Christmas Cards

Private Shaw

On afternoon during a Sunady at a traditional Dinner at the Shaw's Ian's hair was looking like he stuck his finger in a socket. Hours earlier, Tyler had styled it with palmande but after Ian ran his fingers through it a few dozen times it was disshevled to say the least. So while Tyler was on the phone to a good friend and very much absored Charlie mentioned that he had some clippers upstairs and that we could trim it. I said well my sister, the Aveda insitute grad was coming to town. But in my mind I thought ah....it will be another 3 wks. So I said ahhhh well lets go ahead. Well we set the clippers to be like a 4 inch trim but we were not getting much result so we switched to a much shorter setting. It was a choppy job and then in 5 minutes and with multiple clumps on the floor Charlie realized that he had the clipper gaurd on wrong so he put in on right and we started hacking away a again. I started to visualize now what was happening...his hair, the lovely gold locks thay hung like a halo around his head was now a mini haystacks piled around the bathroom tile. When Ian came down from upstairs for the grand reveal, Tyler was less then impressed. He was was heavily absorbed in his phone call minutes before was now paying full attention to what he thought of was a marked tragedy in Ian's life.
The next day at dinner with Jenn and Jesse's, Tyler's opinion was echoed buy everyone.
"What happened to his hair" were the exclamations.
BEFORE PICS ARE BELOW...
early Christmas gifts to all.

Halloween 2009

This is the first Halloween that Ian went trick or treating. My Good friend Jen and I went together and this time in my neighborhood. I am not sure why I thought that would be a good idea since the houses in her area are much closer together and less leg work. None the less she and her family came over at 5pm for chili dinner and witty reparte'. After lickin' the cumin off our lips, we got Hailey and Ian in their costumes and hit the streets. Before we left Ian grabbed about 6 butterfingers. I am not sure if this is because he senced that we were not going to let him eat any candy so he grabbed what he could before we left. Hailey who was dressed up as "Swiper" was a total champ. She walked the whole way from house to house and say, Ticki Too which translates to "trick or treat" to each door greeter. Ian on the other hand sat silent from his strollertaking it all in. So nobody gave Ian any candy, I guess they thought since he was in the stroller he didn't count and and basically ignored my little devil. Ah well, Tyler and I would not let him eat any of the candy anyway so it was just as well. Finally, for the last 3 houses Ian climbed out of the stroller and took to the streets hand in hand with Hailey. So see those two together holding hands in the dark night under the street lamps was too much.

He Speaks!

Ian, who is fluent is baby talk is now starting to learn English. For now he says only a few things but he is learning new stuff every day. His first word was mommommmomm for Mom and du du da for Daddy right? Then Dog, and now well there is hi...Shoe...unnnnna for Luna, his Cousin. Words that also made it on the list are, truh=truck...shews=juice ...no....yeah!....up...bubble...ball...baby....daddy...momma. I mean I am no fool, he has a ways to go but hold on to your telepromter Obama, he is going to be speaking better then most American immigrants in a matter of months.

Hose Before Bros

Summer time is my favorite time of year for many reasons...since I live in MN it is first of all a short lived event so I better enjoy the warm weather while it lasts and also their are many family birthdays to celebrate, tan skin, hours by the pool...in the pool soaking wet to beat the heat but for Ian...it is all about the water hose. I am not sure when he discovered the wonder of the water hose but I belive Tyler made the introduction after the first meet, he was hooked. Now he won't leave it alone. Everyday he takes my hand and tries to lead me outside...somedays he gets his wish and other days...like rainy ones, I try to distract him and get him to stay inside. When Ian does get his time with the hose it goes like this. At first he is shy but intrigued and pshychs himself up enough to walk into it the mist but not directly into the stream. Next, he will walk into the stream, scream and fuss that he is getting wet but still he does not leave. Finally, he tries to drink from the hose and in doing this gets completely soaked.

Oh Ian, lets just get to the pool so that you can work on your tan.

'K dude?

Family Photoshoot Minnihaha Falls

Salt Lake or Bust!

In spite of a panic attack at 1:30 am the morning that we were to take our plane to Utah, I talked myself out and into the car toward the airport. The day before, I complained to our friends Jenn and Jesse how annoyed I was that Tyler liked to get to the airport so early. I told them that since I had a fear of flying and since we were flying with Ian, I did not want to sit around in an airport and wait for a plane. Jesse and Jenn both assured me that if we were at the airport 45 minutes before take off we would be golden. He even offered to pick us up and take us to the airport himself. When we arrived at the airport we were there as suggested 45 minuted before take off but what we did not anticipate was the following....Due to many check in lines being closed and a long line through security were were inching dangerously close to the 7 am take off. When we were half way through the long check in line, we looked at the clock and noticed that we had 15 minutes to make it to get through security and to the departure gate. Thanks to Tyler's silver tongue, we managed to talk people into letting us cut in front of them in line so that we could make the flight. Security took another 10 minutes...while running with 3 carry-ons and a baby we were lagging behind and the loud speaker through out the air port was making the last call to passengers for the 7am flight to Salt Lake City. While running a cute old guy spotted us and got us a ride on an airport passenger cart which whizzed us right up to our gate. If it was not for the ride, I don't think we would have made it on the plane and after all my efforts to psych myself up to get to the airport, not making the flight there would have been unbearable. The real test was Ian on the plane...the last time that he flew he was 3 months old on a 2 hr flight. This time it would be 3 hrs and at 15 months. The night before I headed to Walgreens to pick up some Benedryl to use as a sedative for Ian if he was unable to relax on the plane. Before I bought the stuff however, I felt I needed to confer with the pharmacists on duty about my intentions. When I explained my plans she immediately she put the ka-bosh on the idea very quickly when she expressed that Ian could stop breathing and even die. I was convinced and hoped for the best. Ian was actually great on the plane I am happy to report...he made friends on the flight and the stewardess even walked him up and down the aisle so he could get a good look around the place. He slept a good hour and was pretty rested when we met up with my brother Moe and his awesome girlfriend for breakfast. The next few hrs were spent trying to track down a crib on Craigslist so that Ian could sleep nice and easy while away from home. A day into the trip Ian got a fever and for the rest of the trip he was all snot and diarrhea. I felt horrible for him! He would not eat or drink much bot luckily he would sip water and a juice box. He started to feel better the day we left, his fever went down and he started to eat a little bit more. Poor little bugger.

A very Good Friday

Every week on Tuesday Mornings the girls from church and I get together with our kids who all play together in the church gym. A couple of weeks ago Sara Luna brought a bunch of toys that she stores in her garage since she is in an apartment. In any case one of the toys was a highly coveted Little Tykes Cozy Coupe. Ian got the chance during those few hrs that we get together to spend some time in steering that little red beauty around the gym. When it was time to end the love affair and go home for the day Ian would not part with the car. When I did get him out of the car, he arched his back and started to throw a fit that he was being separated from his new found love. After that day I decided that since Easter was approaching, I would start to look for one of these hot wheels for Ian. We bought the car yesterday but it did not arrive till after Ian had gone to sleep for the night. This morning we opened the garage after Ian had had his breakfast and Ian who loves to be outside make quick steps towards his escape into the sun. As he staggered through the garage he slowly brang into focus the firmiliar friend that was waiting outside. With a huge smile on his face he took wide lunging steps to make sure what he saw was truly real. When he got to the car he tried to climb into the car through the window forgetting that there was a door he needed to use. Tyler showed him the door and helped him inside. So far Ian has spent a good part of the day cruising in the driveway.

In a few days we will celebrate Jesus being resurrected but today Ian got to celebrate spring and sunshine in a car that beeps.