Sleep

Nowadays it seems that sleep, my sleep, is the greatest issue of the family!

I simply do not like to sleep, because i do not want to miss a second of life by closing my eyes.

that's why i resist closing them, to the point that I can't help it any more!

I am Back

I am home again. We went to Iran, my homeland, for our new year eve and there we visited lots of people. I didn't know that I have so many relatives. It seems that they all knew me well, but i just remembered a few!
Anyway it as quite fun. And I gained new habits as well.

First of all the day that we got there I felt I don't like my pacifier anymore and decided to quit sucking it like a little baby! Because since I have my 6 teeth, 2 down and 4 up, I don't feel being a baby any more!

My mom tried a lot to force me reuse it. but I never change my ideas, specially when there is no logic behind the change!
Just there was a little problem after that: I didn't know how to put myself to sleep without a dummy! For a few days walking in my stroller in the yard worked, but later I found better ways, like going out in the car!
So each time that i had to sleep 2 people should be ready to take me out and this duty repeated 3 times a day! Let me tell you a secret, In some of these trips I decided not to sleep and enjoy the ride awake. Because there were no car seats there and I could sit on some one's lap and of course stand up and watch outside and walk in the car and pull the driver's hair and...
Isn't that fun enough not to sleep???

Let aside the good weather of Tehran, nice spring trees and flowers and no traffic jams.
And more important than all, were people who loved me so much and did anything to make me happy.
It is really great to have grandparents and aunts and uncles!

Soon I will send you pictures and will tell you more about my experiences.
I am so busy now and should go!

Park

Yesterday was Friday and like other Fridays we went to park. It was sunny and we had such a nice time. I had my walker with me and had a big tour round the park in that. I ran after all the boys and girls there. And can you see something?
For the first time ever I had real shoes on. It was a bit difficult to walk in shoes, but it was a new experience and I am sure soon I will get master in that. Even for the first time I could run as fast as all the other babies there!

Daddy tried a lot to take a photo with me, but i was in such a hurry to discover all the park that had no time to waste taking photos!
In the photo that my arms are in the air I was clapping and saying tish tish tish... It was really fun!

And the day before yesterday mom and I had a walk by the sea in Sharjah. That was also very nice, I felt i was riding my stroller and pushed it when mom stopped.
We decided to do it more.

And something else: I brush my teeth and I want you to see me when brushing. It really feels good an my gum enjoy the long massage that I give them. I usually don't want to give the tooth brush back to mummy and like to continue doing that for hours.
I think I will have healthy teeth!

news update!

Me in hats!










Me in pyjamas!

Long time no see? you are right! I was sick again and this time I caught it from my mom and it was a bad flu. I couldn't sleep well for 2 nights and I had difficulty breathing specially while sleeping. Anyway! No I am much better and for 2 nights I had a sound sleep.

Yesterday though I was much better I went to see my doctor. It was fun, I love him. He is so friendly and always says I am a good healthy boy with good growth and development as in texts! He believes having a mom doctor makes a child be like the one in medical text books!

After the doctor, mom and I went out together and had lunch in a restaurant. It was the first time that the 2 of us were eating out together and we both enjoyed it.

We have to do it often. Boys and moms need some quality time together, don't they?

2nd of march was mother's day and I got 2 white roses for mommy. She loved them so much. It was her first mother's day and meant a lot to her. When is the son's day by the way? I guess everyday!

Do you know that I can blink now? Wow! That's really cool. I blink and the clap for myself, these are both the new arts that I have learnt.

Here is my picture while blinking!

They say that girls love it!

I can also say some words now! DaDaDa Da is the old one and I still enjoy saying that. I can even say that in silent mood! and that's the best way to make me distracted from other things, as when i start saying DADADA I forget all the problems!

Now I also say MAMAMA and BA

BABA But usually say them when I want something or am not so happy!

I told you that I can hold anything and stand up! look:

These picture are not very new! Now I am much progressed and can even walk a few steps while I hold my bed borders. I even tried to cross the bed and reach the other side, but it is too far!

I have to try more!

Bomb of Energy!

I am a bomb of energy, my mom says and my dad admits! what does it mean? Just because I prefer to stay awake all day and run in my walker or crawl around the house, they call me so!

