Ian Week #37 Battle Report

Ian is 37 weeks old and 19.2 pounds large.

He is the loudest baby I have ever been related to, getting bored easily with whatever's directly in front of him and immediately shouting or shrieking for change. We have a few toy zones set up around the house to rotate through. On the plus side, his naps are longer (2 per day, morning and afternoon, sometimes up to 2 hours) and he's less likely to begin each nap by reverberating reality.

Ian loves to eat and is learning how to eat by himself (puffs are best, bananas are great, and carrots usually end up squished all over the place). Much of our day as a family is spent sitting around the dining room table for meals and it's nice that we don't always have to artisanally grind little vats of different pastes for every meal.

Ian is not crawling yet, but does have the ability to scoot backwards until his legs wrap around a table leg or other obstacle. I once caught him rolled to the baby gate at the top of the stairs and testing the bars, so it won't be long before he's escaping.

• Likes of the Moment: Puffs, his light-up toy full of spinning gears, being in the bathroom playing with the shower curtain (or under any curtain for that matter), drool


• Dislikes of the Moment: Not having puffs, his light-up toy full of spinning gears after 4 minutes, being alone, sleeping past 6:30 AM