By all accounts, as they have been relayed to me over the years, Ian was not an easy baby. After having this chubby, easy to please baby girl for two years, I guess Ian came as quite a shock. Where I was content with whatever was offered to eat, Ian fussed over every formula my parents tried to give him. I liked to nap...Ian would have none of it and would lay in his crib crying and screaming, until someone came along and picked him up...then he would scream some more. Mom & Dad took turns walking him around the house at night. Mom once told me that it got so bad one day, she put my brother into his pram, covered it with netting so he wouldn't be bit up by mosquitos and pushed him out to the furthest corner of the yard, which had a large tree for shade. Mom said that she cried too...she felt helpless about what to do for this baby & she had a growing fear that she may never learn to love this baby, with his scrunched up face, always red as a beet. Mom said at times he would scream so hard that his belly button would pop out. One of my favorite pictures is the one of mom lying in bed and holding Ian up in the air above her. That picture has such a story to it and I'm glad my dad caught the moment on film. It had finally been determined that Ian was suffering from severe colic and he was given formula and other treatments. The morning of this picture, dad had gotten Ian out of his crib and like every other morning, brought Ian in to see mom. This was dad's way of helping, I guess. Mom had grown to dread these visits, as not one time in nearly 3 months had there been even so much as a cuddle. But on that morning, everything changed. As mom took Ian from dad's arms and began to talk to him, Ian looked directly at mom and he smiled....a great big happy smile, then he even let out a baby laugh! So the photo of them together that morning is actually a picture of my mom falling in love with her son. From that day forward those two shared a special bond that never waivered and lasted the rest of Ian's life. I believe it still exist's to this day.