Monthly Archives: September 2014

4 months

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Stats:

weight: 14lb 5oz (23rd percentile)
length: 25 inches

Interesting Tidbits

  • Ivan rolls over from front to back
  • is so close to back to front (though, he’s lost interest lately…)
  • found his feet – puts them in his mouth regularly
  • giggles and cackles
  • talks and babbles – carries on conversations
  • he has finished one whole month of going to daycare everyday and is doing great!
  • This month we think he looks like Emily – still has Mike’s mouth and ears – strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes.  His hair is a dark blonde/brown at the bottom of the back of his head (right under the epic balding ring)
  • Sleeps through the night (8:30-4:30, a feeding, and then back to sleep until 6:30-7)
  • we can hip hold him one handed!

Ivan Loves:

  • holding hands
  • his unnamed animal – or lovey (whose animal identity we have yet to figure out…)
  • country music
  • stroller rides (as long as he’s sitting upright and not in carseat)
  • being bounced on an exercise ball
  • cuddling chest to chest
  • Staring out the window
  • playing on his activity mat
  • having a good conversation
  • his Ergo carrier

Ivan Hates:

  • being hungry
  • being in his carseat when he’s sleepy
  • when he’s tired, he hates everything…
  • anything going near his nose (nosefrida is NOT his friend…)

Things we’ve learned this month:

  • We are total baby wearing believers.  He’s so calm in there.
  • Bouncing on the exercise ball is still useful
  • Co-sleeping is wonderful (we only let him sleep with us in the spare bed, for the last hour or two in the morning or naps)
  • Ivan tolerates the bath – but doesn’t love it.
  • Riding in the car is made much easier with toys – but sometimes we have to hold hands (while driving) which also works for a fussy Ivan.

Back Seat Shenanigans

oh the joys of learning you have a voice…

Baby GAP

Ivan looking adorable for school today in his baby GAP outfit

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daycare and working

Going back to work has been hard (and exhausting), but sending Ivan to daycare has been harder.

Ivan has two kinds of smiles, he has the ‘OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I CAN’T CONTAIN IT’ smile – which he usually gives me and Mike, and then he has the ‘Oh you’re funny and you’re talking to me YAY!’ smile, which he gives everyone. Multiple times this week as I’ve dropped him off with his teachers (Linda or Maria) he is giving them the ‘OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I CAN’T CONTAIN IT’ smile, which is paired with excited kicking feet.  I don’t know what goes on during the day, or how they are with him, but that’s pretty much the best gift he could give me – it’s like he’s saying ‘It’s okay momma, I like them!’

Thanks buddy.