Too Long!

Over a month since my last post! Shame on me! Well, I've been quite busy schedule wise and Ian has kept me busy every second I'm home with his teething and crawling everywhere. Plus we lost our internet a couple weeks ago and have yet to get it hooked back up...

Bad news - I somehow accidently deleted the few vacation photos I had off of my camera while trying to download them! So now the only thing I have from vacation is a video of Kate putting Ian's binky in his mouth for him.

Good news - I have the most adorable photos from Ian, Kate and Great Grandma's photo shoot! Though it seemed impossible to get them to smile in the same photo, they still came out great! So without further delay here they are.

Ian Kate Grandma Photo Shoot

Ian's First Crawl!

We were on vacation with my family last week at Lake Chelan. What a beautiful lake! I will tell more about it when I post some pictures in the next few days. While on vacation Ian had been sitting in crawl position and wiggling back and forth. (so close to crawling!) Just about every one of us tried to get him to crawl. He would move one arm and then lunge or sit back on his bottom. No luck.

This morning Ian was playing on the floor with some toys while I was vacuuming and he really wanted the vacuum. I shut off the vacuum and set it far enough away from him that he would have to crawl to get it. I encouraged him as he got into crawl position to come and get it. Then, he moves one arm, his other arm, a knee, another arm and another knee and lunges for the vacuum and makes it! It was so exciting! I was way more excited about it than he was. He was just happy to get the vacuum. I called Victor right away to tell him about it.

He started to do his wiggle maneuvers again and I was sad Victor wouldn't be able to see him do it. Victor came home about ten minutes later and tried to bribe Ian with the vacuum and sure enough he did the same thing for Daddy! Victor was just as excited as I was! He's growing up so fast it makes me happy and sad. Thought I would post the good news on the blog!

Pictures of Ian

I haven't posted anything in a while, so I thought I would post a bunch of random photos of Ian. He's growing up so fast and getting such a funny personality. I love him so much! (He's so cute though who couldn't?) Enjoy the photos.

Random Ian Photos

Long Lake with Grandpa

Last Friday it was a whopping ninety five degrees! So, we took the boat out of course! Grandpa was all by himself that day (Grandma was in Texas, Sam was at camp, and Ben was at a friend's house) so, he took the day off work and joined us for some wakeboarding and swimming on Long Lake. He tried wakeboarding for the first time! After a lot of trial runs to get out of the water, he got up on his last run! I wish I got a picture of him doing it, but Ian was falling asleep in my arms so I couldn't get the camera out.
Ian swam in a lake for the first time. I got him a little crab floaty thing and him and I went floating. Here's some pictures from our day.

Long Lake w/ Grandpa

Our First Night/Day Alone

Victor and I had our first night alone in 6 1/2 months! We actually had a full 24 hours without little Ian. Grandma and Grandpa Danielson (well Uncle Sam and Ben too) watched him for us while we had an overnighter on the boat.
Last Thursday we drove the boat up to Blake Island for his company event. A few of his coworkers came with us for the ride up. When everyone else when back to Seattle, we took to boat and headed up to a cool little Norwegian town everyone was telling us about called Poulsbo. It was a really cute town, with neat little buildings and some really cool bakeries. When we first pulled into the marina there were about 15 seals laying out and almost half of them were little baby seals! I was totally enamored and started snapping tons of photos and Victor pulled up really close. We got about 5 feet away from them! Then we docked the boat went into town and bought sunscreen. We were both already burning and had no sunscreen. Then we roamed the little shops on the strip and got an ice cream waffle cone! mmm... We also got Italian Sodas, that made us a little sick from all the sugar haha.
We headed back to the boat and drove to a little cove on the backside of Bainbridge Island that we had stayed at before and really liked. We anchored down and pulled out our mini BBQ and made some burgers for dinner, played a game of uno (which I won) and then went to sleep for an entire 8 hours of no interruptions! It felt really weird, but awesome, not having to get up once during the night.
The next morning we headed back to Grandma's to pick up our baby boy! We both admitted we missed him, but we still enjoyed every second of our little getaway. Here are some photos of us and the town of Poul

Trip to Poulsbo 08

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A Game of Peek-a-Boo

Today Ian and I were playing a game of peek-a-boo and he was loving it! He was in his jumperoo and I would pop out from the hallway and he would bounce and screech with a big smile. It was too cute. These are the times I will miss when he's grown up. So today I cherish the moments we had in our fun game of peek-a-boo.

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Sitting Up

I know this is my third post today, but so much has happened this week. I thought I would show how Ian is mastering the skill of sitting up by himself. He still tumbles here and there, but for the most part he is sitting up by himself. Crazy where the time goes!

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