I’m a little late posting this, but we finally have Ivan’s 12 month update! I can’t believe he is already a year. He’s learning so much, at 12.5 months he’s already doing so much more than he was the day he turned 1.
weight: 20 lbs 9oz (25th percentile)
height: 30inches (53rd percentile)
Interesting Tidbits
- crawling! everywhere, all the time
- cruises around holding onto furniture, can change directions and can move to new pieces of furniture
- stands up in his crib
- sometimes throws things at us to wake us up in the morning (usually his pacifiers)
- walks holding our hands, only needs to hold one hand
- still loves drumming
- learned how to play harmonica (he’s working on a Bob Dylan tribute band)
- knows where we store his tunnel, pulls it out and talks loudly until we pop it out for him to play
- sleeps through the night, sometimes stays up way too late
- his hair is growing so fast, it is over his eyes. We have cut it a few times and it is still in his eyes
- says: mama, up, uh oh
- does the ‘up comes the sun’ motion of ‘the itsy bitsy spider’ and claps his hands at the end
- shakes his head no and waves goodbye and hello
- gives kisses on command (only in spanish)
- crawls to us on command, sometimes (only in spanish)
- understands ‘no’ when we say it to him.
- has 7 teeth (4 on bottom, 3 on top)
- “helps” while putting his clothes on (bends and straightens arm, legs, holds his feet out for socks)
- plays at the playground, scoots himself to the edge of slide to go down
- loves the swings, seems to get a little woozy on the swings after a while
- loves music, dances
- the separation anxiety is still STRONG
- LOVES seeing himself in the mirror
- doing better with daycare drop off (doesn’t cry most days as long as his teachers are near)
- is being quite a picky eater this month
- crawls himself into small spaces (under desk, under chairs, under crib or beds). We think he is really going to love forts one day
- went to Cape Cod for the first time
- had his first birthday cupcake (complete with a party hat and a pink lei
- went to his Uncle Clay’s wedding
Ivan Loves:
- looking at himself in the mirror
- banging on things
- hitting toys together to make loud noise
- reading books
- music, being sung to
- the sounds of the coffee grinder
Ivan Hates:
- when we leave the room
- being left anywhere
- when we take dangerous things away from him
