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weight: 19lbs (40th percentile)
height: 29inches (78th percentile)
head: 50th percentile – woot!

Interesting Tidbits

• feeds himself
• eats way too many cheerios
• drinks from a sippy
• can scoot and crawl-ish short distances
• can roll long distances
• 4 teeth
• claps
• waves goodbye
• gives kisses (open mouth kisses and “blows” kisses.This just looks like patting his mouth, but he does it in response to his teachers blowing kisses at daycare)
• recognizes himself in the mirror. We call the other Ivan “Mirror Ivan”
• “dances” when he hears music (or the skype ring…) Ivan’s dancing looks like leaning forward and head bobbing
• says ma ma, da da, ba ba, yeaaaaa (no association to particular people or things)
• starting to throw temper tantrums. Currently he gets angry when we take the tooth brush away from him. There is screaming, slapping, yelping, shaking of the arms
• has separation anxiety. When he can’t see one of his teachers at daycare he cries until they come back. Sometimes he cries when I drop him off, it is worse when he is sick.
• wants to “practice” crawling all night long, half asleep. This results in a lot of head banging.
• gets excited when we skype with people, starts to get excited as we’re calling/setting things up
• sleeps through the night about 50% of the time
• has decided he is a night owl and goes to bed after 9pm, no matter what we do.
• doesn’t need to eat in the middle of the night anymore

Ivan Loves:

• eating
• feeding himself
• playing with things the kitchen
• pushing toys/cars/baskets back and forth
• reading books
• chewing on phones/ipods/etc.
• music, when people sing to him

Ivan Hates:

• being left alone
• when he can see his bottle, but he is not drinking it yet

Things we’ve learned this month:

• teething sucks
• ivan is remembering activities / games that we play
• diaper rash sucks – and bag balm is awesome (thanks Ali!)

Bonus photos from our 9m mini living room shoot:

Ivan and me at his friend’s 1st birthday party back in early February, taken by someone other than us 😀

This is up there on the list of my favorite photos.  The colors, the mess from lunch, Ivan. We are trying to encourage Ivan to crawl and he really wanted those puffs. He did attempt to get there, stuck his butt up in the air, flapped his arms and legs at the same time… but then he gave up and just rolled around on the floor.

(Photos taken at 8 months 1 day – in all our blizzard prep we forgot to take an 8m photo)