Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Singing
This is what I heard over the monitor a little bit ago as I was making Stian's lunch. He had just woken up from his nap and was singing to himself in bed. The quality isn't that great, so here's a translation:
Taxi, taxi
riding in the backseat
roll the window up
roll the window down
put the money through the slot
see you later thanks a lot!
Taxi, taxi
riding in the backseat
This is Stian's favorite song (although he did tell me the other day that the song "I Want to Ride my Bicycle" by Queen was his "favorite song" - but he's a little obsessed with this one). We listened to it probably 80 times on our recent car trip to The Cities.
Taxi, taxi
riding in the backseat
roll the window up
roll the window down
put the money through the slot
see you later thanks a lot!
Taxi, taxi
riding in the backseat
This is Stian's favorite song (although he did tell me the other day that the song "I Want to Ride my Bicycle" by Queen was his "favorite song" - but he's a little obsessed with this one). We listened to it probably 80 times on our recent car trip to The Cities.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Language
Stian has had some fun language advances recently. He is much more likely to speak in complete sentences now. He made everyone at daycare laugh last week when he announced "The Wabash river is beautiful and long." He is also starting to use pronouns and possessive pronouns. So he will say things like "put it on my plate." And one of his favorite sentences suddenly is "I can't reach it". He used to say things like "Stian's plate" or "Stian can't reach it." He still does that, but he's using the pronouns and possessive pronouns more. The other thing that Stian does that is quite cute is he likes to narrate his activities. He'll say "Going down the hill" as he goes down the hill. Or "set the water down" as he sets his water down.
So we get a running narration of his activities. He certainly likes to chatter, it's much fun.
So we get a running narration of his activities. He certainly likes to chatter, it's much fun.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Park!
While we were in Minneapolis we also had a chance to get together with Grandma and Grandpa Loftus and Uncle Wayne and Cousin Nate. My parents were in the Cities because they had just gotten back from a trip to Colorado. So spent a couple of hours with them at a park near Wayne's place. We forgot to bring our camera, but Grandma took pictures and sent them to me.
Anniversary Party
Friday was Grandma and Grandpa Skjervold's 50th anniversary. To celebrate we (Karin, Brad, Klebo and us) threw them a party on Saturday at Karin and Brad's house. It was a very nice time. We had beautiful weather, good food and a great turnout -- we had about 40 people show up. Kris and I basically just took pictures as people were arriving, then we were too busy to take pictures! But here are some from the early part of the party.
First haircut
We were in Minnesota this weekend for Grandma and Grandpa Skjervold's 50th wedding anniversary (a blog post about that will be up soon). While we were there Stian had his first haircut. We had wanted Auntie Karin to give him his first cut, so we had been waiting until we saw her again. I just couldn't bring myself to cut it when we saw her in July. I could just barely bring myself to cut it this time, but figured the next time we saw her - Thanksgiving - he'd really be shaggy looking. So we went ahead and did it.
First cousin Klebo, Daddy and Grandpa all had to get quick trims to show Stian how much fun and non-scary it is to get your hair cut.
He was interested enough when they were getting their hair cut, but it was still downright scary when it came time to get his cut. So to distract him we sat in the window and watched cars drive by and talked about the pick-up truck parked across the street. I wanted to keep the top long and just get rid of the mullet look, so Auntie Karin put his hair in two little pig tails and snipped it off. This also provided me with two cute little pigtails to stick away somewhere to remember just how blonde he was as a baby! I'm sure his white blonde hair won't last based on the current color of Kris's and my hair.
She was able to sneak and trim it up and make it more even later in the evening when we were outside playing with trucks on the picnic table. He looks like such a big boy now.
First cousin Klebo, Daddy and Grandpa all had to get quick trims to show Stian how much fun and non-scary it is to get your hair cut.
He was interested enough when they were getting their hair cut, but it was still downright scary when it came time to get his cut. So to distract him we sat in the window and watched cars drive by and talked about the pick-up truck parked across the street. I wanted to keep the top long and just get rid of the mullet look, so Auntie Karin put his hair in two little pig tails and snipped it off. This also provided me with two cute little pigtails to stick away somewhere to remember just how blonde he was as a baby! I'm sure his white blonde hair won't last based on the current color of Kris's and my hair.
