Ninjababy had a busy fall. He celebrated his birthday with Uncle Paul, Aunt Megan, and cousins "AC" and "JC":

And AC tries to read him a book:



The next day it was time to play in the leaves:

Halloween brought a little jack o lantern into our house. Instead of coming up with a catchy title to the picture below, I want to see what you are faithful readers have.

A)


Just another shot,

Costume courtesy of Nana who made the costume 20 years ago for Aunt Sarah. Wow I didn't realize it was that old until now.

(To the tune of "I Sing The Body Electric" from the Fame (1980) movie soundtrack.)

I sing to my Ninja Baby,
The one with all that brown curly hair.
He has about thirty-eight teeth,
and that was before he turned a year.

He loves him some Mommy,
and makes his Dad laugh.
He plays with his penis,
when he takes a bath.
And in time, and in time,
He will be a teenager and that won't be as funny or as appropriate to sing about.

(Okay, so the tune falls apart in the last line... sue me!)

Happy Birthday Ninja Baby!

Love, Daddy

Happy Birthday Ninja Baby!

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The past year has been full of changes, and we can't wait to see what the next year brings!

Before September is gone, I thought it would be best to update you on some of the recent travels.
Labour day weekend too us west to Michigan, where Ninja Baby got to play with Toddler Jeneric and the recently promoted Toddler Wily.
Watching Toddler Wily toddle around enabled NB to be more interested in walking then he was before the visit.


TJ and TW took us to the local aquatic center where NB was unsure about the water. Once he realized that if he crawled in the right direction, there was dry land there was no stopping him. Not content to sit in the water he made a bee line for the shore each time he was set down.



The following weekend took us in to Toronto to visit Aunt Jen and Uncle N'gai, where a roof top BBQ was enjoyed by all.

As the summer has progressed NB has learned to ride a horse, okay it is of the wooden variety but he does enjoy it





Feet were compared between Keeper and NB



And we said goodbye to Aunt Sarah before she left for Krakow
And that brings us to September

After arriving back from Saskatoon, we went to a company picnic. Now when you get that many engineer type people together it should be no surprise that a giant slingshot comes out. The ammo - water balloons

NB however was a little jaded,
either that or just worn out from the excitement.

It is hard to believe that summer is almost gone, and although we here at Ninja Baby Adventures have been busy we have been laxed at writing blog posts. I will however try and remedy that.
The begining of August brough NB first flight, as we travelled westward to Saskatoon to visit Grandma and Grandpa, and saw Great Grandparents too.

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Since the weather was beautiful, there was lots of walks along the river,

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and some water play

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and playing with a classic toy.

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Number One Mom and the Ninja Baby are going away for the next few days visiting Grandmom out west. Dad spent much of yesterday chronicling NB's activities, because:

1) He's gonna miss his family, and
2) He's a maudlin SOB.

So here are some pics:

1) NB waking up in the morning.

Looks happy doesn't he. Not much else to say here.

2) We decide to go for an early morning Geocache/hike in our little "Master-Blaster" carry-all.


3) Mom and Dad spend three quarters of an hour tramping around in a local park before we realize we got the wrong coordinates on our GPS. Meanwhile NB takes a nap, clearly demonstrating better thinking compared to his 'rents.


4) We go home. NB wakes and tries on a pair of knitted denim pants, made by Aunt Sarah.


The reason for that look: Within 5 minutes of wearing his brand new pants, NB has pooped his diapers.

5) Bedtime.


Funny enough, when Dad was a baby, he too slept with his butt in the air.

....
or what we have been doing for the past month.

As many of you guessed Ninja Baby was indeed crawling before Father's Day, and he is now an expert at it. The day before Father's Day, (Fathers Day eve if you like), we had a cowboy birthday party for my Dad at the cottage. The day started off rainy but the sun came out for the party and NB enjoyed being a little cowboy and crawling around

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The end of June took us visiting and a vacation to the Jersey Shore.


The beach was not to NB's liking - the sand was too hot and the water was too cold.

He did enjoy walking the board walk and geocaching with Mom and Dad.


While on vacation he perfected going from crawling to sitting as well as pulling himself up. This I believe is his real motivation to crawl is just to get places where he can stand and cruise around the furniture.

