Pumpkins!

This weekend was quite eventful. On Friday we bundled up and headed for the pumpkin walk with our neighbors (sadly for only a few more weeks- they are moving on to warmer places like Texas) the Hartzheims.

For those of you who don't know the pumpkin walk happens every October here in good ole Cache Valley -where various organizations and groups but together different displays using pumpkins. Mostly of them are painted but occasionally you get a few nicely carved ones.

As for Ian -about 5 minutes into it he slept the whole time.

But doesn't he just look so cute in his beenie.

If I can get a hold of it
-then I am putting it in my mouth.

This is the current stage that Ian is in -everything goes in the mouth. Yes even if he can get a hold of the dog he attempts to eat him (don't worry we don't actually let him). Anytime he spots the television remote or a phone he lights up and then only wants that. He now gets a little upset if you take away toys. During church he started to eat his book -we took it away and needless to say we had to excuse ourselves from the rest of sacrament meeting because he was so mad. As far as rice cereal goes -he seems to be enjoying it (despite the look on his face here).
The last couple of nights have been horrible -he has been waking up fussing every hour -to be exact every 64 minutes on the dot. Why??? Good question -that I have been asking myself and others for two days. He was pulling on his ear -but doctor said he doesn't have an ear infection. We think it might possibly be that he is teething but I can't feel anything yet.



Carving Pumpkins
Despite our lack of sleep on Sunday we carved pumpkins with my family. Tim was a little excited -ok ....a lot because he would finally have something to show for his work. Last year he did scar (from Ling King) it was amazing but unfortunately we carved them to early and his rotted out. This year he thought he would change it up.

After a 4 hours of planning and carving Tim's creation was finally complete.

Yes even Ian joined in the fun -he wanted to eat it as usual.

Meanwhile the rest of us complete all of our pumpkins -but Tim was nice enough to clean all of our pumpkins out too!
Tada!!!
Spider -my mom
Transformer -Tim
Noah's Ark -me and Ian
Spooky Face -Hunter
Tomb -Me

Now hopefully they all last until Friday!

Rice Cereal

Today was your usual Sunday -we went for dinner at my parents house and Ian as always had a blast playing with the family.

The the real adventure began after his two hour nap long nap -and boy was he hungry. We had planned on feeding him the rice cereal first then I would nurse him afterward. However given his unusually long nap -he was extremely hungry.

We went to feed him rice cereal but he was to mad to begin with (since he was hungry) and did not understand that we were giving him food. So I decided to feed him a little before and then again after the cereal and it worked much better.

He didn't really love it -but at the same time he did not hate it. He was more interesting in grabbing the bowl and eating the spoon rather than the cereal on it. But nonetheless he ate the cereal as well. Although there was probably a few spoon fulls worth of the rice cereal on his bib.

All in all -I would say it was somewhat successful :)

Picnic

It has been UEA weekend -hurray no school! I believe I was more excited than my students I loved having a short week and being able to spend time at home. Sadly it is just going to make going back to work on Monday that much harder.

Today was a b-e-a-utiful day! This afternoon we went with our friends to see their cute apartment the we went out for a picnic at second dam and the sun could not have been any brighter -so forgive the squinty pictures.

Ian sleeping in the background -he took a whole ten minute nap but you would never know it he smiled the whole time and loved being outside.Us with our friends Craig and Nancy.

The family -except the dog -he wasn't allowed. But he was spoiled at home anyway with a nice chicken and rice dinner -which he ate in about 2 seconds.
Everyone was climbing trees so Craig decided to join in the fun.

Then tonight we had a nice steak dinner with our neighbors and now are sitting her wondering if Ian still does have reflux. The last couple of nights we have heard his food just going up and down in his tummy -he went off of the reflux medicine over a month again so it is weird that it would all of the sudden start up again. Cross your fingers.

Tomorrow I think we will attempt to give Ian some rice cereal -he seems to be very interested in food. He is constantly grabbing at our plates and anything that comes in the general direction of his grabby hands. So we'll see what happens.

Cuddles!

Ian is starting to feel better! He is still loves to cuddle and anytime he begins to get upset we just wrap around his super soft blankets and he is happy again!

1st Cold :(

Last week I had a cold and since this past Friday I have been feeling great -just pay no attention to my deep frog voice -it is slowing going away. But now I am feeling just like normal. Tim never actually got sick. So of course we thought the we were in the clear....not quite.

At 2:48 am Ian woke up crying. I assumed it was his usual "come in and roll me back over" but not so much. I moved him back to his usual sleeping positive then I too crawled back into bed. Then at 3:34 am he was up again. I went in to roll him back over but he was already on his stomach so I moved him fixed the blankets and went to bed. Then at 4:16 am he woke up again- yes again! I was tempted to let him be and cry it out but it was not a very happy cry. So I dragged my lifeless body into his room -yes only body I was not there mentally at all -and he was coughing. Oh no (I now mentally checked in)!!!

I got him up and feed him to calm him down but he was too stuffy to eat. We did all the usual things humidifier in his room, elevate the crib, check temperature, clean his nose, etc. He did not have a temperature but unfortunately has a dry cough, and stuffy nose, and a little bit of a horse voice. Poor thing. He seems to be doing even better now -after every sneeze follows a snotty smile :) Hopefully he will be better very soon.

While I have no pictures of our poor snot nosed child -you wouldn't believe the weather outside

that is right -October 12th -it has been a blizzard outside. But now as I write this no more than 10 minutes later it is sunny outside and the snow on the grass has practically melted -crazy Logan weather?!

All Smiles!

Unfortunately nothing to exciting happening around here this week. We are all sick -except Ian (knock on wood that he doesn't get sick). It started out with me sick this beginning of the week and now Tim feels like he is coming down with the cold too.

On a brighter side...my grandparents were down in Logan this past weekend. And Tim's brother Jimmer can down to visit for a couple days. Ian is always happy to see a new face -I think he tends to get tired of seeing our faces. All my grandma had to do was look at Ian and he would light up. In addition he loved listening to Jimmer sing him different songs and of course make all those silly baby noises and funny faces.

With Ian rolling over all the time -let just say he does not sleep in as well as he used to. He can still only roll from tummy to back and then is stuck. At least he is happy when he wakes up though -mom just isn't happy when she has to wake up in the middle of the night and roll him back over. I am sure that if I left him for long enough maybe he would eventually figure it out or just fall back asleep on his back. But it is just so much easier for me to quickly get up roll him over and then we all go back to bed versus listening to him fuss for what seems like forever.

He loves playing with toys and is really reaching for things. He has also started to realize which toys he like more than others. This is one of his favorites he can just stares at it for a while then eventually attempt to fit as much of it as he can into his mouth.

Ian has always been a jumper but could never quite figured out how the jumper works. Lets just say when I tried to help him -it scared him and he would not go near it for a week. We are proud to say that he has finally figured it out...and loves to jump.

While there is no story behind this picture I could not resist... look how cute my two boys look. While I am sure the third (the dog) is off destroying tissues somewhere -he has recently discovered that he can just pull the tissues right out of the box (annoying). As I sit here and try to thing of a title for this blog I have to wonder looking back at previous blogs -what did we ever post about before we had Ian?

Ian video 5: Laughing and talking