Swagbucks!

So, I just joined swagbucks. I was reading Aimee's blog about how she won 20 swagbucks by searching the internet, which in turn can buy her a $5 starbucks giftcard. I was intruiged and had to check it out, for joining I got 3 swagbucks to start. She earned hers in two weeks, so I'm going to hope I'll earn some of my own! Click the link above if you want to join too. (by you joining on this link I'll earn swagbucks too)

Playground Fun

Ian is such a big boy! We go to the playgrounds in our neghborhood(since we have 3!). He can't do a whole lot by himself and he mainly enjoys walking around, rather than playing on things, but He still has a good time. Here are some photos from when we went with Victor.

Playground

Ian is getting so smart!

This morning I was sitting in the living room and Ian wandered into one of the back rooms and came back with a pair of my socks. I watched to see what he was going to do with them. He walked over to me on the chair and placed one sock on the top of each of my feet! He then pointed to me, as if to say, "put them on mom!". I was laughing and shocked that he knew exactly what to do with them! So I put them on and he went over to play with one of his toys. I cannot believe how fast he is growing up and figuring things out... I love him so much!

We Moved, It Snowed, Ian and Victor had Birthdays, and Ian has 3 more Teeth!

Oh my... So it has been way too long. Well, God found us a beautiful house to rent in a great neighborhood with 3 playgrounds blocks away, and in the price range we were looking for! This place actually said no pets when we looked at it. So we emailed the landlord explaining we only have 2 declawed indoor cats and he said that would be fine. Thank you Lord.
Shortly after we moved here we had the second and probably last snow storm of the season. It was much smaller than the previous one, but we got about an inch that lasted a couple days... Ian had fun on the back porch playing in it.
Victor has started his new job, he was very discouraged his first week of working there, but he is more encouraged as time goes on and we are just trying to find God's will for him in his new job.
On January 23rd, Ian and Victor had their Birthday's! Ian turned one and Victor turned 30! We celebrated at home on their Birthdays with a spaghetti dinner and chocolate cupcakes. The pictures of Ian with the spaghetti everywhere make me laugh every time... Then, they (mainly Ian) had a Birthday party with friends and family the next day. It was jungle themed and Ian got spoiled rotten with presents... too many. I feel like our house is a toy store. He would only play with his cake at first and poke holes in it. I smashed his hands in it and my mom licked one of his fingers to show him to eat it and the light clicked! He dug in like there was no tomorrow... he ate almost half the cake before we took it away. He even licked his plate clean!! That was hilarious!
The Wednesday after his Birthday Ian got his 1st top tooth, followed by the 2ND a few days later. Just last week in the bath tub I realized he got his 3RD tooth on top and is getting the 4TH any day now...
Oh, Ian has been sick since Wednesday... He had a high fever and a really nasty barky cough, but he seems to be getting better. He has no voice right now, Victor says it sounds like he's going through baby puberty lol.
Anyways, that's all the stuff to get you up to date for now!! Here's all the pictures.

Ian's Birthday and Feb

Funny Boy

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, we've been looking for a place to live and packing and so on and so forth. Oh the joys of moving... Ian is getting so big, he just won't slow down. His new record is 21 steps! He is going into a phase I am not liking very much though. He has learned to throw tantrums! He's not even one and throws tantrums!! I need to find new patience everyday and have no idea what course of discipline to take at such a young age... I'm little stressed with all the things going on, but God is providing and guiding us into this new place in life. Anyhow, I wanted to share this funny picture of Ian I took the other day. He was trying to get to some toys in a box, and fell in and then thought it was funny.

Video of Ian Taking Steps

I finally caught Ian taking more than 2 steps on camera! Thought I would share it. Enjoy!

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Lots of News (and Happy New Year)

Okay, so there is a lot of good news this past few days and a little bad news. The first good news is Victor got the job he applied for. Some bad news is we went to look at the apartments that we might live at on his new property, and they were pretty cruddy. Although the property has a pool, a new playground and updated exteriors, the inside was completely outdated(they didn't even have base boards) and a decent amount smaller than what we have now. So, we got really disappointed and a little discouraged. We're looking for renting an affordable duplex possibly, but are praying we get put in the right place.

More good news, I totally forgot to tell everyone that Ian took his first 4 steps on Christmas and he took 6 steps the next day for Victor! Then, just last night he took 8 steps and this afternoon he took 11!! I am so excited and scared. He's going to be running before I know it. Victor and I both think he'll be walking fairly stable by his 1st Birthday in three weeks.

Please pray that God shows us the path to take in these next few weeks and for protection wherever our future is headed!