Catch Up!

Well I don't have any excuse other than laziness / lack of motivation to do any posts lately. We have been having fun over this past month or so. We welcomed 2 new nieces into the Holloway family (Unfortunately i realized the only pics i have are of the 2 of them in the hospital with all the monitors attached) but i can assure you they are so cute and adorable and we are so happy for Kevin, Melissa, and Reese. Aside from that we've mainly been trying to keep our overly active child entertained so that he'll sleep through the night. We went to Lake Arrowhead one of the weekends in February, we are very fortunate to have some great friends who let us borrow their cabin. Rylan didn't seem too interested but we got a couple oooohs and ahhhhs! He may need to be older to enjoy it more. Tawny however was on cloud nine, she had been wanting to go up to the mountains for months so we finally decided to give it a go.

The great thing as most of you know here in California is 1 minute you are in the snowy mountains and then you can just as easily be in a sunny front yard watering the lawn the next minute. Well Rylan discovered the hose and as you can tell loved every second of it. He is definitely a mischievious little guy, sometimes i'd like to say it's a little much but i would be lying because he keeps us entertained.
We also got to celebrate a 1st birthday. Our good friends Kyle and Shannon's son Mason celebrated his first birthday. I don't think Rylan could handle Mason getting to eat cake without sharing so he took it upon himself to go and pick some cake off of Mason's high chair.

Now for semi unfortunate events. Rylan has had 1 ear infection that has refused to go away for about 3 months so we were told he had to get tubes. *Note: Part of the reason it even lasted for 3 months cause they wanted to try a slew of antibiotics (that didn't work) then to get an appointment with the ENT was nearly impossible so 3 months later there you go. Rylan did super good though! We woke him up early this last Thursday morning so we could feed him since he wasn't going to be able to eat for 6 hours before the surgery. So at 6 o' clock we all got up fed Rylan then tried to keep him occupied and his mind off of any idea of food. We checked in at 11:00 am got him changed into his little hospital gown and waited till 1:30 before they actually took him back. I am amazed at how well he did during the whole waiting thing but he did. The aftermath of the surgery is a whole other story but our little baby did great overall.

Saturday before Easter Rylan dyed eggs with his Nana and seemed to enjoy the whole event.
And Easter morning he enjoyed a few toys and a couple of treats. Why the Easter bunny brought him a recorder i will never know, but he enjoys it so i guess the rest of us will just deal with it right?