July 20th

LOTS and LOTS of pictures today!

I was feeling lazy and only wanted to be held like this .... 

I look better in color than I do in black and white ... what do you think?

Mama thinks I look oh so cute when I cry. I'm just mad that no one's picking me UP!

July 19th

Daddy had me for most of the day today cause Mommy was working ... and this is what he was doing when he was bored ... 

First this is how I am put to sleep sometimes when I am not on my stomach. Because when I'm on my back I jerk and wake myself up, daddy put the pillows on my arms so I couldn't jerk my arms.

My hair looks pretty normal here ... at least I think so. But this picture is for Auntie Yurika because mommy says that it looks a little bit like my hair is shaved on the side.

Getting a little wilder!

I'm a MINI hitler! EVERYONE LISTEN TO ME WHEN I CRY! I WANT TO RULE THE WORLD!

Grandpa's taking a turn ...

July 18th

After over a month's wait, A. MJ's present finally arrived! No one was more excited than MOMMY!
She immediately changed me into the jinbei. Grandma and grandpa loved it and my Auntie Sonila was even there to exclaim about how cute and Japanese I look!
What do you think? Does the JINBEI make me look more Japanese?

Daddy made a chonmage (pronounced chon mah- geh )  in my hair!

Talking to grandpa about something really important ...

Mama to osoroi! Mama daisuki!

The Como men.

Daddy feeling left out and trying to join in the Japanese spirit.

Thank you for the jinbei's A.MJ! I like them so much and I will fit the other one soon.... I promise!

July 17th

Ever since my 3 month birthday I have been getting to snack on fruits! Apples, grapes, peaches, watermelon, melon, I like them all!
Here I am trying grape for the first time!

And a few more pictures of the set of clothes my godparents got for me ... they STILL are too big (and too HOT) for me but by 6 months the weather and my body will be perfect for them!

19 weeks old

Between working all the time and dying of this insane heat this week just flew by.

He's turned into quite the little drool machine! But he really dislikes the bibs so we just walk around with burp cloths on our shoulders and wiping cloths in our hands.

He really really really does not like drinking. Maybe it's this insane heat, cause at night he just drinks almost 200ml at a time as if to make up for the day time! But during the day its SUCH a fight to get him to take the bottle, and I really really don't want to go back to breastfeeding him. But I will if it's the only thing he will take.

I haven't mentioned this, because I wanted it to go with the pictures, but at the rate I am posting, I wont get around to it for awhile because of my crazy work schedule ...

He's been eating (well, sucking on) fruits since he was 3 months. We give him grape, melon, watermelon, peach, apple ... we get a cutting and he just sucks until the juice is gone from a particular spot. He's gonna like his food I think! Which is a good sign because when he refuses to drink his milk it gets me a little worried!

Just yesterday he grabbed his feet for the first time! I had been doing it in his exercises ... 'grab your feet like this!' and after his bath he was lying on the bed and I noticed him doing THIS!

I hadn't even been playing with him or anything ... he just DID it! I was oh so happy ... and it was OH so cute! He now grabs his feet whenever he can ... and soon he'll be eating his feet too! I think it's the cutest thing when they eat their feet!

Still oh so hot and still oh so fussy. The past 3 nights they had weddings in the neighborhood and they BLASTED the music partying until 1 or 2 in the morning. Poor Papoosie's sleep suffered greatly and one of the nights I was sick with cramps so I couldn't get up to help Ardit and MIL take care of him. I could only hear him cry and it was oh so hard for me!

Last night we were so fed up with it that we went to visit our friend's house
He slept oh so well and it was so much cooler at their house than down smack dab in the city.

Tonight they were partying it up again and pooor baby was crying as he was trying to sleep that MIL got fired up and went down there to tell them to shut it. They must've been getting complaints from the other parents in the neighborhood cause now it's ALL QUIET ... and my Papoosie is SLEEPING!!!!

YaY! Now I will go sleep too! See you next week ... unless I find a crack between my work schedule to post pictures that are STACKING UP!

18 weeks old

Gotta make this short cause there's a mountain of work waiting for me ...

So in point form ...

*Teether's ... he's starting really trying to bite down on his fingers ... trying to stuff his whole hand into his mouth ... like so...

I have this teeth brusher/massager and I have been rubbing his gums every day and he loves it. I think he's gonna break out his teeth early! We also opened his teether for him today ... he just shoved it straight into his mouth and bit down right away!

*Feeding-

I mentioned in my last week's post how he had only gained 300 grams in one whole month. Needless to say we were worried and took to our books and forums to see what could be done about it. Well, it turned out we weren't feeding him enough, and in 2 days he LITERALLY started drinking twice as much as he had been previously! This week he has averaged 600-700 ml's everyday and yesterday he even drank 800! We felt so bad that we had been 'starving' him and we are sure that this month he will gain enough weight to make up for last month!

*So hot!

Summer is back with a vengeance and my poor Papoosie is suffering for it. We have quite a few no-sleeve rompers, but some days (like today) it is just TOO hot and he goes without clothes. Last night he woke up every hour because he was too hot and couldn't get comfy. And today he spent most of the day like this ...

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he was just too tired and hot to move ... he literally stayed like this on my shoulder without moving. Poor baby. Even bath time doesn't do enough in the long run because he gets angry almost as soon as we take him out.

That's the gist of this week. I have a bunch of photos I took today of him but that will have to wait till next time when I have more time to go through them.

This month I going to be real busy for me cause I got a big project (work) so most of my spare time (spare time meaning time spent away from baby) will be spent working.

But I WILL (WILL WILL WILL) take some time to continue posting.

July 16th

More pictures taken JUST to show his outfit!

Daddy doesn't like this outfit so much so I am afraid he will outgrow it before we have a chance to really wear it. The pictures aren't too nice... but after all it's just for the romper so I forgive daddy :D

Links

So I added some links. Enjoy them! 

July 14th

On July 14th my Auntie Sonila came to visit me!