It's all About Little Man Liam and Little Brother Aiden

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Baby Aiden Loves to Eat

So in spite of the diet limitations for baby Aiden and for mommy, they are managing to find things to eat. I was my mommy's first child so she used to think that I loved to eat, but apparently my love of food doesn't even come close to baby Aiden's love of food. But why should you believe me when you can see for yourselves...

Videos of baby Aiden enjoying Israeli cornflour cereal with breast milk and banana puree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IME4tnSAseA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl6msjr5ky4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLB2ofA2mC8

As for me, I am apparently learning some things at day-care that are not as good as others... on Friday night when my mommy put my dinner in front of me I said for the first time (before trying it mind you): 'I don't like it'. It kind of caught my mommy by surprise. I ended up eating it. I just like saying it...

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Updates

I never got to have an exersaucer. When I was a baby my mommy was adamant about hardly ever putting me down. I was almost always held. That's probably why I still need mommy to go to sleep. But with having me and baby Aiden, mommy can't always hold him. And there's all that cooking to be made from scratch because of both of our allergies so sometimes the baby needs to be put down. So mommy bought him an exersaucer and here is a picture of his first time in it. By the way, he LOVES IT! I wish I had it when I was a baby!

Oh, baby Aiden was constipated for like 9 days. Finally, after many days of really stinky farts, daddy did the whole glycerin thing for him and he finally produced some long anticipated poop! Well, after the first couple of explosive diapers, mommy decided that we would all be better off if he just did it on the potty. Of course when I saw that little bro was sitting on the potty I wanted to do it to and so here we are - bros on potties!

There are a couple of cool videos of us on our potties but since they show certain body parts we cannot post them. And talking of potties - I pee in the potty pretty much all the time now. I do it at school on the low toilets standing up. I do it at home standing up on a step-stool or sitting down on my little potty. I have come close to pooping in the potty once. I will get there. I promise! Hopefully before I start pre-school in September.

Baby brother Aiden is getting really good at grabbing objects and putting them in his mouth. He can also sit unsupported for a few minutes at a time which is something I was not able to do at his age (but who's keeping score?!). He still needs some work on his rolling over skills. He does it but not consistently yet. And he sort of laughs but not quite like I did at his age (again, who is keeping score?!)

A Coke Ad Perhaps?

Should we send this to Coke? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MumPfx_2g

Ok, let's move on - so yesterday we went to the park. I like tummy sliding now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxIXyIYClz0 but then I wasn't sure which way I should slide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMVaid2O0Q

Today we went to feed the duckies (mommy got breakfast at Panera: She had an egg sandwich with the one egg she is allowed per week with the new restrictions and enjoyed every single bite of it. Of course she couldn't have any cheese with it and that sucked for her). And then we went to the little park. But of course they forgot the camera so no documentation

That's it. We think no blogging for a few days now.

Baby Aiden will turn 5 months this week God willing. And I will turn 2 years and 7 months next week. We are growing up. Mommy is already fantasising of getting a job when Aiden can start day-care.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Allergies Saga Continued...

Yesterday my poor little brother had to get allergy tests done. When I had them done they were not fun at all and I can't even imagine how horrible they were for my little brother.

The good news is that out of the 22 things he got tested for (round one of tests) he is not as severely allergic as I am to anything so his known allergies are not life threatening. The bad news is that he is allergic to 18 things that we know of and not sure how many more that we don't know of yet.

He is level 2 (4 is highest and that's my level for peanuts and sesame) for salmon, tuna, cow's milk and goat's milk so my mommy can't have anything that has those while she is breastfeeding him

He is level 1 for beef, eggs, apples, avocado, barley, corn, oats, rice, mustard, peanuts, and soy. So my mommy has to be on a small-quantities, rotation diet for those things.

This sucks for my mommy. This sucks in addition to how much it already sucks when you take into account how my allergies already make all of our lives very very difficult.

But, on the bright side, if my mommy follows a strict rotation diet and Aiden does to when he starts solid foods, the doctor expects him to outgrow most of these with age

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Gymnastics Extravaganza!

Ok, so since February or March I've been taking gym and music classes at my day-care. I love it. Today we had a gym show at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center. Mommy and daddy didn't know how I would be. They didn't know if I would be all shy or love being in the spot light. They could have asked me! Of course I loved being in the spot light.

