Sleepy girl!

Doesn't everyone have a picture of their child that has fallen asleep while eating their dinner in the high chair?  Well here is Sydney doing just that.  She's so cute!  She was eating spaghetti with meat sauce.  She loves that, it's definitely one of her favorites.

This cute little baby girl would not eat baby food.  She couldn't stand the way it tasted, every time I would try to give it to her she would gag and throw up.  I felt so bad, but I kept trying, same thing happened every time I tried.  Finally I started just giving her table food, and she loved it.  She just skipped the baby food because she couldn't stand it.  YUKKY!  Here is a funny video of that.......well funny, but I felt bad too.....

Christmas 2009

What a crazy last few months we have had. With the addition of Sydney to our family, we now feel complete. As we reflect on life and how fast our kids grow up, we realize that this will be the last Christmas we will have before Whitley goes off to college. We are going to miss her so much. All of her paperwork is in and we should hear soon where she will be going. She is so excited, and we are excited for her. We also notice how fast time is flying by with Ian and Sydney. This will be here first Christmas and Ian's 3rd technically. Here are some Christmas pictures even though neither Ian or Sydney understand what the opening presents is. But we are so grateful for all of our children and the happiness they bring into our home.

Ian sings!

Ian loves music and he loves to sing. He just recently learned "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and he sings it all the time. It's so cute. He can't say all the words but he knows just how many syllables there are in each sentence.

Ian's First Pumpkin Carving

So we got out the pumpkins to carve and Ian wouldn't even touch the thing at first. It was funny, but then when we were just about done he decided it was fun and he liked it.

Daddy and Ian playing outside

Dan and Ian have this little game they play when they are outside. It's very cute!

Big Sissy hanging out with Ian

Here is some cute video of Ian and Whitley playing and hanging out together.

New popper!

Ian got a new popper toy and he loves it. Here is some cute video.

My First Haircut!

Well,....daddy said that Ian looked like he had a "baby comb-over" so we decided it was time to get a haircut. I just didn't want to do it until now because first I wanted to have enough hair to cut off to put in his baby book. I also knew that after he got his haircut then he would no longer look like my little baby. It instantly changed him from my little baby to a little boy. It makes me a little sad but I knew it was time. He look so so cute with his new haircut! Daddy loves it too. He calls him his "little butchy hair boy".

Here are a few before pictures, and then some after pictures and a video of when we did it. He was tired before we even started which probably didn't help at all. My friend Kelli cut it while I held him and my other friend Caroline took the video. We didn't tape the whole thing, but he got very very upset towards the end. I guess he just couldn't take anymore.

He was so tired, but he still did good.

And now he looks like a little boy! So cute!

Ian and his big Sissy!

Whitley and Ian love to play chase around the house. Whitley is such a great big sissy! Ian is so lucky!

Ian playing with Daddy

Ian loves magazines and newspapers and likes to shred things whenever he does get ahold of them. One day he got ahold of a newspaper and started shredding it, so he and daddy just started playing with it. Who knew there could be so much fun with an ordinary newspaper?

Not sure if you can tell but Ian has such long eyelashes! They're beautiful!

Easter......

After church on Easter, Ian went up for a nap and when he woke up we were going to go to Ravenna where Dan's brother and his wife live for Easter dinner, but here are some pictures of before we left.














This video is so cute because Ian had just woke up and we didn't tell him to give Whitley kisses, he just did it. It was so adorable. Also, since it is Easter and we have been especially counting our blessings, we wanted to let Ian's birth-family know how very greatful we are for the blessings of this little boy. He has brought immeasurable joy to our home and our family, and we just want you to know how much we love him and how much we love your family. We have been so blessed. He will always know how much he is loved by our family and your family!

Easter was nice. We had pretty nice weather, not super warm but nice. We went to Uncle Tom & Aunt Cory's house because they were having Easter dinner. It was nice. They went to a lot of work and we appreciate that. Here are some pictures of the whole clan.

Finally!!! I can walk at almost 16 months!

So Dan and I decided that we needed to go to the temple so while Whitley was on spring break from school we went down to Columbus. Whitley played with Ian all day while we were gone. The funny thing is that that day she taught him to walk. When we left he wasn't walking at all and then when we got home he was literally doing laps around the house. It was so cute to see him walk. It's funny too because he doesn't know how to get back up on his feet, so if he falls, and he wants to walk again, he will whine until someone puts him on his feet again. so these clips are of his first day walking on April 8th, 2009.

Sissy plays with me all the time!

Whitley is always playing wih Ian. She can get him to laugh like noone else can. They are so fun to watch together.












This is "The Bee", as so demonstrated on Grampa Haws' children and Grand-children and Whitley is now passing it on to Ian.

Look, I can climb the steps!

Ian has been crawling around the house since he was 9 months, so we decided we would teach him to crawl up and down the steps. We still keep the gates up because he is not totally proficient at it and probably won't be for a while. But it's his newest thing now and because of that he wants to do it ALL the time.

Almost walking

Here are some pictures of Ian almost walking. He still has to use his walker because he is afraid to do it by himself, and he still has a hard time turning his walker, so sometimes we still have to help him with that but he is starting to figure that out too. It shouldn't be long here before he is finally walking. As of now he is 14 months. You can tell here that he still doesn't bend his legs, they are stiff when he walks! It's so funny to watch!

He is also getting a lot more hair, just since his birthday he has really grown a lot of hair. I'm glad because he seemed like he had hardly any for so long. Now that he's getting hair he is starting to look more like a little boy instead of a baby! Time flies by so fast. Pretty soon our baby will be all grown like Whitley!

Tub Time!

Ian absolutely loves the bath! I think he just loves water in general. He doesn't however, like to get his hair washed. He also sucks on everything in the tub. He likes to suck the water out of the washcloth. His favorite toy in the bath is the rubber ducky which there are now many bite marks in. He likes how it squeeks. I have a feeling he is going to love going to the pool this summer.

1 year Dr. Checkup

Today Ian went for his one year Dr. appt. Here are his stats:

Height: 31 inches (85th percentile)

Weight: 20 lbs. 14 oz. (25th percentile)

Head: 46 cm (40th percentile)

This little man eats everything. He has gotten more and more picky, but sometimes he eats more than I do at breakfast and dinner. He eats most at breakfast. He acts like he has been on a starvation diet through the night while he is sleeping. Every morning he will usually eat half a cup of yogurt, a bowl of oatmeal, and a piece of toast, and don't forget the water. He doesn't really like milk, so we just mix his oatmeal with milk so he gets it but doesn't know. He drinks a lot of water though. He is a very good eater when he wants to. We have found that he will eat more if you put it on his tray so that he can feed it to himself, otherwise he may get mad and not eat. He has a little temper on him though. He is starting to show it when he doesn't get what he wants. Here is some pictures that we took on his birthday.

Ian is 11 months!

Some pictures of Ian on his 11month old birthday and some random cuteness!

Now he growls. It's so cute! He also does this gasping thing. Here are some cute videos. Dan has him laughing really hard here. He's a very happy baby!

Ian is crawling!

Ian started crawling today. It was awesome because it was on Roni's birthday, October 23rd that he started to crawl! What a great birthday present! He's still a little shaky but doing very well for his first time!

Ian loves to kick!

Ian rolls his way around the house looking for things to kick! He will go from one room to the next kicking end tables, doors, walls, other miscellaneous furniture, and the window seals in our office.