Happy Birthday Nana Jane

Big birthday best wishes going out to Ryan's Nana Jane today, who is somewhere in Italy or France at this point on a school trip with my sweet Aunt Kathy. Happy Birthday Mom!

On the home front, we're digging in to sleep training this weekend after a seminar yesterday and a week of wake-up calls every three hours. I did manage to get out to enjoy a great Golden State Warriors basketball game last night with John Kreisa and his daughter Lea. You can read about the big night and see a few pictures on his blog. What he doesn't mention is that Ryan was up and ready to play as soon as I arrived home from the game.

Cool Little Dude

Yesterday we took Ryan out in the stroller for the first time without the car-seat carrier. No problem at all. You'll see from the picture that we also have him wearing some pretty snazzy new sunglasses these days. Jury's still out on the hat though...
And here's a new video of some of the highlights of the week. The first minute will definitely make you smile! I had trouble posting the HD version on YouTube this time around.

Ryli at 5 Months

Quiet Saturday afternoon. We took Ryan's 5 month onesie pic today. It actually fits him well right now so next month should be pretty funny. Last weekend our Philip and Dea came over and took a ton of pictures of him for portraits. You can check some of them out here.


And here's an HD video of the little man enjoying the day.

Some Classic Family Pics

Ryan hit the 5 month mark yesterday and is doing great. His sleep pattern is a bit off right now, but otherwise he's definitely a happy and healthy (+16lbs!) little guy.

I thought I'd take a minute to post a few classic family pictures that have been sent my way recently. The first is a great picture of my grandfather hanging out with Canadian hockey legends Toe Blake and Harry Sinden. That's Ebby Hare on the right teaching them a thing or two about coaching I'm sure.Speaking of great skaters, here's a picture of my sister Sarah and cousin Jen back in their glorious figure skating days. One of these days I'll post some video footage of the girls on the ice. It's good.
And last but not least, speaking of my sister Sarah, check her out in this eTalk segment on Oscar-night make up. Looking good Sarah!

Nana Jane on Video

Here are some of the highlights of Nana Jane's visit. Good memories!

A Little Behind...

I had to get a new laptop so I'm a little behind on Ryli updates. I'll get some new videos up shortly. We're also planning on getting a camera for Skype calls. Last week we had a video chat with the Neasmith's in Kingston and it was great to see little Jack in action.

It's a rainy weekend here in Menlo Park. After a great visit, my Mom left on Tuesday and it's seemed fairly quiet around here ever since. We spent yesterday with our friends Philip and Dea Smeed taking pictures of the little man. Philip is doing some family portraits for us and he and Carol had Ryli in a number of great poses and outfits. This outfit was my favorite.

Obama-fied Ryli

I was playing around on the site Obamaconme the other day and created these pictures. BTW, after a busy day playing with Nana and visiting the Kreisa's, Ryan slept for 9 hours last night.