Baby Moments

I said the other day that my eye is better. Well, it is better, meaning I don’t have a pink, swollen eye. But my little tear is still there. It is clear, but I didn’t get rid of it, so my tear-duct must be still blocked.

Today I went with mommy at the groceries store. It’s a big place, in height, length and width. So I found fascinating when I yelled once to mommy to give me a snack by the sound I made. From that point I just yelled. And yelled. And yelled. I got all red but I didn’t stop. I was yelling from the top of my lungs. Mommy was desperate, but I was the happiest person in the supermarket. I was yelling and laughing until we got out, and that was a while.

After so much yelling, when we got home I so tired that I barely drank my carrot juice and fell asleep almost instantly. Like a good, happy baby. Ups! I am that baby.

I have to tell you that I can say pretty clear and with good meaning “ma-ma” and “ta-ta”. Maybe I won’t be a baby for a long time. I’ll be a big happy boy soon.

A week ago, my right eye ( I always had problems with it due a blocked tear-duct) got really swollen and red. My beautiful lashes were all together, so mommy took me to the doctor. Turned out I had a pink eye. The doctor gave me some antibiotic drops to put twice a day into my eye for a week and I can tell you that I have now plenty of individual dry lashes.

The rest… I am a pretty lazy guy when comes for walking. What can I say? it is much, much faster to go on my knees. And I don’t need anybody to help me out with that. actually in the last few days I was brave enough to get mommy or daddy with one hand and walk slowly a few meters. It’s coming. Just wait for it. The stairs in the house….hmmm… not so lazy.  If I would know how to get down from upstairs I would be all day long on the steps. I already have an idea how to slide down, but I have to perfect my technique. I tried today and I fell a few steps and it wasn’t nice at all. Do you think I gave up? Ha! After I stopped crying I went back again. Didn’t try again to come down by myself though.

Daddy made me a surprise 2 weeks ago when he bought a bike chair for me. I have a helmet too. I loooove riding the bike with daddy. I am high enough to see everything around and the speed… beautiful. I can ride in that chair for hours without making any noise.

4 days ago  I finished the last box of formula and because I am almost 1 year, mommy gave me cow milk, 3.25% fat. I think it is pretty good. Although I didn’t sleep pretty well in those nights. We don’t know the reason. Maybe it didn’t fill me really well, maybe I loved too much, but I had about 27 oz – 650ml from going to bed till breakfast. Quite a lot. Last night I settled with the 7 oz at bed time and twice 5oz during the night. I drink a lot of water during the day and lately I love my food blended in a really fine paste. So I don’t have to chew too much and get bored before stuffed, I think.

As I told you, lately I didn’t sleep really well, but today…oh man. Mommy rocked me for my morning nap around 10 and I woke around 2pm. After that I wanted another nap around 4 and… it’ 6:30 and I am still sleeping We’ll see tonight. Bye for now.

In the evening, after we had dinner, daddy sliced some watermelon and he was crazy enough to let me on the counter with the big bowl in front of me. I was sooooo happy. I started digging in the bowl and squish every little piece of watermelon. It was sensational. You HAVE to try. I also eat some, but the squishing part…priceless. I was all covered in watermelon juice: pink, shiny, sticky and sweet. That was me… what did you think?The latest thing for me is to grab thing and hide them beside, under my bum. Nobody can find them there. Only I can know where to find them

I really have to go for a big shower. See you tomorrow. Bye!

I’ve got a lot of complains that I don’t write anymore. And a lot of new things happened in the meantime. So…maybe I should start sharing them with you:

17th of April- Saturday My first top tooth is out. It involved a lot of drooling and not that much crankiness. Now I can say that I can, if I want, to get chunkier things to chew like cucumbers or toast, which I looove. Sometimes I don’t want anything else to eat except some toast. Of course, mommy takes care to get my vitamins from the fruit juices. I get 3 of them daily : apples or pears for breakfast, carrots and celery or strained soup for lunch and grapefruit or orange for dinner. Today also I managed to climb on daddy from my bum to my  feet. Yeeeey!!!

19′th of April-Monday My second top tooth came out. Now, I think, I can be relaxed. No more teething for a while. But the problems are not over. We had Bubu sick with a very ugly ear infection. And in the past 2 nights I didn’t want to sleep at all, so mommy took my temperature and I had 38C. That’s not good. She presses my ear to see if I have the same infection, but I didn’t react at all. Maybe it is because of my new tooth… She took me to the doctor anyway. The doctor checked my everything and I looked fine. She said that there is roseola going around and it might be it. That means, after the fever is gone, a big rush will come out to end the suffering. Today I was really determined to see what is so attractive to those blinds beside my bed, so, I made sure that nobody watched and I got up from my bum to my feet. By myself. Well… nothing interesting about them, just some noise, but the thing that I did… far more interesting.

