We got two phone calls this morning from DADDY! YEA! We were so excited. Of course they were ‘business’ phone calls so Ryan could get some needed information from me for his job. But that two quick 5 minute phone calls that really lifted our spirits! Hang in there Ryan! Next week is the PT test and we know you will give your all!

Ronan has had a busy morning today. He went to the knitting store with Nonna and Mummy. All the women in the store came over to talk to Ronan…he was a big hit! Then we had lunch and saw some friends from church. Then we went to the student union at U of A where Nonna is taking classes for grad school. We came home and found a letter from Daddy! What a wonderful surprise! It made us very happy!

You’ll notice Ronan got a boppy cover for his naked bobby pillow. This is one of the most useful baby items that I have bought for Ronan. Every mummy should have one! 

Here is Ronan with his very own baby Stitch that he got at the Disney store yesterday. They are already best pals!  

Ronan wants to give a shout out to all the members of his family that are far away. To his uncle Eric who is leaving for Greece tommrow, to his grandpa Bob and grandma Sue in Illinois, to his grandpa Chuckles in Columbia, and to his DADDY at BMT in San Antonio! Hugs and Kisses….love Ronan! XXOO 

Well I put Ronan down for his morning nap and got myself all dolled up for a day out on the town…or errans…whatever, right? So we go to the base to get the sticker for the car, and then I realize I don’t have all the documents I need. I do not want to go all the way home after taking the time to look pretty, so we head over to the other mall which is on the other side of town. I got a little lost and by the time we found Babies R Us Ronan was very upset. Which wasn’t too great for my headache that I’ve had due to the lack of sleep we’ve gotten the past few nights. So I feed him in their nursing room and then we do some shopping. Then we head over to the mall. We pass the petstore on our way in and the puppies in the window are all sleeping. Too bad, but then Ronan looks a little sleepy too. We do some shopping at the disneystore and I get a smoothie for lunch. Finally Ronan is very ready to go home and is letting everyone in the mall know it. He is screaming and my head feels like an alarm clock is going off inside. On our way out we pass the petstore again…

Ronan saw the two puppies in the window of the petstore and became facinated instantly. He watched them as they played with eachother, just like two brothers wrestling. He soon forgot his troubles and started to smile and laugh. We went inside the petstore and went to the back where all the doggies live. He could get right up to the puppies, eye level infact, and they would bark and jump for his attention. We must have come at a good time because there was not one dog sleeping. Ronan would get close to the glass window and look at the puppies inside. Then he would smile and laugh…and laugh, and laugh, and laugh. I have never seen or heard him laugh like this or so repetivly before. I was laughing with him and other customers were commenting on how the baby was laughing at the puppies. He really liked the chowchow the best. Too bad we don’t have a home for it or the 1500 it costs…but he was very cute. I told Ronan he looked like a teddy bear and he laughed. It really was the cuttest thing in the world, watching Ronan laguh, and almost bittersweet. Because Ryan couldn’t be here to watch him laugh like this.