Frankenstein's Monster

Rock Star In Training

Ian's Grandma Karen gave him these sunglasses. At first, he didn't like them, but now he's gotten used to them and loves them. He loves wearing them when we run errands, but even more he likes to wear them inside stores and at church. For some reason they have a sedating effect. Maybe he likes wearing them because everyone gives him lots of attention. Of course, it's kind of awkward for me, having everyone getting in my way and talking to my baby like I'm not even there, but if it gets Ian to stay calm, I'll take the exchange.

Haley worked at REI tonight so Ian and Dad got to have a guys night, as we do each night that Haley works. Here is how it went tonight:

This evening as I was getting Ian's dinner ready he decided that he would really rather sleep than eat.

He slept through a brief thunderstorm and then woke up super cranky. We have discovered that Ian is just crazy about being outside. He gets really excited and starts giggling when we just reach for the door handle. So to calm him down we went outside and saw the rainbow that was left by the departing storm and the setting sun. Ian loved it (actually he didn't really care about the rainbow but loved watching the birds flying about).

And although this next picture is not from tonight, it closely resembles what took place when we came back in to give Ian his dinner. He has discovered sharing and likes to try to share the food that you put in his mouth. Or perhaps he is trying to get us to realize for ourselves that the stuff we keep cramming in his mouth doesn't really taste very good.

After dinner, we did our usual bath, brush teeth, stories, and endless fussing and crying before finally falling asleep. Good thing he will wake up in just a couple of hours so Haley won't feel like she missed that last part (and then again at 2am and once more at 5am).

Ode To The Quick Minute Button

Do we really even need all those other buttons on the microwave? The Quick Minute button (officially known as Minute Plus button) cuts out at least two button pushes for anything under one minute, more for anything longer. Has a lazy person ever been served more faithfully by another appliance's timesaver? I think not.

Yeah, Right

I am watching a woman's baby from church, and she is absolutely the cutest little girl ever. Here's her picture, but it doesn't do her justice.


Jesse was holding her the other day and we were reminiscing about when Ian was that small. I said, "Doesn't holding a little baby make you want to have another?" Then we looked at Ian in the corner, trying to shove the whole bottom of his bottle in his mouth, and we laughed.

Bear Sighting

In A Pinch

If you can't find your pacifier, both a water bottle lid and an eyedropper will do.

Out To Lunch

Since we have moved into our new apartment, we have been using our friend's wireless internet. They just moved this last weekend, so we don't have a reliable connection to the internet anymore. We're working on getting it resolved, but until then we won't be posting much.

Not having the internet is really driving me crazy. I got desperate and tried to guess one of our neighbor's WEP keys, but haven't been successful--no surprise there. Reggie is too smart to use "12345" as a password.