She was able to sneak and trim it up and make it more even later in the evening when we were outside playing with trucks on the picnic table. He looks like such a big boy now.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Indianapolis Zoo
We took Stian to the Indianapolis Zoo this morning. I'd been leary of taking him since it takes a little over an hour to get down there and I knew it would mess with his napping. But we decided to give it a shot today. It went really well.
Stian wasn't so sure about it at first. The first exhibit we saw were of the seals and they were getting fed so they were quite active and noisy and I think they scared Stian. Then we went on the walruses. I had no idea walruses were so big! Surely I've seen one in a zoo before, but I was pretty surprised at how enormous they were. Especially one of them. It could stand with its tail flippers at the bottom of the tank and keep its head out of the water - I swear it was about 12 feet tall. Stian didn't really like the walruses either. Who can blame him? They are a little disconcerting.
Next we went to the desert exhibit though, and he enjoyed that. He liked the turtles and birds and lizards there. They weren't moving too fast, that problaby helped get him warmed up. Then he saw the meerkats, he really liked watching them.
Then we got the zebras, and Stian liked those a lot too - just like on his pajamas! He watched them for quite a long time.
The giraffes were also a big hit.
He wasn't so sure about the rhinos, but they were just kind of laying there like big rocks.
The elephants were pretty cool. Kris and I are pretty sure the elephant on the right below is Tombi, the one whose birthday party we went to many years ago.
And he kinda liked, but wasn't too sure of, the komodo dragon. Which is just as well, as they are really rather creapy.
And what did Stian keep asking for at the zoo? "Tractor!" Sadly Stian, this zoo didn't appear to have a tractor like the zoo in Lafayette.
Unfortunately it started to rain pretty hard after we had been there for a little over two hours so we left. I don't think Stian would have lasted too much longer anyway though.
The trip did mess with his nap schedule, he slept on the ride home a little, and he's in his crib now, but I keep hearing him move around over the monitor, so I'm not really sure he's sleeping up there
Stian wasn't so sure about it at first. The first exhibit we saw were of the seals and they were getting fed so they were quite active and noisy and I think they scared Stian. Then we went on the walruses. I had no idea walruses were so big! Surely I've seen one in a zoo before, but I was pretty surprised at how enormous they were. Especially one of them. It could stand with its tail flippers at the bottom of the tank and keep its head out of the water - I swear it was about 12 feet tall. Stian didn't really like the walruses either. Who can blame him? They are a little disconcerting.
Next we went to the desert exhibit though, and he enjoyed that. He liked the turtles and birds and lizards there. They weren't moving too fast, that problaby helped get him warmed up. Then he saw the meerkats, he really liked watching them.
Then we got the zebras, and Stian liked those a lot too - just like on his pajamas! He watched them for quite a long time.
The giraffes were also a big hit.
He wasn't so sure about the rhinos, but they were just kind of laying there like big rocks.
The elephants were pretty cool. Kris and I are pretty sure the elephant on the right below is Tombi, the one whose birthday party we went to many years ago.
And he kinda liked, but wasn't too sure of, the komodo dragon. Which is just as well, as they are really rather creapy.
And what did Stian keep asking for at the zoo? "Tractor!" Sadly Stian, this zoo didn't appear to have a tractor like the zoo in Lafayette.
Unfortunately it started to rain pretty hard after we had been there for a little over two hours so we left. I don't think Stian would have lasted too much longer anyway though.
The trip did mess with his nap schedule, he slept on the ride home a little, and he's in his crib now, but I keep hearing him move around over the monitor, so I'm not really sure he's sleeping up there
Baling
As you'll recall, last Sunday they came to cut down the horse mix in the field across the street but Stian was too tired to really enjoy it. Fortunately they came back to bale it up this week, and we all watched them for quite awhile. The farmer even stopped to chat with us for a minute as he was leaving. He offered Stian a job in a few years.
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