Weekend w/Aunt Lori & Nana

This past weekend, Ian and I hitched a ride with Mom (Nana) to Dayton, Ohio to see (Aunt) Lori. We left Friday afternoon with the intent of meeting Lori at her office so she could show off her nephew, unfortunately, traffic was not in our favor. On the plus side, Ian took the 4 hour drive down there exceedingly well. He got a tiny bit fussy when it took us 30 minutes to go 8 miles due to construction, but we really couldn’t blame him because Mom and I were irritable about it as well.

Once we got there, Ian met a new friend – Morgan, Lori’s new pekeapoo puppy. The two were really interested in each other. All weekend Morgan would try to play with Ian and Ian loved watching Morgan chase Lori’s three cats around. At one time, Morgan even came up and gave Ian a kiss. Lori’s neighbor also had a jumper we were able to borrow and Ian found out he could jump higher in this one than ours. The jumper we have is more mobile than most. Ours doesn’t hang in the doorway, it has a frame so we could put it in the middle of our living room since we really don’t have any door frames. This weekend’s jumper went into the door frame and there was no limit to how high he could jump. I didn’t get a great video of it, but I did get some, which you can see below. Ian also slept really well this weekend. He only got up once during the last three nights – although he did get up one additional time last night, but he calmed down as soon as I picked him up. However, since he was so well rested, he got both mom and I up at 7am both mornings. Jayson came home from out west Saturday night and we had a cookout on their porch. During dinner, Ian tried pineapple, grapes, and watermelon. By Lori and Mom’s reaction, Ian did not like the green grapes. I was too busy concentrating on not letting it go that I missed his reaction. I guess it was priceless. He liked the watermelon – I think we’re going to have to puree some into baby food for him. He didn’t have much of a reaction to the pineapple though.

Since we had a ways to drive, the three of us let Lori’s earlier than planned today. We were going to stick around until 10-11am, but Ian decided he wanted his nap around 9:30, so we took off. The car ride home was a bit more problematic, but his gums were really bothering him. It also started to rain pretty good just south of Findley, which slowed our driving down a lot. The drive home had its moments, however I believe Mom and I would agree with all of Ian’s complaints. Jesse met us in Ann Arbor so Mom wouldn’t have as far to drive and Ian was happy to see him. This was Ian’s first road trip and overall he was a good boy throughout it all. Jesse enjoyed his hermit time, Ian got to spend time with his grandmother and aunt, and I was able to take a 2 hour nap without interruptions! It was a good weekend.