Man on the Move

Ryker is now crawling. He has his own unique technique. It isn't the smoothest, but it gets him where he's going. He uses one foot and one knee. Always the left foot and right knee. You'd think he'd rotate, but he doesn't.

Ryker and I taking his trailer out for the first time.

Liz came too.

He loved it! He had a great time. Even snuck in a little nap in the middle.

Loves to cheer on the dog wrestling.

Looks like Cosmos won this round.

Seth was concerned with Ryker's rat tail and thought it may be time for a haircut! I think we can wait a bit.

Ryker is into his stuffed animals now at bed time.

Weighing in at 25.5 pounds.....Rykeeeeer, Wyyyyman!

It's all about the Chicks....

Ryker got to hang with his favorite girls on Saturday when we met for my birthday lunch. Here he is checking Abby out.

She seems interested. Even gave him a cute little smile. He seemed to be very into her.....

but we soon realized, he was just after her toy.

Once he got that, he was outta there. That's not going to get you any dates buddy.

Alexis is about 3 hours older than Ryker, but you wouldn't know it by looking at them. It's pretty amazing how differently they've developed. Her size is very deceiving. She can crawl and pull herself up to stand. Ryker just watches her go and tries to follow, but he's not quite as mobile yet. Besides the obvious of him being about twice her size, he also has 4 teeth and is starting on 2 more. She doesn't have any teeth yet. Usually Ryker is the aggressor and scares off the other babies, but he's met his match with this little lady. She grabs and pokes at him in return and isn't afraid to use him as a step stool to crawl up onto to get where she needs to go.

If he had a toy, she'd have taken it by now! He does have a quite a grip though, so he's got that going for him.

She got a hold of his sleeve and was yanking on his shirt.

Check out the colors he picked....Future Bobcat?

Goodnight Ryker, Goodnight George, Goodnight Moon.

Ride em Cowboy!

Ryker will probably never be much of a cowboy, but he sure looks good in the hat. Hopefully he'll at least get to take in a couple brandings with his Uncle Ty and maybe eventually a bucking horse sale or two.

A Visit from Dad!

Seth was home for a week so he and Ryker had plenty of fun catching up and doing all the great things that I cannot do "all day long" like playing airplane and tossing Ryker into pillows over and over again. Ryker loves being thrown around and laughs and laughs.

They got a little work done too :)

Lookin' good in his shorts

Ryker and his cousin Asa....this could be the making of a great band!

Ryker is almost ready to crawl. He moves every other way possible, he just isn't quite using the knees yet.

Seth was a little surprised at Ryker's new eating technique. He's always been a little squirmy, but over the last month, he has gotten completely out of hand. He's a hard little man to hang on to.

He loves to stand but his legs always end up in the splits.

Seth, Ryker, Abby, and Beth at Liz's birthday party.

"Wake up Dad! I don't know how it is on the boat, but around here we don't sleep in!"

7 month pictures

I kept seeing all my friends pictures of their babies and it dawned on me that maybe we should have some taken of Ryker. He hammed it up as usual and we got a few good ones.