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saturday aunt ashley came to visit. she is ian's new favorite person in the whole world because when he wakes up every day she is still here to play with him. whenever she is out of his sight he calls her name "ashth". today we went to the point defiance park zoo in tacoma.

we were welcomed by a big peacock when we first walked in.

then ian rode the merry go round - somehow we stuck him on a horse when he could have ridden a pig or a dog/woof woof

next we stopped by the playground and petting zoo - this zoo is so kid friendly - i loved it.

we also saw an animal show (which ian sat through amazingly fascinated), the aquarium, and lots of other animals - here are the highlights.

Swimming Lessons

He started last week and he loves it.

An Easter post

for my mom - because she made ian an easter basket just like the ones she made us when we were little, and she filled it with books and balls and candy and lots of good stuff - and sent it to us all the way from NY. Thanks mom!

I hid his easter basket in his favorite hiding spot.







Then we had an easter egg hunt in the living room. I had no idea how fun it is to watch little kids find easter eggs.












Ian in his easter outfit



During breakfast I was making conversation with him and telling him why we celebrate Easter and as soon as I said Jesus Christ he said "amen". It was so funny. Anyway, I really don't know if I can wait until next easter for another egg hunt ....

The Woodland Park Zoo

On friday we went to the Seattle zoo with my friend Christina and her kids. It was perfect 80 degree weather - and so fun now to see ian react to the animals (although the ducks are equally as exciting as the tigers). Here are Ian and connor taking a rest.

Playing at the zoomasium

ian refused to stay in the wagon and ran after the other 3 boys - which ment that I chased him all over the park. He fell asleep the second we got into the car.

Ian hearts tomato sauce

He is actually slurping here...

Here he is crawling through his tunnell with curt already in it (just in case you forgot what he looks like when he is clean - sort of).

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This week I went to visit one of my bffs Marisa that just moved to Portland from LA. I'm so so excited that she is close(r). She has two kids that ian loved - and the best part was Micah watched all the kids on Tuesday night while marisa and I went shopping and to dinner all by ourselves. dreamy.

ian and lola hanging out (lola loves her sparkle shoes so much that she had to sleep with them)

sword fighting with jude

ian and jude wore their matching dinosaur pjs

ian was so happy when he woke up and realized that his friends were still there to play with

The rest of the week went pretty much as ususal..

ian dust mopped the backyard and played outside as much as possible

Abby Baby

Ian and I finally went up to Monroe to meet the newest member of the Matyas family, Abby. She is darling and Cherie let me hold her as long as I wanted to (which was basically the whole time we were there). Ian loved her too, and did his token "hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" over and over in her face. I'm begining to think that I must talk to babies in a ridiculously high, annoying voice like that or something.

Abby and her mom (my cousin Cherie)

Josh and Ben - we were sad to miss Jessie but she was at school

Sunday we got to see Abby again at her baby blessing. I wish I had taken my camera - but we are glad to be close enough to attend special occasions.

On another note - Ian the destroyer keeps pulling out all of my flowers in the front yard. It is really annoying - so I have been locking him in the cupboards...

By the way - neither of these cupboards are normally empy - but at this point they were.

Mini-me

Ian is such a copy-cat lately. Like he coughs when you cough - or he laughs because you are laughing. He also wears curt's shoes (or headphones or anything else he can find) around the house, pretends he is shaving his face with his electric razor, and talks on his cell phone non-stop.

The middle

On Thursday Ian and I met my grandparents and Aunt Susie in Centralia, WA for lunch. Aunt Susie was visiting from TX, and still loved Ian even after he dumped her plate of food on the restaurant floor.

The O'Neal's (wearing thier green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day)

We walked around outside after lunch and watched a couple of trains go by.

Ian wearing my grandma's gloves. He was a big fan of grandpa O'Neal - mostly because he took him around to all the tables at the restaurant and let him blow out the candles.