Amazing Ian

What an amazing little guy Ian is. He continually makes us smile. He is a bit cranky this evening, but the way he's chewing on the nipple of his bottle I think another tooth is popping through.

We had a good weekend. His cold is better. Runny nose still, but the cough is better and no fever. He is sleeping between 9-11 hours a night and napping about 2 times a day. It all depends on how long his morning nap is. If it's only 30-45 minutes, then we take 3 naps. If it's over an hour, then usually he takes another 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon. He's getting better about the afternoon one. He doesn't mind the morning nap at all. But he usually fusses when it's time for the afternoon nap.

We ventured out today and visited the Dillon office. We were able to see Jynger, Gayle, Deniese and lots of other people. He was a happy, smiling boy. Then we went to the book store and Daddy bought him the Curious George CD and an Elmo book. He seems to like Elmo. We watched Sesame Street on Saturday morning and he giggled and wiggled at Elmo.

He got the cutest toy yesterday. A friend of ours from our Sunday school class brought dinner to us last night and brought some things for Ian. One of them was this adorable little turtle. When you press his foot, he giggles. Ian loves it. He giggles right along with it and now he's hugging it and chewing on it.

He has now discovered that he can grab the spoon when Mommy's feeding him. Baby food on the hands must feel good. He's a thumb sucker...either one...it doesn't matter. His new thing this weekend was to take a bite of food and then put the thumb in the mouth. Must make the food go down better. Who knows. All I know is it's messy.

He loves to eat. He has liked everything we've given him so far, but his absolute favorite thing is bananas. He will eat a whole banana and would probably eat more, but I'm afraid it will make him sick. He likes the baby food kind too, but prefers fresh mashed ones.

The weather is beautiful here, so tomorrow we're going to take a walk in our stroller. Tomorrow is an election day in Tulsa, so we're going to walk to the polling place and back. He's getting used to his car seat, so I'm hoping that the stroller won't be a big deal.

He is a great baby and we are so blessed. He's learning new things every single day.

The waiting process of this adoption was greuling, but others told us that we'd forget about the wait once we had him. I can't say that we've forgotten about it, but now that we have him it seems like a distant memory. He was SOOOOOOOOO worth the wait.

We have our first post placement visit with Gayle on Friday. We're actually looking forward to that. Ian seems to be attaching and bonding with both of us.

This is Charlie's last week off work. We're going to go in tomorrow to visit the folks at Charlie's office. Then on Wednesday we have our official doctors appointment for evaluation with Dr. Sood.

God is so good. He asked us to trust Him and have faith that He would bring us to our child. He did and Ian is awesome. What an awesome responsibility God has given us and we are so grateful that He chose to put our family together.

More as the days progress......