My big boy turned 11 months today!

I can't believe it's almost here.. a year has almost passed since I've had Sylus. He's 11 months old today. It does not feel like it's been that long. I don't like how time flys by like this! I don't recall it ever flying by this fast before Sylus.

He's getting so big now. Still no teeth, but I like it that way, his little gum smile is so adorable! He does however love to shove anything he can find in his mouth though.

It's obviously gotta be because he has no teeth still, he just gnaws on anything in sight. Cute, yet annoying. Haha. He's standing up on EVERYTHING. Still, no normal crawling. He just sticks with the Army crawl. Maybe it's because daddy's in the Army, haha. :)
I got him big boy PJ's the other day at Walmart. The kind with the little collar and the button and separate pants to match. They are Toy Story, I couldn't resist. But at the same time, it made me a little sad. My whole point for going to look for jammies was to find a couple of warm pair since it's starting to get cold. So I remembered about these flannel or fleece jammies I got him last winter at Walmart. When I got to the baby section there I looked at all the zip up warm PJ's they had and the biggest size they had were 6-9 months! He can still wear those but I wanted to get him a pair to grow into. So I had to go to the big boy side, which the smallest size they had was 12 months. It was cute, but oh so sad at the same time. :(
So anyways, in exactly a month my little man will be a year! I wish we were back home so all of our family could be there for his first party. Maybe we'll throw a late birthday party for him in December when we are back in Arizona. Who knows.

That's all for now. I'm going to leave you with the craziest Praying Mantus I have ever seen, he was as big as the palm of my hand. Leave it to Kansas for the gnarly bugs!

Love you all, Ragen

It's October.

It's October! And it's already getting really cold in Kansas. I'm a wimp when it comes to the cold though. Definatley a desert girl!

I've had my Halloween decorations up since the middle of September. I bought some fall decorations from Hobby Lobby so that I will actually take down my Halloween decorations for November and still have something to look at until Christmas!

I finally got word that we can go home in December, I AM SO EXCITED!

I get to see my family AND get away from the dreadful snow!

A couple weeks ago Brent's mom and aunt came to visit! That was nice having family around.

We went to this festival called the Apple Day Festival at Fort Riley. Brent was stuck working, but he was working the machine gun area and guess what I got to do?!?



Yeah that's right, I got to shoot a machine gun!

It was awesome, and REALLY loud, even with the ear plugs!!

So a little update on Sylus. He's crawling everwhere! He crawls over to my coffee table and entertainment center and pulls himself up to stand! It's awesome, yet very annoying! He's constantly banging his little head on something since he's being so adventerous! He can't sleep in his crib anymore because one morning I found him standing up in it! (We have to get around to lowering the mattress in the crib so he can sleep in it.) But for now he's in mommy & daddy's room sleeping in his playpen. I'm excited for him walk, yet wouldn't mind for him not to. He gets into enough things just crawling!!

Here's my little monster kickin' back, relaxing in his stroller. Haha!

I'll write soon, xoxo, Ragen

P.S. I updated my last post with pictures from our anniversary.