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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

no mat

weight: 21 lbs  (35th percentile)
height: 30inches (72nd percentile)
head: 50th percentile – woot!

Interesting Tidbits

• he does an army crawl, sometimes keeping head up, sometimes forehead on hands.
• walks holding our hands
• he loves to play the drums, or anything that resembles a drum, or just straws in restaurants he can hit the table like a drum.
• sleeps through the night, stays up late
• his hair is so long in front it is in his eyes
• says ‘dada’ and ‘mama’ and ‘up’
• shakes his head no and waves goodbye
• understands ‘no’ when we say it to him. He shakes his head and stops (sometimes… )
• knows he’s not supposed to put things in his mouth. Sometimes without being told he’ll pull something out of his mouth and shake his head ‘no’
• makes the noises for ‘uh oh’ when he drops something but doesn’t have the right syllables for it
• about to outgrow some 9-12 month clothing (particularly pants)
• still only has 4 teeth but is currently teething
• “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
• dances to music, loves music
• he has had so much separation anxiety this month
• walks along furniture
• loves playing on his scooter, but can only scoot backwards
• “Mirror Ivan” might be his best friend
• he is trying all kinds of new food. His favorite snack is bread and hummus or cheerios
• can feed himself baby food pouches
• dislikes juice, watered down juice, flavored anything – prefers water out of his sippy cup
• he tried almond milk and cow’s milk – hated both of them
• tried peanut butter and loved it
• tried spicy curry and loved it
• tried vanilla soft serve icecream and gave us THE BIGGEST smile.. uh oh…
• can be calmed down by reading books
• he loves to ‘head bonk’
• he loves to give kisses, sometimes demands kisses
• he is the oldest baby in his daycare class now
• can transition from laying down to sitting
• crawls himself into small spaces (under desk, under chairs, under crib or beds)

Ivan Loves:

• eating
• looking at himself in the mirror
• banging on things
• hitting toys together to make loud noise
• reading books
• music
• the sounds of the coffee grinder

Ivan Hates:

• being left alone
• being dropped off at daycare
• when we take him out of the swing too soon
• when we take dangerous things away from him

A special note: no Cuccarese was in the hospital this month!! (except kinda Mike, who goes to one every day… )

extras from this month: