Aidan Omar

my first cupcake on aidan's almost birthday

2011-02-17T11:01:00.002-05:00

Aidan's snack share day is today, also for celebrating his birthday with his friends at school. It's not quite his birthday yet, but today is his last day of school before his birthday. I decided to make his cupcakes, with racing cars as toppings, between the schedule yesterday, I ended up have to wake up in the middle of the night, making the toppings so I could bring the cupcakes in the morning for drop off. Aidan saw it before we left, no comments, nothing, he was just sitting down there, and staring at the cupcakes in awe. I love you, baby!

a sexy tennis dress

2010-11-17T11:10:00.001-05:00

I bought a tennis dress, and I wore it this morning to try it on and showed it to my husband, asking his opinion. Aidan woke up, went downstairs and saw me.... here what he said : "Mommy, why are you naked mommy ?" Me: "I am not naked, Aidan" Aidan: "Mommy, if you are not naked, why are you wearing dress ? Are you going to dancing party ????" How in the world a 3.5 years old knows about dancing party ? Is it because I wore 1 piece white short dress and showed every single corner of my body ?

Ice Skating lessons

2010-11-13T11:25:00.000-05:00

Last year, when Aidan was almost 3 years old, we tried to get him out with his sister to get the lessons at different ice skating place we usually have lessons at.
He was so apprehensive and we were just fighting him out not to escape from the rink and ran to play with the coin car machine outside (very big distractions!!!). I also found out that Nadia wasn't really improved at all in her ice skating skills.

So this year, we moved back to our old place and what a big difference I see from him. At the age of 3.5 years old, he was so welcoming and eager to learn. The teachers were so good and he did so well and follow the instructions. He even could get up by himself every time he fell.

Nadia had fever that day so she missed her first day of lesson, but we were surprised that when I joined Aidan on the last 15 minutes of his lesson, I heard a very familiar voice, it was Nadia and her daddy waiting by the ice rink with donuts in hand. We ate really yummy warm donuts after the cold ice rink.

Love his new school

2010-04-19T09:48:00.002-05:00

Aidan has started his early 3 class together at the same school with Nadia. Aidan loves his teacher so much. He said he loves Miss Sandy more than me and Miss Andrea (his nanny).

This morning :
Aidan : "Where are we going today, mommy ?"
Me : "Aidan is going to school. You are going to see Miss Sandy today"
Aidan : "Oh.. okay... I love miss Sandy"
Me : "Then I will come and pick you guys up, then Nadia will have piano lesson"
Aidan : "Ah... Nadia will go to PU-ANO lesson... okay mommy, I love you, TOO" (he always says I love you, too, although I didn't say I love you to him.. hahahah)

Aidan is on 'titanic' boat

2010-04-16T13:07:00.003-05:00

Aidan loves watching movie Titanic for the last 3 weeks. He is a funny guy who doesn't care about dora or diego, no baby einstein, but loves watching beautiful girls on the barbie and thumbelina movies. He loves cars movies, monster aliens, and wallace and grommit. His first movie he'd ever watch was when he was 2.5 year old, which is Spiderman.

When we arrived on the cruise, he was so fascinated, but tired at the same time, so he missed the drill on the boat 1 hour before we sailed to Mexico. He really wanted to go on the emergency small boats, so everyday, he told me that he wanted the cruise ship to hit the iceberg so he could get on the emergency boat. Too bad, it's carribean sea, so no iceberg, buddy!

He has so much fun, and he'd rather sleep in the same room with Nadia than sleeping in our room. The kids really enjoyed sleeping in the same bedroom, because at home, they have their own bedrooms.

He loves Nadia so much that he could spend the whole cruise ship with her and us. We have fun factory, a fun place for the kids Aidan and Nadia's age to go explore their friends in the cruise ship, having lunch party, dinner party, or slumber party together, crafts, drawings, toys, etc, you named it, they have them ready for the kids and parents could leave them having fun while they could spend the time together alone without kids, BUT we hardly sent Nadia and Aidan there. For the whole trip, we only sent Aidan once, and Nadia twice, just because Nadia wanted to play with her friends there. We only left her for max 2 hours each time, we love spending time with the kids more than anything.

