Sunday at the Park

It's a beautiful day, so we took Stian over to Prophetstowns State Park today.

The Farmer in the Dell

Stian's new favorite song (and book - we got one from the library) is The Farmer in the Dell. He's pretty good at singing it too.

This little video was taken with my mom's camera and she has the quality set much higher than we do so I can't just embed the video in the blog. So here is a link to it on YouTube.

More Weekend Fun

So obviously my parents were here this weekend. We had much fun with them. Stian loved spending time with them and keep track of them at all times: "Where's Grandma? What's Grandma doing? Where's Grandpa? What's Grandpa doing?"

My parents got him a little slide, which he is having a lot of fun with - especially now that he has figured out how to go down it without landing on his face.



We got to see the combine harvesting the soybeans near our house, that was quite interesting, espeically for a little boy who is obsessed with farm implements.





We went for long walks. And Stian did actually walk quite a bit, though we only have evidence of him riding!





We looked at bugs. There was a giant praying mantis on our driveway on Sunday that Stian - and the rest of us - were very impressed with - though we don't have any pictures of that. We also saw a Walking Stick, and that was interesting too. And a few caterpillars.



Horsey rides with Daddy.



Lots of tickles. Stian loves to be tickled: "Again!" "Again!" "More dig-a-dig!" (I say "dig a dig a dig a dig a dig" while tickling him).



My mom was not actually trying to tickle him in the picture below - just to get him to sit in her lap. But Stian was being too squirmy, giggly to cooperate.



And lots and lots of upside down - one of Stian's favorite things. Look at all the blonde hair!



My Aunt Joanne and Uncle Tom also came for a visit on Sunday. They live in New Jersey but were in Indiana to go to the Notre Dame football game, so they came down and spent the afternoon and evening with us on sunday. We had a very nice visit with them, but somehow we managed to get no photo evidence of their visit!

Thanks for a nice weekend Grandma and Grandpa! I have a feeling some little guy is going to miss you!

Another new trike

This kid has more bikes than he knows what to do with. He's got the one Grandma and Grandpa Loftus bought him for his birthday last year, he has the one on loan from a guy Kris works with, and now he has a hand-me-down trike from Cousin Nate. My parents brought it for Stian this weekend. He loves it. He pretty much only wanted to ride it this weekend. The problem is that he can't reach the pedals or the ground when he is sitting on it. So he has to be pushed. To save our backs my very clever husband found us a tool.



Stian is very good at steering the trike, so it works well. Unfortunately the trike is rather top heavy and Stian turned the handlebars too sharply and took a nasty fall right on his face on Sunday. There was lots of blood. I rushed him inside to make sure he hadn't lost a tooth or cut his lip so badly that he needed stitches. But he was okay. He was crying really hard. But I think the thing that was making him the most upset was that we had rushed inside because he kept saying, through his sobbing "outside! ride bike!" He wanted to get right back on the bike and go again. So it didn't scare him too badly, even though it scared me!

Now he has a fat lip with a concrete burn on it.



And some other tricks we figured out. He was rather proud of himself for this one.



And I was rather proud of myself for this one.

Stuffed Animals

Stian loves animals - in particular stuffed animals. Although he has a couple of non-plush animals he likes too - for instance a little tiny plastic cat and a big squishy rubber spider. (are spiders animals?) But mostly he loves stuffed animals. He has about 10 in his crib with him every night and probably a dozen more around the house. And he loves to talk with them: "Hi Doug. How are you Doug? What's Doug doing?" etc.

Stian was having such a conversation with his bear Yksi when he noticed my mom taking a picture so he gave her a big smile for the camera.

Library

Stian and I go to the library every two weeks to get new books. Stian loves books. Loves them. But he does get tired of them - usually after about two weeks. But occassionally he asks for one that we have already returned. He's been asking for "Cars, Cars, Cars" since we returned it, so we found that one again this week.

Anyway, Stian and I typically go alone, but my parents were in town this weekend. So while my dad helped Kris finish up the paving project (it's been mostly done for about two years, but he needed to rent the wet saw and cut a few more and mortar some into place), my mom and I took Stian to the library. So we got a picture of Stian and me enjoying "Cars, Cars, Cars" at the library.

God Natt, Sov Godt

Articulated Tractor

Playing in the rain

Monday Evening

We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo, how 'bout you, you, you?

We went to the zoo today with Kevin and Quinn. Stian had so much fun. He seemed to get more into the whole experience with Quinn there. He was just so excited and seemed to love everything today. It was much fun.

yet more TRACTOR!

Grandpa Skjervold went to the implement dealer and got Stian some John Deere catalogs. He loves them. He made Daddy read them to him tonight. "What's that? Oooo! What's that?!"