Funday

Ian and I had some fun on Monday as usual… there’s some pics below after a few observations.

Observations:
• One of the bigger shocks we had this week. Despite the fact that we are brushing his teeth and noted two back-to-back teething-style colds for Ian, nothing could have prepared us for when we finally tickled him hard enough to see that two surprise teeth had come in on top, further back than we had managed to look.

• Several times now Ian has placed something difficult to manipulate in my hands so that he could have me hold it while he did whatever he needed to do. I mentioned a peg-and-ring toy, but he’s now done this with a stack of small plastic boats that fit into each other tightly, and the snack-holding cup.

• Another hilarious restaurant happening… Ian has always been quite the charmer when we go out to eat, wooing people at other tables like some kind of pied piper for grandparents. But this time we were at Taco Bell, and two teenage boys walked in. They looked like skater types. Ian immediately got this big grin on his face like these guys were his best friends. For the next five minutes Ian kept looking over and smiling at them and they’d smile back and laugh, and really gush at the attention this baby was giving them. We figured this was some fluke. A few moments later three more teenagers showed up, two boys and a girl. Again Ian beamed brightly and craned his neck to get a better view… and the new teenagers immediately noticed and giggled. Then it was peek-a-boo and smiling glances and laughter. It is extremely hard to convey how odd this whole thing was, and just how good it felt to have Ian as our son; he positively glows sometimes, but it is even more impressive to see him pass this feeling on to others. You see them glow too.

I took this shot because I realize we don’t often take shots of the back of his little noggin. You can really see his hair growth in this shot. See this image larger.

“Arf?” Sure, that looks cute, but that stuffed animal is about to be victim to a very painful nose-bite. Again with all that hair on the back of his head!See this image larger.

Sadly he thought this very hard plastic baseball was like his soft rubber basketballs, and stuffed it in his mouth as hard as he could. That hurt, I could tell. See this image larger.

The aforementioned rubber basketballs. See this image larger.

This image illustrates quite well something I said a few entries back about how Ian no longer has a problem just kind of laying on the floor and having fun with it. See this image larger.