has been a busy one! he's going to be nine months old next week and i can't believe how fast time goes by and how fast he's growing and learning new things.
our trip to costa rica and the us was amazing. he did so much better than i could have expected... i was really nervous about flying with him but every flight was great and at least one person (specially flight attendants) in each flight commented on how well behaved he was. one of them said that in his 10 years as a flight attendant he had never seen a baby so quiet and content as kian... i was so proud of him! he only had a hard time on a bus ride (7 hours from paso canoas to san jose) but it was probably because he had a cold and a bad cough. he was also great meeting new people and being around a lot of new faces... i wish he could remember this trip in the future, but at least we'll have the pictures and we can tell him about the first time he went to the beach, the first he got in a swimming pool, the first time he met aunts, uncles, and cousins and how much love he received from everyone.
as soon as we got back his first tooth came out and i was so thankful that it waited till we got here to come out cause poor baby was in pain. the second tooth came out after a few days so now he has two bottom teeth... they look so cute.
he's been eating a lot! especially after his 8 month check up when the doctor told us to give him more food. he's weight is fine (10 kg.) but he was definitely ready for more solids. his schedule (most days) go something like this: wakes up around 6:30 am (when paul wakes up) nurses a little and goes back to sleep, gets up around 7:30-8 has breakfast (fruit, cereal or yogurt), plays for a while, snack around 10 (fruit), nurse and short nap, lunch around 1, play some more, another nursing session and nap around 4, dinner around 6:30, bath, nursing and bed time around 9:30. he got used to sleeping next to me during the trip and waking up in the middle of the night to have some milk so now we're working on getting used to going the whole night with no milk like he used to do before the trip... so far it's been 3 days of sleeping through the night with no interruptions... although this morning he woke up at 5 am. :s
these past few days he's really started moving around a lot. he kind of crawls... he still can't get his tummy off the ground yet but he can definitely go from one place to another. paul put a big carpet on the living room where we put some toys for kian to play with... until today he would stay on the carpet... today he started going from one side to the other and realized the floor is more slippery than the carpet so he likes that better...
what else? so far (or as far as i remember) he's eaten fruits (apple, banana, pear, guayaba, papaya, melon, tangerine, mango), veggies (squash, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, spinach), cereals (rice cereal and cereal puffs) and lentils, and yogurt.
while i was in california i got a baby book and i'm proud to say i already filled it up. it was a little hard going through thousands of pictures and picking favorites but it was a lot of fun going back and seeing how little kian used to be and how much he's changed in just 8 months.
sometimes i can't believe how much love i have for this little guy and it makes me a little nervous thinking about (sometime in the future) having another one... would i love them just the same? how can so much love be possible?? but i'm sure that just as our hearts grew a little bigger to make room for kian when he was born, they'll grow a little more for the next one too. right? sounds good to me.
ok...time to go to bed!
