6 Months

Ian hit the six month mark this past week. Below are the pictures from his usual monthly photo-shoot.

It's funny when we ask other people who they think Ian looks like. Some claim that he is a clone of me. Others say, without hessitation, that he looks exactly like Jackie. We've decided he has a good mix of both of our featurers. Below is a shot my mom snapped of me in 1977.

Compare that to this photo of Ian snapped yesterday.

Regardless of who looks like who, it's fun to lay around naked.

Mobile Playground

Ian's buddy Sid gave him this great wagon designed to help him learn how to walk. For now, however, Ian likes hanging out in it with a few key toys. We've dubbed it his mobile playground.

Sweet Sassie Sweet Potato Malassie

Do you think Ian is enjoying solid foods?

Mimi Time

We had dinner last night with Jackie's grandma. Ian's generation calls her Mimi, and he clearly enjoyed his Mimi time.

Mobile Upload

Here's one of my favorite pictures lately. I'm also using this as a test run for a mobile upload, so hopefully it works.

Adventures in Sweet Potato

Well, 4 days into the sweet potatoes, Ian has learned a few tricks to make the meal a little more entertaining and messy. He likes to involve the hands in each bite, first by helping dad guide the spoon into the mouth, and second by spitting most of the bite back into the hands to spread it around everything in reach. As a result, we have meals that look like this:

Dad, is there something on the end of my nose?

It's Been a Long Blogging Time

Please accept my apologies for not posting more timely updates. Much has happened in the past month. First of all, we had a nice heat wave with temperatures in the 100’s. That’s very rare for this area. As few of the houses here have air conditioning, our house was hovering in the mid-90’s by bed time. Jackie and Ian escaped early to enjoy the air conditioning over in Spokane around Brittany and James’ wedding. I passed the exceptionally warm nights by working late in my air conditioned office, and heading to the movies.

The week after the wedding, we hosted Jackie’s college roommate Joey, her wife Elisa, and their son Sidney. We had a wonderful time hiking around Snoqualmie in addition to hitting the major Seattle attractions including the Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Museum of Flight, Pacific Science Center, and a cruise around Eliot Bay. We packed in a ton of activities every day, and the two young kids did AMAZING! We couldn’t have been happier with how well a 14 month old and 5 month old did with all of the traveling, crowds, and crazy schedules. We love our yearly visits with Joey and Elisa, so plans are already in the works for our trip back east next summer.

As Ian hit the 5 month mark on July 26, Jackie began introducing solid foods. He seemed to enjoy his rice cereal by about the second week of trying it. Originally, he wasn’t quite sure what to do with this strange substance that mom was cramming into his mouth. Today, however, he graduated to pureed sweet potatoes. The picture of his first taste in the below slide show says it all, but he ended up really enjoying the meal. Nice work Jackie for steaming, mashing, and pureeing his first meal. I think we’ll be making our own baby food from here on out.

July and Life Changes

Here are a mix of photos from the last month. You will notice lots of smiles in most of them now that Jackie is a stay at home mom, we are all very excited. We decided this little guy was just too important to us so Jackie will be staying home with him for the time being.

4 Months Already

This week, Ian hit the 4 month mark. He checks in at 13 1/2 lbs and 25 in. tall. He's at the 50th percentile for height, but only the 25th for weight. Clearly he takes after his mother. Ian's two favorite things in life are (no, not Mom and Dad) his fore finger and thumb. That seems to be what Ian enjoys most. An odd combination, but he loves it.

We captured a woodland elf wandering around our house. Luckily a camera was close to snap a photo before he ran away.

Ian's latest craze is watching that funny looking baby in the mirror. Below is a picture of some tummy time with the mirror just outside of the picture.

Mom puts together the new toy while Ian looks on. What makes the picture truly amazing is that she is actually looking at the instructions.


Notice the bib in his hand and the spit-up on his outfit. Nice Ian.

Our house has become an infant's playground. In spite of 4 broken toes and 2 sprained ankles as we painfully learn to walk through the obstacle course, Ian really enjoys moving from activity to activity.

Ian received this bouncer from Aunt Sue and Nunu. Ian is still a little small for it, but with the help of some blankets we can pack him in.


I'm pretty sure we've got a momma's boy on our hands. Just like his dad.

