Get a Room! aka I don't think this is what Elmo signed up for...

And the winner is....my old Tickle-Me Elmo doll that no longer has it's tickle-me parts.  As you can see, Ronan is quite fond of him.  Ronan calls Elmo "Na-Na" which is why he keeps saying "Hi, Na-Na."  More Christmas pictures later.  I wanted to put up a quick video so grandma could see her little man today.

Opposable Thumbs

Ronan has opposable thumbs.  Artie does not.  That won't stop this dastardly duo. 

Gearing up for Christmas

We had a great Thanksgiving.  We spent Thursday at Elliot and Sarah's new house.  They have been busy with many house projects and the place looks great!  We then headed to Grandma and Grandpa McCann's house for the rest of the weekend.  We squeezed in as much cousin time as possible and even went on the Polar Express again.  It was a great time even though Ronan threw up three times.  You would think we would always carry an extra outfit due to the fact that Ronan throws up all the time  (and I mean ALL the time) but we don't and we didn't.  All I will say is the people sitting across the way were very understanding:)  I also forgot my camera (I know, I'm a mess).  Here are some phone pictures taken before he tossed his cookies.

Gearing up to get on the train

             Ronan and Cade

Grandma and Grandpa

We headed to Village Lights (a Christmas celebration in our neighborhood).  It was really cute and gave Ronan a chance to break in his snowsuit.

Random shots

Ronan in a box

And on a tractor

Message Received

My mom subtly hinted to me that the blog needed to be updated by saying, "You need to update the blog."  So here we go.  Here are some pictures that I captured of the creature in his natural habitat, doing what he does best, reeking havoc. 

"I think I'll have some Cheerios for breakfast"

Might as well just dump half the box on my tray...

And all over the floor...

"I think I'll just eat a couple of these floor Cheerios"

"Please, let me help you clean this mess up"

The kid likes a good nook.

Getting his groove on

I call these photos "The Milk Series".  The munchin loves his milk.  In these pictures he is climbing the stairs and holding his milk, sans hands, as he needs them to climb the stairs.  It is hard to tell in these pics, but he is carrying his cup with his teeth.

Quick break for a good swig.

And back between the teeth

"Go ahead.  Make my day."

 

Trick or Treat!

You gotta love Halloween!  Especially when you have such a cute little Ring-tailed Lemur to take you trick or treating.

Practicing for the big night in his Halloween PJ's.

Ready to go!

Nice Tail!

"I think I'll just stop in the middle of the street to check my loot"

"Uncle Mike!  I know you are in there and I know you have candy!"

Grandpa Tom's pumpkin

More Fall

We recently headed to Canton to take the annual Christmas picture.  Grandma JuJu even got the kids some matching clothes...hard to beleive:)

Hanging with Cousin Cade before pictures

Getting ready for pics...buck up Cade!

                                                       

Creepside Festival

Columbus Marathon.  Congrats to Dan, Abbey, and Jules!!

Playing in the leaves

Leaves make him happy!

Mom's helper

Good lookin' guys in ties

Blog Backup

We had a rough week.  Starting with Ronan and I getting colds.  Which lead to the inevitable trip to urgent care for some breathing treatments for Ronan (while Kevin was at home with a nasty bout of what we thought was food poisoning.) Ronan was pretty much officially diagnosed with asthma and now has his very own home nebulizer.  Ronan has been throwing up a bit but I figured it was because of his cough.  Everyone seemed to be feeling a little better until on the way home from Trick-or-Treat last night, I was hit with Kevin's "food poisoning" which I am guessing (hoping) Ronan already had.  I am also hoping all the sickness will officially be out of the house tomorrow. 

Enough with the pity party.  Ronan gets funnier everyday, loves getting into trouble, and has a "spark" that I love.  In other words, he is quite the dickens, which comes as no surprise to most of you.  He is officially a walker having officially abandoned crawling weeks ago. He loves to chat.  Some of his favorite words are car, ball, dog, fish, shoes, thasousigh (that's outside), water, eye, mama, dada, and down (all in Ronan jargon, of course).  Here are some of our favorite recent pictures.


 Rockin' out some bath time

Kevin and I had our first night away for Katelyn and Pat's wedding in Put-in-Bay.  We had a blast and Ronan spent some quality time with Jama and Gramps.

A quick trip downtown to see a replica of the Santa Maria

A new favorite pastime.  Opening the cat food, then throwing it at the dog.  The dog likes it too:)

A trip to the park with his pal, Rogan

He loves cars!  It was one of his first words and when he sees one excitedly exclaims "GAR!"

Kevin's vacations.  We took a trip down to Hocking Hills.  We had a blast hiking, cooking out, and walking around Old Man's Cave.  We then took a short trip to Kevin's alma mater OU.  Kevin got to share a slice of Goodfellas pizza with his little guy.

Torturing dad during a hike

Laughing after torturing dad on a hike

All the boys

Another favorite pastime.  Throwing all the things on the bottom shelf of the pantry onto the floor.

Nice Hair

A trip to see Jenny and Alicia

Apple picking.  He loved eating the apples!

Corn maze

The same trip to see Jenny and Alicia.  (I'm not sure why this picture ended up down here)