It's really a fun trip. Aidan loves taking pictures so I got my pictures in this trip, also. Thank you, Aidan!

Aidan accomplished big thing on the cruise ship. He finally ... oh Gosh.. FINALLY fully potty trained. As soon as we told him that on the boat, he can't wear diaper, and when we told him that he couldn't be in the fun factory because he is in diaper, we managed to take his diaper out and put his underwear, and he had dry underwear on the whole trip until now... YAY Aidan. God is fair, we got a very well potty trained girl, who never did number 2 since she was 1 year old, and fully potty trained at the age of 2, we had to fight and deal with a boy who finally potty trained because he wanted to be on the cruise ship and airplane, at the age of 3 years and 2 months.

More pictures to see on the link above.

feverish

2010-03-23T22:33:00.002-05:00

Aidan felt warm this morning. I gave him children motrin and sent him to go to the library with miss Andrea until noon while I studied at home. He went home and straight to nap. When he woke up, I felt his body was really hot... I bathed him, and he felt better.
He drank his milk, then I fed him and Nadia dinner. Ammar went home late tonight, so we ate dinner ourselves first. Aidan ate real good, but he complaint his stomach was hurting him. I gave him a dose of children tylenol. He complaint his eyes were hurting, I had to keep rubbing softly his eyes, they were teary. Oh my poor baby.
I gave him a hug, put him in my lap, hugging him and kissed his warm body and cheeks... oh God, please take his fever away.
I always so worry when they got sick..... :(

Tonight, he slept with his daddy in the big bed, after vomiting before sleep time.
I could see both lying on the bed, and I headed downstairs to continue my study.

Nadia was way asleep after I read her 2 books, chapter books. She loves books so much!

quips of a 2 year old

2010-01-24T09:39:00.002-05:00

1. We were driving to school, it was Aidan's 5th day of early 3 school, he loves his school but he likes to say no to everything. He knows already when he was watching the roads out while we were driving and asked me .
Aidan : "mommy, I don't want to go school, please"
Me : "Why not Aidan ? You don't want to go school ?"
Aidan : "Annnnn (Aidan) don't wanna go school. I don't want to be smart!"
Me : (laughing inside so hard!!!)
Sure enough, when we got to school, he jumped in the classroom and did circle time, no problem.

2. This morning he was looking for me when he woke up. I hid from him because I didn't want him to see me in Nadia's room, then I went downstairs to see him who was spending time with his dad.
Me : "Hi AIDAN!" Good morning!"
Aidan : "huhhhhh ? You scared me, Mommy..... My eyes broken.... You scared me!!!"

Big helper

2009-12-25T20:46:00.003-05:00

It's time that I had to do laundry, I usually sit down with the kids in the living room so while they are playing like best buddies (really, they love each other), I could just fold the laundry.
Apparently Aidan has been observing the way I made the laundry flat with my hands and folding them... he came to me while Nadia plays with legos, and said : "I wannnna help you with laundry".

He picked one from the laundry basket, and fold it the way a 2 year old folds, and put it on the top of my folded laundry. It was not perfect, but he did it.. then he told me : "mommy help Aidan fold laundry"

I laid the shirt down..., he said : "It's Nani's shirt!!" And he started to flattened it up so there was no wrinkles... then I fold one side, he right away flattened my fold again with his cute hands.... again and again until it's all folded up...

He kept doing it, for about 15 minutes untill all my laundry had almost done.!!

I am just so proud of him!

This is how a boy say hi.

2009-10-09T21:15:00.000-05:00

We were about to go to bed, then Aidan just bonked Nadia's head with pillow,

Daddy : "Hey, Aidan, don't do that, it's not nice to slam Nadia's head with pillow!"
Aidan : (ran and sitting down on the sofa with the pillow and smiled) : "I want to say hi to Nani, HI NANI!!!"

Nani is a name that Aidan calls Nadia with. He can say Nadia, but he'd rather call her Nani, he also call himself "An.... (read: end)" if he talks.

funny words

2009-10-04T12:42:00.003-05:00

Aidan (yelling and running) : "Mommy..... bumbee bill!!! Help"
Me : "what, bumble bee ?"
Aidan : "bumbee bill!!!!"
Me : "okay, where is it ?"
Aidan : "there!!!" (pointing on the wall)
Me : "hahahah, it's not bumble bee, it's a fly!"
Aidan : "it's bumbee bill!!!!!"

