Capturing the Kerrys: 7.5 Months

And we're back! Our little familia had our first road trip and it went amazingly well considering poor little man had to sit in his car seat for 13 hours straight. What we learned is that our kid is an amazing little trooper given the hours in the car, waking up in countless different places and being passed around from one new family member to another. Ryan shined. However, he is certainly happy to be home, as are we.

For those of you not in the know, we headed to Plattsburg NY (the northeastern most tip of NY state, across the bridge from Canada and Vermont) for the marriage of Kevin and Lee. Kevin is Max's second oldest brother—thank you Johnny for clarifying the birth order after last post—and Max was proud to stand up as his best man. We then headed five hours south to Ithaca to spend four days with the rest of Max's family. Everyday we managed to see at least two groups of loved ones. It was wonderful to show Ryan off, but sad to come home knowing it will be a good length of time before we're back. For both Max's Dad and Patti, as well as his mom, this was only their second visit with Ryan. And it was the first time Max's brothers Kevin, Billy and Brian got to meet him. While in Ithaca we also celebrated out 6th wedding anniversary by taking a dinner cruise out into Cayuga lake.

Ryan's conked out on the couch. Max is getting his tux fitted for Kirstyn & Eric's wedding. And I am sitting in my clean clean kitchen! (We just finished ad mad clean of the house as we have people coming for a walk-through tonight after my dad's b-day dinner.)

So Ryan has had many firsts lately. Among them are first:

Road trip
Visit to a foreign Country (Canada does count)
Green veggies, everything from peas to spinach
Fruit, so far pears and bananas
Meet and greet with 3 uncles and a great grandma
Picnic
Touch of grass to his feet (See below...not a fan)
Swim in a REALLY BIG swimming pool
Stay in a hotel
Visit to Ithaca, the Sub Shop, Wegmans and taste of Purity Ice cream (indriectly of course!
Wedding
Word! It's "Mom" (Second words is "Papa")

I'll let the photos do the rest of the talking. Much love to all our people.
Court, Max & Ryan

Can you say happy to be home? This is Ryan at 4am reunited with his long lost exerciser after a 11 hour car ride straight-through the night. He was so great though...even in Canada when we got strange looks for feeding a baby in a Starbucks at 11pm.

Nana feeding Ryan a little breakfast at the famous Queen Diner of Dryden NY....so it's not famous, just the only decent meal besides the A1.

Apparently the small hippo pool at the cottage was not deep enough waters to make our little guy happy. Ryan LOVED the hotel pool.

Cracking up at dinner time.

Ryan is huge into cuddling right now. We love every second of it!

Uncle Billy and Ryan playing cops and robbers witht the toy cruisers. Ryan will be so excited that his Uncle is a police man one day. Almost as excited as I am (I have actually dressed up in the full umiform and REALLY want to go on a ride along.)