Recent pictures and videos

Happy Summer Day!

First of all, the weather has been getting so much warmer so mommy and daddy have been taking me out so much more! I enjoy it very much!
A couple weeks ago I went to the lake with U. Sawyer and A. Elda and mommy and daddy of Suki. Mommy let me try some of her ice ...

I also played a lot on the ground with Suki but mommy didn't get any pictures of it. But it was fun!

Then U. Sawyer took me to see a cat that was lounging in the sun!

A few days ago, a box of new clothes arrived in the mail for me! It's batch 1 of my new summer clothes and had my bathing suit inside! I can't wait to go swimming! But anyway, here is a video of me playing in the box the clothes came in.

Here's one of me climbing ...

And this is the way I entertain myself at bath time! I love bath time and it is still one of my favorite times of the day (well ... when it was cold I only got to take a bath once or twice a week but now that it's getting warmer I hope mom and dad let me have baths more often!)

And recently daddy bought a harness for me so mommy wouldn't have to bend down so much when she takes me for 'walks'. Little Boss really is getting bigger and mommy's back gets owie when she has to carry me too much, or when she has to bend down for too long. And it's supposed to teach me how to walk too!
I enjoy my walking times very very much!

Those are all my most recent videos ... pretty much all taken in March!
I'm going to be 11 months old tomorrow and I'm very excited because that means in just one more month I will be 1 year old!
Mommy says that since LB is coming soon I need to learn to share my space with him. Basically it just means that mommy doesn't want to make another blog for LB. So this place is not just gonna be all about me anymore.
Hahaha ... what am I saying. It's always going to be all about me! But LB will be visiting a whole lot so you'll see a whole lot of him more I guess.

Well, I have lots of pictures to share but for now just enjoy the videos!

Love,
Aiden

Christmas catchup

Photos from Christmas!

I had such a busy Christmas! Mom was busy working and so was Dad but we still found time to do lots of fun things! 

These aren't really in order and they are all on Facebook but for my rellies and friends who don't have Mom's FB ... enjoy!

This romper and clock toy I got from Godmother and Godfather!!!

Christmas with a girlfriend ... 

Christmas photoshoot with Mom

Visiting Dad at work (TEG)

The Christmas tree at the Center

The Christmas tree at TEG

Playdate with Tsucchi!!!

Presents from Mom and Dad and Grandma and Cousin Arlinda!

 More fun with Tsucchi!!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to my friends and relatives and fans all over the world!
I hope this Christmas was as awesome and fun as my Christmas was!
And I also hope that your presents were as awesome as mine were!

Happy Thanksgiving

My first thanksgiving!
I have so many things to be thankful for! But here is my short list this year:

Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa
Milk
Food
Pacifier
Toys
Bath time
Godfather and Godmother
My friends all over the world (you!)

There's so much more but I think I got all the most important ones.

Have a swell thanksgiving everyone, and make sure you are GRATEFUL for your blessings!

To A. Regla

Hi A. Regla. Me thinks you are one of my prettiest aunties, and I can't wait to see you again. Since I am too small to call you (or am I?) you have to come see me again! Okie?

Thank you for my gifts! As you can see it is still a little big but it just means that I will be able to wear it all winter! It's warm and fuzzy and its the perfect pajama for this cool weather! Next time I see you maybe I will be fitting it better! 

I am waiting to see you again,

Papoosie Aiden

A smile just for you ... 

21 weeks

I had this post saved just waiting to add some things for his 21 week post but baby ended up not going to sleep till 11 and I had missed my nap so I just collapsed in sleep right after he did!

Thank Goodness the nights have been getting cooler. He still prefers to sleep in our big bed instead of in his room in his crib ... so one of us sleeps in his room and one of us sleeps with him at night.

-I mentioned in his 19 week post how he started grabbing his feet. Now he started eating his feet! It's just oh so cute! Here's a video of him doing it for the first time ... it was at night and he was lying on across my knees so it's kinda gnarly but maybe you'll be able to make it out ...

-I mentioned last week we would start to feed him and so far we've given him pureed (is that how you spell it?) carrot, peach, avocado, and apple and carrot juice. (We have a juicer so we make fruit/veggie juices when we feel up to it ... I water down the juice for the baby WAAAAAY much ... like 70 water and 30 juice)

He loves to eat and its funny because ever since we started feeding him he even started to drink a bit better and now he drinks the proper 700 ml every day (well it's supposed to be 750-900ml ... but don't discourage me now). Hooray!!!!

-He knows when it's time to go out and starts crying trying to tell us to take him outside. He just LOVES the outdoors!

