Squirmy little boy

Aidan is one of his kind. He is so squirmy, he is so independent, he doesn't like to be hold, but at the same time, he keeps climbing on us, he loves people and he hates to be alone.

Sometimes when he is tired, I don't know what to do with him, he climbs, then I hold him, in a second, he squirms and tries to get down, I let him go, then he climbs on me again.. complaining! and said : "Mama... mamma..."

Yesterday, I tried to rock him (He never sleeps being rocked, because he will arch his body trying to get away), I sat down on the yoga big ball and bounced my self while holding him, singing his songs, he fell asleep in my arm. I spent 30 minutes, just watching his peaceful face, sleeping. I remembered I always admire Nadia's baby face (even until now) that when she sleeps, she just looks soooo beautiful. I don't get much time doing that with Aidan, and I really miss it a lot. He stole my heart. He looks exactly like Nadia, with long eyelashes, only the differences are in the nose and mouth. Nadia has more girly nose and mouth, but the eyes.. exactly look the same when he sleeps.

Today, we just got back from the brunch invitation at Luca's family's house.. their brand new house and he didn't take naps at all, I rocked him again, he fell asleep 3 times after being awake several times, and I just realized, that he will be my last.. ever... baby in the family and I should enjoy him more. I love this guy so much, he is so different than Nadia, is that because his name is just the opposite spelling of Nadia's name ? Nadia is as girly as she can be.. and Aidan is just 100% boy with a friendly personality. Nadia used to be more quiet baby and not as friendly baby as Aidan, but now.. gee... she is the friendliest 3.5 year old in the neighborhood.

Anyways, just holding him in my arms, sleeping soundly, with soft breathing noise.. I could do it 24 hours just to watch him and enjoy him if possible. I can't nurse him anymore since he has no interest.. still have the milk, but he just don't want it... I wish!

I love you Aidan... Mommy loves you so much!

We are back!

We are back home. Funny how Aidan couldn't sleep in the plane and of course, he didn't sleep in the car on the way back home from the airport. The airport was packed! Christmas traveling. Yes.. we arrived midnight. I changed his pjs and he went straight to bed, no fuss. He hates his playpen aka crib during our stay in Sedona. The boy woke up happily when he woke up at 9 am this morning.

Photos of the vacation

Happy 10 months birthday, Aidan

Aidan turns 10 month old. He becomes a very strong boy. He drools like faucet, especially at this time, right away after his shot on Friday, we left to Arizona the next day, he just got bad cough and cold. Poor guy. He still got the liquid from his previous ear infection, but according to his pediatrician, it's not infected. We were so worry that he would be fussy in the plane, but he was so good. He enjoyed sitting all by himself in the plane being strapped. The plane was not too bad, he slept a bit and slept again on the way to Sedona from Phoenix. It's Aidan's first time going to Sedona. He has hard time sleeping on his playpen. Not like Nadia who adjusted so well at his age, he just love to sleep in his own bed, so he doesn't sleep to good anywhere other than at home. But, nothing seems to bother him, except that he was hold back from his exploring. He explored everywhere in the place we stayed, he explored to the bathroom, mommy's room, Nadia's closets, and his favorite place to explore is the kitchen and played with garlic until one time we found him chewing on a clove of garlic.. he smells 'awesome' when we found him. He crawls in full speed, in a blink of an eye, he would be already in the bathroom from the living room.

He loves playing with nadia, blows raspberry then followed by Nadia, then they keep taking their turn to blow raspberry and had a blast in the car.

He also could call us... "dya... or Nana" for Nadia, "mama" for mommy, "baba/dada" for Daddy.. and of course calling all of us by saying " AH!!!!! AH!!!!" He loves to babble and talks. He smiles a lot.. his 4 teeth grows significantly, and drools like faucet.

The highlight of turning 10 month old is that he is now independent, he doesn't want to nurse or has no interest in nursing at all. He loves his bottle which he can fill his stomach in no time.

This morning was his last time nursing with mommy which only takes... 2 minutes!! Then he was ready to run around the hotel.

4 teeth

Aidan is sprouting new tooth again, now he has very tiny 2 upper teeth and almost fully sprouted 2 bottom teeth.

After a full 8 days without eating and drinking (made me worry!! The doctor told me he had stomach bugs, but my friend told me because he was teething, but with diarrhea and I have to bath him 3 times a day because the diarrhea was sooo messy, I think the stomach bug explained it), now he is catching up. He doesn't care too much of getting the breastmilk because he has to work harder than the easy bottle... now he only nurse in the morning and night. He drinks easily 8 ounces every time. He eats crackers, rice porridge, and all kind of baby food. 

His fine motor and gross motor is very good, he crawls in speed, he picked up baby finger food so easily and eat them in no time, and he loves to play other with his toys (means Nadia's toys, remote control, chairs, and the dirt from the palm tree!!!)

He laughs a lot, very cuddly, and he sleeps 3 hours in the morning and 13 hours at night. 

He has a baby sitter now, her name is Anna. She is Brazilian and he Loves her. Nadia loves her, too. While Anna is baby sitting the kids, Mommy studies for her exam.

tooth # 46 (Top left incisor)

Yes, the tooth is erupting! I heard him grinding.... Yay Aidan!

Still, he is nursing... but he has not eaten anything compare to what he usually does... toothache ? Gumache ? I hope so... 