Missing his sister

2009-09-08T07:13:00.000-05:00

It's Nadia's first day at school today. Aidan kept asking about his sister. He misses her so much that he keeps singing Nadia's song, the song that I sing for her every night before she goes to bed. Aidan has his own song, too.
He was a bit cranky and has separation anxiety, so I too him to Hands On Museum. We were there for almost 3 hours until he asked me to go home. Finally. I planned not to let him nap because his nap fights with Nadia's schedule. I have to pick Nadia up at 3.30 and Aidab naps from 1.30 - 4 pm. $
He fell asleep in the car, so I decided not to go home, we waited at Nadia's school's parking lot for 1 hour.
Aidan wake up 30 minutes after Nadia got in the car. He didn't have good amount of nap, which is good.
Both kids went to bed early, YAY! 8 pm they are already in the clouds.
My plan works, this way Aidan can nap from 12 to 3 and go straight picking up Nadia from school.

The car movie

2009-08-29T05:03:00.003-05:00

Aidan had never really interested in watching movie... he started to get interested in the movies when they have something to do with transportation. He would sit for maximum 15 minutes since we were in Indonesia last May. His interest in movie started when he watched "Kung Fu Panda", constantly asking for Kung Fu Panda. When we arrived back, he didn't want to watch Kung Fu Panda again, transportation movies only.

Now, Aidan is a tv head, only for Car movie, he keeps asking to play the Car movie all the time, and he would sit, not moving, watching Car movie for a whole time until it's done.
This happens only for the last 5 days.

In the car, he would tell me : "Mommy, car sing, please!". What he meant was that he wanted the car song to be played again and again until the sister complains about it.

The funny part is, when I played the Car Movie at home, he would run and dance around and around the living room, when the "car sing" is on..... hahahah, he would just say : "Mommy, Aidan dance!"

I love you, Goofball!

Strawberry farm

2009-06-11T14:21:00.002-05:00

Aidan loves strawberry and he went to pick up some strawberry with Miss Andrea, Sam, Nadia and I.
Andrea found a funny looking strawberry. It looks like grapes with clusters.
Andrea : "Aidan, look at this strawberry. It has so much little ones"
Aidan : "I wanna eat it ?"

issssyaaaaa ?

2009-06-08T00:29:00.002-05:00

Wow, it's been so long I haven't posted anything on my little man.. but life has not stopped, it's so busy and Aidan turns to be a sensitive, cute, funny, fun little guy, he really steals my heart.

We recently went to visit our relatives and we just got back... this smart little boy knew exactly what was going on, what happened if he travels by plane.. so when we arrived home safely after so long, I thought he would look around the house, trying to find the people he loves....

This time... he just said : "All gone!!!"

One time, he just asked his dad... he misses his uncle a lot...

Aidan : "Daddy, where's ayung (my brother) ?"

Daddy : "He is in Indonesia, Aidan"

Aidan : "Issssyaaaaa ?"

Although during the trip his verbal skill jumps to the moon and he could say 4 words in a sentence, he still repeating the last word of any sentences we said to him...

Aidan asked for something, Daddy gave it to him

Daddy : "What do you say, Aidan ?"

Aidan : "sayyyy ?"

Daddy : "say thank you, Aidan"

Aidan : "ma kasih (thank you in Indonesian language)" with a big smirk on his face.

Aidan turns 2.

2009-02-20T21:41:00.000-05:00

My baby, finally turning to be a big man. He changed so much during the past 2 months, he is so cheerful, sweet, funny, smart, strong, affectionate, cuddly, and talkative, just like his sister. Being under the same star, pisces, they almost have the same personality, only the gender behavior defined them as different child.

Aidan, was a bit slower on the words and potty, but he is so advanced in gross motor control and much stronger and active, and responsive than Nadia. He loves to sing, dancing, and riding on the horse and cars.

His passion towards car and plane, brings him to even trying to open the new car's door from the dealer brochure.

As he turned 2 today, he was just couldn't get enough the cake and singing happy birthday.

His language skills grows so fast now that he just picks up anything we say.

