Baby Jail

TGIF! Friday means daddy doesn't have to go to sleep early and we get to play a lot for the next few days. He's my new favorite obsession right now. He's always been around, but I just recently realized how cool and fun he is! I've even been turning to cuddle him and wake him up instead of mommy in bed.

Speaking of bed, since I had the tummy flu I've been sleeping in mommy and daddy's bed (with my Boppy, and not on the edge...no rolling off or being rolled on top of), and have decided that I'm not leaving. Mommy was up with me until 3am last night trying to get me to sleep in my own bed. I'll go for it when I first fall asleep in her arms and she puts me down in it without my knowledge, but once I wake up there I'm not having it and won't fall back asleep anywhere, not even in her arms, except the big bed. I know exactly what will happen if I do(I'm smarter than anyone realizes). So today mommy had me playing in my bed (which I call "baby jail") a lot to get me used to it again and make it somewhere I enjoy being. I do, but only to an extent.

I'll play in it for awhile.

Then I try to break out.

Then I get upset.

I don't know if you can tell but I'm crying in that picture.

Hahaha! I've got mommy so wrapped around my little finger. I was outta there within a minute of starting to cry and I'm willing to bet toys that I end up in their bed tonight! She told daddy it's a process and eventually I'll be back in my bed. Riiiight.

Well I'm off for the night. I'll be back tomorrow if I get some time after playing my little heart out with papa.

And oh yeah, just a warning to other babies out there...if your parents try to get you to watch something they "loved as a child"...just act like you're asleep. They put on some Frosty the Snowman rubbish tonight...and oh jeeze was it boring! They did the same thing to me at Halloween with Charlie Brown. I made it through about 5 minutes of each of them. Bleck! Give me Elmo or give me nothing! Elmo in Grouchland...now that's a fine film!

Old wisdom and California winter

Well, after 2 different kinds of diaper cream and a powder it seems it was nakedness and oatmeal baths that worked to clear up my diaper rash in only a day. I can't complain about the treatment either, I loved the little sitz baths every few hours, and mommy used baby oatmeal so it would dissolve in the water better and it made ever more baby soft! I also loved pooping on mom during one of my diaperless naps. :P She was holding me as I was falling asleep and felt something moving in her hand. Guess what it was? LOL!

I'm sure the warm 75-80 degree weather helped too. That's December in California folks! It gets chilly in the evening though, it was between 50-60 degrees through the night. I guess it won't be this year I see my first snow, but we got some great waves at the western facing beaches this week! Ha! Four seasons? Who needs 'em?

Mini Mitnick

I was on the computer with daddy again today. It was fun! I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm gonna get Vsmile Baby for Xmas. ;)

Little hax0r baby/code monkey.

Oh yeah, and they took away my cell phone while I'm teething because I drool too much and mommy is a big old paranoid weirdo about the battery leaking into my mouth. At least daddy still satisfies my electronics cravings with the big boy machine!

You know what's a pain in the butt?

....Diaper Rash!

Even though mommy changes my diaper neurotically, and even though she uses diaper cream with every single diaper since I was just a brand new little bugger it still got me. :(

We don't know if it was the spaghetti I ate (they say tomato based foods can cause a rash), the extra drool from my teething on top, or the new wipes (we just switched from Pampers sensitive to Pampers Swipers) but something got to my little bum and now its red and sore and it sucks.

The only good thing that has come out of this is a few extra short cool baths during the day and lots of naked playtime (I LOVE being in birthday suit!) She put oatmeal in one of my baths too, which is weird because I always thought that was to eat not sit in, but whatever, it still splashed just the same! I even got a little nude nap today.

Mommy took everything out of my pack and play, and left it with just the pad that's pretty much water (or pee) proof and a couple of cloth diapers under me and let me revel in my bareness.

So its getting a little better, tonight it looked much less than this morning, and hopefully it will be gone tomorrow. But now I'm gonna go to bed, rest is just about the best thing for any baby ailment mommy says. I just can't believe my luck lately, a cold, then a tummy flu, then a diaper rash during round two of teething. I guess its better to get it all out of the way before our Christmas trip to see Auntie Amber though, right?

The return of Aristotle

Wow...I've been gone awhile. Busy baby I am. Well, that and lazy ;P

So what have I been up to...I've been playing, crawling everywhere I shouldn't be, climbing over things, pulling up on whatever I can get my hands on, trying more table foods, saying "dada" to go with the "mama" I've had down for some time now (mommy finally believes they're real words now since I use them differently depending on where I am and who I want) and I've mastered getting on and off mommy & daddy's bed.

About a week or so ago I started on my stage 3 foods, and they have all kinds of new flavors, like broccoli and carrots and cheese (which smells like death but after a few bites I found to be very yummy) and Lasagna. I'm not always a fan at first, but in the end I gobble them down!

So after mommy saw that I could eat those little chunks without choking she stopped being so paranoid about table foods. (I've eaten my Gerber puffs for months and never choked on those, but she's been weird about other stuff). Well I got a little on Thanksgiving as I said in my last post, and I've had little bits of rice or beans or cheese, but last night I got all kinds of food at the buffet we went to. Oh yeah, btw, buffets rock! I kept eating and eating and eating until mommy and daddy made me leave! I had kidney beans and carrots and corn and green beans and ham and roast beef and mashed potatoes and candied yams and spinach marie and red jello and yellow cake with pink frosting and chocolate cake and carrot cake and hot fudge cake and lemon bar and vanilla froyo. (I was only allowed one bite of each cake though, which sucked because they were sooo good!) It was so awesome. Never ending food...it's like it's Xmas already! Weird though, I've been thinning out even though I've been eating more. I guess it's all that crawling!

And oh yeah, I stayed with a babysitter for the first time! Grandma couldn't watch me at the last minute the night of daddy's company's holiday party at Social Hollywood so I went to his friend Shaun's house and stayed with Shaun and Keelie for a few hours. We had fun. We looked at Graffiti books and ate Spaghetti. And Keelie has a little baby in her belly so we also looked at a book about that. And they have kitties too so I had new little critters to pet. Their kitties are a lot bigger than ours though, but just as nice! Mommy looked very sad when she left and attacked me with hugs and kisses when she got back. She's strange. I did miss her too though, I started getting anxious right before they got back but I held out like a big boy most of the night!

So I think that's it for now. Here are some random pics of me from the last week. Enjoy!

My square hands look weird in this one, but my face looks cute!
(They call me Spongebob "squarehands" because my little mitts are square.)

Isn't my foot just freakin' adorable?

They're delicious too, in case you were wondering.

Meat buzz
(I get this from daddy!)

See ya later!