Christmas 2010

Santa treated us well and we enjoyed a wonderful day with family. Here is a virtual copy of our card (front and back) for anyone we might have missed. Merry Christmas from Chez Scoville!

Three

Ian is three. I really can't believe how much a child can grow in three short years. His three year well-check appointment was very similar to last year. He froze into a silent statue for the duration of the visit. He was too shy to answer any of the doctor's questions, and only nodded in response. I had to reassure the doctor several times that Ian is a social chatterbox at home, and has been talking in sentences since 18 months. As the doctor walked out the door and said goodbye, Ian blurted out an expressionless "Happy-Thanksgivings-Merry-Christmas" as quickly and quietly as he could. That was the only thing he said the whole appointment. And as usual, no crying with the shots.

Interesting tidbits about Ian:

-He has been sleeping in the TOP bunk since he was 26 months old.

-He gets very silly/giddy when tired, but never cranky.

-He talks a lot, and narrates most of our day.

-He likes to throw in as many words as he can. For example, instead of saying "I'm hungry", he says, "mom, uh, I think it must be time for lunch or something".

-He loves to skip, gallop and dance.

-He loves to eat, and will eat just about anything.

-He knows the alphabet pretty well.

-He loves to take showers. As soon as he hears it running he quickly strips down and jumps in with whoever happens to be in there.

-A couple months before he turned three, I caught him standing on the kitchen table and peeing into his cereal bowl. I commenced with potty training immediately and it was a quick, fairly painless process.

Ian loves to make connections and ask questions. A couple weeks ago he came to me and said, "uh, mom...do you have a belly button?" When I answered in the affirmative, he asked if he could see it. I acquiesced. Then he said, "You have a belly button, Ava has a belly button, Max has a belly button, and Ian has a belly button...but daddy doesn't. He just has a hole." He is always coming up with little anecdotes that make us laugh.

His three year stats:

weight: 32 lbs (65th%)

height: 39 inches (84th %)

He is a very sweet, smart, affectionate boy with a huge helping of naughty. I could write pages about the damage he has done to our personal property with crayons and scissors. Pages. I am so curious to see what he will be like when he grows up.

big girl

I don't remember the last time Ava crawled, it's been a few weeks. As soon as she figured out how to get back up, crawling became a quickly forgotten pastime. She has been sick for the past two days and screams if I so much as think about putting her down. But when she heard the word "outside" while Max was coaxing Ian out to play, she wiggled out of my tired arms and made a dash for the back door. I peeked out the door at the thermometer on the patio to make sure she would be ok without shoes on, and it said 86 degrees! Pretty wild weather for December, even for Arizona.