Aidan loves his big sister so much, anything Nadia does, he wants to do it, too, but sometimes he is just happy enough to sit next to her while she draws and he would play with his cars.

It has been a real pleasure to get to know and love Aidan as much as I can, just deep inside, I feel a bit of sadness realizing that my baby grows too fast.

One should follow the rules

2009-01-21T16:06:00.000-05:00

patriotic on the inaugural day

2009-01-20T15:11:00.000-05:00

pregnant

2009-01-19T15:16:00.000-05:00

Aidan has always been wearing undershirt (onesies), especially at this cold weather, he peed so much in the diaper and wet his onesies. I took the onesies and let him play around just only with shirt and pants, waiting to take the afternoon bath. He pulled his shirt up all the time, feeling the belly, and rub his belly on the carpet, and finally put Nadia's plush zebra, and feeling so happy that he 'is pregnant'. Nadia adores the pregnancy, too

fire truck RC

2008-12-07T20:25:00.002-05:00

We went to the toy store this afternoon, Aidan picked the fire truck first RC car, and boy, he can't wait to play with it. I had to struggle just to put the battery because he kept pulling it away from me..... long battle, but unfortunately there is something wrong with it, it doesn't go forward, but turning around only. I am going back to the store to have a replacement. Bummer! The excitement Aidan had for this RC car was priceless!!!

Puppy Eyes

2008-11-10T08:16:00.002-05:00

Tonight, Ammar and I had to attend 'holiday dinner/farewell party' at his hem/onc department. Pretty formal dinner.

We had our neighbor sitter to take care of the kids while we were gone.

The minute Aidan heard the garage door opened, he rushed to the door, opened the door, and gave me this puppy eyes, giving his both arms, asking me to take him with us... and said : "Momma!!!!"

On the way to the club, he really stole my heart with the way he approaced, puppy eyes look and the sound of his voice. Compared to Nadia at his age, she never did something like that....

waiting for his playdate, Jack

2008-09-18T12:53:00.000-05:00

Candy Monster

2008-09-11T15:45:00.001-05:00

with 50mm/f1.2 lens

2008-09-11T06:06:00.000-05:00

I like the depth of field of this lens and the sharpness. I wish I have baby skin like his. (dreaming)

Aidan has really bad cold today. I constantly wiped his nose, every minute the whole day, and yet, with this sharp lens you still can see the trace on his nostrils. Bad cold.

Fun at birthday Party

2008-08-30T22:25:00.000-05:00

saturday fun

2008-08-02T09:09:00.000-05:00

I am pretty cool

2008-06-09T22:17:00.000-05:00

Making water spill and thought it was the funniest thing ever

Starting to enjoy the TV

2008-05-31T22:24:00.000-05:00

Aidan, the very busy body boy, finally got hooked on the TV, he only watches baby einstein series, then he would sit down, lounging on his bouncer.

New milestone.

2008-05-11T15:48:00.001-05:00

On mother's day, Aidan manage to open doors. He got so excited and kept closing and opening the doors, both ways, pulling and pushing way. Atta boy!

Potty success!

2008-05-06T20:33:00.000-05:00

It's been 3 days, that every morning after milk, I put Aidan in the potty for number 2. He failed and he ended up pooping in the freshly changed diapers! Bummer.

Today, he napped so long and I was so worry that something had happened with him, so I went to check on him, the minute I got in his bedroom, he woke up and I was surprisingly so happy that he was okay (got a bit worry with him lately). I went to take off his clothes, and put him in the potty, and said : "sssssssss" to him, he laughed and sure enough, in seconds he peed in the potty!

YAY, Aidan!!!! Okay, now number 1 has passed!

He has been so happy right after woke up, we ended up going with bicycle ride, 5 big rounds around the neighborhood, another round with wagon, 1 round with the battery car, and the last one: daddy's big tractor. He didn't want to get off and enjoyed behind the tractor's wheel. He was so happy today. Atta boy!

Aidan's first playdate

2008-05-01T20:15:00.001-05:00

Sometimes I think I am a bad mom in terms of treating Aidan compares to how I did for Nadia at her age. Nadia used to go to lots of playdates since she was 6 months old. Even until now, it's easier to arrange Nadia's play dates than Aidan's, so he usually had to tag along with his sister's play dates. I have been so busy and I just never arranged special playdate for Aidan himself.

