Ian's first Halloween

We had so much fun today celebrating Ian's first Halloween. It was a gorgeous day so we took Ian to Firewheel Mall, which is outdoors to walk around. To our surprise the First Baptist Church was putting on a Fall Festival. They had games, candy, a magician and lots of cute kids running around in their costumes. Ian didn't wear his until tonight.

Our Lil Stinker make his appearance

It was too cute and a little too hot for him to wear it very long. He actually wore it for about 10 minutes. Just long enough for some pictures. Then he spit up all over it. I figured it was about $5 per minute of fun when it was all said and done. Totally worth it.

We went over to Ian's buddy Pierce's house to show him the costume.

We also took him trick or treating. He was sporting his Halloween onesie and hat.

We had to get home for the Notre Dame game and also so we could pass out candy to the neighbors. Overall, we had a great time today with Ian. I'm looking forward to next year and being able to take Ian trick or treating.

Claire's Wedding in St. Louis

My friend Claire got married to her longtime boyfriend Matt this past weekend in St. Louis. We had a great time spending time with friends and freezing our butts off. It was in the 50s during the days and 30s at night. You could see your breath in the air and they had frost in the early AM. Crazy stuff for October. We spend two nights at my grandma's house and two nights at the hotel where all the festivities took place. Here are some pictures from the fun (but very exhausting weekend).

Ian's newspaper boy hat was a hit! He wore it to the rehersal dinner and then again to the wedding ceremony.

How cute does he look!

Dinner at the Robbins' house. So much fun!

Ian got to ride Snickers. Looks like fun to me!

He got to wear his first Yamaka! He might have just loved to wear a hat because he giggled everytime we put a different one on him. This one was a bit big.

The bridesmaids having a glass of champagne before the wedding. Shhhhh...Don't tell Claire...she told us no drinking.

After the ceremony, Ian had to change into his tux. He was a trooper and stayed up partying until almost 11p. He took a nap during dinner in his stroller.

Overall, Ian did great and was the best baby ever. He sure was tired on the way home. We had a 9am flight on Sunday and he slept in Ima's lap the whole way. I crashed as soon as I got home. It was definitely hard to hang this time. I'm not used to staying up until 1am and only getting 5 hours of sleep with no nap. My friend Megan took some pictures with her professional camera on Saturday so I'm hoping to get those soon and I'll post those.

Sweet Pictures

Ian, Jason and I at the Smith Family Reunion this past weekend. Ian was very popular amonst all the ladies.

Playing Peek-a-boo

A picture to show a future girlfriend for sure!

4 Month Checkup

Today was Ian's 4 month checkup. Dr. Miller said he looks perfect and is very healthy. His stats:
Weight: 18 pounds 6 ounces (90 %)
Height: 25 inches (50%)
Head: (50% - I don't remember the measurement of his head)

He had to have 3 shots today was he did very well. He was fussy for most of the appointment because he needed his nap.

Normally he will have 2-3 naps totaling about 4-5 hours of sleep during the day. He's still sleeping about 10-12 hours a night and wakes up happy and ready to play. He's still chowing down on breastmilk, but we've been given the greenlight to start rice cereal today. We'll start with 2 ozs of breast milk with rice cereal mixed in once a day and work our way up. We will be working on the cereal and using a spoon with him until he's 6 months old and then we can start on stage one fruits. I'm very excited about starting big boy foods with him.

Here are some pictures from the past two days. The weather has turned chilly so I've gotten to put on some of the cute long sleeve/pant outfits on him.

above: His football outfit/below: His Juicy Couture outfit (yes, its Juicy...a gift from our friend Deanna in Tucson)

Some of Ian's Likes and Dislikes

He's not a fan of the paparazzi. The red light before the flash gets to him sometime, but he's so stinking cute, I just can't help myself.

He loves his bottle, but you already knew that because of his size. :)

He loves to sit up and being a big boy. His thighs are a bit too big for his bumbo chair so I am using my boppy pillow turned around to give him support.

He doesn't like that I had to go back to work. (just kidding) We were matching on Friday so I wanted to take a picture...he was ready for his bottle.

He loves taking a big boy bath. He's starting to kick his feet out and splash a bit.