The camera is fixed!!!

...so let's get caught up...

Tucker is still scary consumed with all things commercial airline. He has taken a particular interest lately in emergency landings. [Everyone can send us thank you notes later when your child emerges from a play date at the Ryan household with a huge fear of flying!] He likes two things about emergency landings: the inflatable slides (he knows where most models' slides are located - see picture below) and he also likes that during an evacuation you can tell a lot of people what to do.

He researches the different planes online and then uses construction paper to reconstruct the exits on his model planes.

He also spends a lot of time drawing. He LOVES art. This picture shows how it usually goes -- the Eiffel Tower, French flag & a massive Air France aircraft flying over head. He always finds a way to incorporate his one true love.
Usually sweet, but we do get this face a bunch!


Researching...

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 :)

Happy Halloween!

Charlie's Halloween inspiration - Willie! (Uncle Brian's St. Bernard)

This first one is purely to see our St.Bernard's head :)

Fall Festival Overload

We attended two fall festivals today... the boys had a blast and are sleeping soundly! First they had to pick out a pumpkin.


This sweet thing is going to be ONE in a month. HOW?!?!

The onslaught of pumpkin patch pictures begins now1

Mac's class at the Pumpkin Patch. He has been wearing his pumpkin hat for about 3 months, but today it finally made sense. We LOVE this kid.

From the iPhone.

We've been soccering...


Mac either is dressed to "play" or dressed to entertain. Above: Mac & his buddy Harrison! Below: The definition of friendship. David & Katie are our dear, dear friends. This was Shelby Kate's first football game and she has now been to 2 in her 5 weeks of life. Kyle is an incredible coach (no surprise there) and the Eagles are 7-0. It has been a fun, fun season.


Look who is almost ONE. What?!!?

He is a crack up.

A lot of pictures showing our middle child's personality. Themes of late: goggles or sunglasses EVERYWHERE. Sleeping anywhere and everywhere. Being "spunky." Pardon the bad iPhone pictures mixed in here.

You've Got One Thing Right.

I've really been trying to convey the gospel to Tucker more.

After a ridiculous spazz out by Mac that resulted in me putting him in his room for a cool down, I walked back in the room to Tucker. Tucker said "Well, you've got one thing right... Some of us are just not born perfect."

Apparently the first time he missed that NONE of us are born perfect, so we had to review that part.