I went to Ikea a while ago to get more of our Trofast toy storage bins that we really like (because, though we aimed to contain his toys in one, it just didn't make sense any more). While I was there I came around the corner in the kids department and saw a bed that made me think, "Wow, that's a really cool bed for a kid!". While I was standing there two different kids came up and exclaimed about what an awesome bed it was. So, since we were thinking Ian was getting rather long for his toddler bed anyway, I got Ian this new twin size bed. Its coolest form is as a loft bed, but we'll wait until he's a bit older and well accustomed to getting up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night before we do that. It's invertible, so right now it's in its low form. Ian was very excited, at least as much about the assembly as about the bed itself. He helped Doug enthusiastically with every step which made it take, well, longer.
Besides being invertible, the tent on the top is the bed's cool feature. It makes it a good place for pre-bed drumming with friends:
On a different topic, here Ian is watching a video with Jenny, a life-sized doll my grandmother sewed for me when I was a girl. (Best Ian quote about Jenny, "Jenny, you're a big hairy girl!"). We've gotten into a habit of Ian watching a short video during breakfast while I'm in the shower in the morning. Sometimes he wants someone to watch with him, and the task usually falls either to Lilo or to Jenny. Here you can see he's watching The Snowman (Raymond Briggs). He watched this every day for several weeks, then I think the ending finally sunk in and it got sad for him. At the end he'd cry and say, "I want the little boy to come out and give me a looooong hug." Then he suddenly stopped wanting to watch it and hasn't chosen it since!:
Hiding in a fort:
Doug installed a movable shower head so now he can give Ian a shower without the water coming down on his head the whole time:
A silly boy outfit:
More forts:
He sometimes has quite involved conversations with Lilo:
And, in the last month that Greg lived with us (January), Ian and Greggy pretending to drive a bus:
Greg has since become the housemate of our neighbor, so now he is the Uncle Next Door. We can wave at him through the kitchen window, and Ian can walk over to knock on the door without going into the street, so it's a nice arrangement. Ian goes over a couple times a week for a while to help make breakfast or dinner. Here is a shot from our house into the kitchen window next door seeing him cooking with the guys:
A silly boy outfit:
More forts:
He sometimes has quite involved conversations with Lilo:
And, in the last month that Greg lived with us (January), Ian and Greggy pretending to drive a bus:
Greg has since become the housemate of our neighbor, so now he is the Uncle Next Door. We can wave at him through the kitchen window, and Ian can walk over to knock on the door without going into the street, so it's a nice arrangement. Ian goes over a couple times a week for a while to help make breakfast or dinner. Here is a shot from our house into the kitchen window next door seeing him cooking with the guys:
Ian has an intermittent but growing interest in letters. Here are the first I's (for Ian, of course) he made himself after an example from Daddy:
And one on his hand for good measure:
And here Ian was making a tower and saying he was standing, "like a builder":
Which we traced back to this book:
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