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Hi all,
We've had a good past two weeks, though Ryan's "down" again. He came off the respiratory infection and the pneumonia cleared just fine, but when we went in for his well-baby exam they found double ear infections again. The doc thinks this is the same one from earlier in the year (orange fluid rather than white for you medical types). He believe we're not completely fighting it each time. So Ryan is now on a really powerful antibiotic, one so strong that his bottom is a mess. Our current regiment sounds like a baking recipe: he sits in oatmeal baths and we have to cover the ointment on his but with Crisco baking spread on top of about 5 other tactics. It's working though.

In addition to all this, Ryan Kerry has his first black eye. We'd like to claim that it was earned standing up for a beautiful young maiden. However, it's a result of a yo yo gone awry. He hit himself in the face just right and now he's a bruiser. (It's kind of adorable in a domestic assult kind of way.) Other than that he's doing great! Lots of talking these days. When Baylor won this past weekend, our friend Derek shouted out "Baylor?!?" to which Ryan replied "Baylor." It was so unexpected and really funny. He also loves to say "out" and "bird." His most common phrase these days is "what is that?" And at night he and Max play a game saying "night night" back and forth until Ryan gets the last word and Max is downstairs.

Other accomplishments include walking backwards, reaching doorhandles, playing outside pushing his lawn mower, pushing each and every button in site, brushing his teeth for the first time yesterday and DRINKING MILK. It finally happened. Had to go Organic Vanilla for now which we'll eventually cut to whole milk, but at least he's drinking the stuff.

In other news, Max leaves tomorrow for Florida with the baseball team. Just yesterday we realized he'll miss Easter and my Birthday (we like to live in the moment). We've decided to postpone the secular part of the celebration until the weekend he returns since Ryan is starting to understand the holidays. My parents made it home from Arizona yesterday after a month long stay. I surprised them with Ryan and they were so excited. Tonight's a family pizza dinner to welcome them home and send Max off. I swear, it's a revolving door here. Someone from our little family of the three of us has been out off state every month since Christmas! After Florida we're staying put for a while. I think that's all the news for now...but it's early...and I'm positive I've forgotten something! We'll catch it on the next one.

Love,
Court, Max + Ryan

Curly top after a huge nap Sunday with mommy on the couch. He's starting to love to cuddle.


Ryan had his first visit to a farm Sunday. We saw over 20 lambs and 15 sheep. (Our friend's son owns a farm).

First time walking in big boy shoes. He loved the clomping noise they made.

Though you'd have hoped he was excited by all the lambs, it was the cat and dogs that he was thrilled about.

Much like taking your kid to Disney only to have them scream scared at the characters, Ryan was ok with the lambs for about 15 seconds and then lost it.


We were visited by our own leprechaun on St. Paddy's day!

Ryan likes to mimic us vacuuming (with his popper) and cleaning up after meals.

He's obsessed with feeding himself from the same forks as we eat with. Somehow he got the peas on his tray down, though he looks as amazed as we were!