Ian Year 1 Battle Report

At one year of age, Ian is 22 pounds and has 3 front teeth, two on top and one on the bottom. He is an excellent crawler, raiser, and supported stander/walker. He's been going up stairs for weeks and is now comfortable going down stairs the right way (feet first rather than bodysurfing).

He hates being on the changing table and cries excessively when the world is not revolving around him. For most of his public-facing time though, he's super happy. Ian likes waving at people and swaying back and forth in his high chair. He says many syllables and particularly likes "DA". We can't tell if he is legitimately saying the word, "DADA", or if he's just lucky stringing syllables together in the right amounts.

His sleep schedule has been pretty erratic, probably because of incoming teeth. Some nights, he'll wake up 1-2 times in the middle of the night. We're hoping these disruptions go down to zero soon, because we have enough problems with Amber the cat waking us up at 5 AM.

Here is a side-by-side comparison of our two kids in their first year.