also started to blow kisses, but it looks more like an indian call.

• Now when she pulls everything out, she has learned to put it back, which seems to be just as fun to her. So now her messes are quite as bad as long as she puts everything away when she is done.

St. Patties Day

We didn't do much this year for St. Patties Day although I have big plans for the future! We got our green on. I even painted Ryann's and mine fingernails. No one is pinching us!!

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Don't I have the cutest baby ever!! I have got to be the Luckiest Mom Ever!!!

Brycie Poo

Dad turned 28 this year. He really didn't want to celebrate, but you now that is not really an option wtih me, so I took him down to the hobby store and thought maybe he could get an airplane or something. I think that helped him get a little excited, but after he bought the plane and had to put it together. I thought he was going to shoot me. It ended up being a lot of work to build and figure out how to fly, but about a year later. He decided that he loved it! we go to the park and fly his airplane all the time now!!

This last picture He took at work. He locked one of the Physical therapists in a room with a stinky patient and left them in there for like an hour