Look who refuses to lay down! Ian Mac is officially 9 months old. His biggest accomplishment this month is walking! He’s starting to take steps here and there. He’s also enjoying climbing on anything he can hike his little legs up onto and getting into absolutely everything. Each day brings fresh scrapes, bruises, and knots.Read More
Ian’s Eight Month Update
First things first. Ian is enormous! He’s in size 18 month clothes and weighs somewhere north of 21 lbs. His Christmas ornament handprint relative to Isla’s–who was a month older when she did hers in 2012–is massive. He crawls at lightning speed all over our house, with his bottom lip jutted out, cheeks wobbling, andRead More
Ian’s Seven Month Update
This month, Ian had his first Halloween and his first Thanksgiving. He also had his first visit to Santa Claus, and he’s been very curious about our Christmas tree. We have an epic baby gate blocking it from his investigations. He’s crawling, pulling up to standing, and into absolutely everything. He’s a potato no more. HisRead More
Ian’s Six Month Update
Keeping with the tradition of posting these a couple of weeks late… Ian is six months old! Half a year! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! So the big things: Ian can sit up all by himself. He can scoot around on his bottom. He can turn himself in circles while seated. He leans forward onto hisRead More
Ian’s Five Month Update
Ian Mac is 5 months old. This month has been quite busy. He’s able to sit up on his own (propped up on his hands) for several minutes at a time and can roll back to tummy fairly reliably. He’s rolling tummy to back less often, but I have seen it happen! We’ve been workingRead More
Ian’s Four Month Update
At his 4 month well baby check, Ian weighed in at 16 lbs. 12 oz. and measured 24.5″ long. He’s wearing 9 and 12 month clothes these days–with the 9 month outfits having a Hulk-like fit–which makes me unbelievably sad walking into a baby section at the store and realizing Ian can’t fit into halfRead More
Ian’s Three Month Update
Ian Mac is 3 months old! This month’s big achievements include learning how to laugh and getting better at pushing his upper body off the ground during tummy time. We also got a week-and-a-half of sleeping all the way through the night, 10-12 hours/night, but then he added back a night wake-up…then another. At thisRead More
Ian’s Two Month Update
Ian Mac is officially two months old and growing more darling by the day! His smile showed up this month, and we’ve been getting lots of sweet grins. Blowing raspberries, blubbing his numerous chins, showing him his reflection in the mirror, and singing to him are all great ways to get big smiles, although theRead More
Ian’s One Month Update
Ian Mac is officially one month old! Ian has been a very sleepy newborn, but in the last week or so, he’s started to wake up a bit. We’re getting longer alert periods, and he’s getting much better at tracking people when they talk and making good eye contact. No social smiles yet, although lotsRead More
Ian’s Birth Story
I’m excited to announce that our baby boy is here, and while his birth wasn’t all smooth sailing, we have a healthy little guy and a very happy, healthy mama. As I mentioned in my 40 week update, Braxton-Hicks had started ramping up toward the end of week 39. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night allRead More
