We can't put anything near Ryker anymore without him grabbing it.  For example, anything with a straw in his stroller cupholder.

He was going to town on a little bit of frapaccino (sound it out, lol) before we noticed.

I just thought he was being really quiet.

In the playpen....watching tv and eating his quackers toy.

I tried to feed him, but all he wanted to do was chew on the spoon.

One of the pics I snapped while trying to get a picture of his teeth.

Reagen had an ice cream sandwich.  Ryker saw the sandwich.  Ryker pounced.....

and it was so funny, Reagen just let him have some of it.

Reagen's Birthday!

Here's Ryker in his cute Cars pajamas the day after his half birthday...

on Reagen's 27th birthday!

He had to work that day, but afterwards, we caught a cab and went to

a nearby Air Force base, to eat at.....

Chilis!!!!  (Yeah, that's right, Chilis).

Happy Birthday to Reagen!

And later that night...

Birthday cake and ice cream.  Ryker really wanted some lol.

Ryker's Half Birthday!!!

For Ryker's half birthday, we took him to a Brazilian restaurant.  It was cool, they brought out a couple sides for us to share, then would come out with meat that was cook....on SWORDS!  Yeah, a sword.  Then they push a couple pieces off onto your plate.  It was pretty cool.  Ryker watched tv and made noise.  I think he had a pretty good time.

Ryker watching tv, man with sword of meat in the background.

Coke.  In a glass bottle.  That gets sanitized and sent back out with more coke in it. 

 Kinda resourceful, kinda scary.

Smilin' at his momma.

Realizing he's a half a year older.

They learn so young.

Looks like he's trying to pick up girls, lol.

After we ate, we walked aroud town.  I wanted to buy something with

Korean money, so we went to a corner store.

Mmmmmm....snacks.

On the way home, I wanted to take the bus.

I mean, Ryker wanted to take the bus for his half birthday.

Reagen on the bus, drinking a frozen coffee from the corner store.

When we got home, I hit the shower.  When I got out, I heard Ryker grunting like

no other.  I turned the corner to see this:

I can't believe he's already 6 months old!!!

Ryker being his cute self

Ryker decided he wanted that beer.  In fact, he dove for it....

and spilled it all over lol.

The boys just hanging out.

Korea part deux

We were walking to the PX and Ryker started chewing on his stroller.  We look down a few minutes later, and he had fallen asleep while chewing on it!!! It was really funny.

While sleeping, he was actually drooling into his cupholder!  Hahahaha!!

On the bus from Seoul to Camp Humphreys.  Sweet decor, huh?

Ryker, with a good hold on his daddy.

McDonalds...in Korea!

This is some kind of dessert shop that we went to.  It was all floral and the seats around the perimeter where rope swings.  It was pretty cool.  Plus it had cheesecake :)

Korea!

Boring view at Houston airport, bright and early in the morning.

Here we are, getting ready to hit the airport....as you can tell from our faces,

 I wasn't lying about it being early lol.

I totally didn't take any pictures on either plane.  Ryker slept from Houston to Chicago (almost the entire time) and was very good on the plane from Chicago to Korea.  (FYI, Chicago is the worst airport in the history of airports.  I'd rather have 6 connections than have 1 there.  Now you know.)  He didn't cry at all on either of the take-offs or landings.  And on the 13 hour Korea flight, the kid beside us kept screaming and he would just stare at him.  It was funny.  And when we were getting off, everyone kept telling me how cute and well behaved he was.  As if I didn't know already....one part of that anyway.

So we go to the airport, customs and immigration took about 2 seconds to get through (I bet we have a harder time getting back into America...).  We met Reagen and were just in time to hope on the army bus thing to go to Yongsan (an army base).  We stayed at Dragon Hill Lodge which is supposed to be some ultra nice hotel on base.  I wouldn't say ultra nice, but it was nice.  The funniest thing about it was the hair dryer.  I'm pretty sure it was one of the first hair dryers ever made.  Reminded me of a vacuum.

Here are the boys hanging out at the hotel.  :)

Here they are taking a nap the next morning while I was getting ready.

(I guess I took to long, haha.)

On the bus ride into Seoul we saw this huge hill and I told Reagen I wanted to go to the top (I was just kidding).  So the day after we got there, he took me to the top!  Actually, we took a cab almost to the top, then walked a very short distance up to the touristy part and observation tower.  The short distance was SSSOOOO steep though.  I couldn't even push the stroller and walk, I had to pawn Ryker off on

Reagen lol.  We had to take a break and pretend we were looking at a little monument (that was written in Korean lol).  But we made it to the top.  And there were super old ladies walking it too, these Koreans are seriously in walking shape.  Anyway, it was really cool. 

Vending machine at Seoul Tower.  It wasn't foggy, my lense fogged up when I took my camera out because it was so humid.

Boys, before we walked up the hill.

Random pictures on the trip up...aka, excuse to stop for a second.

This little thing was the Seoul mascot, or Seoul tower mascot or something.  We had to wait for other people to take pictures by it, then when we started taking pictures, people kept pointing at us.  I'm sure they were like, aaahhhh, foreigners lol.  Ok, probably not....

Here are a bunch of picutres from the observation tower.  It was really, really cool.  What a view!

This picture was taken tooking straight down in the observation tower.

All the Koreans were throwing up peace signs when they got their picture taken, so I made Reagen do it too.

He was trying to make a peace sign, I'm sure.

Picture from the bottom of the hill, while we were waiting on the taxi.

Ryker at the hotel, all tuckered out.