Ryan's Birthday!

My little man turned one on March 28th! It is so crazy that he is one! He brings so much happiness to our family. He loves to make people laugh and to give hugs. If any of us are sitting on the floor he loves to come up from behind and give us big hugs. He is a pro at walking and is finally walking without doing the zombie arm thing. He cant stand up by himself but he can bend down and pick things up and stand back up. His two favorite things right now are balls and books. If he sees a ball he will run for it, pick it up, throw it and then chase it. He does this over and over again. Sometimes he will bring me the ball and want me to throw it just like a good puppy :) He also has two favorite books that if he sees he will follow me around with the book in his hand until I stop and read it to him. I just love him so much!

For his birthday we just had some friends and family over and basically watched Ryan eat cake and play with his presents. It was perfect!Each picture is a month of his lifeEating the cake: At first we just picked up the big chunks of frosting and then we went for it and mostly just threw it around the room.Jonathan's mom has made each of the kids a blanket on their first birthday! Ryan's turned out so cute and it is so soft! I love this picture because all of the kids were helping Ryan open his presents!Happy Birthday Ryan!
More fun things about Ryan at one year:
- He is a pretty good sleeper. He goes to bed around 8 and usually wakes up at 6 or 7. He would like to take 2 naps a day but most days we are out of the house to much so he takes one long nap.
- He is almost done nursing. He only nurses once a day; when he wakes up in the morning. He doesn't love a bottle but will drink the whole milk usually when he is going to sleep.
-He says mom, dada, ball, book, and dog. At least I think thats what he is saying :)
- His favorite foods are bananas, oatmeal, yogurt, he still likes most baby foods, cheese, and he is pretty good about eating what we have for dinner if I grind it up for him.
- We found out at his one year appointment that he is borderline anemic so we have to make sure he gets extra iron.
- At his appointment he weighed 22.1 lbs which is a little concerning because that is exactly what he weighed 3 months ago. The doctor thinks it is a combination of weaning him and him being more active. He went from 75 percentile three months ago to 30 percent. He did grow 1 1/2 inches though and is 70 percent for height.