Archive for November, 2010

Big boy habits

In: Daily

30 Nov 2010

Several milestones today. First kids meal (grilled cheese and broccoli which he ate all of!), first teeth brushing (well really he just chews on the brush) and first night of putting himself back to sleep. I don’t see the sleeping thing to be a habit, but it was nice to watch him wake up, look [...]

Who’s crowding who?

In: Daily

29 Nov 2010

I slept so hard last night I don’t even remember moving Ian into bed with us. I just know at 4am I had finished nursing him and when I got up to pee, realized he was stretched out next to me and Tobias the cat was stretched out next to him upside down. Ian’s leg [...]

Covering new ground

In: Daily

28 Nov 2010

Ian has discovered how to climb things. Stools are his favorite and he’s been using the nursing stool for getting up on the sofa himself. I stopped by Mom’s with him this evening and he found a stool there too to climb on. So far his falls off the stools have not been that epic. [...]

We were flipping through channels and stumbled upon Cars. Someone got very interested in the TV all of a sudden.

Rocking and rolling

In: Daily

26 Nov 2010

Ian did great today but still fought off sleep. After spending an hour trying to convince him to go to bed, he rolled off the bed. Rich was up with him. I was downstairs and heard the thump followed by the crying. Ironically the spook of falling out of bed wore him out so he [...]


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This web space chronicles the amazing feats of Ian Jacob Stryker, born October 22, 2009.

  • Tom: Cleaning up the mean streets of Gotham is a tough job. Sleep well, Batman... [...]
  • acorndreaming: Awesome. Made me miss Ace at this age so much I think it actually made my heart hurt a bit. Rock on, [...]
  • Jason: That is soooo cute. Andrew and Regan instantly stopped to listen. [...]
  • geniealisa: I'm glad you like it! Being a mom/mum is great and worth all the spit up and hurried meals in r [...]
  • mimo: Hi - just came across this site after stumbling across inabottle.org. I think this blog is so swee [...]