Easy Rider

Pictures from Maryland

Ian and Aunt Heather


Ian and Grammy watching Curious George


On the swings at the park

Friday 11/16

We had lunch with Jean today, which has become our Friday routine. We went to the Wendy’s near daycare, since I have been in Victor all week at a client site, and it’s hard to get back to the city early. Jean came home with us and we played a while before Ina went up for his nap. He cooperated a little better today, but still only slept about a half an hour. Jean headed home about 3:00 and Ian and I headed out to the museum to meet up with Catherine and Ana. Ian had a great time as usual. We stared out at the art station in the Sesame Street exhibit, when played with the trains. Ana and Catherine went on the train ride with us, which was fun. Then it was on to the Bob exhibit. David had a chance to break away from work for a little while and came and played with us for a while. We also did the “sand box” (which is really silicon beads) and the Post Office, before Ana and Catherine needed to head out. We Stopped for a ride on the carousel, but Ian didn’t enjoy it much this time. I think he was upset that he could see his Daddy as we were going by and didn’t want to be separated from him. We lingered a while in the museum shop and then stopped at Burger King to get dinner on the way home. (Fast food twice in one day - bad Mommy!)David got home shortly after we did and he and Ian played downstairs for a while. Ian has so much fun opening the packages of Star Wars figures. He can also turn David’s CD player on, which is a two step process, where you have to push certain buttons in sequence to make it work. Ian was tired and getting cranky, so we started the bedtime process and he was asleep by quarter to eight.

I talked to my mother and she has decided not to go to Kenny’s for Thanksgiving this year. We both really wanted her to do it, but she is adamant that she doesn’t want him to drive there and back just to get her and then back again. Oh well, what can you do? Jean invited us to Thanksgiving with her, but I have decided to cook again this year and invite Norm and Elizabeth and Lia like we did last year. That way I will have plenty of leftovers that we can take to my mother’s on Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving. Now I just have to plan my menu and so my shopping!

Thursday 11/15

Today ended up being very chaotic, as Ian totally refused to nap and we ended up spending almost two hours in the car helping Norm and Lia, since Elizabeth was in the hospital. I tried to get Ian to go up for his nap a little early, since we had to leave to pick up Lia by 2:45 and he just wouldn’t settle. He did doze on my lap and slept for maybe 5 minutes, but that was it. So I let him rest in front of the tv until it was time to go. Unfortunately, but the time, we picked up Lia, went to her house to get a book for her homework, picked up Norm at the hospital and took him to the car dealership where he was having his car repaired, it was almost 5:00 before we got home. Ugh. It was David’s game night, so I didn’t even get a break there. Plus, we had to cancel our playdate with Catherine and Ana. I did take Ian up early for his bath and bed and he was asleep by 7:30, so that was some relief. Overall, a very tiring day. Elizabeth ended up being OK, just an issue with her medication, but they didn’t let her go until after dinner.

Wednesday 11/13

It was a pretty quiet day today, not as nice weather as yesterday. I got Ian up for his nap a little earlier than I have been doing, and he slept almost an hour and a half. I had a nice nap, too. We went to the library once we go up and ready. It was OK enough out that I tried to get him to play on the playground a while before going in, but that only lasted a few minutes before the lure of the markers was just too much. He didn’t even spend much time with the trains before heading to the art table. We also had a turn on the library computer to play the Bob the Builder game and played with their Legos. Ian wanted to build a tunnel, of course. He is the Tunnel King.

When we got home, he ate another whole dish of olives while I was making dinner. They don’t seem to ruin his appetite too much, and they are a pretty healthy snack, really. Better than crackers. I did manage to get him up to bed a little earlier than I have been recently, which was good. I think his teeth are still coming in and he did have a wake-up at 10:00, but after that he didn’t wake up to nurse until 6:30.

Tuesday 11/12

I am still having to wake Ian up at 8:00 to go to work and daycare. I really need to start trying to get him to bed earlier. Especially since I have a project out in Webster for a few days and will need to get out there at a reasonable time. After I got back and picked Ian up, we met Jean at Borders and then went to Panera Bread for lunch. It wasn’t as good as usual, but Ian enjoyed the Greek salad (feta cheese and olives, yum!) and apple as usual. We got home for his nap before 2:00, which was good.

