New pics of baby Reagan 36th weeks....already measuring bigger then big brother Ian.
August 3rd is hard to wait for but at the same time....I want to spend the last 2 weeks I have with Ian before Reagan gets here.

Ian's Second Birthday

It has been almost 6 months since Ian's birthday and a lot has happened in that time frame. Our house is on the market....we sold it and then our buyers....buyer....buyer fell through so we went back on the market and with little time to spare since I am having a baby girl on Aug 3rd. We are naming her Reagan Klien and Can't wait to meet her though I am nervous about heving a C-section and the whole recovery thing. Becca is getting married on July 31st and I am doing her cake. The next few weeks have been hectic as we redo our basement and we get ready for Reagan to come home. Ian is getting the Idea that there is a reason my tummy keeps getting bigger but I still feel that bringing the baby home will be a shock.

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?