Ian is now walking! About a week ago, Mark and I were in the living room with Ian. Mark and Ian were doing the kid dancing thing with some Comcast OnDemand Karaoke. Mark lets go of Ian's hands and he takes 3 steps to me. He then turns back and takes three steps back to Mark. We knew then that it would only be a matter of time. Needless to say, Monday afternoon, we are playing in the living room and Ian decides he wants to walk to me. I am so excited and that gets him so excited that he can't get his balance back to repeat it. We then go back to playing and a few minutes later he decides to do it again. We then repeat it when Mark gets home from work. All week we come home and practice. His teachers at daycare say he hasn't been walking but he is standing on his own without holding on to anything.
Just some further updates, Tuesday, February 19th, Ian will have tubes put in both ears. He has had 5 double ear infections since August. The ENT decided that we have been on too many antibiotics for a child his age. He says we have done all we can do. The surgery will take place at an outpatient office at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta very early Tuesday morning.
Back in January we had 2 very significant snowfalls within one week. Here are a few pictures we took. There aren't many because Ian was sick, with ear infections - of course, and we didn't want to keep him out for more than a few minutes.
Here, I caught father and son napping on the couch.
What you do not see is the crocheted afghan we were playing with that caused all the static.
Mommy and son
In other news, I completed the first course of Wilton's Cake Decorating classes. I have now started Course 2, which is all about flowers and basket weaving.
Here are pictures of my cakes.
My first cake - Not the prettiest thing and didn't taste very good either. We were taught to make the Wilton buttercream icing, which has no butter in it. I was not very pleased with the taste so I started playing around with the ingredients to make a better buttercream for the second cake. My first 3 cakes were a basic yellow cake from the box. I am not yet ready to start cakes from scratch. That will come later.
Number 2 - My leveling skills needed some work. A much better buttercream, with butter in it.
Number 3 - Getting better.
Number 4 - This picture does not do it justice. This one was a devil's food cake iced with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate ganache between the layers. It was yummy!
Number 5- My first birthday cake. This was a butter receipe cake from the box with a white chocolate ganache for the filling.
Number 6 - This was our final project for the final class session for Course 1.