Even though the summer has been cool corn on the cob is in season, and we had some delicious local stuff for dinner tonight. As I was cutting more off the cob for NB, he let me know that he wanted the cob (Mr. Independent, and I want to be like you). So I thought why not let him try, he will probably quickly tire of the cob. Boy was I wrong.

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Ninja Baby isn't crawling... Yet. He however, is moving around. You can set him down and turn your back and given a moment or two he will be in a different place then where you set him down. He does most of his moving while you are not looking at him, and definitely not when the camera is on.
It has been a while since we have had a poll on this blog (I also haven't written a blog in a while) so this is a good time to have a new poll on when NB will be crawling. Now to help out our readers, during today's nap times (and he didn't nap well today) I put together the following video.

Today, Number One Mom enjoyed a rare day off from parenting duties. She and Auntie Sarah went to a day long knitting seminar while Number One Dad stayed home with both Ninja Baby and Keeper. Mom was nice enough to leave a written outline of NB's playing, eating and napping routine, and Dad was thankful for the reference.



NB enjoyed a breakfast consisting of a mixture of baby cereal and pureed carrots, which he wolfed down in quick order. Ditto for lunch of avocado and baby formula. He was packing it away.

In between play times and during nap times Dad was able to:

• Clean the kitchen and dining room
• Sort the living room
• Prep the new rock garden bed
• Beat two major bosses in Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
• Watch the commentary for the deluxe edition of L.A. Confidential
• Move NB's Evenflow Play Center up one level to account for baby growth
• Launder NB's vast loads of dirty diapers

Not to brag, but I am pretty good at this whole parenting thing.

A word about diapers. Now that NB is eating solid food the resulting poop turds are literally scaring the heck out of me. Seriously, my adrenaline levels spike at the thought of changing one of the kid's hot, loaded diapers, similar to what Kamikaze pilots must have felt during the Battle of Midway.

It's a bit shameful to admit, but I put it out there 'cause I want to hear from other moms and dads. Do/Did you feel the same way about poopy diapers? I'm interested in hearing your experiences. I'm not looking for reassurance, or advice; I just want to hear your stories about poopy diapers. Feel free to respond in the comments section.

Once NB gets some of these actions coordinated it won't look like he is trying to swim across the floor, but will be speeding along.

We have been remiss posting pictures of NB lately, here are some other photos.

Here's his first try:




Okay, room for improvement.

Here's his second try:

I realize that the blog here on Ninja Baby has been quiet for the past month. I partially apologize for that. I won't fully apologize since a lot has been going on and blogging has not been on the fore front of the activities.
The first weekend of March brought our friends, the Wily Jeneric family, to visit. Much fun was had, and the camera rarely came out. However here are a couple (some were lifted from Wily Jeneric).

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Baby Wily is three weeks older then Ninja Baby and it was fun to see them together.

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The second weekend in March brought a family skating day. This is the second year the family has rented an hour of ice time. Ninja Baby didn't try out any skates but had fun watching a game of tag on the hockey rink.

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The beautiful March day allowed for us to hang out side in the bright sunshine after skating. If it wasn't for the taps on the maple trees it would have been easy to forget that it was the middle of March.

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Unfortunately a couple days after the skating day, Ninja Baby became sick. After 9 days of vomiting, 6 days of diarrhea, 6 doctors visits, 1 trip to the ER, and an ultrasound, it was decided to admit him to the hospital. Ninja Baby is doing much better on soy formula and is back to being happy, laughing and smiling self.
We are not sure what has made Ninja Baby sick, some of the theories are:
NB loves to flirt with nurses and likes the hospital so much so he thought this was a good way to visit with them

NB has a food allergy - possibly to milk (doc is thinking more along milk then just dairy)
NB has a metabolic disorder that he didn't have one screened as a newborn
NB has a yet to be determined health problem (the doc is doing some other tests).


During all of this excitement, Ninja Baby has gotten his first tooth. It came in without a problem and there was very little signs of teething. Just all of sudden a white speck in his mouth. His second tooth won't be too far behind. He can be shy of his tooth, but I will try and get a photo.