Ian Year 2 Month 6 Battle Report

At two and a half, Ian is 35" tall and 27 pounds. (This is where Maia was at three and a half so Ian will end up being more normal-sized than bite-sized).

He goes to Kids Under Construction preschool three mornings per week and has acclimated to the experience after several mornings where it felt like pulling teeth for Rebecca to get him to go. He can recite the names of his classmates when he looks at their pictures, and likes the trucks at school most of all.

At home, he loves to build specific things with Duplo blocks. Most often, a bunny office, an airport, or a tower. He likes to make tall stacks of blocks on the backs of Duplo trucks to represent delivery trucks full of packages, and uses two small cat figurines to represent Amber and Abby as they deliver packages around the house.

He is less likely to request the reading of a steady stream of books these days but still enjoys nighttime reading of Elephant and Piggie or Berenstain Bears. He's also indifferent to television shows -- we sometimes end the day with a National Parks documentary or a Tiny World episode, and he'll get bored and start playing by himself about halfway through.

His sleep schedule is about the same -- a 1.5 hour nap around 2 PM and 11 hours overnight (with 1-2 hours of crib time as he processes the day through singing). He finally graduated out of the "sleep sack" and now sleeps with three blankets piled on top of himself.

Singing remains his main talent. He sings all sorts of songs, mostly on pitch, and also makes up songs by replacing nouns with other nouns. For the most part, his language is easy to understand, and he's at the phase where he'll repeat a question multiple times in case the answer is different the 112th time.

"Is that a blueberry down there?"

He gets along very well with Maia, following her lead for pretend games. However, sharing can get a little dicey at first. When happy, he'll follow her around repeating everything she says. Meanwhile, she tries to teach him lessons like the phases of the moon.

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