Believe me! there are so many things to explore, I don't have extra time to sleep during the day. And I do sleep well at night now, though if I could I wouldn't. But it seems impossible to use all the time we have efficiently!

Today I am 9 months and 2 days old.... young... and I am trying to learn doing something new to highlight my 9 months age. Actually this month I have decided to stand up. Now I can do that with the help of something that I can grab and It is really pleasant to look around in standing position. So I don't loose any chance to try and get up. Whether it is my bed side, or my mom's legs or the table or cushions or..... That's really fun.

My dears! Something is going wrong with my blog!

The new pictures are not shown!!!!

You have to wait till the blogger gets well! I think seeing the pictures it has gone depressed too! And decided not to work!

See you soon!

Hair Cut

Sometimes when the life gets boring, or you feel sad and depressed, it is good to make a change in your look!
Yesterday I did it!
Maman Shoori and Khaleh Shokoofeh left us yesterday and I really miss them. Home suddenly got so silent and depressing. No talks, no laughs, no hugs, no kisses, no plays..... Poor mom, she tried to compensate for all, but nobody can replace the other! Each person has her or his own way of loving and for me anybody has her or his own value and fun.
Anyway! I tried to behave like a gentleman and don't make mom more depressed, as I understood that she was no less than me missing them! But inside I felt the gap and emptiness.

Daddy understood this well! So in the evening, while my mom went to her french class, daddy took me to a real men's and boy's hair dresser. It was my first real haircut experience! At the beginning I liked the environment and the little eyed barber, so i sat gently where they showed me and they started doing something with my head! but after a few minutes it got too long and I needed to move and play, but they wanted to keep me there by force. imagine the rest!

Anyway! after a few minutes I looked up in the mirror and sow a new boy there! Who was it? what happend to my old me? He looked more like a boy, and actually a naughty boy! Am I this?

Here are my pictures before and after the haircut and when mommy came home finding me in the new look! but she recognized me and hugged me and pressed me so much that i decided the

new look suits me well!

This is me before going!

And this is me after the cut!

And this is when my mom found me in my new look!

How do I look? What do you think?

Maybe I'd better hide my head under a cap like the soldiers do!

Now I feel a little bit better!

But I still miss them so much!

You know! I wad really used to be with maman Shoori and Khaleh Shokkofeh all the time and we had lots of fun together.

Do you want to see some pictures?

Here are some memories of the old nice days!

MISS THEM SO MUCH!

Too busy!

I am reaaly busy these days! I have my maman shoori and Khaleh Shokoofeh to play with me, take me out and out and out and again out!
You know what? I am bored with home and I'd love to go out all the time. Now I know every corner of this apartement and there in not any where new to explore. Even I know all the people in here and would like to see new faces, hear new voices and play with new people!
And as they don't understand my language i have to scream a lot!

Then as soon as everybody gets ready to go out I get silent and happy. I don't know how again the next time that i scream they all ask me what is wrong with me and why I scream????? They really can't understand the simple fact that i need to go out and their home and their plays have become boring to me?

To be honest, Maman Shoori understands me better. Sometimes when all the others are too lazy to move, she takes me out in my stroller or holds me and takes me where ever I want. That's why I adore her and rather be with her all the time.
In the morning since I open my eyes I wait to see her and jump to her arms. there is really safe and goes as i wish!

Other news!
I love bread. That's really delicious and fun to my teeth and lounge! specially the iranian bread Sangak, is my favorite. Khaleh Shokkofeh brought me some, but though I didn't have much it seems to be finished! Now they give me Barbari! that's not bad but i prefer the rubber sangak!

She has also brought me Sweet lemon and that is my other favorite snack. Mom cuts it into 4 pieces and I along with all my cloths and chair and every where around me, eat it and enjoy the mess! It is funny! such a delicious fruit is found only in Iran!!!
Actually I think oranges are as delicios, but mom doesn't give me! What are allergies by the way? a good excuse not to give me lots of things!

By the way my dears! I never forget you! and as soon as i find minutes to come to my blog i write my story. Just understand me! I can't do that when I am out and I'd like to be out all the time!