24th of April- Saturday After Monday I was OK with my fever and my moods, but for the last 2 nights… again I didn’t sleep. I just cried, and cried, and cried. So they took me to the doctor to learn that I have the same wonderful ear infection that Bubu had (he is much better now). I’m taking now Amoxicillin for 10 days, 5ml twice a day an I HATE it with every part of my body. You should see how my mouth is perfectly sealed only at the sight of the antibiotic syringe.. At least they found out what I have and they are doing something to ease my suffering. I’ll be in perfect shape until Tuesday when my grandparents (Lidia and Mitica) will come. I can’t wait to show them all my new tricks.

27th of April-Tuesday Today I’ll have visitors and I am still sick I didn’t sleep…again, I cried and cried and cried… again and I went to the doctor… again. I found out that my body and my immune system are really strong and I became resistant to the antibiotic so she switched to Cepfrozil (the same as Bubu) 3,5ml twice a day for another 10 days. Maybe this time it will work. This one taste muuuch better than the first one. And we got mommy sick too. With the same thing. This is the perfect moment for my grandparents to come and take care of us

4th of May-Tuesday My doctor’s day! With my lack of eating and sleeping, mommy was worried that I lost all my fluffiness, but I managed to grow somehow. I am 10.2 kg and 74.5 cm. My antibiotic works well. I am much better now. The eating… not so much. I like bread. No. I love bread. Toasted or just like that I never say no. And I also love any other food than mine. It is tasty; mine is… bleah.

In the mean time I am glad that my food is starting slowly to taste better and stronger and I am happy. I am doing a lot of things. I like to take mommy’s glasses off and give them back to her to put them on and I do it again and again and again. I was doing the same thing with Bubu with a bath sticker. He put it on his chest, I got it off and give it back to him to put it on his chest… I love those things. I also like when people take turns in making sounds. One of these days this happened between Lidia and Mitica. I didn’t let either one of them to get twice in a row with the same sound. Every time one made the sound I would turn to the other one to get the sound. Smart

My assisted walking is already pretty good and fast. A few days ago, mommy took me for a walk around the house (apparently outside is winter again ) and I walked happily back and forth until I realized that is music coming to my ears from somewhere. When I discovered the source (daddy was listening at the basement) I froze on top of the stairs, cause I couldn’t see nothing from that spot. But I looked at mommy and her smile told me that I could go there (with her). I started slow and I got faster when I recognized the place where I love to sit with daddy and just listen to music together. This time it was Tchaikovsky. I showed him a face… I don’t think he will go soon without me in this spot.

Around 9th of May I started… crawling. Well… more like a caterpillar, but, as daddy said, I started functioning pretty well and fast. And I am so happy. Now I can get wherever I want. Especially at that place with a lot of buttons called TV, computer and other stuff. I looooove it. But they won’t let me go there and I don’t get why. Aren’t the buttons made to be pushed? Or turned? Because I got moving so fast, they put up a gate so I can’t go down too fast to the basement and hurt myself. I didn’t discover it yet. We’ll see.

Today I discovered the door stop. It is like a string and if you hit it slowly it vibrates and makes a really funny sound. I’ll try to go around to find out what other goodies they hid from me till now.

Now that I slept with mom and dad again, of course I didn’t let them sleep. I was that anxious to start my new normal routine that at 6 I woke up fresh and showed myself  with my big eyes in the peek-a-boo corner of my bed. Mommy couldn’t believe it so she took me on her chest and she held me tight and rocked me until I fell asleep again forgetting about my fresh early start. I slept until 8.30. Bubu stayed home again cause he had fever so we didn’t get out at all.

Today, for the first time, I had my first attempt to push myself up on my feet. I was on my bum, I leaned on the ottoman and pushed myself on my hands. I didn’t move at all, not even a centimeter, but the idea and the hand move were there. Now that I know it, I’ll practice it more often, cause today I got a little bit frustrated, so I have to succeed fast to go wherever I want.

I finally had my bath… Mmmmm….. Sooo good. Now, I have to have a good sleep. Good night!

Every time we go out I fall asleep right away. Not today. Mommy and Bubu took me out for a walk, hoping that I’ll fall asleep, but I didn’t. So, after they walked and walked they decided to stop at a playground to let Bubu play a little. But I got bored, so mommy took me out of the stroller and put me in a swing. Oh boy, that was fun. I was laughing as hard as I could, that much fun I had. We met a girl about my age in the next swing, Katia, and we played together. After swings we went on the slides. Fun too, not as much as the swings. Because I was a little absent, mommy put me back into the stroller and went again for a walk. I was so curious of surroundings that I decided to lift myself from the recliner, comfortable position into a sitting one. For the first time. It was pretty exhausting and I fell asleep soon enough.

At dinner time I was a little cranky and mommy gave me a piece of cucumber to calm me down a bit until my juice was done. I was fascinated by it and it actually was quite tasty.

I made my first steps! With mommy holding me, of course, but for the first time I knew what I am supposed to do with my legs, meaning… steps. Yeeeeee!!!! Soon I’ll be independent and I won’t need anybody to carry me where I want, if they can understand where I want.

The rest of the day… nothing new to tell you. I am the happy baby, until I want something. And I make myself heard. I still don’t eat well, drink is OK, and still don’t sleep the whole night.

