Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day to all you daddy's, but especially my daddy, Brad, and his daddy.Donovan loves his daddy, they were going back and forth from Baby Einstein to the US vs. Barbados World Cup Qualifier and he was pretty content snuggling with his daddy.
Donovan giving Bradley a pool side massage. What a good boy. He looks so chubby without a shirt on!! But still so cute. You may notice the lack of hair, we buzzed it again, it has only been growing on top and that got annoying. It is already growing back though, a little more evenly thank goodness.

What a week! We went to the zoo with Mason and Lenna twice, swam, and had a few tornado warnings. Donovan also got his first ear infection. I think it started last week, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions and take him to the doctor's office for nothing, but Friday and Monday were HORRIBLE. He would scream at me randomly and not stop for 30-45 minutes, no matter what I did, he wouldn't calm down. It was rough, so I finally called Dr. Jones on Tuesday and thankfully they had an opening that afternoon. I just had this nagging feeling that it was an ear infection but wasn't sure because the only symptoms he had were crying sporadically and sticking his fingers in his ears. When we got there, Dr. Jones thought it might be a stomach bug that has been going around (he hasn't had many solid poops since we got back from Utah), but the second he looked in his ears he knew they were infected on both sides. Yuck! But now I know what's wrong, thank goodness. So now he is on amoxicillin for 4 more days.

I have really been neglecting the camera lately, I apologize, but Donovan is getting to be so silly and so much fun! Of course there are moments when he drives me insane, but then he is just so cute that I forget about all the annoying things he did 5 minutes before. We borrowed Newsies from Lenna and Scott this weekend and he recognized the songs that we dance to. You will never see video of me dancing, don't worry, but he loves it! He cracks me up when he dances. He will stand up against the couch or the small table and bounce to the beat (well, almost to the beat). We watched most of it this afternoon with Lenna and Scott, but when we tried to get his dance on video he wouldn't do it and Mason was being hilarious, so we got video of him instead. Sorry Lenna, I had to post this, it is just too funny. Watch Mason's hands, he was being so funny with his hands. It was way more funny in person, if you can't tell by the laughing.

Donovan is starting to laugh a lot more, he used to just smile and jabber, but now he is actually laughing. He has so many favorite games now! He loves to dance around the room with his mommy, play peekaboo with anyone (but mostly his daddy), push anything on the floor (I think it's time to get him some cars!), crawl as fast as he can away from his mommy when she needs to change his diaper or dress him, open drawers and pull everything out, be thrown in the air by his daddy, do anything outside, dance and jump around like a crazy person, snuggle with his mommy for 2 seconds before his next spastic episode (it seems like he always has to be moving and can't relax for more than a second unless he is asleep), and many other things that make us laugh and wonder if our child is just a little crazy.

This is the cart that Donovan and Mason fight over, they both love to push it around.

He is finally starting to eat the food I make, and even liking it! He still spits things out, but usually tries them again after a few minutes. He loves my lasagna.

Right now I am working on getting him down to one nap and so far we are doing pretty well, with the exception of today (we have church from 11-2, right during nap time). He was taking 2, 30 minute naps which was driving me insane! Now he takes one 2-3 hour nap and is MUCH happier in the evenings. The hard part is keeping him distracted until 12:30!! So far his best nap days have been when we have done something fun to wear him out in the morning, but with so many rainy days it has been tough to find things to do. I guess I will just have to get more creative!