The Beginining of Summer

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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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Moving

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.

Daddy Goes Solo

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.

Swimming, swimming - oh wait

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.

How long can Nina Baby sit up?

Here's his first try:

Okay, room for improvement.

Here's his second try:

The Month of March

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.