-He started 'talking'. He used to make sounds like 'koi koi koi' (I mentioned this before) but now he just .... screams (for lack of a better word). No consonants or sounds (unless he's particularly 'talky') but he really likes to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah .... if there's no one to talk to he'll just talk to the light above his face. If we are around and we plop ourselves down in front of him we can carry on a mini 'baby' conversation. But he doesn't do it in 'talking' levels ... he does it at a shout/screaming level. It's like he just discovered it and is trying to see how loud he can get his voice to be ... or if he's loud enough that someone will come and pay attention to him.

-He is quite the outgoing baby ... on the bus if he gets the attention of the person in front of him and they give him attention he will be happy. If we meet ppl on the street he generally laughs and smiles for them (girls especially). But there are certain people that no matter how often we meet he just doesn't like ...

He's really starting to be picky about who holds him. If a friend is holding him and he sees both daddy and mommy next to him he will look at us very closely for a few minutes before starting to cry. Almost like he's trying to decide if he likes being held by that particular person ... if they don't pass he yells, and if they pass he is happy with them and stays just fine.

We've gotten so many new clothes in the past couple of weeks (the 6-12 month clothes we ordered for him arrived as well) so I can't wait for him to make another growth jump and fit all his new clothes!

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!

Links

So I added some links. Enjoy them! 

17 weeks

I'm a whole 17 weeks old today!
I'm BIG! I'm CUTE! I'm PAPOOSIE!!

First I wanna say congrats to Auntie Sara and Uncle Cesko ... my long awaited baby girl has arrived!!! Future girlfriend potential? Perhaps perhaps! I am gonna go meet her real soon! Welcome to my world Olivia! I would post pictures but mommy hasn't shown me any because she wants it to be a surprise when I meet her for the first time! (I think she's just saying that because she actually doesn't have any)

Mama's gonna post about my progress in a few days. But I don't care to keep track so much ... I'm just living every day to the fullest by doing my best in every moment ... whether it be crying, or pooping, or drinking, or sleeping, or playing, ... I'm a DEDICATED baby!
And I love to outgrow my clothes ... so I can wear NEW ones!
(Or go nekkid of course!)

15 weeks

First of all, I want to say a HUGE HUGE congrats to Mercy!!!!

Welcome little Tu-tu kun, I hope you and my little Papoosie become great friends. You have a wonderful mother and you are so lucky to be born to her. I can't wait to meet you!

Good job Mercy, he looks like he could be really really cute! Can't wait to see more pictures of him as he grows! I know things are gonna get tough with the schedule and taking care of the little one and all ... but ganbatte! Ouen shiteruyo! I will always be around to give you my 3-month-ahead advice! :d :d. Love you so much and can't wait to hear your story! Omedetou!

Now back to MY little one!

15 weeks old! This week I started putting more milk into his bottles (I used to only put 125ml), so when he's really hungry he can drink up 150 ml! His daily milk intake has jumped from a 450-550ml average to a 550-650ml average per day. That's almost a liter more per week!

His poop schedule seems to be evening out again (thank god) ... with around 2 poops per day as opposed to the once every 3 or 4 days that he was doing the past few weeks.

This week he really has come alive in the attentiveness department. Just from one day to the next he has gotten so much more alert and focused on us, responding to our differing facial expressions with expressiveness of his own. He will laugh when being smiled at, look perplexed when being scolded, etc etc ... it's taken his cuteness to a whole new level! I have some videos but I can't find the bloggie so it'll have to wait for next time.

I forgot to mention this before, but from a month or so ago (I think) his belly button started going in, and now its like mommy's! Like a bunch of stretched skin that will go in properly in time. It's been one less thing to worry about ... quite a relief that it didn't take 6-12 months!

It's been a great week with a new and happier (easier to make happy) Papoosie.

14 weeks and vaccinations

Cutie Papoosie is 14 weeks today. And before I say anything more, I want to say a big Congrats to Arielle and Faye for their Sweetie pie! He's so big and cute and I really want to meet him someday! I think right now he looks more like Faye but I know how fast babies can change! Congrats to both of you and the new little one!

Anyway, so its been a mellow week ... he's generally been happy ... spent a lot of time with Papa this week cause Mom had a lot of work to do.

Then yesterday, we took him to get his vaccinations. I had had a rough night with him the night before so I had been sleeping from 5 a.m., and Papa brought the baby to me to nurse at around 7:30, and I found out THEN that they were going to take the baby for vaccinations! They were gonna go without me! I was like ... no way(!) are you taking MY baby to get vaccinated without me! He needs his mama!

