Lazy Sunday Morning

Ivan has become very fond of sitting on Mommy and Daddy's bed and watching cartoons. As much as I don't really want him to watch TV that often, this can be a wonderful thing for us. It gives us that extra time we need to get ready in the morning or to get a few things done upstairs. A few weeks ago, we had Ivan in our room so that we could get ready to meet my mom and her side of the family out for breakfast. Ivan had lots of fun playing with the packs of hangers I had just bought for maternity clothes! He also had lots of fun at breakfast, which could have turned out ugly as we waited an hour for our food-toddlers just do not have a lot of patience when they are in a highchair for an hour. He did have lots of entertainment and was apparently very tired when we left. He fell asleep in the car while eating M&M's-you can see the wrapper in his hand and the colors of the M&M's on his face.

Look who is going to be a Big Brother!

We have been asking Ivan what mommy has in her belly for a few months now and he always responds "BABY" The only problem with this is that he now tells us that "Ivan baby belly too" This is one of the cutest things we have heard, but we do explain to him that only mommy has a baby in her belly. He seems to understand for a while, but then informs us again that both Ivan and daddy have a baby in their belly. We are working on getting Ivan used to the fact that another baby will be joining us soon. So far so good, but I know we have a long road ahead of us. Ivan is used to be mommy's baby, so it will take him some getting used to.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Grandma and Ivan
This is Ivan's new smile. If you tell him to smile-this is what you get!

Ivan hugging the flowers-he is an odd one

Sitting for about 10 seconds

Mallory and Aunt Kelly

On Sunday, we headed to South Vienna to help Grandma celebrate her birthday. It was a few days early, since today is her actual birthday. It was a beautiful day, so we spent lots of time outside enjoying the weather. Happy Birthday Grandma, we hope you have a great day!

Apple Picking

Mallory all cute and bundled up-before Ivan stole her bow! He decided he needed to wear it as a necklace for the rest of the trip.

Ivan posing. He never actually ate an apple, but when we asked him to show us his apple, he would pretend to take a bite-how silly!

See my apple?

UGH-Picking apples is hard work!

Ivan decided it would be much more fun to sit underneath his stroller!

Ivan was such a good boy that we let him have his absolute favorite treat on the car ride home-a sucker! It also works wonders when you are trying to keep him awake in the car!

Over the weekend, we took Ivan apple picking for the very first time. He had so much fun running up and down the aisles of trees, picking apples and putting them in the bag.
After picking lots of apples, Aunt Kristen and Mallory joined us back at the house for some baking and football. Uncle Marc decided to join us for the game as well. We had a great day!

Random Photos

A few weeks ago, we headed to South Vienna to visit grandma and paw paw. We enjoyed a great pancake breakfast at the fire station and headed to the corn festival for yummy food. I think this is the only photo that we actually took that day, but it is a great one of the two of them!

We bought this table for Ivan at Ikea a while ago and planned on it being a play table. However, we decided that Ivan might be a better eater if we let him sit at his own table. So far, it is working wonderfully. He is eating MUCH better and absolutley loves his dinner table!

I have been waiting so long to put Ivan in this outfit. I think it was Christmas gift when Ivan was only a month old. It is 12 months and at almost 23 months, he is finally able to wear it!

Ivan absolutely loves bath time and Mike and I love watching him play in the bath. I was able to get a few decent photos, but it is almost impossible to get him to look at the camera these days-he is way too busy for that! I just love that naked bum!