Here is the second part of the trip to Playworld, this one’s really great if you want to see what happens when Ian combines his understanding of the fun of jumping around with the dexterity to bounce.

Click here to watch the video, it weighs in at 7.3MB, which is huge, I know… but I think the bits that are in there are worth keeping in there.

I’m really quickly going to catch up on some stories, below, but don’t worry there’s plenty of pictures and other things to tell you from the last few weeks, I just want to tell the sort of “odds and ends” stuff.

I put a coat on him, and I SWEAR he said “Not a baby.” And did his best to put the coat on himself.

Many injuries – He got a full blow hockey-style check to the mouth from a boy that thought Ian was getting a little too close. It was one of those misunderstanding situations… they actually checked the video to review the details. Sounded like mostly an accident. A bite mark, some skinned elbows. A couple bug-bites recently.

Ian has sat a few times in an adult chair for dinner or lunch. This was generally out of necessity, we’re not asking him to give up booster seats yet.

He’s become a MUCH fussier eater. (NOTE: on the expansion of the technique I told you about earlier, just tried this a few nights ago, on roughly May 8th… better than saying how “happy Daddy is now that Daddy tried this!” Now I just name family members at the appropriate time: “Oh, mashed potatoes? Aren’t those Connor’s favorite?” or “Grampa Dave loves a good pork chop, I hear.”)

We had a bit of a zooey/pacifier conundrum a few weeks back, but some quick research fixed everything. I was proud of myself for being able to resolve the situation in a day — turns out his old pacifiers had that BPA chemical in them on the “shield” part that doesn’t go in his mouth. Still it was enough of a concern for Gerber to discontinue the product. Because they’re a specific shape we bought the exact same kind with shields that did not have BPA.

Here’s a fun fact that is only sorta related to Ian… did you know unemployment in Michigan is the highest in the country? Not cool.

Conversation between Ian and I somewhere around April 26th:
“Do you like taking naps?”
“Uh huh.”
“Why?”
“I like nn um my zooey.”

Also:
“Connor’s shoes. I like Connor’s shoes.” (He said, while looking at his hand-me-down sneakers.)