HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY RYAN LION!!!

My little guy is now officially one year old.  I'm actually handling it a lot better than I thought I would.  :)  

Birthday festivities started out on Saturday with a birthday bash including all of Ryan's play group friends and our friends from high school, college and work.  Thanks to everyone who made the trip to celebrate with us.  It was nice to have all of the people that we love here to celebrate our little guy's big day.  We had guitar hero going on and a scrapbook station.  Despite everyone's comments about having to scrapbook a page for Ryan's birthday scrapbook, I think everyone really enjoyed it.  I think we definitely have some scrapbook talent in our little group of friends.  

Today we celebrated by having lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.  Kudos to our host who brought out a bread and banana tray for Ryan to munch on while we waited for our waitress.  We ended the meal with a fresh banana cheesecake.  It was really good, but can you really go wrong with a Cheesecake Factory cheesecake?  

Afterwards, we headed over to Ryan's first year doctor's appointment.  He weighed 22 pounds and 6 ounces (50th percentile) and was 30 3/4 inches tall (80th percentile).  He's turning out to be a big boy!  Ryan really did well with the doctor.  He let the doctor examine him on the table and didn't fuss too much.  The shots were a different issue.  He did the whole holding his breath thing, but started crying when he finally started to breathe.  We gave him tylenol before his shots and again before he went to bed so hopefully he'll be okay in the morning.  It seems like with each round of shots, his recovery time has gotten longer and longer, but he did do well with his flu shots, so we'll see.  

I'm still trying to figure out flickr to post pictures, so stay tuned for birthday pictures!