What we've been up to

In the past six weeks, we've certainly covered a lot of ground. The first week we were here, we took a break from unpacking and visited the beach town of Newport where Ryan was fascinated with the sea lions. We also went on two great hikes with John's mom, one of which was 120 acre piece of property in the hills that her parents used to own. We enjoyed the tall trees on both hikes and of course made lots of stops for blackberries.

Ryan has shown a lot of interest in kicking around a soccer ball so we signed him up for toddler soccer. Basically it is ten parents chasing around their ten two year olds while the coach tries to get them to play soccer related games - it's pretty entertaining for the parents who are watching :) We go once a week and boy do Ryan and Daddy look forward to it! After soccer, we usually go to the farmer's market. There is a small one in Albany and an even bigger one in Corvallis where Ryan met a balloon making clown. We have also gone to the Corvallis Fall Festival where all of the local artists had their art for sale. Pretty neat.

The boys have both grown so much in the past month. Ryan is becoming more of a boy everyday - He and mommy even built his first fort the other day. It should be interesting seeing what mommy can come up with to channel his energy as the rains set in...

Caleb on the other hand is trying his hardest to convince us he is actually a grown up in a baby body. He started rice cereal for the time about a month ago and he was way into it. Now, he takes every opportunity to show us he is ready to move on to meat and potatoes by grabbing our food whenever he can. He is also trying really hard to get somewhere and will be mobile in no time. Big brother better watch out!