Happy Father's Day!

We spent a wonderful weekend in New Hampshire with friends and took Ryan on his first hike. Here Ryan shows his appreciation for having the best dad ever with a big hug. Happy Father's Day!

We have finally posted 6 months pictures. Click here to view. Enjoy!

6 months old!

Happy half-birthday to you
Happy half-birthday to you
Happy half-birthday dear Ryaaaaaaannnnnn
Happy half-birthday to you!

I can't believe it's already been 6 months. They are not kidding when they say time flies. My sister said today that we only have 35 more of these to go before he goes to college. Nooooooo!

Note - yes I know this post is 1 day late. I DO know my own son's birthday thank you very much. I was just busy yesterday, that's all.

Road Trip!

Ryan had his first road trip this weekend to my brother Arjun's high school graduation in Lakeville, Connecticut. A two hour drive each way is apparently perfect for a 6 month old as he slept pretty much the entire time both ways. He gets a solid A (even Daddy the hard grader agrees) for the car rides. He didn't fair as well at the graduation festivities which included a dinner and awards ceremony that lasted about 4 hours during fussy time, but that was to be expected. (Changing Ryan's diaper in the girl's locker room was apparently HILARIOUS to the giggly high school girls that walked in. I can only imagine their reaction had they seen me breastfeeding minutes earlier. I walked around a bit looking for a changing table only to realize that there wouldn't be one in a high school gym cause that would send the wrong message.)

The trip was short, but we did get to spend some time with my parents and brothers and Ryan got to stay in his first hotel - the Holiday Inn (way to travel in style buddy!). Here's Ryan sitting on the ginormous hotel bed.

An interesting factoid of the trip is that we were served dinner at the awards ceremony by a sophomore with the last name of Ford. As in Henry Ford, Model T Ford, family owns the Detroit Lions Ford. Apparently if you watch the Lions Thanksgiving football game, and they show the owner's box, you will see our little teenaged server sitting there enjoying the game.

Bless You!

Everyday Ryan discovers something new that's funny to him. But he's fickle...whatever was funny will only be funny for about a day and then it's up to us to come up with new material. Here the simple act of saying "Bless You" is HYSTERICAL.

What Goes Around Comes Around

This afternoon, Justin, Ryan, and I just took our first walk around the lake near our house. Seeing as we were only going for a short walk, we didn't bring the diaper bag. I mean why would we need to? What could possibly go wrong? Well...

Halfway through our walk, a bird pooped on Ryan. It got everywhere... his hand, his leg, his sleeve, the stroller. It was quite the bird poop. I used his sock to wipe everything down and convinced him the whole way home NOT to stick his hand in his mouth which if you've met Ryan, you know is quite difficult. I guess it makes sense though, he's pooped on us enough, it was about time someone pooped on him.

A Perfect Day

Last Saturday Justin, Ryan, myself, Joshua, Rachel, Zach, and Bhuvana spent the day in Lexington. We went for a nice walk on the bikepath, got fro yo and yummy iced beverages, and then sprawled out on a blanket in the middle of the park. We topped it off with an impromptu bbq at Bhuv and Hyder's. In essence, the perfect spring outing. During this time, Rachel took this beautiful photo of Ryan which I completely adore.

My Kind of Town

Ryan had a great time meeting all of his Chicago relatives last weekend including my dad and grandmother (Umagi). Here Ryan is testing out Umagi's oxygen supply. Weeeeee! Ryan also enjoyed getting lots of kisses from his cousin Avani. On Saturday my sister and I took my mom and the babies to the portrait studio to get a picture of all of them for Mother's Day. Ryan had his first studio shoot and did pretty well. The harder part was getting him and Avani to sit still at the same time. All in all we had a lot of fun and can't wait to go back for another visit!