Brotherly love

Before Christmas Eve service.

He's not a huge fan of Tucker holding him.

Tucker's Christmas

the new bike...
Aunt Terry hit the jackpot with the easel -- Tucker loves himself an art project!

Spoiled little boy... look at all those toys! He would open each toy and want to set it up and play with it before he moved to the next -- he really appreciated each gift which was fun to watch.

Tucker and Daddio wrote a letter to Santa and put out a personally decorated cookie and carrots for the reindeer!Yet another classic sleeping position. Every night he claims how not tired he is... and then 30 seconds later he is out.

2nd week of life

Sweet Mac. Sleeping well. Eating well. And that's pretty much it.

Ultimate Bed Head

Tummy Time

Early Christmas

Could the child be any more excited? He has been wanting a kitchen FOREVER and we kept telling him we didn't have room. We finally decided to give up the corner of our dining room -- he was so extremely pumped! Thanks Nan & Pop! We did early Christmas since they won't be here for Christmas. Thanks Uncle Casey & Aunt Betsy for the food! (Especially the toaster - his favorite part!)

Mimi had the stork delivered to the house. So cute!

FYI

My perfect Christmas forecast.

From Friday

What Tuck has been up to...

Comparing foot sizes

Leaving school with Pop Christmas program at school - this year Tucker was up there belting out every word!

Loving on baby bro with Nan

Looking MAD in his "Mac the Happy Apple" shirt. Mimi's friend Lois Simon wrote this precious children's book called Mac the Happy Apple and there are shirts!

He has also been busy seeing what he can get away with. Big Bird has been his baby - so Big Bird ended up in the Moses Basket at one point.

then in the car seat. He's telling me not to touch him here.

Then Daddio and Tuck took all the oranges off the tree and began a massive juicing endeavor that is not even close to being over.

Overall Tucker is loving Mac -- more importantly he has enjoyed all the slumber parties at Mimi's with Nan and Pop staying there, too. He has gotten LOTS of attention and he loves that. He is being really sweet with baby Mac - although "gentle" is such a relative term at age 3.

Name Confusion

Mac looks so much like Tucker that I think I've only gotten his name right about two times. It is frightening -- I feel like I'm in a three year time warp.

We're Home!

Wearing same thing as Tucker when he left... Gotta love Florida. It was a gorgeous 80 degree day here in December! Kyle and I left the hospital and went out to lunch with Mac before we picked up Tucker at school. His teacher and friends got to peek at Mac in the car. Apparently, he was beaming all day talking about his little brother. Who would have guessed it?! And when we got home he was HYPER and excited about him. I'm thinking more and more that the hospital just freaked him out.

We have this EXACT picture of Jackson sniffing Tucker when we brought him home three years ago. I have no doubt Jackson is thinking "Great... even less attention for the dog."

Helping Daddio bring him in.

Little kiss.

I wish we would have set these up better for the Christmas picture :)

Getting a little TOO helpful..

Introducing

Sweet John McCormac Ryan

December 8, 2008

8 pounds, 4 ounces 22 inches

These are completely out of order, but above is Tucker coming up right after he was born in his PJs to meet his little brother before he went to bed. He was not that interested. More interested in the hospital bed that goes up and down.

To try to peak his interest, the nurse let Tucker help her cart Mac upstairs to the recovery room. He was ALL about that part.

Minutes after he was born...