The LITTLE stinker

Went to Ivan's 6 month checkup on Wednesday. All was well. Ivan is 26" long (or as Bob says, 2 foot 2) and weights 14lbs. 9oz. He's in the 50% for height, but only the 10% for weight. Guess we'll have to start calling him Slim. :D

Hopefully, he stays in the 10% or moves up a little next appointment. Otherwise, he's doing great!

Ivan's half birthday and his first meal

Ivan turned 6 months old yesterday. It is so hard to believe that he's already a 1/2 year old. We celebrated by having Bob & Christy over (Nana and Top Gun were in California) and feeding Ivan his first meal: organic brown rice cereal and breastmilk. He loved it! We had to take his bib off, though, because he wanted to eat it too. The little guy made quite a mess. Then, we stripped him naked to wash him down and he peed on the kitchen floor while walking. Pretty funny. Here are some pics of the big day.

Tummy Turner...

Ivan can turn himself around! He's not crawling yet, but he can turn around on his tummy. He enjoys it on our bed especially.

Walking

Ivan loves to walk around our house. He especially enjoys it when we take his socks off on the hard woods. :)

Ivan's First Christmas

Been a while since I posted. Christmas was great with all the family! We had a pretty hectic few days but it was lots of fun. Ivan ate wrapping paper, but that's about it. Top Gun got him a train to be played with only at Christmas at his house. Also, Ivan sat up unassisted for the first time on Christmas Day. Pretty exciting. :D

Ivan's visit to Colorado

Ivan and family went to Colorado to see Uncle Alex graduate from college. It was a great trip with the whole family.

Off to get our Christmas tree...

Ty, Ivan and Rachel went and actually cut down our tree this year at a Christmas tree farm in Woodinville. It was chock full of hot spiced cider and handsaws. So fun.

I found my toes...nom nom nom

Ivan has just started finding his toes. Now, at every diaper change he puts them in his mouth as soon as the diaper is off.

Ivan learns how to stick his tongue out

He is mimicking Christy and mom and has us in stitches. We sound pretty silly too! :D

Two New Milestones!!!

Ivan has been a busy boy lately. At nana's house last Thursday 11/5/09, he rolled over from his side to his tummy. He's been able to roll from his back to his side for quite a while now and finally has all the tools in place to do the full roll.

Second, he just started inchworming across the floor yesterday. This is the first major step toward crawling. When on his tummy, he digs his feet in and sticks his bottom way up the air and then scoots down and forward. So exciting. Carlie said that he's really been doing it a bunch this morning too!! We'll have to get some video.