It was a gorgeous day today, sunny and up into the 50’s so we went to the park when he got up. Ian really ran himself into the ground, climbing, sliding, walking all over from the main play area to the one on the other side, and running in the fields with some other kids. He even decided that he had to climb up the center ladder to the high platform on the big playset, which is easily eight feet up. I had to climb up a bit myself to spot him at the end, and a nice father who was there with his son also gave him a boost. Then it was down the big tunnel slide and back up the ladder, at least three times. It was really getting dark by the time I persuaded him that we had to leave. Tonight I had a dinner out with two of my old friends form the Divinity School, Meg and Arlita. We met at the Elmwood Inn and I took Ian with me. He did OK, although the service wasn’t super kid-friendly. I had brought along the small Magna-doodle, which helped keep him occupied while we were waiting. It was nice to get together with the girls, since I hadn’t seen them in a while. We didn’t stay for dessert and got home by 7:00., so Ian got to spend some time with Daddy before it was bedtime.

Monday 11/12

Ian slept straight through until 8:00 this morning, without even waking up to nurse. Apparently what we need to do to get him to sleep through is to take him on long trips and exhaust him for several days. It was nice to get back to our regular schedule, although Ian’s afternoon nap was kind of short. It was a chilly, rainy, November day, so we went to the library in the afternoon. Ian had fun with the trains and coloring with the markers as usual. He also played with the other toys and the computer. One thing he likes is a set of magnetic figures they have with interchangeable parts. He likes putting them together so they’re right. “Mommy, pants!” he announced happily when he got it organized correctly. We stopped at the store on the way home, since I realized that I didn’t have any food in the house after the long weekend. Ian ate three quarters of an apple while we were walking around. I finally remembered to buy olives for him and he ate a while dish of them while I was making dinner. David came home just as dinner was ready, so we ate downstairs. Ian loves to watch Jonny Quest on Daddy’s computer screen, and play with his figures. He also likes to shoot me with his phaser gun and strafe me with his spaceships. Apparently, Mommy is the perfect target. Tonight he also wanted to put on the Darth Vader helmet, which was just incredibly cute. Next time I really need to get a picture of him doing that. It was bath night and we had some ice cream with Daddy before going to bed. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as quiet a night as last night, but he was OK. He woke up and had a hard time settling around 10:00, bit I was able to get him to go back down without having to nurse him.

Our Trip to Maryland, pt. 3

Sunday 11/11 – We had a better sleeping night last night. Ian was very tired, plus having music helped him go to sleep, and having the windows covered helped him stay asleep. Even so, he was up for the day by 8:00. When we got dressed and went upstairs the birds had a bout of screeching which upset Ian, but they calmed down eventually and so did he. We had waffles for breakfast again today, with real maple syrup, which I’m sure Ian didn’t appreciate, but I did. We put on the Curious George movie and played around with the dogs for a while. Ian is so cute with little Hunter. After a while, he started to be restless, so we first went out to the backyard with the dog for a while and then walked down the road to a park where they had some playground equipment. It was still pretty chilly and wet and there was ice on the slides, but we managed to enjoy ourselves. Other people came too, which made it more fun. They had some old-style equipment, like a metal merry-go-round and teeter-totters, which Ian hadn’t been on before, so that was fun. We headed back to the house by 11:30 to finish getting ready to go and say good-bye to Ian’s “people.”

We got on the road by 1:15 and stopped pretty quickly to pick up some lunch. Ian had eaten a bunch of pretzels and other stuff at the house, so he was hungry, but not starving. Ian was very tired and fell asleep before 2:00. He slept for about an hour and I dozed, too. When he woke up, we played with the Magna-doodle and LeapPad book to keep busy. We stopped again for a diaper change and a drink and snack around 3:30, and then gas. When it got dark, I got out my laptop and we watched an Elmo dvd and the Curious George movie. With one more stop for dinner, that took us all the way home by 7:45. After letting him stretch his legs a bit, I took Ian up to bed. He really was exhausted and very, very happy to be in his own bed, so he fell asleep quickly. I emptied the car, watched tv for a while and called it a night myself.

Our Trip to Maryland, pt.2

Saturday 11/10 – The windows in our basement room did not have coverings, so once Ina woke up at 7:00, he was up for the day. And so was everyone else, shortly after that, of course. The first order of business was helping him get comfortable with everyone and especially with having the birds making noise. He did all right and started having fun with the dogs right away. Heather has two little Yorkshire Terriers, which are just adorable. The one female was older and pretty much kept out of Ian’s way, but he had a lot of fun with the younger male dog once they got used to each other. Ian isn’t used to little, skittish dogs, and they certainly weren’t used to a boisterous toddler. But by the end of the weekend, Ian and Hunter had pretty well bonded. We got several super cute pictures of Ian and Hunter kissing each other. Ian learned to pet him (pat pat) very nicely and would lie down on the floor with him, imitating his behavior. By Sunday morning, Hunter had started barking at Heather if it seemed like she was playing too rough with Ian or pretending to attack and tickle him. He was protecting his boy. It was very cute, especially since Hunter is so tiny.

