Rolly Poley Ryan

Ryan has gotten really good at rolling from back to front and front to back. A couple of weeks ago, Ryan only knew how to roll from back to front and he'd get stuck on his tummy and cry! There was one night where Steven and I had to flip him onto his back five times! Luckily he's gotten better at rolling from tummy to back and he doesn't mind being on his tummy as much which is great because it means more sleep for us! :)

As for the solid front, Ryan has tried rice cereal, peas, sweet potatoes, and pears. He likes everything except for peas! Ryan was doing really good on the rice cereal, so we decided to start him on peas because loves peas. Unfortunately, Ryan is more like Tia Maria and has not taken a liking to peas. The first time we gave it to him, he started to gag and choke so much so that he made himself throw up. We then skipped to sweet potatoes and tried going back to peas. His second attempt went better, but he just gets this look on his face like we betrayed him for feeding him peas because he dislikes them so much! I read somewhere that kids need to be exposed to some foods up to 10 or 12 times before they like it, so now I am trying to feed him a little bit of peas before we go to the food of the day. He's really gotten better, but he still looks a bit betrayed by us.

Everyone's been asking me if I plan to make my own baby food. Theoretically, this is a great idea, but we're talking about me here. I have no desire to steam food, puree it and package it. I have to agree with Steven when he said that he doesn't see any appeal to making baby food. It looks like we're going to have a Gerber baby afterall.

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. Yes, Ryan did spend a lot of time in his Baby Einstein activity center today, but I figured it was a good trade-off. :) J.K. Rowling is a great writer and she did a fabulous job of tying in loose ends. The book was extremely action packed from the very beginning. It was very hard to put the book down at a good stopping point because it was just non-stop action. I happened to be at Barnes & Noble on Friday night and it was packed. There were a few people dressed up, but the best by far was a guy dressed up as Hagrid. He looked just like the Hagrid from the movie, except for the size, of course. I was very impressed. Again, I am saddened by the end of another saga. After seven books, you get so involved with all of the characters that you don't want it to end. I think the appeal behind Harry Potter is that he appears to be a normal kid, but it turns out that he's special and belongs to this magical world where he's famous. As a kid, who didn't want to feel special? Who didn't want to wake up one day and discover you could do magic and that there was an alternate world out there intertwinded with our own where everyone loved and adored you? Seems like any 11 year old's dream to me! Anyways, enough about Harry Potter, I'm beginning to sound a little too obsessed.

Congratulations to Dennis and Maria, they got engaged back in May and Steven's the best man. They are getting married in Houston in June next year. We're so excited for you two!!! We went out for a celebratory lunch at the Salt Lick. Yummy. It was Ryan's first time there and you'll never guess what he went after, not the bar-b-que, but the store-bought bread! Steven was holding him and Ryan kept on leaning toward the bread with his mouth open. So silly!

I was driving around on the south side of town last Friday and I was excited to see that they are building a BJ's off of Brodie. They have the best avocado eggrolls ever, better than the Cheesecake Factory. Yummy. I really like their pizza too, not to mention the half and half pizookie. Mouth watering...yum.

Working on posting a new picasa web album...watch for it!