Ian's Favorite Past time!

Since Ian was about 10 months he likes to pull the DVDs off the shelf.  It got so bad that we put all the DVDs in the office and close the door so he can not get into them.  Well, Jonathan was doing homework in the office the other day and Ian wanted to go in there with him.  This was the result!

What a silly, naughty boy.

Ian and His Toothbrush!

Ian is ADDICTED to his toothbrush.  If either Jonathan or I are brushing our teeth, he wants his 8 teeth brushed as well.  He wants to take his toothbrush everywhere! I think he might be a dentist one day!

Two Halloween Parties!

On Friday night, our ward had a Halloween party.  It was super fun for the kids, they got to play pin the wart on the witch, face painting, and make a ghost out of a sucker.  Ian is just old enough to enjoy those games and he wanted to play all of them over and over again.  He also won bubbles and a pencil which is he also thought was wonderful. Unfortunately our camera died before we could get pictures of that stuff.  These are the only pictures that we were able to take.

Party number two was at Cassie's house.  We played games and watched movies and had plenty of good food.  Ian also made a new friend named Chase!

Pumpkin Walk 2011

North Logan does something called a Pumpkin Walk.  Every year, everyone who wants to participate can make a pumpkin scene.  Its free and we thought we would take Ian this year.  So we went really early one morning.  This was the best time to go because it was packed after we left for the rest of the day.  I think Ian enjoyed it! He had fun and likes anything where he can walk around!

They had a ton of cut outs like this one! We put Ian in a few!

The Easter Bunny!

This one is Jonathan's favorite! Ian as The Little Mermaid

Beth (we tried a lot of these "Where the Wild Thing are" ones)

Ian as Max

Where the Wild Things Are again

Ian and Beth

Tangled

Ian and Beth enjoying Tangled

Bambi

Ian and Jonathan with Fantasia (this one was made by the Americorp group I worked with this summer!)

Angry Birds

Busy Town with Richard Scarry

Gilligans Island

Nightmare Before Christmas (Neither of us are looking at the camera

Calvin and Hobbes

Ian and Jonathan with Calvin and Hobbes

Winnie the Pooh

This was so much fun! Everyone who submitted pumpkin scenes were so creative!!

Anxieties...

This morning has been one of those mornings.  Ian is driving me NUTS! He has somehow dumped every toy out of his toy boxes in the living room.  He also managed to find and play with the ipod touch and my cell phone.  And he even took my entire wallet and purse apart.  I have been counting down the minutes until I can put him to bed for a nap.  Of course today also has to be the day that Jonathan is going deer hunting and will not be home until late :( (don't even get me started on what I think about the deer hunting adventure).  Jonathan says it make him happy so I am working on being ok with him going.

I may be feeling a lot of anxiety because I have not slept past 4:30 am this last week.  When I was pregnant with Ian, I was never this uncomfortable this early on.  If this is how the entire pregnancy is going to go I might go crazy from lack of sleep. I am showing a few of these signs and its hard to deal with the crazy things my 16 month old thinks he needs to do.

I have lived in Utah for 8.5 years and its starting to take its toll on me.  I have lived in 2 countries, 2 provinces, 2 states, 7 cities and I am ready for another change. Yes, maybe people think I am crazy but I am ready for one (or both of us) to find a job and move on with our lives (preferably outside of this state or country :) ).  I have been feeling like we are ready to start our lives and the start of a new life means a new city.

Last but not least is the fact that I have signed up to take the BOC exam AGAIN.  I have been spending a lot of time reading and studying as well as taking a class in Ogden once a week.  Its been really hard with Jonathan gone for work/school and he is trying to complete his thesis and comprehensive exam at the same time. I have been trying to use the things that I have learned in this class to study and other test taking skills.  I could be taking this test as early as the first week of November so I have to really get down to business. I need to settle down and stop putting so much pressure on this test.  I can always take it again in April.

Dancing!

This morning, I had Pandora turned to to the classic rock station.  Some Kind of Wonderful by Grand Funk Railroad came on and Ian danced to the entire thing.  Wish I could have gotten pictures because it was so darn sweet!

The Bubbles

While we were in Montana, we stayed at an RV park in a tent.  The lady who owned the place was awesome and she was very nice to this group because they were there for ten days and did not disturb anyone else.  We went and chatted with her a few times, she had plenty of stories about the town and gossip about the people.  The last day we were there, Jonathan went over to get a room for us to stay in because she also ran a hotel.  It had been raining for 3 days straight and our tent had a huge hole in it, so we decided we better do that for the last night.  She thought Ian was so cute every time we came in to talk to her and so she asked if she could give him something.  We said yes, and she went into her little office and came back out with bubbles.

Ian loves these bubbles, he thinks they are so awesome, watching them float down and trying to pop them.  We brought them home and he still wanted to play with them.  He brings them to me and we play with them a few times a day.  

It has gotten Kiwi mighty interested in what these were.  She used to meow at them because I think they scared her a little bit.  Now let me back up for a few minutes.  Kiwi is our birding cat for sure.  She can really only see animals that fly in the air.  She has caught so many flies and other creatures that have come into our house, its nice having her around.  So bubbles are something she thought was a fly.  Well, now every time Ian asks for the bubbles to be blown, Kiwi gets right in there with him to pop them.  They almost have a contest to see who can pop the most bubbles.  Ian is just not as coordinated as Kiwi is so she usually gets most of them before he pops one.