Fun With Auntie Lisa n Uncle Bill

After being left with Daddy at home while mommy, Nadia, Auntie Lisa, and Uncle Bill went to The Museum today, he enjoyed their company and had fun. He sat nicely on the highchair while others enjoyed the lovely dinner Ammar and Sari prepared. He also tried his grandma's hat while the rest tried the others. Hey mom, we had a great time trying out your hats!!!

Second haircut

Aidan's hair is way too long since his trial first haircut. Mommy cut Daddy's hair today and she decided to use the hair trimmer on Aidan. It was successfully done, fast, but Daddy thought it was too short. Well, we both kinda like his long hair, but it gets too messy most of the time when he move around. Well, mommy froggy and grandma.. what do you think ? Now the hair is almost the same length back and forth.... He looks like a big boy with this haircut now. 

Snow day on Thanksgiving

While Nadia got so excited playing with the snow today, Aidan went out, too, hugged by Daddy ... it's very cold out. But Mommy manage to take pictures of Nadia and Aidan together, well, he was busy chewing... but at least we got the snow background from the window while they were still in jammies. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

New haircut

Aidan's hair got so long, it poke his eyes a lot. I decided to just give it a little trim. Everyone likes it, including Nadia. There you go Grandma, Bunga Ina... we finally did it as your request.. hehe

Once in a life time messy face

Mommy is a very clean clean one, she never made anyone, including Nadia got dirty.. The face and hands always gets wiped. But out of the blue, at dinner time, mommy decided to let Aidan got messy. He looks so cute being messy, though. He loves the teething biscuit.

Mr. Independent

Yes, once in a while, he drinks milk from bottle. He likes any bottle now, but Mommy prefers Dr. Browns. Nursing still his favorite, but he is not a fussy boy.

Crawling and cruising

Sprouting first teeth

Finally, the moment we have been waiting for! The new teeth. He seems not to be bothered with that, too bad it is the same time when he got really bad cold.

While the owner is at school

Loves this lamp

Blow raspberries!!

After bath, I let Aidan played on Nadia's firetruck bed.... he was having so much fun in the truck... of course, the sister is at school..... Enjoy it, Aidan!!!

Bath time!

I love this toothbrush, Mom!!! 

Sometimes I feel so bad that I didn't get so much time compare to what I had when Nadia was at his age. So when Nadia was at school, we had wonderful time cuddling in the bathtub and Mommy got a chance to take pictures of him..... See how happy he was ? Like Nadia, he also loves bath.

First day at Montessori

It's Aidan's first day away from Mommy. He was doing very well, he drank milk from sippy cup, ate so much, by 3.30 pm the teacher called home and asked me to bring more food. I ended up picking them up at 4 pm.
He was so happy surrounded by kids, he enjoyed every minute of it, unlike Nadia on her first day, she cried so much, not Aidan. He was fine and happy, even when I came to pick him up, I ended up leaving him to get his stuff together, he didn't cry for me.
We got home and bathed the 2 kids right away, he slept right away after Mommy nursed him.
I am so proud of my big boy!!!

My little pumpkin

Turned 8 months old.

Aidan turned 8 months old today.

He still nursing, just recently accept bottle, not a typical bottle, but ANY bottle.. YAY! At first I filled it up with juice, then I fill it with regular milk diluted, then I switched with FORMULA. Yes, starting today, he accept formula, just 4 ounces a day, the rest is breastmilk. He squels a lot, he will look at Nadia and tried to talk and laugh with her. He will laugh so much when he sees Nadia goofed up. He is so cuddly boy, he loves to be touched, kissed, hugged, and carried. He could stand up well long time before, but now he started to make steps for a whole month when you just hold his finger gently. He is so easy to laugh, makes it easy to take pictures of laughing baby. He doesn't like getting dress while I am pulling his hands and feet.
He loves taking bath with his sister. He loves parties, and lots of people. He talks and talks, and talks... like mmamamammaaa.... achkkkk.. accckkkkk....
He eats like monster, but if he doesn't like the food, he will start to cry on the 3rd bites. He doesn't spit it... He also eats table food, anything with very small pieces, although he doesn't have teeth yet, he chew on the food.
He doesn't suck his thumb, no pacifier, either, but he will chew on the cloth.
He sleeps from 7 pm until 7 am... then sometimes sleeping again once I nursed him until 10 am.
He is very squirmy so I have to get rid of his changing table.
For a week, as muscles are becoming so stronger, he's apt to lunge forward onto all fours from a sitting position. He does "precrawl" exercise, rocking back and forth on hands and knees with his trunk parallel to the floor. Unlike Nadia, he loves to sleep on his tummy, and he seems to start crawling. Nadia doesn't crawl too much.

He is a very good baby. People will stop me anywhere and said how good he is. The secret is, they thought Aidan was very very good baby (in restaurants, in the market, in the parties), but for us, Aidan is just a regular baby. We experienced 'angel' baby before (hint : Nadia).

Overall, we are so blessed with this little boy, he is a relish!

With Auntie Dewi

Tag along with moms, Aidan had fun with Auntie Dewi, too.

Looking up at the Hyatt

 

Visiting

 

Aidan loves Carl. Carl is Debbie's father who is in hospice at this very moment. God Bless you, Carl. He is such a really nice man.

 

Aidan plays with Dolores, Debbie's mom

 

Dolores and Aidan

Caught in action!

 

Debbie and Ammar couldn't believe I would take such picture like this, catching Aidan's doing his business!

At Debbie's

 

Aidan got present from Debbie, Ammar's old friend in Cleveland. We took it as another Eid's present. Thanks, Debbie. Aidan LOVES his present.

 

Playing with his present while waiting for Nadia to wake up from nap.