My First Christmas!!!

Welcome to my Christmas Blog. Come on in. Boy I have been pretty busy and have just a bunch to update you on.

So I am a devious little artist, and thanks to Grandma Weihua I look just ridiculously cute doing it.

Apparently Dad says I am a little too devious looking with chalk in my hand and I should put it back. Fortunately this outfit aloud me to hide all sorts of treasures.

So here I am just gettin my cute on. My Dad coined this new word for it. He calls me "Ceutiful", spread it cause it's going to be all the rage.

I look pretty dope in this sweater. It's my favorite, thanks Aunt Mich!

Food might be Oprah's drug of choice, but presents are definitely mine!!

So I was pretty down with the whole present thing; especially with the paper. Man that stuff is amazing!! There are very few feelings in the world great than the crinkly touch of wrapping paper between your fingers. Thanks to my Dad my fingers are more like tiny sausages. There goes hand modeling.

Grandma and Gramps got all the good presents so I kept close by to snatch them away as soon as I got a chance. I don't really know what make-up is, but i find the containers that it comes in to be quite tastey.

This present from Grandma was pretty awesome, its like my fav! though at first it was a real head scratcher to figure out.

These be my DOGGS!! They may be about as big as you can get, but they are really sissy. I ride on em' like I own the place.

This isn't my proudest moment, but in my offense he only got ahold of me because of some trippy Bayou Voodoo!!

I try to stay the center of attention at all times, which is pretty easy to do since I know where all of GG's most breakable possesions are.

I forced all my fans put their presents around me and forced them to watch as opened, and destroyed, all of their gifts.

My cousin Carson is apparently in a gang. His street name is C-man, and this picture shows him giving his gang sign; though my mom says that sign means a bad word. He is tough, FO REAL!!

This is my ride when I go to my grandma's house. It's Tight. Literally, I felt like my legs would fall off any moment while strollin' around.

So here is part of my maternal posse. We like to keep it real, except for my dad which I am pretty sure was hiding behing me to hide is ever growing waste line.

This is me and my peeps just doing what we do, Look Friggin Adorable!! oh and a shout out to Poppy who I can't wait to meet this summer.

Dad did this a lot over the break. I think it was because of all the eggnog.

I promise this was forced, I am not one to kiss boys by my own choice, especially a cousin, cause last I checked that is a violation of all sorts of laws.

What Have I Been Up To?

My parents have conceded to the fact that you all look at this blog to see me, so let me fill you in on what I have been doing. I am a master at climbing stairs, I can stand all on my own, chase after my kitty kitty or as I call him Ki Ki. Oh, I love my walker, but my parents don't have any pictures of me with it. They aren't the greatest at taking pictures of all my achievements, but hey nobody's perfect. I have three teeth, the fourth is really close to coming in. I love cheese, anything with bananas, peas and squash. Blueberries are a great addition to any meal. I have become the master of destruction, I mean dad needs something to do while moms at work right? Well here our some pictures my parents happened to remember to take. Enjoy!

Love Ryan

Killer Robot Baby

Ryan won the costume contest!!!!

Baby saves the Day!

So today I had a big presentation in my advanced estimating class. I and two of my classmates had to meet with a board of faculty members and discuss how we came up with our estimate and so on. Well the meeting was supposed to be only twenty minutes long, and since that was my only class of the day it was pointless to take Ryan to a babysitter. So as I entered the room I told them all it was bring your daughter to work day, then I sat her in the corner with one of her toys. She sat quietly in the corner for about the first 10 minutes, and then she decided to venture off. She crawled right over to the head of my department's chair and pulled herself up into a standing position and just gave him the sweetest puppy dog look. He looked down and just scooped her up and played with her during the remainder of our meeting. Afterwards all the teachers turned to him and just wanted to hold Ryan. They all kept on commenting on how she was just the cutest baby and if they could hold her. They did not mention anything about our presentation, so I asked my teacher how we did, and he said, "Well you brought the goods, but she sold the material."

