ATTENTION!!!! NEW BLOG!!

We want to let everyone know how sorry we are that this has taken so long. We have had so much going on. Between Dan losing his job, starting his own business working from home, and then adopting again, our new baby girl Sydney, then the holidays, needless to say, we have been super busy. Instead of trying to keep up 3 blogs, one for the family, one for Ian, and one for Sydney,...we decided to save time and make it easy, we would create a new blog to serve all purposes. So here is the new blog address and we will be updating the new one from now on. We hope you enjoy! Love to all our family and friends!
http://danroni.blogspot.com/

Whitley turns 17!

I can't believe that she's 17! One more year and she's off to college. It's scary for us as parents! This is the family birthday party at our house, we had Dan's family over. She really didn't do anything with friends because she has been so busy.

Lizzy, Whitley, Ian & Brian as Whit blows out the candles!

Aunt Lisa with Ian!

Cousin Lizzy with Uncle Richie

Cousins Troy and Brian.......

Aunt Lynn, Lizzy, Roni, and Brian trying to give cousin Sammy a kiss....

Uncle Eddie..........

The whole clan!

1 year Dr. Checkup

Today Ian went for his one year Dr. appt. Here are his stats:

Height: 31 inches (85th percentile)

Weight: 20 lbs. 14 oz. (25th percentile)

Head: 46 cm (40th percentile)

This little man eats everything. He has gotten more and more picky, but sometimes he eats more than I do at breakfast and dinner. He eats most at breakfast. He acts like he has been on a starvation diet through the night while he is sleeping. Every morning he will usually eat half a cup of yogurt, a bowl of oatmeal, and a piece of toast, and don't forget the water. He doesn't really like milk, so we just mix his oatmeal with milk so he gets it but doesn't know. He drinks a lot of water though. He is a very good eater when he wants to. We have found that he will eat more if you put it on his tray so that he can feed it to himself, otherwise he may get mad and not eat. He has a little temper on him though. He is starting to show it when he doesn't get what he wants. Here is some pictures that we took on his birthday.

Ian is 1 year old!

This year has flown by so fast! We can't believe that Ian is 1 already. At this time, we would like to acknowledge Ian's birthparents, Amy and Justin and tell them that Ian has been such a huge blessing in our lives that it is just too hard to put into words. We are so grateful for your selfless decision. We hope that you know that Ian is loved so much and is being well taken care of. We all adore him! May God bless the both of you and please know that we think of you often.

We had a big party for Ian. There was almost 100 people there. It was a lot of fun to see all those friends and family. Ian loved his "Smash" cake, and ate plenty!

Here is his birthday cake!

Way too much!

Between Ian's birthday and Christmas and Ian being the latest addition to the family tree,.....there was just soooo many presents! As you can tell by the look on his face! :>) But we are so grateful to all of our friends and relatives and it was so good to see everyone!

Ian is 11 months!

Some pictures of Ian on his 11month old birthday and some random cuteness!

Now he growls. It's so cute! He also does this gasping thing. Here are some cute videos. Dan has him laughing really hard here. He's a very happy baby!

Ian is 9 months old!

So we went to the Dr. for his 9 month checkup. Here are his stats:

Height: 29 inches (75th percentile)

Weight: 19 lbs. 8 1/2 oz. ( 35th percentile)

Head: 45 cm (43rd percentile)

He's growing like a weed. If you ask me though, I could have sworn he was about 25 lbs. I couldn't believe it when the Dr. told me how much he weighed. He also had to get 2 shots. He got the last of his Hepatitis B vaccines, and a flu shot. He will go back for his flu shot booster in the beginning of November.

Now he is getting even more teeth. He now has 5 teeth in (3 bottom front and 2 top front) and is getting 3 more in. So when he is done with this round of teething he will have the front 4 teeth on both the top and bottom. That explains why he has been a little crabby! As of his 9 month birthday, he no longer wants anything to do with formula. He just won't drink it at all. I don't know why,......maybe he just doesn't like the taste of it anymore, the only thing he will drink is water! He loves it!