Finally I arranged to have Aidan play with other toddler his age. Luckily, it's Jack, the new neighbor who just moved recently. Jack was born only 7 days later than Aidan.

We went to Hudson Mills Park, and they boys had great time together. Like a typical 1 year old playdates, they didn't seem to play together, but they sat together and Jack hugged Aidan.

I can tell Aidan's mood was pleasantly happy until the bedtime. No meltdown whatsoever. Although he had a long day today (he still had to play with the neighbor sitter, Alicia, he was completely in joy).

His first own play date. Yay.

Sitting on my sister

2008-04-22T08:38:00.000-05:00

This is something new, just happened this morning. Aidan sat on Nadia's chair, so Nadia sat on his chair and watched TV before she headed to school. Aidan climbed up to Nadia's lap and sat on her, having fun....

BIG BOY

2008-04-20T23:31:00.000-05:00

The weather is finally beautiful, so the boy went out to dinner in downtown with shorts and shirt, he also graduated to the facing forward britax car seat. Look how tall he is.

Hey, I can drive this, too

2008-04-19T23:35:00.000-05:00

Boys are completely different than girls

2008-04-19T22:36:00.000-05:00

Nadia had never have interest in ride on toys, on the other hand, Aidan loves this cute bike and wearing his hat, he loves this afternoon activity before bedtime. Thanks Middy for the cute baby shower gift for Aidan.

Awesome motor skill

2008-04-09T14:04:00.000-05:00

Teething... I need the Tylenol, please

2008-04-09T13:59:00.000-05:00

The boy is sick and cuddly

2008-03-30T22:52:00.002-05:00

Have we told you how active Aidan is ?

at 3 am, he cried so hard, curling in his crib. When Ammar got him, he was shivering....

He lied down quietly and believe me.. not moving in between us until the tylenol kicks in then he started to move a bit. His fever was 102F.

He couldn't sleep in our bed, so Daddy put him back to his crib and he slept soundly until 9.30 am.. I was so worry that we both checked on him. He was breathing well.

Both of the kids got fever this morning. Nadia's temp was about 101F and all of us got fever...

Good thing to have Aidan sick is that he is not moving so much and he is so cuddly. So Ammar and I took the advantage of this rarely moment to cuddle and play with him, of course, ended up trimming his hair... He looks cute with his new hair do.

Hey, I am HOME!!

2008-03-29T20:04:00.002-05:00

Aidan, who has been so cranky at the hotel, once he got home, he was so hungry and refused to sit on the high chair so Daddy took him to see his bedroom. Once he saw his bedroom, he started laughing and he voluntary with no fight sat on the high chair and ate his first chicken!!! A lot of them, the whole time he ate he was so happy and said "Daddy!!! million times", drank his water, then 'burb' and laugh himself.... no fighting whatsoever to go to sleep... sleep very soundly through the night.... yes, he needs that. All of us, especially me needs the good night sleep peacefully and happily. What a trip!!

Diarrhea and scared

2008-03-27T11:47:00.002-05:00

Aidan definitely not loving the hotel room we are staying. He felt so insecure that he doesn't want to play all by himself and needs me to carry him or hold him.

He also suffers from diarrhea, maybe that's why he is not himself.

But surely he has so much fun playing in the swimming pool and strolls on the boardwalk along the beach at Hollywood Beach, FL, just in front of our hotel.

The boy at Miami Seaquarium on Easter Sunday

2008-03-23T21:29:00.000-05:00

He enjoyed the killer whale show.

Hey Mom, that is so much fun. He looks like a big boy with the hat and no wintery clothing!

Yay!!! I love this show

Getting sleepy and tired

On the way back to the hotel. While everyone else couldn't sleep last night because of him!!!

Getting mail with Daddy

2008-03-15T10:58:00.002-05:00

He had so much fun riding on the trike just a short walk to the mailbox.... Daddy, what are you thinking putting a pink hat on him ? He IS a boy!

Let's bang on the table together!!!!

2008-02-24T15:08:00.000-05:00

Peek a Boo, Mommy!!!!

2008-02-24T09:07:00.000-05:00

I am one year old.

