20 months

Only 4 four months until he's 2! Wow, where has the time gone?

Ian, your biggest accomplishment in the last month is your climbing ability. You can climb anything! You climb onto the chairs--all of them, onto the kitchen table, up your new rockwall, and into bed--especially to snuggle with Daddy if he's still sleeping. You can also climb down the stairs, using your scoot-on-your-bottom-and-plop-on-the-stair-below method. It made me nervous at first, but at least you were trying to be safe.

First speech therapy session

Ian's therapist came to our home today for the first official session. She gave us different exercise assignments to work on over the next couple of weeks; a few include:

*wiggle tongue and stick out as far as possible (That's good to teach, right?)
*blow bubbles
*drink thick drinks through a straw (Ian had a Chickfila milkshake today. Hey, doctor's orders.)
*use a whistle
*use a big-boy cup each day
*bite small pieces from a bigger piece of food

The exercises, most of which we were already doing, are intended to strengthen Ian's mouth muscles to better produce sounds. The pressure sounds Scottish Rite wants him to produce are not supposed to be mastered until 2, and some, even 3 years old. They need to know if he is capable to determine if he will need a surgery to help correct his speech. We are hoping speech therapy will help. No one wants another surgery.

As far as his word production goes, he is doing great! At least I am impressed. He has started talking much more and attempts to say pretty much everything we do. Scary, right? New words include, but are not limited to:
shoe
more
top
side (for outside)
up

New toy

"Ooooo!"

Trying out his swing for the first time.


"More..."

"...please." (Even though it looks more like bath.)

Digging...

He looks so old when he's serious.

Our little climber. Have I mentioned he can now go up and down the stairs inside?

Not without my sippy cup.

...more digging.

Sweet boy. Thanks, Daddy, Grandpa, Grandpapa, and Uncle Tim for my new swingset! I love it!

Father's Day

Summer buzz

Ian's hair was getting a bit long. Instead of taking him to get it cut, I half-jokingly said, "Let's just buzz it."

Before: Ian unsuspecting of what we were up to.




It was at this point when I changed my mind. Too late...




After: Finished product. Not too bad, it's just taking some getting used to. This cute kid can pull it off though.

Dinner for three?

We had meal success today! Twice! For lunch, Ian had apple sauce, PB crackers, and Spagetti O's. He has never shown interest in Spagetti O's until today. He ate only one bite, but that's one bite closer to real spagetti. For dinner, DJ made tacos for us and nachos for Ian. Ian gobbled up the meat off the nachos and then asked for more! He ate a good helping of the meat and then finished off the tortilla chips with cheese. Does this mean I get to start cooking one meal instead of two? We are so excited to see what Ian will start eating in the next few days! Let's just hope it's not a fluke...

Park playtime

Mr. Independent


Checking out the lake


Throwing bread to the geese

Excited! Pointing to say, "Look, Mama!"