Random November Happenings

Here are a bunch of random pictures that I took in November:


First, my birthday! Not as exciting after 30, but at least I still get stuff.  My favorite present was my iPhone 5!  From now on, no more crappy iPod pictures!  Yay! I got spoiled on my birthday this year!

A saw this hoodie at Kohls and couldn't resist buying it for Gabe:

Gabe had his school "holiday" (I think the mean Thanksgiving) lunch. Gabe and I had a good time in those mere 15 minutes:

 I'm not sure why, but Gabe insisted I take these pictures of him with a basketball.  I'm not sure he can even dribble a basketball, but at least the pictures turned out cute:

 The kids' bikes have basically sat in the garage for almost a year, but since November, these two have been riding bikes almost non-stop!

Family trip to the temple.  Erik went in while I watched the kids in the waiting room.

 Dance!  Dance has been even better this year.  It helps that Elisa is older, and also she has another wonderful teacher!

 Playing at Chick-fil-A after dance.  They made up their own "boogie" (as in boogers) dance

A sweet sleeping Ian.  No reason to take this, other than he is adorable:

Not sure why I took this picture either, other than to confirm Elisa's silliness:

Ian's 9-month checkup at the Pediatricians. He's doing just perfectly! He's average for height and 75th of weight.  All of his weight is in his chest and belly!

Sometimes Erik will get off early from work, and we will try out a new restaurant.  This time we tried Pollo Tropical.  It was okay.  Elisa really enjoys eating at restaurants.  She's always begging to go out to a restaurant after I pick her up from preschool.  It is hard to say NO because I like going to restaurants too!  Sometimes we will go to Cracker Barrel and share a Coca Cola Cake.

 Ian, my sweet Ian.  Here are two pictures of Ian holding his very favorite things to hold:  Elisa's de-tangler spray, and the TV remote.

 I don't actually remember doing this, but as the pictures affirm, I had an episode of the crazies and took ALL THREE kids to Chuck-E-Cheese.  Although, I do remember that this was Ian's very first time on a slide! He enjoyed it.  I have absolutely no recollection of the rest of our time spent at this place:

Let's Give This Thing Called Eating Food a Try...

I'm also a horrible mother because I cannot remember exactly when I officially started Ian on solid foods.  Heck, I don't even remember how old he was or what month.  I'm guessing he was 5, almost 6 months old.  So the month had to be end of July?  Okay, we'll go with that.

Here are some cute pictures of the little man, trying something new!  I know Ian doesn't look like he enjoyed his very first taste of rice cereal in the photos, but I can promise you food is his life's love, second only to me!

  I love those funny faces he makes!

And another eating session, taken a month or so later:

November Cuteness (Getting Bigger!)

November was an important month for Ian--he hit several milestones!  Early November he perfected pulling himself up.  Then he learned to cruise, and then...to crawl!  And now, more than 3 months later, Ian has perfected crawling (and even takes some steps--more posts on that later), but he is basically the same since November, haha! I thought that since he acquired these skills so rapidly, he would be walking at 10 months, but no matter.  He has the rest of his life to walk.  Crawling is a great way to get around anyway!

Here are some somewhat random pictures of Ian from November.  He was 9 months old!  We love him so much!

Standing.

Ian was also transferred to his own crib from our bed.  And not a moment too soon, he was driving us crazy with his wiggles! It was an adjustment for him of course, but now he goes to sleep just fine.  He still wakes up waaaaay too early, but at least he's sleeping through the night now.

Me and my cutie

Giggles!

Enjoying some (finally) nice Houston weather

He crawls! Yay!  Now he's into everything.  I love crawling babies.  They are the cutest!

I couldn't resist taking a picture of these darling feet & toes!  Because someday, he'll have big, stinky, hairy man feet.  But for now, I'm enjoying these tender, sweet toes-ies.

Noisy, silly boy in his car seat.

 Sitting.  Happy sitting and sad sitting.  Either way, he's adorable!

Ian's first time in the bicycle trailer.  He was asleep for most of the ride. Also included is some cuteness from goofy Elisa.

A very handsome boy, just like his daddy!