Happy Fall!

Yesterday we took Ryan to a local farm/orchard to pick out a pumpkin for his first Halloween. After we brought it home, he took some time to inspect it.




We then put the pumpkin out on the deck until it’s time to carve it, and Ryan laughs every time he looks out the kitchen door and sees it.

Ryan's new favorite activity (in addition to throwing his toys and other objects over the baby gates) is climbing into his book basket, sitting down on all of his books, then pulling them out from under him, one by one, and flinging them across the room.







He also likes to sit in the basket and play peek-a-boo with his “napkin” (his little handkerchief-like security object that he’s had since he was in foster care), and stand in it while playing with his toys.





In other Ryan news, he is well on his way to walking –- he can take 3 or 4 steps on his own before losing his balance and diving into one of us. He also has 2 new bottom teeth (for a total of 4 on top and 4 on bottom). He weighs 21 lbs., the same size as my (very big) cat, Alby. I wanted to take a picture of them together while they're the same size, but I can’t get Alby to sit next to Ryan.



I noticed that Ryan is about the same height as our luggage, so I took this picture for reference instead. Now that we're noticing that Ryan is starting to look less baby-like, we're always comparing him to other things his size so that we can later remember how little he once was.



Coming soon, pictures of Ryan in his Tigger costume!