Ian update

So things are going around here. Ian's a busy guy these days - I have to keep him busy to tire him out but it seems to be working with 2-3 hour long naps most days. But between the ice and snow storms we've had we tend to spend a lot of time indoors. Good thing we have a few things that help distract him. Ian loved Thomas (Thsss) now - we have cousin Lucas to thank. He has watched the show a few times and pushes his little Thomas that Lucas gave him as he watches the trains on TV. Ian still doesn't understand the concept of TV since he watches so little. but he recognizes the songs when they come on the IPod and when you tell him to go get Thomas he knows what to get. Ian also identifies Elmo though he doesn't watch any of him anymore - he has an Elmo toy and a book with in it which he calls Nemno- his version of Elmo. Ian still loves the bath and when we were at Target we found Thomas bubble bath and he was in heaven that day. Now he has a little Thsss for the bath. We are still the only kid in the swim class on Wednesday mornings. Yesterday all Mr. Ian wanted to do was float on his back and play with a rubber duck. it wsan't until his bath later that night that he wanted to "scoop" and kick. Other things he's doing - when you hear him yell BA BA he wants you to sing Ba Ba Black Sheep. He's great with B words - ball, bottle, bath, baba for sheep. And he can identify people - when we stand in his room and tell him to go wave to Peter next door he goes to the window to be lifted up to wave to Peter. He still doesn't say Peter, but he says Deb Deb for his wife and yesterday Steven got him to say Jake for Jacob their son. Eating - Mr. Stinky hasn't been eating very well for me this week - the usual things that he'd usually love he just doesn't eat. Not sure what is going on but he's had wet and dirty diapers so I'm not worried yet. He's such a little guy though as you can see from the bath pictures. He has shot up though and is a lot taller and longer through the arms. His tops are 18 month sized but pants still fall off him if they are 12 month. But they are getting too short. This morning Ian is all dressed up - but that is because its so cold here that even though the heat is set at 68 in the house parts of it are probalby low 60s so we layer up. I'm not even venturing outside today - there was about 2 inches of light fluffy snow which is nothing but I'm not dealing with getting the little guy in and out of his outside clothes just to run errands that can wait until the weekend. Plus I work from home so why leave if I dont have to today? The stew is in the crockpot (Thanks Joyce for that Christmas present!) and I'm on my second cup of coffee.