The morning didn't start out that great. I was having one tantrum after the other. But we finally packed up the baby and got out the door.

Mommy and daddy bought me the T-Shirt of Flipping Angels Gymnastics for the show and I wasn't too crazy about putting it on

But then Miss Crystal, the gym teacher came and got us all and mommy & daddy and baby Aiden went to sit down with the other parents.

Then they brought us out and had us sit down. I still seem like I'm not too happy about the progression of things, but you should have seen the other kids - so much crying you'd think they were being tortured or something

Well, you can see for yourselves how much I love the spotlight:

Here I am doing a forward roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cFKJ5M_hVg

Here I am hopping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy051zn-XsA

And doing my favorite - airplane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLsNcKemH0

And my second favorite - the balance beam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o2JM7kvXfs

Here I am doing a forward roll on a downward slope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kdi4OXDp7Y

Ok, so maybe I don't trust Miss Crystal completely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlUuFgrthcI

Here I am attempting to make a bridge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQjC0_LEk8

And lastly, here I am getting a medal because everybody is a winner. God forbid one of us will go through life being disappointed by anything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjlyhuU-Ksc

Needless to say, I made mommy, daddy and baby brother Aiden very proud.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Baby After Bath

Because we can't show you a naked baby, we're doing the next best thing - baby after bath in diaper

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Today

Today I threw a whole bunch of tantrums. It was not a fun day. Miss Joi & Miss Melyssa left to work at a different day-care. I like my new teachers but I miss my old ones.

Baby Aiden has been as cute as usual but hasn't had the best day either due to teething...

But mommy got some cute pictures and videos of him

Tummy time video 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiXjHKr6DTM

Tummy time video 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wyCI_xwLc

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day

Today was Memorial Day. We are here, able to have lots of fun thanks to many brave men and women out there who work really hard to keep us safe and free and leave their families behind to do so.

So we decided that the best way to appreciate such an important day is to spend it doing nice things and being with friends (unfortunately we can't be with family) and realize how lucky we are that we can.

We started the day by going to the pond to feed the duckies, geese and the lonesome blue crane. As usual, it took forever for us to get out of the house so here I am waiting for my mommy to finish feeding the baby so that we could leave already

Here are the duckies

We gave them lots of bread and when we ran out of bread I considered for a moment giving them some of my whole grain, no artificial colors Gold Fish...

But I decided to wait on that decision. We instead went for a walk around the pond. Baby Aiden had his first time in his stroller not in his car seat...

We had to finish our walk pretty quickly because baby Aiden got fussy and that's when I decided that I wanted to keep my Gold Fish all to myself so I voted again sharing with the duckies

We went home, had lunch, took a nap...

Then we went to the Haneys for a Memorial Day cookout. We had lots of fun. They have a new puppy which I sort of liked. We played in the water which I really liked! Mommy forgot the camera of course. I got my nice clothes really dirty... and then I had a tantrum when we got home. I am still not asleep even though it's almost 9 pm. My daddy has been in the room with me for over an hour now and I am still not asleep! Mommy is going crazy!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

An Afternoon At the Park

So obviously I've been getting over my Strep throat and feeling better. We spend yesterday afternoon at the park...

You Gotta Love Tunnel Slides

Daddy & Aiden Frowning at Mommy

Three sliding boys video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXr3xO5Cjf8

Tunnel slides are the best video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGyxqkOCHM4

More tunnel sliding video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsENmqk4oA

Friday, May 22, 2009

Us Boys Having Some Fun

Yesterday I woke up with a fever. Mommy took me to the doctor and turned out I had Strep throat. They started me on antibiotics right away and I am already feeling so much better. Of course I had to stay home from school today so daddy stayed home with baby Aiden for a couple of hours in the morning while mommy and I went to Whole Foods to get me all of my special dairy products and nut and sesame free products. I love that store. They have those special little toddler shopping carts so I got to have my own cart and filled up with lots of wonderful, healthy fruits.

I took a very short nap (mommy wasn't too happy about that) and then when daddy got home I started feeling better (after 3 doses of antibiotics) and we started having some fun...