Kadin loves real milk! On Saturday we replaced one of his 4 oz formula bottles with milk (Homo, of the 3.25% variety) and he just sucked it back like it was nobodies business. After seeing that success repeated with the rest of his bottles that day, we decided to hell with the rest of his formula!
Life just got easier by a small but significant notch as we no longer have to worry about feeding his $45 dollar/month formula habit.
Earlier today we were at the mall and put Kadin on one of those mechanical rides. Some sort of plane with Woody Wood-Pecker in the back seat. Kadin had a great time, even though he insisted on standing for the most part.
When the ride was over there was a woman with her young son and another woman who appeared to be the grandmother standing nearby. All were quite friendly, and the grandmother started a quick conversation.
Basically, her grandson was Kadin's age but weighed 18 lbs (vs Kadin's nearly 27) and looked like he didn't quite have the strength to walk. When I made a move as to put Kadin down a few feet in front of the stroller, the poor boy looked like he was about to freak out...so Kadin stayed up in Abu's arms a bit longer!
Another weekend over now, and it's well past my bed-time.
Today we took Kadin in for his 12 month Dr's appointment (he's 12 days away from the big oh-one, but close enough).
Before I get into the details, it never ceases to amaze me that our Dr can open up his diaper, "examine" him, then go on for 10 minutes talking about what a cute baby girl we have. She even went on to exclaim "He looks just like a girl!".
On my face, a smile. On the tip of my tongue and held back only by willpower and the looming threat of Tonia smacking me upside the head "Honestly, do you see many baby girls with a penis?".
But of course this is a childs website and we were at a childs doctor and so such thoughts must not be thought of. Moving right along...
Kadin did wonderful. He weighed in at 26 lbs 10 oz, 78 cm tall and 48 cm around his head. Looking at his growth chart, he is for the first time no longer "off the charts" and has fallen into the top 10 percentile.
He has also been cleared for milk, eggs etc. We figure we'll pick up some homo milk for him tomorrow and just use up the last can of formula this week. By the time he heads to Newfoundland he'll have kicked the formula habit.
Speaking of which, it's less than 2 weeks before Tonia & Kadin leave. Aaaagh.
Ok, well past my bedtime. G'night!
As Kadin is rapidly approaching his first birthday, we took him in for his first dentist visit on Saturday.
The visit reinforced something that I have always strongly suspected; we have a strangely fearless child.
No, not just fearless, but strangely fearless. Allow me to explain.
Strangers do not scare Kadin. On the contrary, he breaks out into huge smiles and frequently puts his hands out as if to touch the passing stranger. Any person who in turn gives him some attention back (and since he's so damn cute, that happens quite frequently) gets treated to the sight of Kadin pretending to be bashful and playing peekaboo on either Tonia's or my shoulder.
The vacuum cleaner does not scare him.
Our dogs, even when barking and running, do not scare him.
The church bells from the church 50 feet from our building do not scare him.
Thunder and/or lightning do not scare him.
Then why say "strangely"?
Because the cardboard drink containers from McDonalds scare him. Heh.
Ok, so back to the dentist story.
I was quite surprised as to how a childs first checkup goes. Dr. Kwok spent a good amount of time talking about how a childs teeth develop over the first few years, and how in order to make the dental experience a pleasant one, they gradually do a little bit more each visit.
Kadin's 6 teeth are all doing quite well, thank you very much. He also had a great time when Dr. Kwok gave him a toothbrush which he sucked a little, then put in my mouth. I vaguely recall a time when a spit soaked toothbrush that wasn't mine would have sent me into fits of convulsive vomiting. These days though, it earns a "Thank you, that's nice!" and not much else.
We had also scheduled a concurrent checkup for Tonia, during which Kadin started screaming (in a happy way, there were a few dental hygeniests who he still wanted to meet), so I took him out to the waiting room where he started flirting with two girls sitting there.
Oh, to celebrate Kadin slept in until 5:30 this morning! WOW!!!!
Yes indeed, go visit the gallery (link to the right or click here) for some long overdue photos!
An idea came to me this morning. Kadin will be one year in about 2.5 weeks....WOW!! Holy F!@cking WOW! I wanted him to look back on this (maybe...a big maybe) someday and see what his fav things to do were...so here goes.
