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First Report Card

Ian got his first report card last week.  We were very excited to see how he did and after looking through it very proud of him!  He's a smart kid and he's learning so much at school. 

I love that he got a 4 for singing.  HE'S ALWAYS SINGING!!

We are looking forward to the rest of year and how far he advances!

Borne Loves Playing The Guitar

Bath Time

Borne Loves Indie

Borne loves to lay on Indie.  I think mostly because she's so soft.  For the most part she puts up with him!  Such a good dog!

You might notice that Borne is holding a Zhu Zhu pet.  It's one of his new favorite toys!

Our little monkey!

The other day I was in the living room and Chris said "Mel come here and look at Borne."  I rounded the corner to his room and found this:

He had climbed into the walker all by himself.  He was just hanging out playing.  I was amazed he was not screaming yet - he's not one to be contained like this.  He played for about 10 minutes and then he got upset when he could not get out by himself.  I think we are going to have our hands full with this guy.  He climbs into and onto everything already - and he's only 1!

But look at that face!

HUSKER Stadium!

Lincoln Industries has a yearly celebration and this year it was held on the UNL campus.  We were able to take a tour of the stadium and go out on the field.  It's pretty crazy how different it is when there's not 86,000 people in red in the seats!

The Killigans

The Killigans played an all ages early show a couple of weeks ago so I thought it would be a good opportunity for Ian to see his rock star dad.  We got there and at first stood in the back to watch and listen.  Ian had a pair of ear plugs in but they were not working.  Ian has always had a very sensitive ear and it was no exception that night.  At one point he started crying because it was too loud.  So we hung for one song and headed home.  Next time we'll have to bring the silencing ear phones.  It is cool thought that it's something he can be a part of.  Ian is always singing and humming songs.  He comes home from school singing songs - its amazing how fast he picks up on songs.  I think he has some of his dad's musical ability - Lucky for him!

Fun Borne Pictures!

Playing around taking silly pictures with Borne!

 Those are the blue eyes I feel in love with almost 15 years ago!

Halloween 2010

Our little chicken!  This is the same costume that Ian wore when he was 5 months old - tells the difference in size of our two boys!

 Nicki (Chris' sister) was born on Halloween so we had a little birthday/halloween party before going door to door.  This was the cool birthday cake for her!

Batman (Ryder), Batgirl (Deni), Darth Vader (Ian)

Making the trip across the street for the first house!

This was the monkey mask that the adults passed around.

Our Darth Vader.  Towards the end of the night Ian took off the mask - it was getting to sweaty (his own words!)

Milk Intolerance

We are thinking that Borne might have a milk intolerance.  Since he was a baby his tummy did not react well to formula so we switched to soy formula and he handled it much better.  Then a couple of weeks ago when trying to switch to whole milk we had some issues so tried the soy milk and much better.  But he's not been his normal happy self lately so we think it's because of the milk in his diet.  So we are on a strict no milk diet for the next 2 weeks to see if it helps.

Honestly this scares me a little bit because we are pretty lazy about what we eat - so this means a little more work for us. But if it means Borne is happier and his tummy does not feel yucky.  And if it works it will be well worth it - we'd have some answers to his fussiness (and I use that word nicely!).  When he's not happy he pretty much yells at you!

So wish us luck on this little adventure - and if you have good ideas for non-milk recipes let me know!

BORNE IS 1!

Daycare

So I found a whole bunch of older pictures that I never blogged about - here's one group of them.  Ian and Borne go to a great in-home daycare.  We were really lucky (I think someone was watching over us!) to find Amanda.  Truly it's a funny story how we ended up there.  I thought her name was Tonya for 3 days because I got all confused with a few other daycares on her street - anyway - we are LUCKY!

She's great.  The kids do all kinds of fun stuff and they learn so much.  I credit much of Ian's smarts to her!!

On one of the last days Ian was going full-time I got these pictures.

I could not ask for a better person to watch my kids while we are at work each day.  I hope some day Ian and Borne will both appreciate the great job Amanda does and did for them when they were little!

So to all of the great daycares out there - especially Cotner Critter (Amanda!) - THANK YOU!