Since I had forgotten a couple of other things as well as Ian’s CD, we decided to take a quick trip out to see if we could find stuff. We ended up going to the Frederick Towne mall, in an older commercial district. The stores weren’t quite open when we got there, so we amused Ian by letting him go on the 25 cent rides they had in the center. I got some great pictures of him on a motorcycle. He was wearing his army-style bomber jacket and he looks like a little “Easy Rider.” We didn’t find the exact CD, but got one close enough. By the time we got home, Mother had already arrived. We both thought she looked, not that much dramatically changed from the last time we saw her, but she was definitely older and thinner. She and Heather had been shopping for Ian, so they had a bunch of birthday presents for him to open. They got him a “Color Wonders” marker set and coloring book, another coloring toy that paints with a water pen and lots of trains. They got a couple of Thomas trains (his favorite yellow ones), a figure eight track set and a set of really useful connector pieces. Ian was thrilled with it all, of course, and had a great time opening all the packages. They had everything all sitting on the dining room table. He didn’t notice them when we first came in, since he had to meet new people, see the doggies, etc., but pretty soon he wandered in there and saw them and then it was all over. “Pweses! Pweses!” After everything was open, Ian colored for a while (“Mark-eyes!”) and the grown-ups worked on getting the train track set up. Fortunately, Daddy is pretty good at figuring out how they go together (and also at looking at the diagrams).

By the time we chatted and played a while, it was time to go to lunch. Mother decided to go home and rest for a while instead, so we went into downtown Frederick to a Spanish restaurant that they like. Heather has celiac disease, which is an extreme sensitivity to wheat and wheat gluten, so she is limited as to the restaurants she can eat at. Unfortunately, this one was a fairly fancy one, and not really very child friendly. The food was great, but the service was slow and Ian was bored and antsy. David was great and walked him around while we were waiting. Ian really wanted soup (“Djoup!”) and watching him eat it was pretty funny (and messy). I also got him some chicken enchiladas, which were delicious. By the end of the meal, Ian was really done being there, so David took him out a couple of doors down to a really neat toy store while Heather and Pete and I waited for the check. Ian had a fit when David took him out of the store, so we all joined them there. They had tons of neat wooden toys, including a large wooden setup that you put marbles down through and they rolled around down the various tracks and spirals. Ian was fascinated by it. It was too expensive, but we ended up having to get him a set of nesting castle blocks to get him to leave the store without having a tantrum. I know that’s bad generally, but this was an exception. He had so much fun carrying the bag, it was adorable. It was awkward to manage, so I just took it out and let him carry the toy itself by its handle, which was even cuter.

Unfortunately, between Mother’s perfume, the smell of the birds, and the food, I ended up with a pounding migraine/sick headache. It got worse on the ride home, until I eventually had to have David pull over so I could throw up. I was still pretty miserable when we got home and tried to get Ian to nap so I could lie down, but he wouldn’t cooperate. He had slept for about ten minutes in the car on the way to the restaurant, and there was just too much going on at the house – new people, new toys, dogs, birds, etc. – for him to be willing to settle and nurse, even though it was 2:30 and he had slept so poorly the night before. I gave up and asked David and Heather if they would deal with him so I could sleep. I woke up around 4:00, when Mother came back. Apparently, they all had a great time playing in the afternoon. Heather in particular seems very taken with Ian. She pretty adamantly said she doesn’t want children herself, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to play with her nephew once in a while. And Ian is a fun kid to play with. We all played and talked for a good while and then it got to be dinner time. We ended up going to a local diner that Heather could eat at. That worked out much better than the Spanish place in terms of Ian. They served relatively fast and had kid-friendly food. Ian insisted on having soup again (“Lunch! Djoup!”) Heather chased him around at the end of the meal while we sat talking for a while. It was nice to see Mother and very nice for her to get a chance to see Ian and interact with him. Mother said she wasn’t planning on coming over in the morning, so we said our good-byes, and headed back to Heather’s to put the little guy to bed. He went to bed reasonably easily and definitely slept better than the first night. It also helped that we covered the windows. We stayed up a while talking and looking at pictures, which was nice.

Our Trip to Maryland, pt.1

Friday 11/9 – Ian had a bad night last night, waking up several times, miserable. I think we are having another round of tooth trouble, since I noticed he had practically his whole hand in his mouth and was pulling his hair like crazy. I gave him some Motrin around 2:30, and than he settled until 6:00. I nursed him back down at that point and he slept until it was time to get him up at 8:00. I took the morning off to finish getting ready to go, so I took him in to daycare as usual. It’s pretty much impossible to get a lot of work done with him around. But even so, I really hadn’t accomplished everything by the time David got home and we had to finish getting things together and packing the car together.

We finally got on the road around 2:30. The drive just seemed incredibly long. It didn’t help that it was rainy and miserable most of the way, and of course, we ended up stopping more than we would have in the past, which made it take even longer. Ian did conk out for about an hour later in the afternoon, which was good. I had gotten him a new, larger Magna-Doodle board, which we had a lot of fun playing with in the car, though. In addition to the pen attachment, it came with four magnetic shape stamps, which Ian got a big kick out of, too. I would draw things and he would erase them, or stamp over them as fast as he could, laughing. We drew houses and bridges, trees and monkeys, until it started to get dark. We also played a bit with his LeapPad book reader, before it got too dark to see. At that point, I got out my laptop and played DVD’s for Ian to watch Elmo and Curious George.

We ended up not getting to Heather and Pete’s until around 9:30. We took the key stuff for the night in, and David set up his crib so I could get him to sleep as quickly as possible. He was very overwhelmed at first. He was excited and interested to see new people, but Heather has two large birds, macaws, I think, and their screeching scared and upset him. Also, by that point, he was very over-tired. And over-tired and over-stimulated is not a good combination! But I did manage to get him to settle enough to get him to sleep. He had a very restless night and was up frequently, wanting to nurse, mostly for comfort. Also, I had forgotten his special music CD, so we didn’t have that to help him settle either. It was a long night.

New Pictures....

Mommy's big boy!




Ian Coloring -

Thursday 11/8

Ian has been sleeping late in the morning these past few days, so that I have to get him up to go to work and daycare. We’ll have to see if we can get him sleep earlier! I left work a little early today to help get the church’s internet connection set up, but ended up picking Ian up at the regular time anyway. He hadn’t eaten much lunch at daycare, so I made us something to eat when we got home. We both had a pretty nice nap and then stayed in for most of the afternoon. One thing that I’ve noticed about how Ian plays with the blocks now is that he will say what it is he wants to build, such as a tunnel or a house, rather than just building “towers” and knocking them down. He will want the house to have a door, or a gate, and likes to park his cars in the garage/tunnels that we make under the mega-block towers. I think that’s neat. We did take a quick stop out to the grocery store to get stuff for our upcoming trip. As usual, Ian didn’t want to go, but enjoyed himself looking at things and eating grapes once we were there. We played with Daddy, both downstairs and upstairs after dinner. Ian was jumping on the bed in the guest room and wanted me to jump, too. I didn’t jump, so he jumped on me instead, banging his hard little head into the side of my eye socket. Ouch! It’s been a bad week for Mommy in terms of getting injured. I gave him a quick bath, so we wouldn’t have to worry about using Heather’s tub and then it was off to bed. As soon as he was settled, I went over to Jean’s so we could do my hair – can’t go visiting people with gray hair!

Wednesday 11/7

Ian picked up a pen off the reception counter on the way out of daycare today and rather then risk a tantrum I let him have it. He was OK with it in the car and wrote on some papers I gave him. Then when we got home, I had to change him before I started my lunch, because he had wet through the cheapie diapers they use at daycare and soaked his pants. I left his pants off, figuring I’d change him when we went go up for his nap. So I turned my attention to what I was going to have for lunch, while Ian went off to the other room to watch Teletubbies (or so I thought). Anyway, I had just sat down with my sandwich when he appeared in the kitchen saying “Knees! Knees!” and pointing to his legs. When I looked at him, I saw that he had gotten the pen again and written all over both his legs from the knees down! I guess I should be glad it wasn’t on his clothes, and really it was my fault for not taking the pen away, but I was still pretty annoyed. I didn’t have any hairspray on hand, but a quick check of the internet led me to use my Clinique eye make-up remover which worked pretty well. It didn’t sting, but Ian was still upset, both at being held down and rubbed and because I was upset. Hopefully this will reinforce the idea that we only write on paper. The rest if the day was pretty normal. We stayed in today after his nap, playing with blocks and watching Curious George. Then after dinner, we played with Daddy and went up to bed at the usual time.

