Ryan's Sunday activity

Growing too fast!

At the store today (Costco sees us way too much) I looked down to see this 

My little baby is getting big way too fast for me! I asked Hans, "can't he just stay a baby forever?!" Oh so bittersweet.

6 months!

I can't believe my baby boy is already 6 months old! Actually closer to 7 months! Where does the time go?!

We love him so much, he brings us so much joy and happiness :)

At 6 months he:

Loves food!

Loves his jumper!

He even fell asleep in it once :)

He has rolled from front to back and back to front, but currently he just likes to roll from back to front and then eventually whine to be rolled back over, sometimes in the middle of the night :)

He likes to hang out on moms lap

Loves his dad :)

Does NOT like to cuddle. Always want to be held facing out, and will arch his back when you try to hold him close. Although I've been able to catch a few rare cuddling moments on camera, and mostly it was because he was really tired :)

After he wakes up in the morning or after a nap, he waits patiently like this, for us to come get him :) what a sweetie!

Usually no crying! We have a video monitor, so I think maybe it's because he knows we know when he's awake, and we come get him shortly after he wakes up, but still!

And he sleeps through the night! We let him cry it out for 3 nights (so hard!) but since then he's been sleeping through the night! We love it!

He loves his thumb! And it's so helpful for him to get himself to sleep and back to sleep when he wakes up in the night :)

We feel so blessed to have this little guy as part of our family!

First family trip!

Ok so I admit, I'm getting terrible at blogging. The good news is, there's always time for improvement. I think I'll start doing shorter posts with less details, then maybe I can get on track again.

So I'm going to skip a few months and just tell you about our latest adventure! We decided to take a 2 day 1 night trip to the beach. It was our first family vacation and it was so great! We loved it! Ryan probably didn't know the difference, but it's still fun to see him experience new things nonetheless :)

This beach was about 2 hrs away, and included the longest bridge I've ever seen. That thing had to be like 5 miles long, made me nervous the whole time we were on it! I drove halfway then fed Ryan and Hans drove while Ryan and I slept the rest of the way :) we checked into our hotel ate lunch and then went down to the beach. We pretty much hauled our whole house with us onto the beach- we already aren't light packers, but now that we have Ryan.... Even worse! 

Here's our camp all set up :)

You can't see it here, but basically every one around us had just themselves, a towel or a lawn chair and maybe an umbrella... We were quite the sight haha :)

We had so much fun hanging out at the beach! The weather was perfect, the water was perfect! Even though there were a lot of people ( compared to the Oregon beaches I'm used to) we still loved it! 

Ryan hated the water. It scared him!

Our attempts at a family picture

His napping spot :)

The first time we took at trip to an east coast beach it was so weird to us to see the sun NOT setting over the ocean! So we decided we wanted to get up early to see the sub rise over the ocean. So we got ourselves up the next morning at 5 am and headed back to the beach! It was empty! It looked cloudy but we were hopefull. We set up our camp chairs and waited :)

We weren't able to see the sunrise but it was still a fun adventure :)

Ryan thought we were crazy, we probably were!

We went back to the hotel and slept for a couple more hours! Ryan was awesome the whole time! Love him!

Then we ate breakfast at the hotel, Ryan was unsure about the highchair.

They had a pancake maker- weird!

Then we went and walked on the boardwalk

After that we went and ate at Applebee's and drove home. A short but fun filled trip! :)