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Ryan’s 5-week check-up

Today was the first time I had to take both boys out by myself.  It wasn’t bad at all!  I went over the rules with Nicky before we left and he was very good.

Our big boy is now 12 pounds and 23 and 1/2 inches long!  I checked back at Nicky’s stats for [...]

Birth announcements

Last Monday, we took Ryan and Nicky to JC Penney to have photos taken for Ryan’s birth announcements.  Here are the photos – they turned out beautifully!

Suspicions confirmed

Ryan measured 22 and 1/2 inches at birth; Chuck didn’t think it was right because the tape broke while the nurse was measuring him and she put it back together (maybe overlapping) before coming up with her measurement.  He wanted to ask her to remeasure but didn’t want to be rude.  This morning, at [...]

Ryan’s hospital photo

Here is a link to Ryan’s page in the web nursery.  Not his best photo, but still cute!

A little sad

Nicky’s always had a really great vocabulary, and he’s been really good at pronouncing most words. For a while, he’s said “eph-e-ment” instead of elephant and I kept telling Chuck not to correct him because it’s so sweet and he’d figure it out on his own eventually. He sure did; those moments are gone [...]

Enjoying our time together

We haven’t had a chance to blog about our new family yet – so far, we’re doing well!  Nicky is the best big brother anyone could ask for!  He loves Ryan; he loves to check on him and look at him and hold him and kiss him.  It’s really, really sweet to watch.

Chuck [...]

Cake in the crock pot

I made this very easy recipe today; I might make it again but without the coffee.

Email Updates

Ryan has his own gruener.us email address, ryan@gruener.us, along with the rest of the family.  (nick@gruener.us, keanu@gruener.us, jen@gruener.us, chuck@gruener.us)  If anyone would like to send on a message, we’ll archive it for him to read when he’s able to.

In addition, if anyone else out there on the Internet would like a gruener.us email [...]