2008-02-23T13:15:00.002-05:00

Climb up the stairs

2008-02-21T22:01:00.000-05:00

Every time going to bed, he didn't want to be carried up, he jumped down and crawled up all by himself, but usually he kept continuing going to another step up to mommy and daddy's room...... No, Aidan... come back here and go to your room!
Life has been so busy that I should have taking pictures since he started a while back, but I have to have someone watching him from down, so this time, Daddy was home and follow him up while I took pictures.

After the bath

2008-02-21T20:56:00.000-05:00

After bath, still in hamper, I carried him down the kitchen to return the empty hamper. Still love it.

Life in the hamper

2008-02-21T20:54:00.000-05:00

So many laundry to do, I carried Aidan around and around, up and down the stairs, inside the hamper, he loved it so much. I just can't trust him to be all by himself without my supervision since he always crawls to the stairs and in a minute I would find him already halfway upstairs. That's my boy finally got ready to take a bath. 2007-02-21

Healthy and happy feet

2008-02-21T09:23:00.000-05:00

Loves this tent

2008-02-21T09:21:00.000-05:00

I don't usually let Aidan plays only with pampers on, but he just made a big mess so I decided to let him play then bath him after.... he enjoyed every minute of playing with his big sister's tent while the owner was at school.

Opening the presents

2008-02-20T21:18:00.000-05:00

It's Aidan's real birthday today. Nadia is helping Aidan opening the presents we got from Saturday's party after school. He loves all the presents. Thank you, everyone!

New hat

2008-02-20T21:16:00.000-05:00

Thank you, Miss Sue for knitting the hat. I love it so much!

Laugh happily

2008-02-20T21:15:00.000-05:00

I asked Nadia to help out with Aidan's walking. Aidan LOVES to be held by Nadia...... That was really a great birthday gift for this Little Birthday Boy.

Real birthday at school

2008-02-20T10:29:00.000-05:00

The minute he saw me, he started crying asking me to get him... but he managed to walk around the months in circle time one time, meaning he is 1 year old. I had to make another cake for the school, the kids love the cake, especially the boys! Aidan seldom cries, so I took this opportunity to take pictures of him crying......

The real birthday

2008-02-20T09:22:00.003-05:00

My baby grows big, graduated to become a toddler. He is a giggly boy, happy go lucky, loves people, extrovert, independent, and a very busy busy body.

I made another cake for him to be brought to school, they are celebrating his birthday at school. What a boy! He smiled and waved bye bye to me from his car seat on the way to school.

I have never thought that I would love anyone else, but the boy really stole my heart. He made me a complete woman. He and his sister, they are the jewels in my heart. I pray to God that they will be very good children, successful, smart, friendly, and down to earth, of course, family values.

Happy birthday, my little knight

2008-02-20T09:13:00.004-05:00

Teddy bears and seas of blue
Smiling in honor of you
An infant, not long ago
Now, one candle is a glow
You are growing up so fast
How quickly a year has passed
You are special, sweet, and wise
A present before our eyes.

For a year, I’ve watched you shine
An angel I can call mine
Sent from Heaven, just for me
Filled with hope and dignity
A blessing, now and always
You brighten all of my days
Precious child, I love you so
More than anyone could know.

Baby’s breath and sun-filled skies
Ladybugs and lullabies
Starry nights and bright moonbeams
Tender hearts and lasting dreams
Each, a gift within your view
During this time, made for you
May only good things come your way
On this, your very first birthday.

Happy sick boy

2008-02-19T09:40:00.000-05:00

Aidan got really runny nose yesterday and today. He plays so happily and he looks so cute with those 2 tomato cheeks, he always have this burning red colored cheeks when he is sick but I really enjoyed watching his cute face when he is sick, despite of worrying about him, though.

Aidan's First Birthday Party

2008-02-16T23:11:00.003-05:00

Great guests, awesome food, kids friendly drinks, DRAGON cake (Aidan also means fire, but his name means Heaven in Arabic), Nice weather (sunny, so we could open up the sunroom), great activities.

We really had a wonderful time with all our closest dearest friends and their families. We missed one invitee, Miss Mehar and her family.

This is my first time making a cake myself, it came out wonderful and everyone loves the cake. At first, Ammar thought that I would not be able to make it, but it turned out fantastic.

