From the very beginning…
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Coloring Easter Eggs & Easter Morning
0I know I’ve been slacking on uploading the videos, but if you want them sooner, you should subscribe to our feed over on Youtube. Either way, here come a flurry of vids and the first one was done at Easter when Ian colored his first egg.
He actually did really well and managed to dip and pull out the eggs without spilling one container. He picked up on what he was suppose to do rather quickly and had a blast at the same time.
This year, we also had an easter egg hunt for the first time. Ian loved going around collecting eggs, but he really wasn’t happy about giving up his treasures.
More Videos Uploaded
0It’s been awhile since I’ve uploaded any videos onto YouTube, and thus here, but I finally got a chance to do it last night. There’s about 10 from this past month that were added, so instead of posting them all here, you can find them at our YouTube Channel.
Happy Birthday Ian!
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Ian turns 2 today and boy did we celebrate it in a way none of us wanted. All three of us came down with some kind of bug today and I think Ian is the only one really bouncing around. Granted, he wasn’t this morning…at least not until he threw up all over me. That is not a pleasant sensation first thing in the morning, especially when it happens in your bed. However, after that episode, he seemed to have bounced back. He wasn’t as cuddly as he normally gets when he is sick, but he was a lot more subdued. Jesse and I have been hit the worse – why are we always both sick at the same time?
Either way, we still celebrated Ian’s birthday today (with his party on Saturday) and he received Clarabel and Annie from the Thomas the Tank Engine train set (trackmaster style). He really enjoyed them since he wanted to go play with them instead of having any birthday cake (which I think shows he’s still not feeling 100% better).
Ian has his 2 year check up next week, so I’ll do one of my more detailed posts then.
Ian’s Toddler Bed
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Yup, you saw that right. Ian has graduated to a toddler bed. Jesse and I had been contemplating moving him into one for quite awhile now. At first, we thought about doing it during the holidays, but then something came up and we decided to wait until his 2nd birthday. Well, a couple of weeks ago, our minds were changed once again. Ian loves getting in our bed and pulling the covers up and “going to bed” that we couldn’t logically put it off anymore. So while Gramps was up one weekend, the men changed Ian’s crib to a toddler bed. Ian is loving it and he’s been awesome with it. The night we changed it over, he was all set to hop into bed and go to sleep (without taking his bath).
Since then, he’s been doing really well with it. We really haven’t had a problem with him getting out of bed and giving us a problem with going to bed (knock on wood). We still go through our nightly routine and when he’s put in bed he generally stays. Now there have been a couple of times where he starts to crawl out as we’re leaving the room, but generally we just need to turn around and tell him it’s bedtime and to go to sleep and he’ll crawl right back in bed.
With that said, yesterday was a different story. He did not want to take a nap (even though it was obvious he needed one) and he did get up a couple of times. He did end up getting in a nap, but he never made it back to his bed. I went in to check on him after 20 minutes of silence and found him curled up on the floor with his blankets. We’re thinking he slept there purposefully since he had both of his blankets wrapped around him (he’s been having growing and teething pains simulatneoiusly).
The one thing we were hoping he would figure out sooner still hasn’t happen though. Now that he can get in and out of his bed when he wants, he still waits for one of us to come get him after he wakes up. He will sit in his bed for 5 minutes calling us instead of getting out and playing. We were hoping he would be content to getting pu and playing in his room for awhile, so Jesse and I could sleep in a little more on the weekends, but that’s a no go at the moment.
So Ian has officially gone into a toddler bed and we no longer have a crib.
The Count
0And you thought I was lying when I said Ian liked the Count….
You know how I said that while Ian does like Elmo, he asks for either Cookie Monster or the Count more, yeah, this should prove that. Ian wanted to watch the count when we got home tonight and Jesse decided to video tape him asking for “Count”. Yeah, by the end, Ian was losing his patience.
Yeah, this was one of the first times we danced to the Song of the Count and Ian loved spinning…if you couldn’t tell by me almost running into one of the walls from being so dizzy.
Ian loves dancing to any song sung by the Count. He has so much energy when he dances like this that it tires us out waaaay before it tires him out. This was the third time this morning I believe.
Ian & Snow
0Ian was all about the snow today. He loved being outside during the summer and we could tell by his reaction today that he has missed being outside. He was loving it…being outside.
Brushing his teeth
0Ian loves to brush his teeth. All you have to say is “teeth” and he knows exactly what to do.
Our Christmas Tree
0Our tree this year wasn’t spectacular, but is pretty impressive. Especially if you notice that only the top half of the tree has ornaments on it. When Ian and I put the tree up last week, we had the ornaments spread throughout the entire tree, but Ian didn’t realize that once the ornaments were up, he could stop giving them to me to put on the tree. To this day, he’s still bringing me ornaments to put on the tree, even though he’s taking them off of the tree to do so.
Jesse and Ian with our Christmas tree. We tried getting Ian to say Merry Christmas, but he was more interested in the candy cane than anything else.