these fish are his new best friends

endless (and I mean endless) entertainment. He’s even started talking to them when he sees them.

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swings

Monday, March 16 – a warm day in Ohio with no snow mounds on the ground! Ivan so delighted to not be in the car anymore after a 6 hours trip in the car šŸ™‚

 

does this count as crawling?

because I think we’re finally crawling!

9 months

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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 weā€™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:

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