We talked to Heather in the evening and there has been some more progress on getting their mother’s diagnosis settled. After the last scan, they decided she’s probably at Stage 2 in terms of the cancer, which is better than we thought. She has more testing and a case review on Friday, where they will decide what treatment they recommend. They will probably want to do the surgery, and do it soon. David wants to get down to see her with Ian before Thanksgiving, and we decided to go this upcoming weekend. It’s kind of short notice, but I think we can manage.

Birthday and Halloween Pictures

Ian's birthday cake -


Yum!



And Trick or Treating on Halloween

Tuesday 11/6

A cold, rainy day, shading into freezing. A real November day. Ian and I met Jean for lunch at Boston Chicken. Ian cooperated about as usual, and ate a fair amount. We ended up letting him play with the salt and pepper shakers to keep him distracted at the end. We might have gone to the library with Jean after, but I decided I was too tired, so we went home. I got Ian settled for his nap by 2:00 and laid down myself. Ian slept a good hour, which he has been doing lately, much to my relief. I really couldn’t take the half hour or 45 minute nap thing that he had been doing.

A funny thing Ian did this afternoon was get the clean sponges out of the dishwasher and announce that he wanted to clean things. He washed the floor in the front hall and also part of the wall there. It was too funny to see him working away with the sponges. “Clean (keen!) Mess!” I have been having an on-going sinus infection, and finally made a doctor’s appointment for this afternoon. David came home about 4:00 to watch the little guy, which was nice. My appointment was brief (hooray antibiotics!), so I voted (first time in Brighton!), got money from the ATM and stopped at the store on the way home. We played around as usual after supper, mostly in the living room and upstairs in the bedrooms, running around, jumping on the beds, snuggling and tickling. It’s so much fun to be Ian’s playmates now, especially since I know that the time when he wants to play with us like this will be so short over the span of his life with us. We had a nice bath, some time with Daddy and then it was time for na-nas and night-night. I still had to pick up my prescription, so I took a brief trip out to the store. I zipped the lining into my coat before going – which for me is always a sign that summer is really over. I was still very tired and fell asleep on the couch by 9:30.

Monday 11/5

Back to better sleeping last night – yay! Ian only got up once to nurse as usual, and then slept late. I had to go in and get him up to go to work and daycare. When I picked him up, he claimed he was hungry and that he wanted soup. (“Doop!”) So I made us a bowl of Chickarina soup for lunch before naptime and he ate quite a bit of it. I think he is feeling better now that at least the lower molars have broken through.

After his nap, I had promised to drive Elizabeth around, so first we picked her up and then picked up Lia at school to take her to a dentist appointment. It was a pediatric dentist, so they had lots of cool stuff for Ian to look at and play with in the waiting room. Of course, what he really wanted was a pen from the cup they had on the counter. Lia’s appointment didn’t take too long, anyway, which was good. They wanted to go straight home, so Ian and I had time to go to the library. It was mobbed today since it was chilly and rainy out, but Ian got a spot for coloring with his “mark-eyes” anyway. Towards the end of our time there, while Ian was playing with some of the other toys, a woman who I had chatted with before came in with her son, who is almost the same age as Ian. I had seen her at the museum as well as the library and we both commented on how hard it is to find afternoon activities in bad weather. We started talking again, and she suggested exchanging numbers and I suggested we could get together for a play date. She was very open to that, which is cool. She seems like a really nice person and even if she isn’t as old as I am, her hair was gray, so we probably have more in common with each other than with the younger moms. Her son seems like a nice little guy also – at least not as aggressive as Val! That was the good part of our library visit. The bad part was that on the way out of the Children’s Room, I was carrying Ian, and tripped over a child-size shopping cart and fell. I managed to let Ian down easily, but I scraped my knee and really bruised my upper chest and collarbone on the handle of the shopping cart. Ian didn’t even cry – he just lay there looking startled for a minute. As I fell, the cart pushed forward and ran into another older lady, who was upset because she’d just had a knee replacement. I think I got the worst of it though. My chest and collarbone are very sore. I doubt anything is broken since I can still move my arm freely, but it does hurt quite a bit.

