On the 12th Day of Christmas...

...Ian opened a package to find a cookie!

My sister and her family sent Ian a cookie jar with numbered cookies! Ian was thrilled to open his present and immediately signed "eat" upon seeing the cookies!

I missed the actual sign, but you can see the hungry look on his face here!

Liz said that she remembered her kiddos loved to put stuff into things and take them out over and over again at this age. Ian is no different! He had a blast putting his cookies in the cookie jar...

and in piles on the floor...

and on his high chair...

and on the stool!

He really loves his cookies. Although it only took him a second to realize he couldn't actually eat them, he's been carrying them around for the last day and a half! He often chews on them and then tries to put them in our mouths so we can chew on them too! Ian says a big thank you for his cookie jar!

Later that day, James called from our room, saying that I should bring the camera. Apparently Ian was chillin' on our bed, big kid style.

I know it's totally a new parent thing, but Ian looks so grown up on our bed!

Ha - of course, he was totally up for a game of peek-a-boo with the covers.

Where's Ian?

Peek-a-boo!

After Ian got tired of that, he climbed off our bed and waded through the piles of laundry on the floor waiting to be put in the washer. At one point, he started shutting our closet door, which shut one pile of laundry in the closet. It was almost like he was trying to hide the laundry! Smart boy! He did get kind of upset that the door wouldn't close all the way though...that's how behind we were on laundry!

We had quite a bit of cleaning/errands to do, so Ian went to daycare for just a few hours that afternoon. He fell asleep in the car about 7pm and was OUT when we got home.

Close-up of our zonked little boy.

Being zonked only lasted a few minutes though. He needed his diaper changed before bed and woke up when we changed it. He must have had a power nap because he did not want to go to bed after that! In fact, he ended up going to Wal-Mart with me around 10:30pm. I wasn't looking forward to the trip because I knew the store would be packed, but it actually wasn't bad. And Ian did great! We had a fun little shopping trip together and he went to bed about midnight. He then proceeded to sleep til 12:15pm!! We are absolutely loving this mini teenage phase!