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

4 months old!

Weight 15 lbs. 10 oz 67 %
Length 25.5 inches 73%
Head 16.9 inches 71%

Ian had his four month check-up today. He is doing great!


New things he is rolling over quite a bit now but only from his tummy to back, he is extremely observant, and he still has his dinosaur talk/scream. I don't think that we could read enough books to him- he absolutely loves them. His favorite right now is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" And of course he loves his Baby Einstein Mozart video (thanks steph for the heads up on that one). Lately everything goes to his mouth no matter the size. I got him some teether rings to chew but silly me I went to sterilize them and thought I would just put them in our steam bag -and they exploded. Opps, lesson learned :)


As for the rest of us well if you can ever get ahold of us and we don't sound like we are running around with our heads cut off consider yourself lucky. Tim is busy with school and lately the above is about all we see. However usually he would be rolling his eyes at me and saying just a minute (which means 30) or possibily giving me one finger because I am taking 5 seconds of his valuable study time. Hopefully he doesn't read this -but he tends not to so I can pretty much say anything I would like. Too bad at can't think of anything better to say at the time. Nonetheless we still appreciate all the things he does -even if I do tend to notice the things that he doesn't do more :) At least the two of them survive during the day, right!

This week Tim is supposed to get the video up soon of us reading books to him and his dino talking!

White Trash dinner!

As many of you know Tim and I are lucky enough to have my parents live a small 20 minutes away. Every Sunday we go over and have dinner together -because lets face it thanks to my mother it is our one guaranteed 3 course meal for the week. This Sunday they went to Yellowstone so Tim and our made our own meal.

Barbecue chicken with provolone, veggie rice, and corn on the cob.

I like corn but not so much on the cob -I don't like it stuck between my teeth so I cut it off. Tim loves it and could eat a field of it. If you have never seen Tim eat corn on the cob consider yourselves lucky. Well we realized that we did not have corn holders but that was not acceptable for Tim -and being Sunday he created his own.

Yes, that is right toothpicks and electrical tape. It is a good thing no one else ate with us.

Rollie Pollie!

Last Friday (Sept 12) I was on my way home from work and about 2 minutes before I had arrived Tim called me and said that Ian had rolled over. He had laid him down on his tummy and when he came back in the room he was on his back. As soon as I arrived home I tried and tried to get him to roll over but no luck. I began to have doubts that he really had because Tim had worked a grave the night before and lets face it he probably just forgot which way he laid him down.

But sure enough on Saturday I saw him roll over with my own two eyes. He still is in the beginning stage of rolling over and only does it every so often -like when he wakes up from a nap -unless he has wedged himself to deep in the corner. But he is getting better and better at it everyday.
He has most defiantly found his voice and loves to shout -but it could easily be mistaken for screaming. It is mostly funny at times. We'll try and post a video of this soon but no promises you'll like it.
Ian received this present in the mail from his grandma and grandpa. He loves it. At first he kept trying to eat his nose but then the hair would flop in his face and startle him -then he found his tail and all was well. It is the neatest Lion he can chew on it -spit up on it -basically do anything to it and then we just throw it in the washing machine. Needless to say it has already been washed a couple of times. He also loves the books -thanks so much!

Nothing else too exciting going on around her next week he has his 4 month check up- hurray!

Laugh out Loud!

This week Ian has just started laughing out loud. The first time Ian had a really good laugh out loud moment was when hunter was holding him. Apparently Hunter is just funny looking :)

3 Months

We had a wonderful weekend -nothing exciting just enjoyed sitting at home smelling the fresh clean rain. Ian is now 3 months old and neither of us can hardly believe it. This weekend he was such a happy little guy and full of smiles that we missed a few naps here and there because he was just so happy we forgot. Ian is hand crazy -he doesn't just suck on his thumb -he sucks on his whole hand. As you can see he has all of his fingers in his mouth. We can give him a binkie but he insists on his hand and pulls the binkie out to get his hand in. Silly Boy!

I am not quite sure what to say about this picture -basically we're dorks. To bad we couldn't catch Ian laughing in the picture but he did seem to think it was quite funny.