I also prepared every thing by myself, everything is made from scratch, including the bread and pizza dough. I got help from Lisa decorating the basements and filling out goody bags, filling the rice in the "Tumpeng" home made mold (I made this traditional Indonesian 'Tumpeng', means blessing food for any celebration). Because I don't have the tumpeng mold, I just have to be so creative making the mold my self. I also delegated the chicken and the 'kering tempe' (tempeh, peanuts and anchovy dish) to my wonderful friend, Dewi, while I made the rest of the food. Ammar had to go to work until one hour before the party, so he managed to make the vegetable dips.

The food was :

1. Tumpeng yellow rice with all the additions : Chicken, Beef curry, shrimp crackers, marble eggs (telur pindang), kering tempe, etc.

2. Miniature hot dog buns.

3. Caterpillar child's personal pizza

4. Vegetable dips

5. Fruits

6. Sinken boat drink (ginger ale mixed with the whole sorbet cake)

7. Dragon's Fire Cake

I consider the party a success since all the food are done..... especially the kids food.

I also made the tradition of the 1st birthday, having his picture put in a framed mat, and asked people to sign and give their messages to Aidan. I did it to Nadia and I loved it so much that I did it again for Aidan.

God Bless you, Aidan, God bless our family and friends.

I love you so much, big guy!

Yummy cake

2008-02-16T21:28:00.000-05:00

The decorations...

2008-02-16T21:26:00.000-05:00

I don't have pictures of the basement, too. Lisa decorated it. Thanks Lisa

Aidan's birthday food

2008-02-16T21:25:00.001-05:00

Home made from scratch : miniature hotdogs

Caterpillar pizza : Home made from scratch with 2 sauces, marinara and pesto.

Home made Dragon Cake

Just plain old fruit, nothing special

Sinken boat bubble water

Home made Tumpeng dish... are you proud of me, Mom ? Once you become a Mommy, you can do the unexpected marvel!

Another shot

2008-01-18T11:10:00.000-05:00

Aidan had to get another flu shot for the second time as a booster. We went to his doctor, she checked on his ears, too, which the last time still had fluid in the left ear. The ear infection was completely healed.

Aidan got a shot, he didn't even feel or cry. I was so proud of him.

At a few days shy from 11 month old, he already can says some words :

Dada/Baba... recently : DADDY

Nana ..... for Nadia

Mama... for eating

Mamma.... for mommy

Goca..... for gotcha

ba baa..... wants something you hold

Those are really meaningful words which he constantly use for those particular meanings.

Another thing :

1. Whenever he sees someone is leaving the house, when we approached to the garage, he would shake his hand (left hand) mostly so hard, and said : " ba baba." (bye bye)

2. He will throw a kiss bye....

3. After giving milk in the morning, he sometimes comes to you and give a real kiss on the lips and smack it up making a real kiss sound.. it can get wet sometimes.

3. He is still drooling, I saw a bulge of the left lateral incisor on the bottom, coming up soon.

4. When he is sick, he doesn't eat or drink.... but only a day, the next day, he will be on the full speed again, except for milk

5. As long as you are around, he will be happy. If you go.. he will complain and call you to come back.

6. He understand that certain things (like the palm trees, my mom's huge flower arangements) cannot be touch, and he never touched it anymore.

7. When Daddy comes home from work, he will crawl from the living room to get him at full speed and drool line will follow on the wood floor (haha), and Daddy has to carry him right away.

8. He can't see anyone drinking juice with ice in a glass, he wants to drink it, too.

9. He is a very strong boy, he can open or break anything... we have to keep closed contact with him.

10. He climbs on everything, the dishwasher, your body, toys, etc.

11. Never stays on one type of toys, within a minute, he will search another one, or plays dropping the stuffs around.

12. He has very nice sense of humor. Whenever we play a new game, he will follow through right away in an instant.

13. He loves people, he doesn't mind being carried by anyone, and plays with them.

14. He loves his sister so much, he will follow her around all the time... and he knows when Nadia shares her precious horse stuff animals, he laughs so much, and checking on Nadia if that's okay...

