Where to start?

What a busy, fun, and eventful week and a half we had! I feel like I took these first pictures months ago because Donovan figured so many things out this week. I think he inherited my impatient gene, he wants to do things NOW. He doesn't wait for me to teach him things, he just figures it out by himself. By now, he can pretty much pull himself up on anything, even the wall.

This picture isn't really significant to the goings on, but I thought it was pretty darn cute.


We went to see Coach Ginn Last Thursday because it was his last night in CB. He has moved on and is back in Utah...hopefully he will find a wife! Anyway, I thought it would be fun to give Donovan a mohawk before we went over there, since it looks like he already has one, it turned out pretty cute but for some reason I haven't been able to do it again.
Donovan and Mason continue to have more and more fun with each other. Mason is very patient with Donovan and is very good at entertaining him.

Brad's parents came out to visit and Donovan had a blast. It was nice for us to get out of the apartment and go somewhere besides the mall (it has been way too cold to go to the park or anywhere else). They loved playing in Joyce's sunroom, Donovan liked to get into the flowers so we had to watch him pretty closely.

They were being so cute together, Donovan always has to keep an eye on Mason, so he can try to do whatever Mason does later on I'm sure.
I always knew they would be friends eventually. It is nice to have Hannah, Lenna, Scott and Mason out here so Donovan can at least be close with one of his cousins and know who some of his aunts and an uncle are.Donovan knew Granny was tired, so he rocked her to sleep. I guess he was pretty pooped too.

Hooray for the zoo! If any of you want to come out here and visit us, we will take you to Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. It is pretty much the best zoo I have been to, then again I have only been to one other and that was the Hogle Zoo...not much of a comparison...

Donovan seemed pretty indifferent to most of the animals. He fell asleep before we got to Pachyderm Hill.
And so did Mason.
He did like the aquarium though. He stood in the bubble to watch the silly penguins before we went to see the fish.
Here is Donovan with Lenna (not Aunt Lenna, cousin Lenna). Brad's Aunt Gina and cousin Breanna and her kids came up from Missouri for a day. She was cute and liked Donovan, but she has 2 older siblings who can get a little rough...
This is her picking Donovan up after she pushed him down. He didn't seem to mind, he landed on his bum.
I tried to get Donovan to sit in Mason's wagon, but of course he had different plans.
Granny and Papa with their boys by the lions. Thanks to Papa, we will be able to enjoy the zoo all year long. I was planning on buying a pass once we got there, but Sam wouldn't hear of it. He made the lady at the desk give me my card back and gave her his. Brad and I are both lucky to have very generous parents.Donovan loves Hannah, and he really enjoyed having Scottie around too!

Yesterday we went to Joyce's to play with Mason, Granny, Scottie and Joyce. Donovan did pretty well sitting at the little Cars table with Mason. I thought he would topple over for sure, but he stayed there and watched Mason color.After he got bored watching Mason color, Donovan decided to clean Joyce's table for her, what a sweet boy.
Here comes the fun stuff. We don't have stairs so I didn't really worry about Donovan trying to climb, but he figured it out in a matter of minutes. He had climbed one step to get from Joyce's family room area to her kitchen, but who knew he would figure out 2, even 3 steps?!
This was just the beginning. He decided to try and chase Mason up the steps, it was slow, but he kept at it until he was too tired.

After we played at Joyce's, we headed to the mall. Donovan was pretty tired, we went to eat at the food court and he started to fall asleep in the high chair. He was out for a good 30 minutes. It was funny because Donovan doesn't just fall asleep. He usually gets mad when he is tired, but I guess he was beyond tired because he was completely out 2 seconds after I picked him up. It was pretty cute, but of course once he woke up he was wired. He chased Mason at Aeropostale and giggled the whole time.
Well, that 30 minute nap was about all Donovan got. He slept in the car, but didn't even get an hour between the 30 minute nap and the car trips, so he was pretty grumpy last night. The only thing that made him really happy was getting in the tub. Poor Mason didn't even get a 30 minute nap, so he was pretty upset too. They had a lot of fun together in the tub and were very happy until they had to get dressed...that was fun.Brad played some Guitar Hero with Scottie.

And Donovan had to say goodbye. "See you in July Papa!"Donovan is also getting better at eating big people food. Sometimes he even gets mad when I give him baby food. Joyce gave him some Goldfish crackers and he LOVED them. He also loved to eat the Gerber Graduates snacks like zesty tomato puffs (which are actually pretty darn good, I could eat a can by myself) and peach puffs.

It was funny, at the beginning of last week Donovan was still scooting on his belly a little, but now he doesn't even fall on his tummy while he's crawling. His favorite thing to do is crawl, sit, crawl, sit. He is so much fun. His little personality is so cute.