Curly Hair

I think it is officially safe to say that Stu will have curly hair. I never doughted that he would because of his Dad's hair but it was pretty straight all of the time, so we were just waiting!
His hair is kind of weird though, It is only curly sometimes. It gets semi-curly, (more like hat hair) when he sweats or has a hat on. But today he was laying on our bed and started crying so I went over to pick him up and found a nice big wet spot where he had spit up!! Then after I picked him up I saw that his hair was all wet and way curly like this! Then I gave him a bath and tried to make his hair curly again and it wouldn't. Who would have known, spit up is the best gel!!

Stu's getting big

We went to the doctor on Tuesday and Stu weighs 7 lbs. 17.5 oz. so pretty much he weighs 8 lbs.!! The last time we had gone in he weighed 6 lbs. 6 oz. Yeah Stu! He is growing so big!
I decided that he needed some knew pictures on here since he looks a lot different already, so here they are few!





Stu's favorite binky from..guess who?? Grandpa Jones!

New Years

So Mike found out on Monday that he got the Thursday and Friday before New Years off, not just Friday. Since we have tons of friends here in Utah it was a really hard decision to decide to go to Idaho. NOT! My Dad and brothers and sister hadn't met Stuart yet so we thought we would surprise them. But, Everyone was kinda sick so I ended up having to call and tell my mom to see how everyone was doing and see if we should still bring Stu to all of the sicklings. Of course she was very excited for us to come so we did!
We went to Mike's parents for the first couple of days and they didn't know we were coming so it was a surprise! Lisa got the worst of the surprise when Mike scared her coming into the door from the adventure center...she started crying!! Poor Lisa has such a mean big brother! We hung out with them all day and it was so much fun! We had shrimp for New Years Eve dinner which just happens to be the same thing that we had for New Years Eve last year too so we have a new little tradition without even thinking about it! On Friday Ida, Lisa and I made these cute word blocks that Ida had started at her sister party. She is so nice to always make a set of all of the cute things they do for me and then one for Jeff's "mystery women"!
Then we went up to Rexburg where everyone was recovering from their colds, but that didn't stop them from going sledding behind the Dad's car! I think they had 5 ropes tied behind Dad's car and he would pull them around the church parking lot! Luckily no one lost any teeth...so far! It was so fun to be home even just for the weekend everyone gets so much bigger everytime we go back. Joe looked bigger, Jake looked taller and Kjel got his patriarchal blessing! Thanks for having us families!

(Yes I forgot to take my camera so no pictures!)

Christmas

We had lots of fun this year for Christmas. Since Stu was so little and I wasn't in the mood to go anywhere Mike's family came to us! They came on Christmas eve and we watched Star Trek, (which is a wonderful movie! I have always made fun of my Mom for LOVING it because she is probably the #1 fan, but I take it all back that show is awesome!) They stayed at a hotel down the road and had a wonderful nights sleep!! (or not so wonderful on account of someone snoring, so I hear!!(;) Mike made us a nice big breakfast Christmas morning which we ate at like 11 o'clock since there were no little kids to go crazy about opening presents! It was so much fun to have them with us! We would have had a very uneventful Christmas just the three of us if they hadn't come!! Thanks Ryan's for a fun, fun Christmas!!





All of the boys!!

Grandma Jones gave Stu this cute Santa outfit and Lisa topped it off with the Santa hat!! Stu liked it...most of the time!





We we're blessed to get so many great gifts this year! But I think that Lisa got by far the best gift of all! She got not one, but two Snuggies!! She was very excited so I had to get a picture of her in on of them! Very cute Lisa!!

Stu's Christmas PJ's! Thanks Grandma Jones!

Introducing: Stuart John Ryan

On December 16 at 12:07 our precious little boy was born. He weighed 6 lbs. 5oz. and is 19 inches long.
I had a doctors appt. Tuesday morning and our Dr. set up for me to be induced the next morning at 7 o'clock, 4 days before I was due. So I went home and cleaned and got all of the little things done that I wanted done before we brought home a baby... and apparently I worked a little too hard because that night at 3 a.m. we went into the hospital. No need to be induced!! I was freaked out to get an epidural but by the time we got to the hospital I was completely ready the second I could get it! Epidurals are AMAZING!! Great invention whoever thought of them! Our doctor finally got there at 11:30 and little Stu was born at 12:07. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, and totally worth it! Stuart is so cute..he doesn't like to sleep at night but we love him so much!






Stu had low blood sugar so they gave him an IV. It was so cute and little!


This is the outfit that Mike picked out all by himself for Stu to come home in! It says "How I Roll" so cute!

Talented boy

Stuart also has one great talent that I must share! Yes I know that it is very common for most boys to be pretty good at peeing all over the second you open there diaper. Well, not only is Stu good at that! But he can pee out of his diaper without getting anything in the diaper! We have the diapers that have a brown stripe until they are wet, and then the line turns blue. Stuart peed the other day out of his diaper, soaked his whole outfit and then when I got down to the diaper, you guessed it brown line!! Nothing inside! He also peed allover himself today while wearing his cute Rocky outfit that Mike bought him, which he obviously loves because his diaper and underneath onsie was soaked and the Rocky onsie was completely dry! Amazing!! We love our little Dude!

Stupid CAT!!

So about a month ago we noticed little signs all around our apartment buildings advertising for a free black cat. Some guys son had moved and couldn't take his cat so they were looking for a new home for him. Well, apparently the search was unsuccessful because there is now a black cat that roams around our building all of the time! Mike thinks it is cute and pets it even though I don't let him touch anything (or anyone. meaning me!) until he washes his hands! So for this I blame him.....

This last Sunday was the Sunday of the month that I had to work and since our church and work are the same time I didn't go to church with Mike. He left, a little later I left, no problem....so we thought! After church he came to see me at work for a little bit and went home.. then came the phone call back at work. Mike asked me if I had left the door open or anything before I left that morning, me thinking I don't know, weird question, asked why?? Well, says Mike, "you don't want to know but, when I opened the door that black cat was sitting right inside our door and then ran out when it saw me!!" Ahhh!! DISGUSTING!! I remembered that I had opened the door and then saw my cell phone sitting on the computer desk, so I left the door open for like 10 seconds to grab it and then left! That stupid cat had run in right when I turned away and had itself a little party in our house!! After I told Mike that he better check everywhere for poop! I spent all the rest of work thinking of all of the things that the cat could have been doing in our house for 3 and a half hours! GROSS! I want to tell the apartment people to get rid of that cat and Mike just feels bad for it...this may eventually be a problem!! (: