12-month check in/up

Recent (last twoish months) interests and likes:
- hiding and finding things and people
- opening and closing things
- holding hands under the coffee "chest"
- looking at things between his knees with his head upside down, being upside down in general
- Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb
- keys ("ghieeess")
- Shreddies and cheese ("zheeess"), which he asks for by name pretty much every meal
- teeth ("dzees") and tongues ("dhuuuh")
- Mega Blocks
- zippers
- vehicle noises (we have a little book of them)
- clapping
- going for the mail
- following birds around the playground
- slides
- spinning on the recliner
- magnets
- other children and babies
- flushing the toilet
- The Hokey Pokey

Recent (last twoish months) dislikes and waning interests:
- Dr. Lindzon, evil needle man
- door springs
- hats (sun hats are even more annoying than toques as they obstruct the view)
- egg yolk
- rattles
- spoon feeding
- bananas

Adam is really understanding a lot, like instructions to "sit" and how to use the phone - you press the buttons and then put it up against the head of someone who knows how to talk. He'll also choose books or particular pages for reading (usually "your giggles... and cries!" from I Love You Through and Through or the nursery rhyme Old King Cole). Today, he suddenly got up from my lap, walked across the room to retrieve a sock I had left on the floor, returned, and set it atop my foot.

Plus, another clean bill of health, growth, and development today.

age	WEIGHT			HEIGHT
mos	lb,oz	%ile		in	%ile
0	7,1	25		20.5	75
1	9,11	50
2	13,4	84		24	85
3
4	17,12	93		27	95+
5
6	20,4	90		28.7	95+*
7
8
9	22,12	82		30	94
10
11
12	23,12	65		31.5	92

Percentiles from http://www.mybirthcare.com/favorites/babygrowthchart.asp. I guess he's getting slimmer. As evidenced ...


This is the first time I've really lost my head when shopping for Adam. All last week I had this nagging feeling that Adam had to have new clothes for his birthday. And newly purchased, too. It's not like I didn't stock up on stacks of clothes for him to grow into in the after Christmas clearance sales (Sears! really cheap!). So Thursday night, I went to Winners for a new outfit. And not just any outfit, the most expensive one they had. I tell myself he might get two or more years out of it. I had to safety pin the shorts to keep them on. When I ran into Kevin and Su on the way home, Kevin declared that the outfit is more a present for Dion than from Adam. probably true.

Here he is in his real birthday suit, Gina. Whaddya think? Was this worth $40? Yes, those are matching Nike socks.



FCBarcelona for the uninitiated amongst you, I mean us.

Keep scrolling if you haven't checked in in a while. There's been a flurry of posts.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to our friend, Kevin, and the rest of his quartet, Chameleon, for winning the right to represent the Ontario district of the Barbershop Harmony Society at the International Convention Quartet Contest in Nashville this coming July.

Yesterday's Festivities

Birthday Poses

these photos and MANY more unscreened for quality and in print quality at http://picasaweb.google.com/dion.lew

I Love You Through and Through*

I love you through and through.

I love your top side.

I love your bottom side.



I love your inside and outside.



I love your happy side,



your sad side,



your silly side,



your MAD side.



I love your fingers,



and toes,



your ears, and nose.



I love your hair and eyes,



your giggles,



and cries.



I love you running and walking,



silent,



and talking.


I love you through and through,

yesterday, today, and tomorrow, too.

I've been meaning to make this post for a long time. I just imagined that I'd be taking photos from the whole year. These are all from when Adam was 11 months old (or just a couple days shy thereof.) Believe it or not, I had several more 11-month photos that "deserved" to be published but didn't make the cut. Mostly, they were attractive photos but didn't fit the poem very well.

*Poem by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak

365.25 days

Okay so April 18th is Adam's date of birth but it is now very close to 365.25 days (one astronomical year) after he was born. (His first year had a leap in it.)

Eye Colour 11 months. Click the image to enlarge.

a new rule

"No standing in the tub" is not the only rule for Adam's bath time. I had to create and enforce a new bath time rule today. "No sleeping in the tub." Hear that, Ian?