Ryan is 3 months!

On November 5, 2016, we were en route to Oahu for a week. I thought about bringing Ryan's clock blanket so that I could properly document each month for Ryan's first year in the same pose on the same setting.  Then, I got distracted packing for 2 boys, 1 man, and me.  Just kidding, Luke packed for himself.  So, there's no cute diaper picture of Ryan on the blanket, but I do have plenty of cute Ryan pictures for his 3 month blog.  See below!

As the days pass by, Ryan continues to calm down his crying-ness.  He still fusses a bit, but he doesn't cry inconsolably like he used to (at least as much as he used to!). 

Ryan is still huge. We were on the plane for Oahu, and sitting next to us with this adorable little baby girl. She was petite, but she was maybe as long as Ryan.  I was hopeful that she was around Ryan's age so that I could commiserate with the mother on how nervous I was to fly with our 3 month old babies.  I asked the mother how old her daughter was, and she replied, "10 months."  Wooops!

Ryan is juuuuuust starting to grab at things, but he doesn't have much coordination and so he isn't successful most of the time. Ryan has found his hands, and he happily sucks on his fingers.  He smiles a lot, especially in the morning when he first wakes up.  He also has started laughing, which is soo fun!!

I think Ryan is starting to develop his own look, which of course would happen. I think I'm only commenting on it because in my opinion Ryan and Clay were identical when they were both newborns.  At around this 3 month mark, I think Ryan distinguished himself as his own baby with his own looks.  

Clay has started to be more interested in his brother, which is adorable. Each night, I have Ryan do tummy time. Sometimes, I have Ryan do it with Clay and Luke while Luke is putting Clay to bed.  One night, Ryan flipped right over onto his back during the tummy time exercise right in front of Clay and Luke. Clay squealed with delight and started clapping and shouting, "Good job Ryan!!" He was just so genuinely happy for his brother's success! I loved it. 

Ryan and his dad enjoying a fancy lunch at Turtle Bay on Oahu.

Ryan and his mom, enjoying a martini with her fancy lunch in Turtle Bay, Oahu.

Grandpa Jay with Ryan.

Grandpa Tim with Ryan.

Crying baby in paradise. 

Ryan.

Ryan. Different pose. :)

Ryan at the beach!

Halloween

Halloween with a 3 year old is fun!  Clay was really into all of the fun this year.  His school prepped him for the festivities with ghost walks through the walnut orchards, decorating a pumpkin man in the garden, and many many sketches and drawings of Halloween related items.  At our house, we're not especially Halloweeners, but Clay and I did paint some pumpkins, ghosts and a Happy Halloween sign for our kitchen.  

I told Clay that he could be anything in the world this year for Halloween. I was thinking I could swing a dinosaur costume, and so I tried to play with Clay's plastic dinosaurs more with him, and commented a lot on a Sesame Street episode on dinosaurs.  Despite my attempts, Clay said he wanted to be a dog, again, this year. He said he wanted Ryan to be a dog too. A dog? Again? Surre! What an easy and cute costume!

October went by in a blur. We ended up going to Bishops Pumpkin Patch with some friends.  It was a really neat set up with a train, zip line, corn maize, etc. But, it was way too crowded for me. I don't think we'll be back next year.

We also had fun at a couple wedding in October - my friend Gabrielle's in San Rafael, and then Liz Harper's wedding in Colusa. 

Halloween night - family costume success! Luke and I are Colusa Animal Control employees with our nightly catch: two stray dogs. 

The night before halloween - carving pumpkins. Luke carved all of them. I asked him to carve my interesting greenish tinted pumpkin with two large leg holes for Ryan. I even drew them on the pumpkin for Luke to follow. I had this great idea that we would be able to photograph Ryan sitting in the pumpkin.  It was going to be sooo cute. Unfortunately, Ryan was too big for the pumpkin! I totally underestimated how big he is, and over estimated the size of my pumpkin. 

Bishops Pumpkin Patch: Train ride!

Clay and his tractor at the pumpkin patch.

Ryan was really good on the ride over to get pumpkins (meaning, he slept of course!).

Clay is pretty excited for the hale bale ride out to the pumpkins! He picked a tiny decomposing pumpkin at first.  Then, Luke convinced him to get a normal medium sized one. Luke got the obligatory "dad" sized pumpkin. Ryan got the obligatory baby, small pumpkin. And, I allowed myself to get a really interesting greenish one - typical mom move. 

Blurry family portrait. 

Pumpkins, pumpkins, everywhere!!