With all that, we were late getting home for dinner, but I staved off Ian with a couple pieces of cheese and some yogurt milk. Dinner was ready about the time David got home, so we ate downstairs. Ian ate a lot tonight, too, which was good. We started the bedtime process at the regular time and he was asleep by 8:00, so I guess we’re over the time change.

Sunday 11/4

David was up with Ian again last night, but he slept in until 7:30, which was good. We played inside for the morning until it was time to get ready for church. One thing that Ian likes to do now with his blocks is build tunnels. We build it like a garage under the tower and he puts his cars in there. Also now he will often say we’re building a house, rather than it always being a tower. There were a lot of kids in the nursery today since it was a “Family Sunday” (no Sunday School). John G. was there with the kids and would have been alone, so I stayed to help. Everybody colored for a while, and then Ian spent time playing with the dollhouse with Ana. Val was pretty good too, but it helped that his Daddy was there. There was a lunch after church, so we stayed and ate. They had vegetable trays including black olives, which Ian loves. I filled his dish several times. I think he must have eaten a couple dozen. It was really amazing to watch him sucking them down. He also ate some of my soup, sandwich and cookies. We played with Daddy for a while at home before nap time. I was really tired, so I lay down too. I was still sleepy when Ian woke up, so David went up and got him. I thought they had gone downstairs, but it turned out Ian was still sleepy, too and David sat in the chair with Ian asleep on his chest for almost another hour. By the time we all woke up, it was 4:00. It was cool and cloudy, plus being late, so we stayed home and played with blocks and generally messed around. We ate at the normal time, and the guys headed downstairs after more playing with the set of the wooden blocks that David opened. We played some more before bed and also watched Star Wars a bit to calm down. I let Ian stay up a little later, as we are still adjusting to the time change, but that seems fine so far. His nails were getting long, so I clipped them before bed, which is always a struggle. He really hates me to do it. I might have been a little better this time – at least he wasn’t really hysterical. He went to bed pretty easily, so that was good.

Overall, we had a very nice weekend. We didn't really so anything special, mostly played and rested and hung around as a family. Which is OK, too.

Saturday 11/3

The thermometer said 29 this morning and the grass was all white with frost. I guess, despite our good weather, winter is coming. We stayed in this morning, watched our shows, played with the trains and colored. After David got up, they spent some time downstairs and then Ian decided it was time for outside. It had warmed up enough by then and we played on the swings and in the sandbox. David mowed and Ian and I pulled some weeds before going in for lunch. After his nap, Ian and I went out to King’s Bend Park. No trains passed by, but we had fun anyway. There was a family there with children a little older than Ian who were happy to play with him. They had just some here from California and the kids were anxious to see snow. I told them probably by Thanksgiving. Ian had fun climbing all over, going down the slides, etc. We got home for dinner around 5:00. Ian went downstairs while I was working on it and didn’t want to come up when it was ready. So I took our plates down there. The side dish was cheesy pasta with broccoli and carrots and Ian decided that today was broccoli day, since he ate all of it off both our plates. He also ate the pasta, a few carrots and some of the meat. But if I offer broccoli to him again tomorrow, I’m sure he’ll refuse it. He watched Jonny Quest for a while and then came back upstairs to play before bed. We had some ice cream, and I was about to take him up, but David reminded me that it was “fall back” for daylight savings time tonight, so we kept him up a little longer than usual. We had a great time this evening, running and chasing, and playing upstairs. We took some cute videos of him, too. Ian discovered my old wooden chest that I have our winter mittens and stuff in and he decided that he wanted to put his things in there, too. So he got all his socks out of the drawer in the metal desk, as well as any sheets and whatever else he could find and stuffed it in there. Even dirty laundry. It was too funny. After a bath and a trip back downstairs to sit with Daddy for a little while, I finally nursed him to sleep by 9:00. He is still definitely getting those two-year-molars, as David was up with him for almost an hour last night. I was so tired I didn’t even wake up, which is unusual for me. Anyway, tonight when I was brushing his teeth, I noticed that at least one more molar has broken through – the other bottom one. I tried to check for the top ones, but he bit me for my trouble, so I gave up. Hopefully he will sleep better tonight and say in bed a little later in the morning, so we don’t have too much time change “jet lag.”

Ian and Mommy Halloween fun

Opening Remarks

This will be my online journal, dealing mainly with our son Ian. He just turned two and is quite an amazing little person. He has changed our lives, filled our hearts and made us laugh. This is our life with Ian.