We've got a crawler!

Personal Trainer

Ryan is helping Willie kick it in high gear as his personal trainer. She gets him out of bed and out on a run every morning. She gives positive encouragement from the deluxe seat of her jogging stroller. Since it seems as though winter is around the corner here in good ol' Rexburg (averaging just over freezing in the mornings), Ryan needed some warmer digs for the daily workout. Now who wouldn't want this little munchkin for a personal trainer?

Silly Giggles and New Tricks

She thinks her daddy is the silliest of all.

You may be wondering who miss Ryan is staring at. She is staring at her Unkie Rob. She can't get enough of him and is always staring at him. Silly little girl

Last Comic Standing

Ryan just started doing this today, tomorrow it will be Tae Kwon do, then THE WORLD!!!

Have You Ever?

Have you ever been so hot while you were sleeping that you shouldn't have any covers on, but you just couldn't resist the feeling of a blanket on you?

Miss Ryan in the Grass!

The Misadventures of Ryan Claire

Which Way to the Beach?

Which way to the beach mom? Don't worry about taking me, I'll walk there myself!

Hilarious

Have Sun, Will Swim

All suited up

This water is cold!

Take a seat mom, I'll Drive

Tennis Championships

Willie was quite impressed with my skills.

All in all it was a fun Hot day in the sun

I know we have been lazy and there is no excuse!

I know I know, it has been quite a while since the last time we blogged so I will catch you all up to speed. As of the beginning of May Malerie has moved in with us to be our Nanny, and she is fantastic by the way, but you can't have her so neener neener neener. I have been spending the last two months doing an internship for my major. I am working for a surveying company so I get to spend a lot of quality time outside, which really would not be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that we are still seeing regular snowfall. 4 inches on Wednesday up in Island Park where I have been working a lot lately. Nicole, as ever, is the real trooper in this household. She makes the money, bakes the bread, does the laundry, budgets the money, keeps the babies in line (and there are multiple babies in this house), and still manages to look like a million bucks. There is no need to tell you all that I married up, way up. So today is her 26th birthday!! yay!! So if you think Nikoliolipoki is pretty cool you better send her a quick little comment. If that is too hard you can just send her a $1000 in the mail (all checks are to be made out to W M Elmer). Ryan is about as cool as babies get. Every day she shows some new personality trait. One of her real funny quirks is that she just loves Guitar Hero. Every time we start playing she can't help but wiggle her little butt around and shake her feet and giggle. She especially like the Kaiser Chief's song "Ruby", which we have changed to "Ryan". So a few weeks ago the sun decided to emerge for a day so Nicole and I went to buy a hat for Ryan. We wanted one that had a brim that went around her whole head, well anyway I am just going to post a picture of the only hat for little girls that we could find in the tri-state area. It is just ridiculous.
So Ryan is rolling over now, but she really doesn't like doing it for daddy, so he has only seen it happen once, but mom and aunt Mally say she does it all of the time. She has also taken to jumping up onto ledges and just sitting there and commenting on our cooking techniques.So her 4 month doctor's appointment was this past monday, and she clocked in at a whole 24 inches in length and 11 lbs, 11 oz. She just struts around all the other babies and says "don't hate me because I'm Beautiful". As of late our favorite nickname for her is "mon-chi-chi", you might remember those adorable little hairy monkey dolls from the eighties who sucked on there thumbs. She is not exactly hairy, and she doesn't suck on her thumb, but she does act like a little monkey. though if she is in a bad mood, which does happen on occasion we dub her "crankerpants". The best part about her being in crankerpants mode is that it is usually because she is hungry, and if you are holding her facing towards you she will lung at your open fleshy neck mouth gapping open and just gum it to death. all the while squaking like some kind of baby demon vampire. Oh yeah Marley really likes binky's.

So that in a nutshell is what we have been up to as of late, we will do better in the near future!