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I just got around to uploading some photos I took at the park one Saturday evening with the gopro. Mike was sick , Ivan was recovering (you can see it in the eyes) so we left to get some fresh air and let daddy sleep. We wandered to a new park, enjoyed some fresh bread at whole foods, and toured a new part of Inman Square.

Photos with the gopro are a little like film, there is no screen and no instant viewing. I didn’t even remember taking this.  I also didn’t notice that there was a huge smudge on the case and all the rest of the photos have an incredible blur and haze. 😉

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