Kadin's Favorite:
Book - Zoey's New Bike
Show - BooBah
Outfit - Diaper
Word (this week) - Yeah
Food - Spaghetti
Drink - Water...well formula really but I'm trying to trick him into being weaned
Toy - String..any type of string attached to anything - facinates him
Forbidden thing - remote control
Word to Hear - No...makes him laugh hysterically
Cookie - Pablum Banana
Cereal - Cheerios
Place - Mall (or mommy's arms but we are trying to be fair right Hasan?)
Time to Sleep - 7 pm
Time to Wake - 5 am
Song - Black Eyes Peas - Hey Mama (Hasan says his next word will be Fergie *sigh*)
Commercial - Bouncing red period for Kotex Tampons
Mess to Make - Vasoline in Hair
and finally...
Reason to Cry - No reason at all......
Ok Ok so it is my turn and I am somewhat late. I think I was shocked after reading www.dooce.com. I thought Hasan and I were somewhat amusing on this site and that we wrote rather well but I was shamed by the creativity of this site. If you have a chance check it out. VERY funny and well done.
Anyways yes yes the vasoline. I'm not sure if we mentioned this previously but Kadin likes to "explore" when having his diaper changed. So vasoline inevitably gets on Kadin's hands. I always make sure to wipe it off when diaper change time has ended. Hasan does not. So we spent the entire Saturday of shopping with Kadin's hair slick with the greasy substance. Im the only one who cared really....so moving on.
I titled this post brazen cause I believe my son is just that. He had spent weeks saying no to everything. As in "Kadin want lunch?" His response "No no no no no no no no..." He is just testing the word. He really was hungry......I think.
So now its yeah instead of no. Yesterday while in the tub he was trying to stand. At the very moment I am lecturing him on sitting and telling him no, Kadin is yelling directly at me "YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH..." I actually had to talk over him. I think thats brazen right?
Kadin has newly taken an interest in the books we buy him. Previously his attention span was .000000012 seconds but now he will listen and watch as you read the book. Sometimes he tries to eat the books but even that is a step in the right direction, right?
Oh and our dirty little secret....Kadin has a doll. It was a doll we bought when I was pregnant but he has taken a real liking to it. He pokes its eyes, carries it around, laughs at its jokes.....(ok that was almost as witty as www.dooce.com...wasnt it?) I actually dont mind. I think it will be beneficial if Has and I decide to have more kids. And shouldnt every little boy have a doll? I think so....seriously. Its NOT a dirty secret.....I take that back...we are PROUD...PROUD DAMMIT.
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Update from Hasan: The doll was Tonia's idea. I wanted to get him guns and Dungeons & Dragons books....
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So we called Air Canada the other day to check in on a few things. I thought it would be smart for me to have all aisle seats for our flight. Easier for me with the little guy. Done. Then we asked about the stroller and what one I was allowed. Turns out it has to be the umbrella one. Hopefully our "little" guy will fit. And THEN the chicky tells me I WONT be getting it in Montreal. WHAT? Two hours with a baby alone and no stroller are you f!@king mad lady? But she seemed to be pretty sure of herself.
I called back later and asked to speak to the smartest person they had on staff. After an hour of searching, they had me speak to a mother.
She assured me I would get my stroller if I sky check it. And I HAD to MAKE sure I said SKY CHECK when I checked in, otherwise Air Canada staff would be baffled and might send my stroller to Newf via boat. Dumb-de-dumb-dumb.... I was seconds from cancelling the trip. Idiots.
Please note this section of the post was to show how Air Canada can be so helpful and intelligent when asked the same question 4 times. Please dont sue me.
Kadin is chewing on his toy box. Gotta run.
Funny how 9 days can just kind of slide by, eh?
It's even funnier that I have sat here for about 5 minutes staring at that first sentence, hoping something funny and/or witty will come to me, which will in turn start the creative juices flowing!
Unfortunately, that isn't the case.
I mean, it's not that Kadin didn't do ANYTHING in the past week. I guess it's because every day he does something new and wonderful, that trying to summarize more than a days worth of activity is a terribly difficult undertaking.