I had a rough week. And the nights were even worse. Why? Because for some reason during the day I refuse to eat everything, but my body says that I have to grow and makes my stomach growl of hunger so I wake up 2-3 times a night for 6 oz of milk. OK, maybe I refuse to eat, but to drink… I like the juices or the soups that mommy gives me in my lovable bottle.  The most curious thing is that even though I don’t eat a thing, I fill my diapers with nice treasures really, really successfully.Today around 3 mommy was so desperate that I just glued my lips in front of the spoon, that she took me on her laps and tried to give an yogurt (Yoptimal, vanilla) with one of their teaspoons. And I ate it all. And maybe I wanted more, but she didn’t give me another one. After that she just gave me a piece of bread in my hand which was very tasty too. By evening I was grumpy and hungry again. Mommy tried some puree fruits and I start eating very well. But she wasn’t prepared for that, meaning that I didn’t have my bib on. So daddy put my bib between the spoons. When I felt it on I just glued my lips. They took it off, the puree was amazingly tasty. What do you say about that? Conclusion: I am allergic to my bib. It’s depressing. I am a big boy, I don’t have to wear it. Do you wear a bib when you eat? See? So from tomorrow I’ll try to eat without any bib. We’ll see how my clothes will look like after. I think those fruits opened my appetite ’cause at sleep time I wanted 8oz of milk. We’ll see how I’ll sleep.

A few days ago we celebrated Easter. And everybody worked around and nobody had really time for me. I was as usual a bit good, a bit grumpy (of hunger) and granny Kati decided to give me to try a dill stem. Actually she was curious what I would do with it. And oh my God, that was tasty! I kept it in my hand and sucked it until it had not even a drop of juice left in it. In another day, they tried with celery stalks. Good too. Not as good as the dill though.

Enough with the food. The highlight of my day (beside the arrival of Bubu and daddy home) is my bath time. I like to play with my toy, especially an orange crab. But mostly I like when Daddy rinse my hair. I am fully relaxed with maximum of satisfaction on my face. It feels really good. AAA!!!! Today, for the first time, ups, I produced myself a jacuzzi. You know. The bubbly, noisy, smelly one. I was so proud of myself. It must have been a funny thing cause everybody laughed, so I have to try it again.

I am a pretty lazy guy. I don’t want to crawl or get myself on my bum, but I can clap my hands really cute. And I like to talk a lot and lately to scream as high and hard as I can. Just for fun. I am in love with a remote control that I try to keep it close especially when I try to sleep. Gives me comfort with all those buttons.

That’s about it, I think about my last week. See you next time.

A! If you tell me that I am handsome, I will answer you instantly “DA” (yes) Well, of course I am and I am a modest person. I will show you my 2 bottom teeth as well.

Lately I like to wake up early. And when I say early I mean 6 o’clock in the morning. I can’t wait to start my day and I can’t let anybody sleep and miss the sunrise. So daddy took me in their bed wishing for more minutes of sleep and I found mommy there and I said loud ma-ma looking at her with my big round eyes and my long lashes. She melted instantly. Again, I don’t know if it happened or I really said that but this was what happened.

Later in the afternoon we went to Kati’s place and I had to stay with her for half an hour. She was tired of holding me and didn’t know where to put me to be safe (you know I can roll really fast) and she put me for a second in a big box. She thought I will be really mad but…. surprise… I loved the box. It was exactly my size, I could sit very comfortably without falling and in the same time with enough space for my toys. It was so funny. Everybody stopped from whatever they were doing to take a look at me. And what do you think we did? We took the box home

And the bath time came. The funniest and happiest moment of the day. I have bath toys now. I like them but I think I am more interested in the tub plug. It is so shiny… Anyway, I came out on my changing table and, until daddy got the diaper out form the drawer, I grabbed my foot and streeeeetcheeeed till I sucked my toes. Youppyy! Can you do that? Try it! It’s fun. Well, not as much as the teeth brushing part. Tonight Bubu wanted to brush my teeth and we had the most beautiful time. We laughed really loud together. It’s amazing to have such big brother as Bubu. But I liked to bit him as well. Poor him. He tried to take his finger back but I stretched and got him again. With big big laughs.

In this note of happiness and laughter I’ll tell you Good night!

Because I have 2 new, sharp, beautiful, lonely teeth, mommy bought me a toothbrush. A silicon one but it has bristles and because I am soo grown up I have toothpaste too. We decided that the best moment to use it is in the bed time routine. To calm me from my teething and sleep relaxed. Except that…I like it so much that makes me laugh out really loud. I don’t really know the reason of happiness. Even it tickles me terribly, or it calms my teething so well, or the toothpaste is really tasty or… I am just sooooo happy to be clean.

And I have to talk about food a little bit, right? Not so much to be said except that I don’t really want to eat. I like to have only the juice or the thin soup from my dearest bottle.

I like to have fun with dad at my bath time. He shows me the water and keeps saying its name “apa” (water) and … I repeated it I don’t know if I said the right thing but it was in that direction. Soon I will be able to talk and you have no idea how many things I have to say.

See you next time!. I can’t wait to brush my teeth again!