Father's Day breakfast. Ian wanted to join us at the table. I'm not sure what he enjoyed more, the casserole or the mimosa.

As he hit the 4 month mark, it's time for our monthly picture update. I wonder how Ian feels about all of these pictures? If only he could express his feelings on the matter (and no, Mom didn't place his hand that way).

Now that his rebellion is out of the way, it's back to our normal sweet little boy.

Also, Ian has learned how to read.

The monthly medley:

For NuNu

NuNu requested to see the giggling video without the music so she can hear Ian better so here it is...

Tummy Time

We recently pulled out a new toy for tummy time for Ian. He lays on a little platform that can spin around and he can play with mirrors, rattles, etc on the mat below. When he gets tired with one toy he kicks and throws his arms and that spins him enough to get to the next toy on the mat. Its a big hit in the Van Inwegen household! Thanks for letting us borrow it Dillon.

p.s. Incase you can't tell, Mom has learned to download videos, edit, and upload them onto Blogspot so watch out...more videos soon.

I Can Giggle!

Ian spent the afternoon giggling away at just about anything except anytime we tried to catch it on video. We did catch a bit of it...

Some pictures over the last month from Memorial Day weekend, visit with Grandma and Grandpa, and other random pitcures.

3 Months of Happiness

Three months have flown by. Ian is now 12 lbs. 4 oz. and 4 feet tall give or take a couple feet. He's discovered his hands. Apparently they are covered in sugar because they are delicious.

Wait, I'm how old?

Ian was practicing for his part in Baby Frankenstein.

Outside of Frankenstein mode, he's a happy little guy. He sleeps 6 to 8 hours a night, mows the lawn for us, and showed me how to use the TV remote. Kids.

Just chill'n like a little guy in my room. I've got a blue chair, green cars on my shirt, and polka-dots on my rug. Life is good.

Memorial Day

Jackie's Director at T-Mobile was nice enough to host a dinner for the new moms in her group. Gabriel was born on 12/31/2008 (just in time for a nice tax break), and Vivienne and Ian were both born on 2/26/2009.

Jackie's Director, Peg, and Ian had a good chat. Ian told some dirty jokes and Peg told Ian about this wonderful place called "Sidelines."

Uncle Mike, Aunt Kassio, and Belle made their way through Seattle for their first visit since moving to Spokane. Ian got in some exercises with Uncle Mike. He fell asleep after the cartwheel session.

Mom and son hanging out after a good meal. Ian is working on his left handed curve ball technique.

The little guy's big feet. All property of Mom.

For Memorial Day, we visited the Shea family in Sandpoint, ID. Ian had some smiles for Aunt Lisa after reading his morning paper.

Smiles were quickly replaced with hands. If only they both fit in the mouth.

Ian's cousin, Savannah, is sooooo close to walking. Ian was pretty amazed at how she could stand on her own and play with the Lego set. Dillon was amazed at how she stole the spot-light from Nunu, so he kept pushing her down. And then would say, "No no no." At least he knew he was doing something wrong.

Madeline and Dillon enjoy a good read by Donald Duck.

The girls and their smores.

More smores.

There are several captions for this, including:

- These are not the droids you're looking for.

- Mom. Quiet down.

- I once saw a dog this tall.

- Go west young man, go west.

Making Friends

At Ian and Jackie's PEPS meeting, a weekly meeting for new mothers, they shot the below photo of the babies in a circle. Guess which one is Ian...


A slightly closer look...


There's Ian! Did you guess right?


Ian and his buddy Jay.

Earlier tonight, the Drobesh's were kind enough to have us all over for the resurrected house dinner. With the twins a little under the weather, Becky and the boys didn't make it in. You better get well so we can see you soon!

Ian, Jami, Andy, David, and Cory. This is titled, "Hands in the pockets."

Jami and Ian.

JD and Kari cooking up some happiness in the kitchen.

Hard at work.

Happiness is a root beer float.

A dapper Drobesh...

Kari. Great picture, but why only sideways blogspot? Sorry Kari.

Give two boys a camera and a large mirror, and you'll get this after about 10 attempts.

Ok, I think Ian is ready to go.

Like my pants?

Hey, is that a Cannon?