Ian Year 1 Month 10 Battle Report

Ian is 2 months away from his 2nd birthday! I haven't weighed him in awhile but he's notably heavy. He has worn size 4 diapers for the past six months (the same size that Maia was wearing near 3 when she finally stopped wearing them).

Meals currently consist of "yobaby" yogurt as an anchor food, whatever he deigns to try from our real meals, and an endless stream of pouches. He doesn't want to drink milk and rarely drinks water, so the pouches (while not optimal) at least keep him hydrated.

His singing pitch remains on point and he's learned plenty of new words. Although he doesn't say many, his understanding is obvious. Yesterday, I asked him, "Can you go run your fingers under the couch to see if the toy train is under there?" and he ran over to do so.

His number one favourite activity is being read to. If you sit on the couch with him, he'll happily bring books to you to read in succession until the pile teeters. When he's full after dinner, we'll also excuse him early and he'll occupy himself with his books until the rest of us finish. He can also get lost in solo play with Maia's Duplos, mainly creating "ladder trains", a mash up of fire trucks with ladders and trains. I've noticed him do pretend play moves, like moving the little cat figurine into the house we built for it or having the cat drive the ladder train.

Ian's down to a single nap per day, usually lasting about 90 minutes, but still tends to get overtired in the evenings after 5 PM. He had a good streak of sleeping through the night but has recently woken up with night terrors around 3 AM. He will call out, "Mama, go to bed" to beckon Rebecca to the crib, and will go back to sleep after some snuggles. He has a joint bedtime story with Maia which is starting to introduce him to the Berenstain Bears and other classics. He really enjoys Mo Willem's Elephant and Piggie books.

He remains obsessed with vehicles, and has various routines that he falls into -- if drawing paper comes out, he wants us to draw a bus. If the playdough comes out, we have to build a ladder truck followed by a police car.