15 months

The little man turned 15 months on Friday. It is so amazing how fast it's going. Since the one year mark, it's like all of a sudden he's gone from baby to little boy--he is CONSTANTLY learning and trying new things. His personality is really developing (he is a STUBBORN little thing...not like his mommy at all...yeah...).
He loves to dance now, and he is just so completely silly when he does it. He just starts shaking his head and bouncing. I will try so hard to get him to do it while there is music playing and he'll just look at me like I'm nuts. Then the music stops and a few minutes later I catch him walking around shaking his head and grinning. It's hilarious. :)
I can't get anything on video. As soon as I pull out the camera, he stops what he's doing and comes towards me. Then he throws a fit because I won't let him have the camera. He starts off being so sweet, and then by the time I get the camera rolling he's in a full-blown tantrum. It's really not fair.
He laughs randomly. There will be NOTHING going on and he will just suddenly start laughing (like belly laughs...he thinks there is something hysterical going on at the time, apparently). He has started to point at everything and I think he's working on "What's that?". He'll raise his arm and point and say "Da!". This is generally followed by the slightly psychotic laughter.
On Friday I let him wander around the little park at the complex while we waited for Patty and Patrick (we went to the mall). There was a pair of 2 1/2 year old twins and a five year old there. They were of course climbing all over the gym, and I had just finished telling their mom that Ian was just starting to try climbing, but he's really not good at it. Wouldn't you know that two minutes later the little booger figured out how to climb up the thing?! I think the other kids were motivation--he wanted to do what they were doing. Whenever one would try to go down the slide, Ian would go sit in the bottom of the slide and start trying to climb up it. It was very cute, but exhausting. I spent most of the time taking him out and telling him that he had to move if the other kids wanted to slide down.
Daylight savings was mean to us, but he seems to have adjusted well now (he just woke up at 8:45!! he never sleeps that late!). Originally, he was waking for the day around 6 after DLS, but obviously that's getting much better. His naps are still off, but that's okay. As long as he's sleeping passed 6 am, I'm happy.
The teeth are still coming in. He is up to 12 (or almost 12). The top right molar was the first to come in, then the top and bottom left ones, and now I just felt the bottom right one the other day. They have all broken through now (thank goodness...mommyhood is not nearly as much fun on the teething days as the non-teething ones).
I finally gave up on the bathseat. I think the age limit on it was 11 months, but he still fit in it and it was so convienent. He was starting to look pretty squashed though, so it finally had to go. Now I get teh fun of saying "Ian, sit down. Ian, sit down". Over and over. I know he understands because usually he'll listen, but there are other times where he'll give me a look and start bouncing or walking away.
Oh, funny story. Last night Hazen was watching UFC and Ian was just totally into it. He would stand there and watch, and after a little while, he started to squat and totally look like he was getting into some wrestling moves. Hazen just gave me a look like "I TOLD you he was going to be a wrestler". It was really cute.
Unfortunately due to the Air Show, Hazen has been working the last 4 days. Ian has apparently really missed him because as soon as he hears the door opening he starts grinning and starts "running away" so that Hazen can play with him. Poor Hazen doesn't even get the chance to get his boots off before Ian starts giving him that "Hello!! Come play with me!!!" look. He also very seriously said "Dad" a few times yesterday. Not "da" not "dada", a very deliberate "Dad". Such a sweet boy. :)
I know there is more, but I just woke up. Ian is in his room "talking" so I'll go get him out of bed now. Just figured I'd do an update while he was still happily waking up. :)

Online "group" projects, AKA dumbest idea ever

Online "group" projects...AKA dumbest idea EVER Current mood: angry
I'm so sick of this. I am in two senior level classes: senior project and auditing. Both classes have team projects. Auditing has nothing due until week 5, but here we are in week 1 and my ENTIRE team has already stepped up and started on it. It's amazing, seriously amazing--they're acting like *gasp* SENIORS!!!!
However, senior project. This entire course is a group project--we are a consulting firm. Everything we do in this class is as a team. As is typical Stefanie, I have been posting several times a day, everyday trying to get this done. Our assignment for the week was to post our resume, critique our teammates resumes, come up with a team name, and write a team contract. It's really not a lot--everything was pretty simple (I would know...I did it ALL...).
I have not heard from my team since TUESDAY. Not a single flipping person (I have 4 other teammates). On Thursday, I posted my opinions on what should be included in the contract--I wanted the draft done by yesterday (Friday) but no one was posting anything so I did a big chunk to get things rolling. No one said anything. Finally, one girl posted "This looks great, Stefanie!" when I had specifically asked that EVERYONE critique it and CONTRIBUTE. I said this was NOT the draft, just some ideas, and EVERYONE needed to give opinions and input on each section. I had one "great job" and 3 nothings.
Today (Saturday morning) I emailed my team this:
"Guys:Here we are on Saturday and the only one who has given me any kind of opinion on the contract is Sandra. I didn't mean for my draft to be "it". I had hoped for more opinions and input. It's a TEAM contract--I expected the TEAM to write it.We haven't decided on a team name. Team Velocity is going to be it if I don't hear anything else. James had a suggestion of Con Go also, but Team Velocity is the only thing that has any kind of input. Also, does anyone want to volunteer for making the final draft of the contract? I don't feel comfortable assigning it to anyone because I don't know if the person I assign it to will know I've assigned it. Everyone has kind of disappeared."
This is just insane to me. How do you ignore a team project? These are all smart people (according to their resumes...liars...). It's going to be a looooong eight weeks if this is any indication how it's going to go. This was our "easy" week and everyone blew it.
Oh well, as this week's leader I get to write the team status report which details what everyone did and submit it to the professor. When their grades are posted, maybe it will motivate them a little more to get moving. Such bs.

Weight loss update

I've lost two pounds so far--woo-hoo! Just by making sure I get out of the house EVERYDAY for at least 30 minutes of exercise (generally it's just walking around with Ian in the stroller, but I try to go to the gym a few times a week, too) and paying attention to what I eat. Yay!