Ian Year 3 Month 5 Battle Report

Ian turns 3 and 5 months old today.

He's phonetically reading and can easily sightread some simpler books without hearing them first. He plows through a stack of books at breakfast time while slowly eating and his favourite book is a Cars anthology of questionable merit.

When not reading, he likes driving his Hot Wheels cars around. Grandpa got him a box of 50 cars so every Monday morning we take him to "car library" and he gets another one out of the box. He prefers games where he drives cars around rather than pretending to be something himself (although there was a brief phase where he always wanted to reenact the tractor-tipping sequence from the Cars movie and then he pretended to be Frank the combine harvester chasing everyone away from the tractors).

His two favourite songs are "Country Roads" and "Life is a Highway".

His bed resembles a magpie's nest with all sorts of trinkets he's collected from around the house, including a tiny music box, two magnifying glasses, a plastic clock, and a fake baby walkie-talkie that he pretends is his cellphone so he can look at his Weather Kitty app.

He is a SOUND sleeper at night but rarely naps anymore. Once he passes out, he wakes for nothing -- falling out of the bed, pull-up accidents, nuclear winters, etc. Unfortunately, he is also the earliest waker in the house after me, usually getting up around 6 AM (Rebecca and Maia start stirring around 6:30). This morning he woke up at 4:45 AM, opened his door and turned on his overhead light.

Currently, Ian is looking forward to three multi-day trips we have planned in the Fall: Capon Springs, WV, Solomons, MD, and Shenandoah National Park.