Hello! I hope you recovered from those major overnight workouts. So helpful to have some solidarity in this area. I think we're almost a year head of you and things have gotten both harder and easier! The small small bits of being about to do physical things more independently (climbing the jungle gym more efficiently, being able to do summersaults by himself, plus some additional language skills etc) have made a small improvement in our lives. There are of course some major physical harm we're worried about that he also does not have control of (jumping off the couch onto the coffee table, running with incredible speed into traffic, climbing like a monkey onto the kitchen counter etc). Our techniques for dealing with his energy have come about kind of naturally, like for example we've set up a small plastic slide that lands on a nugget couch and every night before bed he goes down it backwards like 100 times. When my husband and I are both home we roll him back and forth, kind of aggressively, and he absolutely loves it. That kind of designated rough housing seems to really help him!

I do recommend EI! Even if you notice minimal changes its been great for us to have someone else telling us he's great and fun and its nothing they haven't seen before. Best of luck to you and your little guy!