He's Rolling Now!

Last Thursday, Jan 7th, Randy went in to get Ryan up from his nap and found him laying on his back. That's NOT the position Randy put him in when he went down for his nap (he sleeps on his tummy)! So, we deduced that Ryan had rolled over for the first time. Then this morning I went in to get him up at 6am and found him on his back again! He'd been making (mostly happy) noises off and on since 3:30am, but we're trying to teach him to sleep thru the night again, so I did my best to ignore him until 6. My guess is that he rolled over at 3:30.

In other news...we went to the doctor last Monday for his 4 month appointment. He weighed in at 17 lbs 5 ozs (90th percentile), and was 26" long (75th percentile). He's a healthy boy and the doctor didn't have any complaints about him. His only suggestion was that he seems to be getting plenty to eat (you think??), and Mommy needs to get her sleep, so we should train him to sleep thru the night and skip the middle-of-the-night feeding he's been wanting/getting the last couple months.




We went down to Portland this past weekend and stayed with Randy's brother Jay and his wife Mandi. Randy was filling in for a pastor in Vancouver WA on Sunday, which is only 40 minutes from Jay and Mandi, so we took the opportunity to get away for the weekend and give Jay and Mandi some niece/nephew time. :) Abby did quite well the whole trip, but we found out that Ryan is NOT a great traveler. He cried/screamed way more than we wanted to hear on the way down on Friday. We assumed all kids sleep well in the car, so we kept him up as long as possible as we got ready on Friday morning and figured he would fall asleep and take a nice long nap as we drove. Nope. Not him! So on the way home Monday, we made sure he got his nap BEFORE we left Jay and Mandi's, which worked much better. He played with his toys in his carseat for a long time before finally dozing off to sleep, and had only a few crying spells.

Randy got to go to the Blazers/Lakers game with Jay on Friday night. It was a packed/sold out game, and Jay was very fortunate to get a seat for Randy (for free nonetheless! Thanks Jay!!). The Blazers beat the Lakers, which made everyone in our home happy. :) They got home somewhere around 1:30 a.m. after Jay did his postgame show and they did some grocery shopping for us.

Saturday night we took Jay and Mandi out to eat at Olive Garden while friends Darryl and Tana and their daughter Julianne watched Abby and Ryan for us. We had a great time, and they did too!

Now we're back home and getting into our normal routine. The kids were SO happy to be home! Abby ran in circles around our coffee table when she got in the house, and Ryan settled in very happily into his bed last night. It's a very satisfying feeling knowing that your kiddos are happy in their home!