How does he learn these things?

I have to start off with what happened last night. Donovan, being the smart and independent little boy he is, decided he needed 2 baths last night. Here's the story: We had the missionaries and the Hiatt's over last night, so of course Mason and Donovan took a bath together after dinner(Mason always wants to take a bath the "dabeby"). After I got Donovan dressed I handed him off to his daddy so I could work on the dishes. I could hear Donovan in the back ground for a few minutes, but all of a sudden I didn't hear him anymore so the first thing I thought of was the bathroom. I asked Lenna if the bathroom door had been shut and she gave me an "oh shoot" look and ran toward the bathroom. Once she got there she was laughing hysterically, so I ran in there as fast as I could to see what Donovan had done. He was sitting in the tub just chillin' like it was the most natural thing in the world for him to get in the tub with his clothes on (we usually don't get to draining the tub until he goes to bed, we just try to remember to keep the door shut). It was the funniest thing, so of course I ran into the living room laughing to grab the camera, so Scott and Brad had to come see what was going on. The best part is, he had to have climbed in. At first I thought he would have had to take a nose dive, but his head and most of the front of his jammies were dry. He is too smart for his own good, it never takes him too long to figure out how to do something.

"what are you all looking at. Oh, hey Mason, wanna get in?"

It seems like Donovan eats more off the floor than he does in his high chair. I think he throws things on the floor thinking, "I'll get to that later". I usually try to clean up the floor after he eats, but sometimes I get distracted and he cleans it up for me. There is a little net under his seat that catches a lot of what he drops so he treats it like his feeding trough.
We recently discovered that he enjoys mac and cheese. He likes the cheese so much that he was licking it off his plate! I have been trying to get him to eat more healthy foods, but he doesn't like most of them so he ends up getting macaroni, pb &j, or chicken nuggets for lunch. He does enjoy bananas though, so at least he gets something healthy throughout the day besides formula!

Peek-a-boo is his favorite game.

I was trying to fold his fish blanket to put it away the other day and he started to giggle and get really excited because he thought we were going to play. So of course I played with him!

We are trying to break him of the "I am going to open every drawer and dump everything out" habit, so I hold them shut until he gets bored,

but this was one day when we were both being stubborn, he would not give up and I certainly wasn't going to!

The thunderstorms and tornadoes continue! Okay, so we haven't had any tornadoes for at least a week, but we had an awesome thunderstorm on Friday. It looked like a hurricane!
Our power went out from around 5:30 pm to 11:30 pm. We took the food from our fridge to Lenna and Scott's because we had heard that our power could have stayed off until the next morning. I did some grocery shopping on Wednesday so I didn't really feel like having our food go to waste, but I think we would have been fine. You just never know! It is nice to know we always have people around who are willing to help us out. Thanks again Lenna and Scott!

More Donovan news, he is finally attempting to walk! He took 2 steps in a row when the Hiatt's were here and decided to humor us even after they left. He stopped after I pulled out the camera, of course!! I will try to get a video to post this week.

We want to give a shout out to Nate and Kirsta!! They went to the hospital today to have their first baby. We are so excited for them and can't wait to meet our new nephew. It is going to be a long day waiting for news, but we will try to be patient. We love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!