5 more minutes..
Ok, my brain is mush right now. Something to do with getting up at 4:55 AM and trying to keep from slipping into a coma, I'm sure. Heh...speaking of which...
We had a terribly busy day today. The morning was spent at the laundromat doing 85 loads of laundry, then going around town to do a few other chores. Other than a brief stop for Kadin's lunch, we were on the go from 9 AM to about 3. By 4, I was lying face down on the floor with one arm twitching just enough to keep Kadin entertained. It was working for a surprisingly long period of time (maybe 10 minutes?). I'm sure I was asleep though, when Tonia (who was on the couch) called out "Hasan, HASAN! Kadin just threw up".
Now this story is funny/pathetic enough that you really have to focus on the visual. Kadin sitting there, happy as can be, with throw up over his chest and on the blanket in front of him. A few inches next to the throw up is yours truly, lying face down on the floor and kind of flopping his arm around.
Ok, glad I was able to share that!
So earlier this week Tonia showed me that Kadin is very happy to dance when music is playing. Somehow he mashed the home theatre remote so that whatever CD was in there started playing. Tonia started dancing for him, and then he started mimicking her moves. Essentially he bent his knees a little and kind of bounced up and down, with a HUGE grin on his face the whole time!
(Tonia would like it to be known that she was not dancing that way, so technically he was not mimicking her moves. She also had a bunch of other things to say about this subject, but I'll let her put her own damn post up!)
Sort of like how I dance, except for there being no grin and..well, I don't dance.
He also ate steak and potatoes for supper!
Ok, remember that whole mental block I wrote about? Well apparently through some mystical process of transference, Tonia is just BRIMMING with things for me to talk about! She's sitting behind me calling out "TELL THEM ABOUT THE VASOLINE IN HIS HAIR! TELL THEM ABOUT WHAT WE BOUGHT!"
So...over to you Tonia!
You know, both Tonia & I feel quite guilty for not updating this site every DAY with exactly what Kadin has been up to.
I could go on at length though with all sorts of reasons as to why we haven't. I won't. Instead, let me describe our evening last night.
Kadin went to sleep at 8:15 PM.
We went to sleep at 8:45 PM.
Hopefully that gives you an idea of how things are!
But anyways, some exciting things to talk about:
1 - Kadin stood up all on his own, without any help! It's an amazing sight. He kind of sits cross legged, with one leg under the other. He'll lean forward and just stand straight up by pushing up with his legs. No use of hands, elbows etc.
Though, he only appears able to do it when holding his ginormous Spider-Man ball in his hands. Hmm.
2 - Tonia taught Kadin to touch his nose. She called me at work explaining that she would touch her own nose while saying "NOSE". Then she would reach her finger towards his face while saying nose. He would then lean his face into her finger, only occassionaly biting it. Yes, he wouldn't just sit there waiting for her to touch his face, he'd lean his face into her finger..haha.
3 - Ok, not necessarily a NEW development, but Kadin has this plastic flute (or recorder, if you insist on being accurate) that he keeps in his mouth, not using his hands, and walks around the livingroom tooting on. Every so often he trips and pokes himself with it, cries madly, then stops and starts the process over.
Oh, one other development. Tonia & Kadin are going to Newfoundland for 3 weeks in September. Without me. That. Will. Be. Difficult. For. Me.
So today we went to Steveston. But first, we went tattoo shopping.
Tonia has it set in her head to get something like "HASAN IS THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD" written into her forehead, so after Kadin had his lunch we went to Dutchman Tattoos to check it out. Ok, so she's really going for a nice design that she fell in love with years ago.
No tattoo today, but she'll be calling them tomorrow to set up a pre-appointment where the actual design is fleshed out before the actual appointment with the artist.
So after that, we headed over to the Steveston docks. It's just a beautiful place, and Kadin had a great time hitting on all the ladies in this little Irish gift store. And in this art store. And on the street. And in the parking lot. See a theme here?
It was very hot today.
Tonia doesn't like the heat.
It was very crowded there.
Tonia doesn't like crowds either.
Hasan thought he was being very funny all the time.
Tonia doesn't always find Hasan as funny as he thinks he is.
Maybe I'll get my fish and chips another day....