Happy Birthday, Ronan!

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Ronan,

Happy birthday to you!

On Saturday, we took Ronan to visit our favorite photographer, Michelle Enebo. She took some amazing pictures of Ronan enjoying his very first cake!! I knew I wanted to do this so I could get some great pics of him, but also I could enjoy him eating his cake at his party without stressing about getting pictures!

Sunday we celebrated Ronan's first birthday with over 40 friends and family members. Ronan loved having a house full of people to play with! He is an incredibly social guy. :)

He had his one-year check up at the NP last week, and he was 29.5" tall and 18lb 6oz. His iron levels are a bit low, and after tearful pleading from me not to give him formula, she agreed to up his vitamin dose a bit and recheck him in a month. I'm proud to say I have nursed my son through his first year, and although he has shown some weaning behaviors, I do not see the end of our nursing relationship in sight.

Ronan - 11 Months! (Well... 11.5...)

My Mommy is very busy with work right now (something called "parent-teacher conferences"), so I guess I have to update my own blog.

I am now 11.5 months old! I've learned to do lots of fun and entertaining things in the last few weeks. I can now initiate games of Peek-A-Boo:

I can clap:

I can stand up by myself:

(Those are not my real bones, it's just my Halloween costume.)

I can play with fun things like boxes:


I can shake my head no:


I can chomp (I have 4 teeth now! Two on the top and two on the bottom!):



AND... I can sleep through the night! Mommy and Daddy gave me "tough love" and made me just cry it out when I woke up at night. I figured out pretty quickly that they weren't coming in to get me.

I also got my very first haircut and visited the pumpkin patch, but I'll let my Mommy write about those. My fingers are getting tired from all this typing.

Mommy took a few pictures of me on my 11 month birthday, but since I like to crawl around and play stuff, it's hard for Mommy to take my picture! But here are some of her favorites:

Ronan Visits the Pumpkin Patch!

Just before Halloween, we visited the Pumpkin patch! It was a mild Thursday afternoon, and we had fun seeing the fall sights!

The South 47 Farm, Redmond, WA

Riding in the wheelbarrow

Making an evil face while stabbing the pumpkin with a stick...

Eating a stick.

Tasting the stick.

Not really liking the stick...

And Mommy takes the stick away.

He is this tall! We'll see how tall he is next year!

He sat on a saddle.

He played with some muddy hay.

He climbed on a HUGE tire!

What a fun day!

Ronan's First Haircut

Back in September, Ronan got his first haircut! We went to "Dooz for Kids", and they did a great job of making his haircut special. Mommy cried the whole time, but they still let me in to take pictures. :)

Before:

During:

After! All spiky!

He actually started really crying and fussing about half way through the haircut, and Ricky had to hold him for her to finish! Then another person had to come blow bubbles to distract him... I was taking video at that time and couldn't take pictures, too!