Happy Father's Day

Today is Tyler's first Father's Day.  It was a good day and it's so nice to celebrate all Tyler does for Ryan and I.  I ended up giving Tyler the gift Ryan picked out yesterday because I was just too excited about it.  Tyler got 2 books, one by Robert Munsch called Moose and the other is a collection of Dr. Suess books all in one giant book.  We've been reading to Ry ever since and it's so fun.

Our day started early, as we headed out to church in Sherwood Park.  We sat with my sister and brother in law and enjoyed the service.  Afterwards, we went over to my parents place to do some super secret Christmas gift preparing.  Tyler has planned out what Ryan get's for Christmas this year and we are both very excited about it.  Once we were done that, we headed on home.  We were both so hungry as we hadn't eaten all day and were excited to finally get home for some lunch.

This afternoon, we went for a nice long walk to Home Depot for something that Tyler needed.  It took us an hour and a half to get there and back again.  Today was a beautiful day for a walk and I'm sure the sun burn will hurt tomorrow, but it was so awesome to be outside with my family.

When we got home, we were both so hot and so thirsty that I just laid Ryan on the floor and flopped backwards to just rest.  I sat up and Ryan was on his stomach which is not where I left him.  So, Tyler and I both missed the first time Ryan rolled over.  I feel a little ripped off because I've been encouraging him for a long time to roll over and I expected to see it happen.  But I missed it.  What a little turkey!  We've been trying to get him to do it ever since but I think all our attention is distracting him from doing it again.  I know we will see it many times in the future but to miss the very first time... it's a little sad.  Oh well.  I can't help it and I know soon I will be saying how awesome it was when he didn't roll.

Tyler prepared dinner while I read with Ryan.  We had spaghetti and meat sauce with the biggest garlic loaf I've ever seen.  This loaf was so wide and thick and tasty that I wish I had more room in my stomach for the rest of it.  We sat Ryan in his high chair to get him use to sitting up at the table with us. We haven't started him on solids yet and it will be a while till he gets real food, but I want him to get use to sitting in that chair.  He was pretty uncomfortable in it so I'm hoping that by the time he gets real food, he will at least sit sort of still for us.  I know that planning anything with a baby is futile but I'm going to do it any way.

It's been a really great weekend and I'm sad to see it come to an end.  I love spending time with Tyler and Ryan.  I love our little family.  We have so much fun watching Ryan learn and hearing him talking to himself.  He's started to babble and it's really cute, even at 5 in the morning.  It's amazing that he is a little tiny person growing up right in front of us.

Sonja