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Hurry, before Mom can pin it on me....oh, wait....

7 teeth!

On Christmas Day, Ryker's bottom right lateral incisor came in!  That puts his tooth count at 7....oh my.

Christmas card photo shoot!

Here are some pictures that didn't make the Christmas card.....but seriously, how cute is this kid?

That big, ugly bruise on his head is from learning to walk :(

He saw me in the laundry room tossing clothes in the washer and tried RUNNING to come help me.  Needless to say, he should have paced himself.  He fell right into the door frame.  My poor baby :'(

He did, however, recover.  As you can see lol.

Ryker hates Santa.

We went and saw Santa today.  It didn't go so well.  The quality of these pictures isn't great, but I'm sure you can imagine how cooperative he was being lol.

Walking!

In case you haven't heard already, Ryker took his first steps on December 1st.  And now, he's a pro.  Last night, he pretty much ran by himself (he saw that Ashley had gotten out the laptop lol).  I'll try to post a video soon.

He didn't pee his pants--well, he did, but that's not what's on his pants.  It's drool lol.

All tuckered out.

Why don't I get to sleep this much??

At Aunt Ashley's birthday dinner.  He was looking pretty good.

He was walking around the cart and Sam's Club, and I looked down and this is what he was doing.  Guess he really wanted some corn.

Haha, he's so funny :)

Showing off his poor bruises :(  The one in the middle is from falling into a door frame.  Learning to walk is painful business.

Goofy.  But you can see all his teeth!

How much does he look like his daddy?

I love this kid.

<3

Random pictures from my phone

Sitting in his booster chair, eating a cracker, watching tv at ZsaZsa's house

In his baby recliner with his blanket

How did that little guy turn into that....toddler?

You can't really see it that well, but Ryker got his first bloody lip the other day. 
He fell down and bit his lip.  Mommy was much more upset about than he was.
After Zsa Zsa (or Ner Ner, as he's been calling her LOL) gave him a cookie, he forgot all about it.

Ryker started getting so fussy, so I put mittens on him for the first time.
Ahh, the power of distraction.

Apparently, mittens are cool.
At least when you are 9 months old.

What a cutie!

He couldn't figure out how to take them off, and he bit a hole in one during the process.
I have a feeling we're going to go through a lot of mittens this year lol.