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This just in: During Ian’s bedtime story, he pointed at a block in the book that had an “A” on it and said “Ah.” We paused, startled. He then insisted “Ah! Ah! Ah!” Has he learned what the letter A looks like? Maybe!

• The day we got back from our trip I was holding Ian in my lap and held out his foot to the passing cat. The cat headbutted Ian’s foot. If you knee more about their relationship thus far, you’d understand what an anomoly this is; typically the cat doesn’t want anything to do with Ian. Perhaps he missed him?

• I truly did not mean to introduce Ian to video games this early, but we managed to find a Wii Fit at Best Buy the other week, and decided to give it a try as I had Reward Zone Bucks to use up (think of them as Best Buy coupons.) I think we just looked at the game where you have to “head” the soccer balls, and figured he’d enjoy giving it a shot… and of course he wants to play this all the time now. Regardless, I’ve got some cute footage of Ian playing it with some parental guidance that I’ll share next week.

• The other day the three of us were hanging out in the kitchen, and he began stomping his feet on the linoleum, akin to something like what you’d see in Riverdance, but without that whole rhythm complication. As he did this I joined him just for kicks. We both stomped around while Mama watched from the sidelines, and then he stopped, walked over to me, reached up and gently grabbed my hand so that we formed a line facing our audience, and began stomping with me again. It was adorable, but not easy to describe.

• Just yesterday (18th) Ian was sitting in his highchair, his face lightly coated with food, as Melissa and I set the table for dinner. As I noticed the growing pile of dirty dishes that had been accumulating in the sink for a few days, I asked Ian “Hey, Ian is it your turn to do the dishes?” At first he looked surprised, then furrowed his brow for a second, looked surprised again, and confused. Then said “Mama!” (The timing on this was priceless… it sounded like he was saying “it’s Mama’s turn!”)

• We’ve been letting him take his own milk bottle out of the adult-opened refrigerator lately. Today (19th) he tried to grab the mustard as well and I said “No-no-no-no, you don’t want that.” He waved to the bottle and said “bye bye!”

• This morning (19th) I heard the beginnings of actual colors being spoken. As he handed me different colored gears he mumbled words that sounded suspiciously close to the corresponding color, but not nearly clear enough to count as actually saying them. For example – “Rurh.” (Red.) “Ghee” (Green.)

You think that’s fun, junior, wait’ll we turn it on! Plus, as they like to say in slang on one of my favorite websites: Yer doin’ it wrong. (Video of the fun after we turn it on available hopefully soon, as mentioned above.) See this image larger.

Finally, a picture of the bike seat in action. That’s a brilliant smile on his face, no? Check that seat out… 3 point restraining system, padding for his body, a roller-coaster style restraining bar… this model is called “the limo.” See this image larger.

Included this one just for fun. The orange dots are there to help you locate the ends of his fingers. He slept on his hand for a few hours, can you see the hand print? See this image larger.

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