Category: 13-14 month

Ryan is a monkey.  I would have thought he was half mommy and half daddy.  Nope, he is a monkey.

I remember when Ryan was very young and I was talking with Derek on the phone.  He was telling me, or warning me, about what Ryan would be like in a year.  Derek was telling me just how much Jordan was climbing on everything.  I still remember laughing really hard when Derek told me that Jordan would get up and run away during a diaper change…  I never thought Ryan would do the exact same thing.

Anyway, Ryan climbs everything he can.  When I take him to the park, he prefers to climb up the slide rather than to slide down.

Ryan has been complaining for quite some time because he needs help to get up on the couch.  He can’t get up on our couch by himself.   I guess our couch is a bit higher than other couches as he can climb up on all the other couches.  Well, Ryan has figured out a nifty little way to get up on the couch all of the time, now.

Well, actually, it isn’t a very safe way for him to get up.  We will need to move his chair away – the only problem with that is he will just try to climb up on whatever else the chair is leaning on, or for that matter if we didn’t lean the chair against a wall, he would climb up to the top and it would fall over.

Nothing is safe from monkeyman!

As you probably already saw from the video posted yesterday, Ryan loves corn on the cob.  Today, we cut open a new watermelon.  We’ve always known that Ryan loves watermelon.  We actually need to be careful not to turn our back when feeding him watermelon as we learned the other day.  We had cut up some nice baby sized pieces of watermelon and placed them on his highchair tray for him to eat.  Well, about 30 seconds later I came back and there were no pieces left!!

Ryan looked like a chipmunk – his cheeks were so full!  Actually, they were so full that he started fussing – I’m sure he would have cried if he could have but his mouth was so full.   In some way, I actually think he thought it was funny, but somewhat scary too.

Needless to say, we now don’t offer him watermelon in baby sized pieces.  Now we give it to him like this…..which is still cute.

I posted a little while ago about this nice backpack for carrying Ryan that a friend gave us.  I have been using it to take Ryan on little hikes (in the woods and to the nude beach).  Today, Ryan was very excited to get out and run around in the woods and kept trying to say the word “tree”.

At one point we came across a wooden bridge (about 2 feet off of the ground).  Ryan loved the sound of his heavy footsteps on the wooden bridge and must have walked back and forth on that bridge at least 50 times!!  It was very difficult for me to convince him to continue on past the bridge.  When I finally got him about 20 feet away he turned around and started running back for the bridge.  So, I carried him about another 100 feet (the bridge was nowhere in sight now).  Every time I put him down he would turn around and run back for the bridge.  I didn’t know what to do, so I covered his eyes and spun him around 2 1/2 times and faced him towards the bridge.  Well, it worked!  Ryan was convinced that I was taking him away from the bridge and immediately turned around and walked (in his mind) towards the bridge with confidence.  The only problem was he didn’t figure daddy would place him in the direction of the bridge!!

I didn’t capture that on film but I did get a clip of him walking shortly after this moment.   I took the video with my cell phone so the quality sucks.  I’ll post it anyways.