Cold

I have caught cold! I have runny nose, I cough and I don't like to sleep at night!

Should a sick a baby sleep all night? I don't think so! I rather sit up, turn on the lights and play, and I even rather go round the house with mommy, and she doesn't seem to share the same likes! So I cry, because when my face is full of tears she does whatever I want and then I smile. But strangely this smile doesn't make her happy to continue the night tour round the house, instead she brings me back to the bedroom!!!! and I cry again!!!!!!

This is what I did last night from 1 to 3:30. Sometime in between daddy said something about work and tomorrow morning and left the room, I don't know why! But then I had enough space on my mom's bed to play! and finally as she looked really really sleepy and tired I decided to calm down ans sleep there for a few hours till early morning that I woke up again and Maman Shoori helped me get out of that room and play and scream freely in the house!

What is your idea? Do you think that would be a good fun to that tonight as well? I have to think and decide about it!

By the way, Khaleh Shokkofeh! Don't worry about my bed. They bring up the fence at night! So I can't even see over it and bite it! No way to come out! you will see! And I am looking forward to see you soon here!

And khaleh Elena. I really do think about you and my site all the day. Just I think 24 hours is too short to do so many things that I have to do and discover!

I love you

My dears, Khaleh Arezoo, Khaleh Shokoofeh, Khaleh Elena and all the others who read me and love me, I love you too and miss you a lot here.
I don't know if there would ever be a time when I can have all those I love around me and close. Is it ever possible? Why each of us are in a different continent or country? I really can't see the reason of all this distance! It doesn't matter to me where, what I want is to have lots of close and lovely people around me, with whom I can play and chat and laugh. It is really great pleasure to have more and more people around! If you know why usually I have only my parents and nobody else please tell me!
Anyway! Now Babai Ali is gone back to Iran again, thanks god I still have my Maman shoori 24-7 and I have heard rumors that my dear aunti Shokoofeh is coming too.Hoorrrraaahhhhhhh! I really need that!
And news of my progress: I can hold my milk bottle independently now. I didn't think that independence is so satisfying and fun, I could have done that earlier!
I can also sit up from lying position with holding something. Yesterday I was in my stroller and I suddenly got curious to know what is below me, so I sat up and bent down and while my head was dragging the rest of my body down my mom caught me on the air! I think she decided to fasten my belts after that! I have no more view of the down side!
And something else: How do you eat fish? I honestly tried, but couldn't! Either it is really disgusting or my mom didn't know how to make it! It was awful! even my dad couldn't taste a drop of that! poor me ate a couple of spoons as i had never rejected a food! but this one is an exception i guess! At least boiled salmon with rice and parsley is not a good recipe at all!

Long Absence?

Sorry for not being here so long! I know you checked my site every minute to see the updates, but I was really busy! And with good reasons!

My grand parents are here, wow! And you can't imagine how much fun we have. Life has changed nicely to my favour!

In the morning as I open my eyes, maman shoori comes over and the play starts, and continuuuuuuuuuuuuuuues till my mom puts me to bed forcefully sometime at midnight or so! And I really can't understand why I should go to bed while Maman Shoori, Babai Ali and me are all ready to go on playing! This Mom sholeh!!! God knows what she thinks! She can't understand how much I learn while playing!

Last night when I came back from bed to play, I learned how to drop chocolates in a bowl and of course everywhere else. But even my mom was excited how fast I learned dropping them where i wanted.

The first day that they arrived I was so excited and happy that I learned a new gesture:

The other thing that I have learned recently is tapping on the table, as babai Ali does it. He plays some sort of music with his fingers on the floor and i do the same! He taps more and so do I. You know how! I can count and then repeat the same number of hits! Who says children can't count???

Last night we went to a restaurant and there I sat at the table along with everybody else. I studied the menu for a long time and chose my dish. But instead of the Delicious pasta, they gave me a bottle of milk! So I started hitting the table which was really fun, as the cutlery trembled and made a lovely noise all the time.

There are so many things that I would like to tell you I don't know how!

An important one is the Broccoli one! I had heard that it is bitter or children usually don't like it or such things. But that's all fake information

Here I announce to all that, broccoli is one of the most delicious foods and one can eat a jar in 2 minutes and cry for more!