15. He has been eating lots of small stuff... that's why I have to vacuum the floor and the kitchen every single day.

16. He loves riding on the horse and moves his bumps and jumps around when he is on the horse.

17. He can drink from straw cup and sometimes grabs Nadia's juice in the car and drink it all with no mercy (of Course, Nadia complains)

18. He only drink milk from the bottle, if I put juice in it, he won't drink it, so he drinks from straw or straight from the glass.

19. He can climb up the stairs. (that's what I am not looking forward)

20. He loves following Nadia to the bathroom..... oh no.

Squirmy little boy

2007-12-30T16:28:00.000-05:00

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!

2007-12-24T15:04:00.001-05:00

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

2007-12-20T23:30:00.000-05:00

Happy 10 months birthday, Aidan

2007-12-20T12:56:00.000-05:00

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

2007-12-12T09:17:00.000-05:00

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)

2007-12-01T06:43:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-25T11:18:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-24T09:11:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-22T00:22:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-15T13:32:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-15T13:24:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-15T13:22:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-15T13:20:00.000-05:00

Sprouting first teeth

2007-11-15T13:17:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-15T00:30:00.001-05:00

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!

2007-11-15T00:27:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-06T23:27:00.000-05:00

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

2007-10-31T20:13:00.000-05:00

Turned 8 months old.

2007-10-20T08:43:00.000-05:00

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

2007-10-19T21:42:00.001-05:00

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

Looking up at the Hyatt

2007-10-16T11:03:00.000-05:00

Visiting

2007-10-16T11:02:00.000-05:00

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!

2007-10-16T10:57:00.000-05:00

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

At Debbie's

2007-10-16T10:56:00.000-05:00

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.

Eid Mubarak

2007-10-11T13:52:00.000-05:00

A happy camper

2007-10-05T18:29:00.000-05:00

Raspberry

2007-10-05T18:23:00.000-05:00

Aidan loves to blow raspberry. The way he blows raspberry is so different than how Nadia did at his age. He is more manly.
Do you see the dimples ? The 3 of them (Ammar, Nadia and Aidan) have the same dimples, exactly the same.

Wow!!! I am falling down... safe my hay.. it tasted so good!

2007-09-27T15:03:00.000-05:00

Morning time

2007-09-25T10:03:00.000-05:00

I am going to 'eat' you, too Nadia

2007-09-25T05:58:00.001-05:00

Now with Mickey!

2007-09-20T16:07:00.000-05:00

He had so much fun, bullying Mickey.

A wrestler

2007-09-20T16:05:00.000-05:00

Did I just mention in the blog that Aidan is so physical ? He proved it today that he is a wrestler. He didn't let the bear alone, he wrestled with him gleefully.

Series of swimming motion

2007-09-20T16:03:00.000-05:00

The funny guy turned 7 months old today.

2007-09-20T08:58:00.000-05:00

More pics for being Mommy's model

2007-09-20T05:44:00.000-05:00

So many cute pictures, I could only put so much. The guy is a wrestler, unlike his sister at his age, we had a cute picture of Nadia and the bear, she didn't even touch it.... this guy ? haha... he wrestled with it and had fun!!!!

Playing together

2007-09-17T21:48:00.000-05:00

It's fun to play with my sister, the princess!

6 mos old and going strong.

2007-09-10T14:59:00.000-05:00

Aidan got a 6 mos check up, accompanied by me and Nadia. He is doing very well. He could stand up easily with support/hold on something. He eats like a pro. Today, he ate baby cookies.

He lost some weight significantly from the traveling, went down like 2 lbs. Surprise.. surprise.
He is a pretty tall baby boy, about 85th percentile in height (he is 28 inches long) and went down from 70th percentile to 40th percentile only (weighs 18 lbs). His pediatrician was not worry at all, he grows perfectly.

He got 3 types of vaccines, 2 shots and 1 oral. He cried so much for 10 seconds ... then the minute I hold him, he was fine. We went out happily, no crying baby. I am so proud of him. I am so proud of Nadia, too. She held his hand during the shots.

Loved the car

2007-09-09T15:52:00.000-05:00

Aidan is driving!!!

Domino's Farm

2007-09-08T13:01:00.000-05:00

Amazingly, Aidan is so strong, he could hold on the fence for a good 10 minutes, and he was still hold on when we took him .... he is just 6 month old, and he will be wrestling soon.