Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!! Happy Birthday Randy!!

Congratulations to Lois and Joe, who celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary on Friday. 


Fortunately for us, the rain on Saturday kept Mom and Dad from going to the Lake House and Jon, Ryan and I seized the opportunity to treat them to pizza and cupcakes to celebrate the milestone. 


Looking forward to a big party when they hit 40 years in 2012!!

And a Happy Birthday to Randy, who celebrated his birthday Sunday morning (partly in the air after a great weekend of golfing in Arizona).  I'm glad we got to sing to you last weekend at Papa's birthday party! Sto lat!

Ryan is 3 months old!!!

Just in the past two weeks, Ryan grew out of his 0-3 month clothes!  It actually seemed to happen in just one day.  I was taking him for a visit to Nana's house and put on his overalls - they were at least an inch too short.  So I folded them up and put them in a box.  Then I put another pair of pants on him and left the house.  While Nana was feeding him she kept asking me if his pants were too tight - and I was like, oh they might be getting small.  Nana was right, Mommy was wrong.  After he ate his bottle I think those little pants were cutting off the circulation to the top half of his body!  Good thing Mommy always carries an extra pair of pants in her bag...also too small.  So, now, thank goodness Auntie Linda gave my mom a bunch of clothes from Gabriel...finally a pair of pants that fit!  Now, I am still going through all his little clothes, insisting that they will fit, when clearly they don't! Onto 3-6 month clothes, right on time.

We know that Ryan is getting to be a big boy, for as the days pass there is a lot less crying and a lot more smiling. While Ryan still enjoys doing most of his talking to Mr. Fan, every morning he also likes to tell his mom and dad all about what he dreamt during the night.  And, he is starting to get excited when he sees mom and dad - waving his little arms and kicking his legs.  Ryan also likes his new views of the world from his little green chair - its a whole different perspective for him.  He enjoys tummy time (a little) better and we can get five minites at a time, with his little mini-push ups.  I could swear he is accidentally going to flip himself over soon.  The other night, I thought he was making a considerable amount of noise in his Pack N' Play.  Boy was I right.  Daddy put him to bed with his head at 12:00 and when I finally got up to look at him his head was at 3:00.  He was spinning himself around...that brings us to the end of swaddling, just when it started to work!  Speaking of sleep, Ryan is doing pretty good.  Sleeping from about 8 p.m. until 3 a.m.  At this point, I think he is just used to waking up at three - and I tried to get him to go back to sleep, but he was talking and giggling away.  This added to the fact that he now doesn't like to fall asleep unless his face is snuggled into the biggest, thickest blanket we have (very safe!).  So mommy stays up until he is sound asleep to she can take the blanket away and get a good night's rest.

Like it or not, he's going to keep growing.  And we'll keep you updated on the special events in his life!

Weeks 11 and 12

Papa's Birthday

Nonni and Papa with their grandkiddies - Knox, Annie, Ryan and Jack

After a busy morning of getting Ryan's three month photos done (no, that was not fun - yes, we got some usable shots) and a photo with the Easter bunny (that was much easier than the professional photography, because he slept through it) we went to Ron and Joni's house to celebrate Papa's birthday.  Thank goodness for a (finally!) beautiful day. 

We were able to sit outside in front of the house with all the kids - although it was difficult to protect them from the sun with just one flowery sun hat to share amongst the three babies.  Good thing Ryan has his cool new sunglasses - good for his eyes, not so effective for his bald head.  Well, I have to say, I don't think this January baby knew what to do with himself in the 70 degree (plus) weather.  We had to strip him down to his white t-shirt to keep him comfortable. After that, he seemed to enjoy the breeze on his bare legs and finally settled into a nap when we went in the house to enjoy soup, salad and pizza...and cake of course!

After watching Annie and Knox all day, I think Ryan is going to try to catch up with them as quickly as he can.  Please look at the attached photos - there are some cute ones with the kids together!  Looking forward to Papa's next birthday, I see potential for complete mayhem as all the little kids will be catching up with jack and walking, if not running, by then.

Papa's Birthday

White Sox Winner



Jonny, Ryan and his White Sox tickets



Jonny attended his 11th White Sox home opener in a row today, the coldest since 2003.  It's his favorite day of the year, he said, and then quickly added besides Lori's birthday, or any other days centered around Lori - smart man.  He sorted through all of Ryan's White Sox gear (and there is a lot of it for a three month old) selected his black tee and camo pants, and tried not to take it too personally when Ryan cried his eyes out while he was being dressed in his get-up.  (To be fair to Jonny, Ryan cries when anyone dresses him in anything - he prefers to be clothing-free, and if at all possible, diaper-free too.)







At the end of the day, Ryan was happy in his t-shirt, Daddy was happy with his White Sox winner and great day spent with his Dad and brothers.  Here's looking forward to baseball season...

  

All the Rimkus boys were dressed today...see the photos of my nephews below that I stole off the Internet ;)

Jack



Mark and Knox





Jonny and Ryan

Annie and Ryan

These two seem to like each other...Annie was holding Ryan's hand, but I just couldn't get it on camera!

Ryan Joseph...officially

Ryan Joseph was baptised on March 6 at St. Mary of the Lake in Chicago.  It is the church that Jon and I have attended since we moved to this area five years ago.  It is an older, and quite lovely church, and we were so happy to have Ryan baptised there.  With Ryan's cousin Knox getting baptised the day before and a birthday celebration later the night before, plus dressing ourselves and our baby...we actually made it to the 9 a.m. mass.  Ryan was a little angel - until he pooped all the way up his back in the middle of mass.  Daddy and Mommy had to work as a team to change him and get nothing on his precious gown.  We were just about to give a high five on his awesome diaper change, when, in the one second between using the clean diaper as a shield and putting it under his butt - he started peeing.  Somehow, he missed the entire gown and got only his face - which didn't seem to bother him in the least.  Gown saved! 

Reverend Paul conducted the service, funny as he was, conducted the service.  He did such a fabulous job (and you will notice didn't miss one photo op and joined us for lunch like one of the family as well).  Ryan was the only baptism that day, so the little king had the whole church to himself (naturally).  Ryan was a good little Catholic boy and remained quiet for the service.  Based on the face only his parents and Godparents could see, he was perplexed by the sacred oils, and gave out one little chicken-like cry when the water hit his head.  We are honored to have Randy and Jess as Ryan's Godparents, for we know they will always be watching over Ryan right along with us.  He's a lucky boy to have them looking out for him - and to have each and every person that attended the celebration in his life.  There's no way he could go wrong with all those special people giving him guidance.  We were so happy that all of Ryan's family (friends are family too!) was there to witness his first sacrament. 

I'm not quite sure if a baby is supposed to have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, but Ryan had it all.  His christening gown made from Nana's wedding dress.  A big thank you to Auntie Linda who worked tirelessly on the gown, worn first by Ryan, and to be worn in the future by any of Nana's great, great-great, and maybe even great-great-great grandchildren.  He used his daddy's christening socks, ring, and blanket and wore a St. Joseph, St. Gerard, and St. Jude medals - as we have prayed especially to these saints for Ryan and know they will always be watching over him.

There were so many pictures it was hard to choose just a few to represent the day...you can see a short version here...(and though there were SO many pictures...I don't think we did a great job for posing for many of them...could we all be any further away from one another!?)

Ryan's Baptism