Before the successes of last week, there was a turning point in Ian. I think our little man has had to watch attention get lavished over Nina… being born, getting sick and being in the hospital, the coddling of grandparents, feeding off of Mommy. I can’t be absolutely sure, but I thought I heard it […]
This video was taken on the 23rd, so technically the day before Ian’s bike video. This video is much shorter and obviously contains a lot less dialog, but it is still packed with 300% of the US RDA for cuteness! So click already and behold as Nina flops from belly-to-back! Click here to watch the […]
Melissa and I talked about it, and decided it would be ok to buy Ian his first bicycle. (The purchase, assembly and first ride all took place on April 24th.) To me this is one of my greatest treats – an honor I’m very happy to have been given. I’ve got the whole story on […]
Ok so here’s a quick rundown of the scoreboard… On Wednesday we started Ian on big boy underwear per his request. He had one success that day. Thursday he had no successes. On Friday, when we picked Ian up from daycare they had good news for us — Ian had gone potty twice successfully amidst […]
On April 17th, Grandma Sue arrived at the Grand Rapids airport, met by Ian and I at the gate. It was a lovely visit that I myself still feel a little bad about, because I had to pay attention to a very important deadline, and missed out on much of Grandma Sue’s stay. In the […]
April 13th, Ian removed a cushion from the couch, and laid down in the spot where the cushion was not. Two separate actions, really. If he’d had another 10 calories to burn he’d have made it to the cushion side, I think. See this image larger. It looks like all of these were taken around […]
Last night Ian counted bunnies on the back of a book properly… as in, pointing to each character and assigning them a digit. “One…” “…Two!” And the two had a sense of finality to it, so this felt a little different than his usual counting, in which he points all over the page and counts […]
Wanted everybody to know that Nina’s first week at daycare was an excellent success. She has a smile on her face when we drop her off, and a smile on her face when we pick her up… she’s been drinking between 3-5 bottles of milk a day. So that turned out great! And Ian in […]
Ian, Nina and Melissa traveled down to Ohio without Daddy, remember? These were all taken sometime around April 4th-5th. See this image larger. Unfortunately I can’t really say what was going on, because I wasn’t there. I can only guess. Here Ian practices opera while Kaylee jumpstarts a career in archeology. See this image larger. […]
Ok first things first… and I’ll say this again in the caption because you probably skipped this part. These are OLD PICTURES. Nina is NOT back in the hospital!!! I just found a bunch of pictures on Melissa’s laptop that I never ended up with on my computer… so now I’m passing on the love […]
