ONE!

This precious child turned one last week! It's birthday craziness around here... Reason #452 that we haven't purchased one Christmas present.

He is 50% weight, 95% height
He is not walking yet and isn't all that interested
He loves to "talk" and loves saying "ro-ro" in his deep voice
He plays with cars with full sound effects like big brothers & can throw a ball across the room
He is TOUGH and now yells at his brothers when they are bugging him or hurting him

We did his cake a bit too late... he was ready for bed!

Again, pardon all the horrible iphone pics!

Mac's Big 3rd Bday!

Mac, Tucker, Issie & Jackson on the train for Mac's Birthday. Mac's "party" was hanging out with friends at Chick-Fil-A and riding the mall train! He loved it and felt celebrated. I have a friend whose birthday is in this same time period and when I was pregnant with Mac she told me how horrible it was to have a birthday in early December. I dismissed it originally because it is 3 weeks before Christmas, but I now see it is actually the worst/most hectic week of the year!! Eek! Poor Mac.

We did celebrate originally in St.Louis over Thanksgiving. In VINTAGE form, the pirate cake he wanted so much was in my parents' house for all of 4 minutes before he dug his fingers in and "erased" Charlie's name from the cake!

The train...

Safety First

Tucker's "flotation device" outfit while going over his memorized airplane safety instructions.

What?! You didn't grow up with your brother forcing you to play "emergency landing" over & over?? (Mac's required to wear his bathrobe during these sessions)

Thanksgiving...

Sean, Patrick & Kyle during our visit in middle-of-nowhere Illinois! We had a great day gathering all the Ryan boys during Thanksgiving.

I will need to fill this in as I get some pictures from people in St.Louis. We still don't have a camera so we are relying on others for capturing our lives :)