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Those teen years keep coming sooner and sooner…
Here’s Ian burning up the cell phone minutes and preparing to borrow the car…
Love to all- yes, he really does pick up the phone and say, “who is it?”
He’s also been singing Christmas Carols… walks around the house going “ho ho ho, ho ho ho” to the tune of Up on the Rooftop.
As for knitting, I’m busy turning out some hats for The Joy Troupe’s Adopt-A-Family project… look for more here later…
I Love Stories
and today we introduce…
empathy. That’s right, today Ian displayed a clear example of empathy for another person.
His little friend fell down and started to cry, so Ian took him by the hand and led him over to his mom, put his buddy’s hand on the mom’s knee, and then gave his friend a hug. As though to say, “see, dude? It’s okay, here’s your mommy!” It was seriously the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.
Here are some pix of Ian and his pals celebrating Halloween:
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| The Great Pumpkin |
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| Spooktacular |
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| Boo and you |
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| Westover Halloween Parade |
Boo! Hat
And today we have an example of a failed project that turned into a success…
Viola- merely embroider a pair of eyes over the world’s ugliest attempt at a raised heart on a knitted garment, and you have a charming, Halloween Hat.
And yes, that’s right- Ian had a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast today, because Mommy is AWESOME.
Presents are awesome
Giggle Butt Cookie Monster
Here are some pix and one short video of Ian’s Day:
As you can see, he decided to test Uncle Tyler’s workmanship in the pantry, there. (Great work, Uncle Ty!)
Also of note is that he said “cookie, cookie” today. (Yes, he did a “cookie dance.”) I believe that “giggle giggle” still beat it for sheer number of times repeated, but since there WERE cookies, “cookie, cookie” had the most dramatic effect… mind you, there were giggles too!
Bubbles at the Park
I took Ian to the park today to blow bubbles with some friends:
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| bubble bubble bubble |
Notice, he kept the booties on again today. He also let me put them on him before we left the house, and while we were there, he said “giggle, giggle.” That was apparently really, really fun, because then he said “giggle, giggle” all the way home.
happy, happy! Mwah, Mwah!
Today Ian looked at me when I said we were going to church and said, “happy, happy!” So, of course, I was. Last night he was blowing kisses to his adoring fans. (“Mwah, mwah!”)
He has learned to “monkey crawl” with his feet and hands on the floor and his rump in the air. Tonight he did this in the bath. He wanted to listen to his Baby Mozart CD this morning… so he started singing one of the instrumental tunes. (Don’t know which one, but I recognized the arpeggio.)
I gave him a banana for breakfast and he did a little dance. Must be the “Banana dance,” which bears striking resemblance to the “cheese dance,” and the “muffin dance.”
This afternoon he disappeared for two seconds and came back with a bottle of lotion normally kept on the bathroom counter. He was trying to drink it. I took him grocery shopping immediately after lunch, and he still ate his way through the entire store. (Where does he keep all that food?)
Of course, I can’t have a post with no pix, so here you are:
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| From Pajama Ride with penguins |
Love to all.
Look what we picked…
at the pumpkin patch:
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| pumpkin playground 10-17 |