15 months....my baby is becoming a little boy!

Gosh....15 months...I cannot believe it! Each day as I watch my little Ryan, I am amazed at how quickly he is becoming a little boy. Of course, he is and will always be my baby, but wow....he sure is growing! He sure is soooo much fun! He is so busy, I feel like most of my time with him is either reading or chasing after him. He loves just to go....anywhere :). One of his favorite fascinations right now is steps....whenever he sees steps, he goes straight to them, and is so good about waiting for my hand to help him up and down. He can and does just go up and down over and over and over. :) Just tonight I had a dinner with a friend and her 1 year old. After dinner, while we were waiting for the bill, I let Ryan out of the high chair and he went up and down three steps for about 15 minutes. :) He gets excited over a lot of things....and the things that he gets way excited over is the broom and rakes! :) We have been doing some yard work and Ryan LOVES it...if we are sweeping or raking, he will just watch, laugh and follow us as we work. He even wants us to work when we aren't working...he will literally take me to the broom and want me to sweep. He's so funny!

Some fun facts about this month:

This boy LOVES to be outside! We are lucky to have great walking trails, a little park area and a backyard that scratches his itch to be outside. He has learned to bring me Layla's leash and he even brought me my walking shoes the other day to let me know that he wanted to go outside. Which has been great...lots of exercise for mom! :) Here are some snapshots of him enjoying outdoors:

He loves to throw these balls at Layla and watch her run after them :) 

having a picnic lunch at Seaport Village...one of our favorite places :) 

This month Ryan also got the stomach flu...it was awful and made for lots of laundry. :( I get so sad when he isn't feeling well. He is already a cuddly boy, but he gets extra cuddly when he's sick. We also haven't really had him watch any TV, but when he wasn't feeling well, we brought out the Elmo DVD, and he actually watched it for about half an hour. The flu lasted for not quite a week, and I was so glad to have my happy, busy little guy back.

One thing that we have instituted since we have been in San Diego is family date nights on Friday nights. Once Jason is done with classes and I am done with working, computers get put away and we just spend time together and if the weather is permitting, we get out and do something together. This past Friday night we went to Pacific Beach. Ryan LOVES the beach! As soon as we got to the sand, he sat down and started digging. He also had a lot of fun running away from the waves. I got some good shots of my little beach babe...Enjoy! 

trying to figure out what this is

using his sand shovel...he got three beach sets for his birthday...putting them to use! :) 

digging in the sand

and a stop to sit with mom :) 

And lastly, here are some pictures with one of Ryan's friends down here in San Diego. This is Shyla. She is 2 months younger than Ryan and just loves him. Her mom and I have become good friends and like to get together as often as we can. They have been such a blessing to us. Isn't she a cutie?! 

I love watching them laugh at each other. :) 

Praise God for these days!