Beach

We took a little trip to St. Augustine Beach. We haven't been back there since Ian was an infant. It's so hard to believe that so much time has passed and he was in an infant carrier last time and now walking across the beach. It was not quite the warm sunny weekend we had hoped, but we had fun anyway. Ian had a blast in the sand. We hope to go back real soon.

Our Baby is 1!

Well a whole year has come and gone, and we can't believe it! Ian will be 1 year old on Thursday the 19th. We've definitely been remembering the year and all the fun we've had since Ian was born. It's gone so fast, but at the same time, it feels like we've lived 10 years in just a year. When we chose his name, Ian Matthew, based on the meanings "God is gracious" and "gift from God," we had no idea how true it is! From the moment Ian was born, he has been such a gift. He has always had such a happy, layed-back, playful demeanor. He loves to laugh and play and is such a wonderful communicator. He has always been a great eater too! From changing lots of diapers and sleepless nights to eating Cheerios and baby food and cracking up laughing, dancing, and walking, Ian has brought us so much joy through all of it. As he gets older, he's saying more and more words (or signing them) and doing more things. He's so curious and wants to climb everything. We celebrated his birthday this past Saturday and realize how blessed and loved he is. Here are a few pictures.

Molly's Birthday

We had so much fun at Molly's birthday this weekend. Molly is such a big girl now and had a lot of friends and family come and eat yummy Elmo cupcakes. Ian is really getting more and more fascinated with Molly. At one point on Sunday, he walked over to her so she could hug him.

Ian walking by himself

Ian started "walking" a couple weeks ago, but he pretty much only does it when he wants to, so until now we haven't had a video. He finally did it enough times today that I could catch a quick video.
Here's also a video that we had taken a couple weeks ago of him laughing when he drops food off the high chair to Mikey.

New stuff

Ian has decided he really wants to be more communicative this week. He started signing please. I've been trying to teach him to say milk, please, all done, and more-none of which he would do until he decided he liked it. Now he does the sign for please just to get me to say please and then laughs. He likes to catch your eye and shake his head no just for fun and say "hiiiiiiii" to the pretend phone on his shoulder. He also figured out how to play with Mikey by dropping food off of his high chair for Mikey to get and then cracks up laughing. He is getting better at trying to walk and we'll hopefully have a video of that soon. I can't believe he's going to be 11 months this week!

Party

We've had a great relaxing weekend. Lately, Ian likes to do this funny scrunched up face and blow air in and out of his nose. Ian took his first two steps yesterday and today said, "Da-da.....hiiiiii." Today Ian went to a birthday party and had so much fun. He's feeling a lot better this week and has so much energy. He's really got quite the appetite too and loves eating chicken and cheese. Here's some pictures from the weekend.