Sorry I didn't get a chance to post Ian's 16 month update. We've been very busy (I guess most people have though, with the holidays and all). This will be a long one.
He seems to have officially hit his I'm-learning-everything-and-will-pick-up-on-anything-you-do/say/etc age. He tries so hard to talk, it's amazing. Most of his words still don't sound quite like they should (he calls my dad's dog Lacy "IT-seee"), but he tries. His "made up" words are also getting much more detailed, having two or three syllables. He'll just sit and talk away to just about anything--people, toys, walls, mirrors, dogs...
He has mastered the telephone. He will not talk on it for real with anyone, but he will pick it up, push some buttons, and then hold it up to his ear (actually, it's usually his shoulder--I'll explain) and say "Hello?" then he'll have a nice detailed little conversation. The shoulder thing is that he sees me rest my phone on my shoulder and walk around the house while I talk (I CAN NOT sit still when I'm on the phone--it's impossible), so he'll set the phone on his shoulder and walk all over the place. He's my little clone. :)
He waves bye-bye now, but only when he wants to--the child will not do ANYTHING on demand. Everything is always on his terms. He's also picking up more signs--he can do "dad", "mom", "auntie", "more", and "all done". He picked up auntie, more, and all done within a few days of each other--it's like the light finally went off in his little brain that "Wow! Those all MEAN something!". "All done" was killing me--we use only actual ASL signs with him since Hazen's sister is deaf (hence him learning "auntie"), but for whatever reason, he would just throw his arms in the air and say "a-do!" for all done, not use the actual sign. Then finally a couple of nights ago, he actually watched very intently as we signed it and then he signed it back (as best as he could--all done involves a little too much coordination for a one-year-old). Of course he gets lots of claps and praise when he gets a sign right, and he just LOOOOVES applause (he'll gladly join in with a big grin).
All his molars are now in, bringing the tooth count up to 12. He's also got at least his bottom "eye" teeth coming in so that's been a nightmare. I've heard those are the worst, and it has totally been proven true--he knaws on everything, randomly cries, gets clingy...it drives me nuts sometimes. All I can say is thank goodness for teething tablets!!! (which reminds me we need to pick some up when we're out today...)
His personality is really developing. He shrieks and laughs all the time, seemingly over nothing a lot of the time. It's really cute. :)
Oh, and finally, he can drink out of a straw! We're going to pick him up some straw sippies today. he just loves to do it, and now whenever he sees a cup with a straw he wants it (doesn't matter what's in it, he'll drink it). I'm glad to get him to this point since regular sippies are so bad for their teeth and he's not too good at letting me brush his yet. It will be some worry off of me--I want my kid to have nice teeth.
Okay, and now onto the second portion of this blog: the last three weeks.
We went to Montana. The drive was horrible, with rain in Utah (ALL of Utah...the entire state of Utah...) which turned into snow in Idaho (ALL of Idaho) and then turning to beautiful blue skies in Montana. It took us 17 hours, but we left at night so Ian slept through the majority of the trip.
In Idaho we got an interesting call from Hazen's flight chief asking how we slept. Hazen reminded him he was on leave and we didn't sleep--we were in northern Idaho. Turns out there was a shooting in our apartment complex the night we left--an active duty air force guy was taking out his trash and walked in on people robbing him and was shot twice. Great. A couple of days after that, 6 high school kids were shot at a school bus stop near here. I don't know what happened--we leave and our neighborhood falls apart.
Hazen had his test for the Helena police department on the 10th. He did really well, getting an 85 average (you have to get a 75 to pass). When he gets out, he'll also get another 5 points for being a veteran, so that will bump him up to a 90. He also aced his fitness test with a 60 (you need a 12 to pass that one!!). We're really hoping that Helena will hire him, but since he doesn't get out until at least August, they can't offer him anything yet. They really seemed to want him though, and he's pretty sure he'd have gotten the job in January if he weren't still in for 8 months. They told him to keep calling to keep him in their minds and to let them know that he was still interested. He did get a job offer yesterday for the police department in Fairview (a tiiiiiny town on the North Dakota border) but told them he's holding out for Helena.
We got the chance to look at some house ads in Helena, and we're so excited--there was a LOT in our price range that met what we were looking for, so it's awesome. :) The house prices really excite us.
Other than that, there isn't much else to say. We got to spend Christmas in Montana with my family which was great. We left for home on the 27th (this time in the afternoon because I didn't want to drive through Montana at night with all those stinking deer...I've only hit three of them...). The only bad patch was about 100 miles in Idaho where the road turned into pure ice. Ian did GREAT. Did not cry at all until about 10 minutes out of Vegas. We made it back in about 14 1/2 hours, definitely an improvement over teh 17 it took us to get there.
Oh, when we walked in our door our smoke detector was beeping at us (you know, the annoying random beep of a dying battery). We called maintence yesterday afternoon (we got in around 4 am and went right to bed) and they haven't come yet. We would deal with it ourselves but we have vaulted ceilings (I think they're about 15 feet high) and the smoke alarm is up near the ceiling (whoever designed that is a dummy) so we can't reach. Obviously we dont' have a ladder in our apartment, so we're at the mercy of waiting for the maintence people to come. I'm guessing an irritating smoke detector isn't at the top of the list (which, considering how long it took to get our a/c fixed in the middle of a Vegas summer, I have no idea how long we'll be waiting for this...maybe we'll get used to it...).
Ah well, the kid is waking up (for teh first time since he was put down at 9 last night! Woo Hoo!).
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