Regarding the food i have made great progress! Now I eat lots of vegetables, chicken, beef and egg yolk and I love all! Just they say there is something called fish that with unknown reasons i have not tried yet. My mom says it could be allergic to me, but I feel there are more important reasons behind that!

And the last but not the least for tonight is the weather report! It is really clod and pleasant here, we had rain yesterday and today. I don't like it because we couldn't go to park and play. But after that it was so clear that we could see Iran through the gulf and it smelled like new year eve (Norooz) in Tehran! So this Norooz I know what kind of weather to expect when we go to Tehran!

Forward Gear!

I did it!
It was centuries, since I was 2 _ 3 months old, that all my tries to move ended in backward movement or circling around. It was not bad, since I could have different views and access to things in different locations around me! But when I wanted to reach something ahead, it was terrible! The more I tried I got farther and farther! Just imagine how disappointing and frustrating it is!
But yesterday for the first time in history i broke the boundaries and moved forward. I was in the park on a mat and could reach the next mat and then the grass and....
Wow!! Now there is no limit to my movements and I can reach whatever i need, no matter where it is!
Even i can climb the cushions and pillows and get access to the summits!!!
I am so proud of me! and so excited!

3 January 2008

It is not fair! I don't see my dad enough and I miss him!
Most of the days when i wake up he is there, but suddenly disappears and does not appear till very late! But now i can roughly guess when he comes back! It is usually the time that I am having my afternoon fruit. There sitting in my high-chair, I hear the Ding of the lifts door opening and I know one of them should be my daddy. Usually I have to turn to the door 10 times or more with each Ding till at last once that ding is followed with a strange noise and suddenly the door opens and I see daddy coming in! Hoorraaaaahhh!!!!!! All my face becomes a big smile!
He claims he loves me a lot! But I don't know why he in never there to show my a lot means what!
I need more people around me, specially people who love me!

1 Jan 2008-New Years Day 2008 In Jumeira Beach Park

Thank you everybody!
You can't imagine how much smile and happiness you brought to my face by your comments.
It really feels great being so popular.
Sorry for not being here yesterday, I was so busy and when I got home I had already fallen asleep, so.....
We went to a beach park called Jumeira beach park yesterday. The weather was great, sunny but not hot. So I could wander about in my vest which felt really free. My mom seemed not to care much what i did there, so i had the chance to crawl in my circling way on the mats and sometimes even entering the grass, wow! that green thing was really delicious! I also managed to find some tiny creatures moving and carrying around pieces of bread, so lovely they were, but just before i could try the taste mom appeared and you can imagine what happened next! i was moved inside my carrier! But even that was ok, since there were lots of kids playing around me and making strange noises that i tried to understand but couldn't!

Once mom tried to take me close to the sea, but did not succeed, because my stroller did not move in the sand and we got stuck there, so she hold me and tried to show me the sea from distance, To be honest I didn't feel anything special!
But when later she took me for a walk round the park i could relax and after a few minutes fell asleep to be awake after 1 hour with hunger and thirst! So I was fed and then they decided to finish the picnic and go shopping!
There was fine too, As usual they bough stuff for me like 2 trousers from Next and some spoons that change colour by heat; i love the spoons. They also bought me a CD from Mozart for relaxation for babies; I listened to that today, seems nice!
It was far after my sleeping time when we got home and i fell in deep sleep in the car. I love sleeping in my car seat in the car.
When we got home i tried to wake up, but was too tired for that. but at 4 in the morning i managed to wake up at last! I really can't understand why anytime that I wake up , my mom tries to put me back to sleep!!!!!!!!

Anyway! Today seems to be a more restful day! That's what i don't enjoy much! You know what i did a few minutes ago? while i was in my walker and my mom busy with her computer, i left the room and called her from the other room! and when she took me back to the room i closed the door, so she couldn't smell her their soup being burnt! Fortunately my soup was made earlier and i had a delicious lunch which was not smoky! You know what it was? Carrot, potato, chicken turkey and parsly! yummy.

OK my loves! I think I made up for the missing day! didn't i? Please do keep on putting notes for me! I love them.