So I dragged myself out of bed and dressed and went to the doctor. Papoosie was SUCH a trooper! Let out ONE shrill yell at the beginning, and they quickly scooped him up and passed him to me for comfort, and then he only cried a little on his second shot. It was soooo kawaiisou he was just whimpering on my shoulder ... not yelling like he usually does ... just whimpering and sobbing, and curled up so tight against me (he knows how to hug our neck with his other hand and not let go!) ... awwwwww. Anyway he fell asleep pretty fast after that and spent the whole day pretty much knocked out. We tried to keep the fever below 38 by giving him fever med when the fever started rising again (about every 4 hours). He wanted to be held all day, and would cry if put down. But oh gosh he was a heat sack ... but of course I held him ... it was sooooooo kawaiisou how he just wanted to curl up and hug me and be hugged. Even in his sleep he would whimper ... it was so sad and so cute. Anyway, I stayed up all night with him this way, because I guess he was feeling better, but he still had a 38 pretty much all night, so he would wake up every 30 minutes to be held and rocked ... He didn't drink anything almost all day, but we sort of expected that so we didn't push him too much. Just tried to feed him every couple of hours, and he would take maybe 20-40 ml at a time.

Today he did a bit better. Had a 38 almost all day but was more active and alert than yesterday. His leg doesn't seem to hurt too much anymore either, which is nice.

Oh, and ever since a week or two ago he stopped going poo every day, and would go one HUGE one every 3-4 days. Well, the 5th day just happened to land on today, and he's been a huge poop machine all day ... and this is kind of gross, but the texture of it is like SUPER creamy ... if someone didn't know it was poop, it would look like some super creamy chocolate cream or something. AHAHAHA TMI ...... the point is that also the exertion of trying to get out all this BM has made him extra cranky as well ... so he's been crying and feverish pretty much all day.

Tonight we've decided to give him sleep med so he will sleep better tonight.

I mentioned in his week 12 update how he has this board of black and white images that he just LOVES ... here's a picture of it.

3 months old

So yesterday on the 15th my little man Papoosie turned 3 months old! He's been growing so fast and I just can't keep up with these updates!

He has been so happy this week. Except for one day where he wouldn't stop crying because of the heat, he's been such an angel. It's been so hot everyday here and we haven't had running water for 4 days (everyday grandma and grandpa haul 8L bottles of water up 3 flights of stairs to fill up the huge buckets in our house. It would be so stressful for all of us if baby would cry more but between his rinse offs (he gets at least 2 or 3 a day) he seems to be handling the heat very well. So far no heat rash even under his neck and underarms where he's got the most chub. I am so jealous he gets to cool off in his baby tub every 2-3 hours ... and I WANT A TUB too! Oh well ... I've been learning to take my showers the old bucket way ... and I have learned to wash with just 8L of water ... YAY me! Unless of course I have to wash my hair and then another 8L gets added ... cause my hair is like LOOONNGGG ...

He sleeps very well at night now, with just one feeding. He can go 5-6 hours without waking during the night now! Last night for the first time he rolled over in his sleep. I mentioned in my 12 week post how I have been doing rolling exercises with him ... and somehow last night he rolled onto his back! I went to check on him because I heard him whining a little ... and he was WIDE awake on his back! The next morning I asked Ardit and M-I-L if they had turned him in the middle of the night but it turns out he had done it all on his own! I'm so proud of my boy and how fast he's growing! It's still a mystery to me though, because during the day during tummy time he will show NO signs of even wanting or trying to turn over. He will cry and get bored after awhile, but he doesn't try to turn over. So I'm wondering how it happened so out of the blue. Oh well.

We took him for his 3 month checkup (no vaccines this time cause it's just too hot. If there are a few days in a row where the weather is cool he'll get his vaccines done then) and here are his measurements:

Weight: 5.4 kg.

Length: 57 cm

Head circumference: 38 cm.

He's grown 10 cm since birth, 5 cm in head circumference, and gained 2.9 kg. So it's not just me saying it ... it's really TRUE! He's got SUCH long arms and legs ... like THIS ...

Here are some photos I took of him on his special day.

Woke up so happy, cause he's a big boy now!

Not too sure about my singing ...

'Mom ... do you HAVE to sing happy birthday to me in THREE languages?'

Cheesy grin ... he's got the same lines under his eyes as Daddy ...

'It's time to party y'all!!!'

hmmmmmmm .... nope ... dunno what was happening here ...

In the afternoon we took him out to meet godfather and godmother and got a present! (Which we'll show in another post).

All in all it was a full day and I'm just so happy he's growing up so well.

Mama loves you, my little boy!

xoxo

June 9th

On the 9th Mama took me to visit her friends who live up on a VERY high hill (I don't know if the hill is actually that big or if the road up to the house is just super steep).

There were lots of cute girls there and I enjoyed all the attention!

Tilly and I

Aniessa giving me a kiss

Jazzy

Tilly and me again

Aniessa putting me to sleep ....

So comfy in Silvi's arms ...

Holding onto Silvi's finger ... 

Spending some quality time with my future girlfriend! :P