Rykken has been so busy growing, learning, and entertaining these past few months. He has flown through his 10th and 11th month and we have 2 weeks until he turns 1! I can't believe this time last year I was already crying and praying he would come soon because I thought I couldn't take it being pregnant any longer. Little did I know my baby boy would be a late arrival, but I would do the whole nine months and labor and delivery all again in a heart beat. I just can't believe it has already been a year, that Rykken has been with me an entire year. I look at him everyday and I obviously see that he has grown and changed, but it doesn't really hit me until I look back at pictures or videos and realize how much he has really grown over this past year. I must say though, Rykken is at an awesome age right now. He is just so fun! We are at the stage where he is able to interact, he is entertaining, so sweet and cuddly, and hasn't started throwing temper tantrums yet or talking back! ;) He has recently developed the ability to mimic gestures and he is able to relate words to these gestures. When I say bye bye, he waves, if I ask for kisses he blows me kisses, he shakes his head yes and no, and he just started doing what I call "sweet eyes". If I tell him "Rykken, give me sweet eyes", he squinches up his eyes and gives me the biggest smile ever.
He also has 6 teeth now. The last two that have been coming in over the past couple of days are killers. He hasn't really shown a difference in fussyness with the first four, but whoa...these past two days have been hellish for us both with these two new ones coming in. He has not stopped crying, fussing, whining, all day long, not to mention the drool is incredible, and it has just started with these two new ones. So weird. They have already broken through so hopefully the pain will ease up for him soon. He is still eating tablefood very well, he pretty much eats everything and anything I give him. He loves to eat! He had a doctor's appointment a couple of weeks ago for a plugged ear tube that caused an infection and he weighed 19lbs, still around the 35th percentile for his age. He is a little guy, and although he only weighs around 19lbs, he does have a little round happy belly. He is still mostly in 9mo clothing, although he does wear some 12mo stuff, it is just a little big, but do-able. He is still not walking, although he can stand by himself and does all the time. He can also stand up from a sitting position with no assistance. I still don't think it will be that long before he starts walking, but we shall see. His grandma bought him his first pair or Stride Rites, so hopefully he will start walking with his magic walking shoes! ;) His other talent that he continues to try to fine tune is climbing. The child loves to climb on everything. This is what I watched him climb today. No joke, he climbed this by himself as I sat and looked on.
He also has 6 teeth now. The last two that have been coming in over the past couple of days are killers. He hasn't really shown a difference in fussyness with the first four, but whoa...these past two days have been hellish for us both with these two new ones coming in. He has not stopped crying, fussing, whining, all day long, not to mention the drool is incredible, and it has just started with these two new ones. So weird. They have already broken through so hopefully the pain will ease up for him soon. He is still eating tablefood very well, he pretty much eats everything and anything I give him. He loves to eat! He had a doctor's appointment a couple of weeks ago for a plugged ear tube that caused an infection and he weighed 19lbs, still around the 35th percentile for his age. He is a little guy, and although he only weighs around 19lbs, he does have a little round happy belly. He is still mostly in 9mo clothing, although he does wear some 12mo stuff, it is just a little big, but do-able. He is still not walking, although he can stand by himself and does all the time. He can also stand up from a sitting position with no assistance. I still don't think it will be that long before he starts walking, but we shall see. His grandma bought him his first pair or Stride Rites, so hopefully he will start walking with his magic walking shoes! ;) His other talent that he continues to try to fine tune is climbing. The child loves to climb on everything. This is what I watched him climb today. No joke, he climbed this by himself as I sat and looked on. 
Rykken celebrated his first Fourth of July in style! We got up early and went to our neighborhood parade. It was the cutest, small town parade I have ever been too. It was a really old fashioned parade with kids riding bikes and mom's pulling their babies in wagons and people riding tractors, and one firetruck. It was great, and Rykken liked it, I think. He was very captivated by it all.
Rykken also played in his olympic sized wading pool out on the back porch that afternoon. Which was a big surprise for me as it was the first time he would actually get in the wading pool without having a melt down. We were also planning on watching the city fireworks from our back porch this year, but they ended up cancelling them due to weather, but Rykken did get to see a couple of big fireworks from a friends back yard. He again was captivated.
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