Fine Dining - The Movie

Fine Dining

After returning from Spain, and his great experiences with sand, Ryan really wanted to feed himself. He was getting frustrated so Riko just gave him the bowl.

Going back to early June with a video

This is a one minute long video of some random crawling, chewing, and talking. I think the last segment may be the first time he sat up by himself. Nowadays he's a champion sitter.

Holiday in Puerto Banus, Andalusia, Spain.

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Father's Day, 2008. Dublin.

We're going a couple weeks back in time here.

Ryan news

We have been busy this month with the move and recent trip to Spain and will be posting more photos soon. While in Spain, on the 20th to be exact, I discovered Ryan has a new tooth. His upper-right incisor.

Today while wrestling with Ryan on the changing table he threw his usual fit while screaming at the top of his lungs, exposing his gums and guess what? He has another tooth coming in! It's too soon to tell because I only caught a glimpse but I think it's his upper-left lateral-incisor.

Hopefully this explains his recent whining and ill-temper.

And also he sat up for the first time on his 7 month birthday, June 6th. (Photo to follow)

June 12th

Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of our arrival at London Heathrow Airport. We would then drive to Holyhead, take a ferry to Dun Laoghaire and finally arrive in Dublin, Ireland three days later.

That wasn't quite right. June 12 marked the one year anniversary of the day we left San Francisco. We arrived in London on June 13th, drove to Bath, stayed one night, drove on to Holyhead, stayed one night, then we took the ferry to Dun Laoghaire and arrived in Dublin on the 15th.

Transferring the Flag

Tonight will be our first night at the new house.

We've had a lot of overlap so the move has been at a leisurely pace. Now there's quite a lot to unpack and arrange in the new house. Riko and I will work on that for the rest of the week and weekend. Then, a week from today, we fly to Spain for some rest.

Ryan in the Box

Ireland is so expensive we can't afford to buy Ryan toys so he has to play in this tiny red box.

Push up

On May 26th Ryan and I went to the park because it was a beautiful day (by Irish standards, not California) and Ryan did his first push-up on the grass at Herbert Park. Since then he has become great at scooting along the hard wood floor but isn't crawling yet. We have more photos to post but have been busy with our move as mentioned before. Ryan is becoming cuter by the day and I try to capture it on the camera whenever I can.

Up the river

Our year lease on our place on the Dodder river in Donnybrook is coming up, and we're taking the opportunity to move to something a bit less expensive. The new place is about 60 meters up the river. It's got a little back yard, so that'll be nice for Whiskey. We might even enjoy it ourselves.

We didn't strictly have to move. It's nice to save some money and we don't need all the room we have in this house. I've decided it's going to be Ireland 2.0 for us, and the beginning of the end of our stay here.