Category: 2-3 month

Ryan had his second vaccine shot yesterday and he fussed a bit when the needle came out. It all went ok but he really became quite fussy that night and the following day. It has made things a bit more difficult for us, but we hope it is short lived.

He did have some cute moments in his stroller in the early afternoon.

Grace and I have been wondering what colour hair Ryan will have.  We have been goofing around with what colour hair Ryan will end up with.  I took this picture which really shows off Ryan’s hair colour.

Ryan had a lot of fun the other day with his buddy Eli. We put them close together -they were so happy looking at the tree above them that their arms starting flailing all about. We had to move them a bit further apart to protect them from their swinging arms.

No Obaki, it’s play time not dinner	Here, I will sing you a song!
Check out the tree!	My hand is tasty – wanna try?

Obaki is now 11 weeks old and growing up faster than we could have ever imagined (check out the photos section if you don’t believe me -www.obakiwood.com/photos or the link is above).

I remember a while ago Heather mentioned that the next big change is when babies start discovering their voices. Well, I have to say that stage is here. The other night when Ryan woke up for some food and a change -mummy needed to go for a pee so I stayed with Ryan and made some funny sounds for him. Well, I guess he loved it because he proceeded to tell me the story of his life (in baby sounds, of course). He’s been experimenting with sounds for a few weeks now but his vocabulary is really growing. Today he tried to tell me that he prefers to have stronger legs rather than a stronger neck. He said that the whole neck thing will come with time but if he works on his legs his whole body will be stronger -as these are much larger muscles and are important in kicking (ass). At first I thought he wasn’t thinking clearly as the neck thing is very important….but I see his point.

We went on a little picnic the other day. Daddy has been working with YAE (summer camp for young musicians) and will be teaching there for the next 2 weeks so that’s been keeping me busy. But we planned out a picnic at the beach (the one that is about 5 minutes from our home) so that we could do a big BBQ and cook up lots of chicken and beef and portobello mushrooms and asparagus. We always cook up lots of extras (nothing like a BBQ chicken sandwich the next few days…yummy!!)

Here are a few pictures from that day. Ryan loved being out and had a blast.

Before the BBQ - loving his new hoodie	Ryan at the picnic
Mummy and Obaki having a good time