As of about 8 months he will no longer eat baby food. Well, he will only eat baby sweet potatoes if he's in the mood and baby bananas. Other than that, he wants nothing to do with it. He wants EVERYTHING that we are eating. Regular people food. Doesn't matter what it is. If we happen to be eating or drinking something in front of him, it doesn't matter what it is, he wants some. One time I was eating grapefruit for breakfast after he had eaten his own breakfast and he wanted some, so I gave him just a little piece because he was getting all mad because I kept telling him he wouldn't like it, but I gave him a little piece and you should have seen the sour look on his face. It was hillarious! Sometimes I think he can't possibly like what we're eating he just eats it because we are. Last night I made a Chicken Bruschetta sandwich which had a mixture of tomatoes, garlic, basil, and balsamic vinegar to put on top of the chicken, and he ate it. I couldn't believe it.

Here is baby talking. Dan swears he's acknowleding him as "Da Da!"

Ian is 8 months old!

Baby started to get his teeth!! He got 2 teeth on the bottom in the front this month and then when I started looking around I could see that he was getting 4 more. His upper front 4 teeth! It's so cute. Here is a picture so you can kind of see his new bottom front teeth.

He's been a little bit crabby because of getting so many teeth in at the same time. I have been giving him Tylenol when he needs it and these teething pills. They are Hyland's teething tablets and they really seem to work well. They are all natural you know Homeopathic but he is funny because every time he sees the bottle he wants his little pills. I don't know if he likes the taste of them or what, but it's very funny! Dan calls them his "Happy Pills". He rolls everywhere he goes. Sometimes when I'm just hanging out with him in the living room I will turn my head and find that he has rolled himself right under a chair and can't get out. It's so cute! He rolls around so that he can kick things too. HE LOVES TO KICK! Everywhere he rolls to it's to find something new to kick! Sometimes I wonder if his heels hurt he kicks so hard! There's a video above you can watch of him kicking!

Here are some more cute pictures of him!

He thinks he is so cute whenever we put something on his head. It's funny!


I love this profile picture of him! You can really see how big his cute little cheeks are! It just makes you want to pinch them! And that lip!

Ian rolling around knocking & scratching

Ian is 7 months old!

This is his cute little "gummy" smile! I love it. You can't get him to smile this big normally!
He loves his little jumpy seat! Sometimes he jumps so high I swear it's going to come off the molding!

I know that I say this everytime but I can't believe he is already 7 months! It's just going by way too fast!

Ian is 6 months!

I can't believe he is already 6 months old! Time flys by so fast! He's getting bigger and bigger and the little baby in him is going away! We are just trying to treasure every single minute because he is growing up too fast! I took him for his 6 month checkup at the Dr. and he is now 18 lbs. 11 oz. and is 26 1/4 inches. This puts him in the 55th percentile for both his height and weight. He's growing to be so big!

Ian loves Sissy! Whitley can get Ian to laugh when noone esle can! One thing he does a lot now is "blow raspberries" especially when he is eating! Food goes everywhere but it's so cute!

Ian is 5 months!

I can't believe that Ian turned 5 months on May 21st. He is getting so big. So,....... we first tried feeding him solids at 4 months! He didn't want anything to do with them as I posted earlier. Well now, I tried again on his 5 month birthday and he ate like I couldn't believe. He ate 1 package of sweet potatoes and one package of bananas and about a 1/3 of a cup of rice cereal that I had made him. He ate so much I was worried about him throwing it all up. But he didn't! He loved it! Here are some pictures on his 5 month birthday eating for the first real time his solid food! And you may not be able to tell but he really is getting a lot more hair!

Ian is 4 months!

He is growing so fast. We went to the Dr. for his 4 month checkup and he had to have 4 more shots. On the positive side though, he now weighs 15 lbs. 2 oz. (which places him in the 60th percentile for his weight) and he is 24 and 3/4 inches long (which places him in the 50th percentile for his height.) He still doesn't want anything to do with solid food yet. I have tried a couple times and he just makes a face, spits it out, and gags just to add a little drama!

Ian is 3 months old!

Ian is 2 months old!

We had to post one where he is upset. He has so many cute faces! Ian went to the Dr. on the 21st of February which is his 2-month birthday. He now weighs 12 lbs. 3 oz. and is 22 1/4 inches long! He is growing so fast! He drinks 4-5 oz. of formula every time he eats now! And he doesn't like to wait!!!

Ian is 1 month old!

These are Ian's one month old birthday pictures. He was one month old on January 21st! He is growing so fast and starting to get little grins while he is awake!