Wow, the past year just flew by. My little boy went from

Sitting in leaves

to

Sitting in pile of leaves

Running through the leaves

MMM chocolate

With Aunt Sia

I just want to eat it,

Playing in the corn

Too cool

"I ride on Daddy's shoulders, I can almost touch the sky"

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.

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!

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.

I promised you last week some more pictures of Ninja Baby. Here they are

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You can see more photos in the picasa album (but you have figured that out by now - right?)

Ninja Baby wants us to share some pictures of him in his new toy

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As some of you may know NB loves to stand and move so the Jolly Jumper is perfect for him, we have been waiting to use it until he got the head and body control neccessary to be suspended from a giant spring.

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We are also stealing an idea from WilyJeneric and conducting a poll (its over to the right). Ninja Baby has his 4 month check up on Tuesday. So the question is how big will NB be?
Some info to help guide your answers

• NB weighed 3170 g and was 51 cm long at birth (6lbs 15.5oz and 20") at birth
• At two months 5541 g and 60 cm at 2 months (12lbs and 24")
• When he was released from the hospital on January 14 he was 5150 g

There is a saying "double the birth weight by 4 months and triple at one year"

Some of these photos are from Christmas

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and some are from this past week.

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Here are some visitors from November.

I just thought I would let you compare these two photos so you can see how much Ninja Baby has changed in the past month.

He is growing like a weed (he has gained over 2lbs), loves to look around and to laugh and smile.

NB has been eating with gusto and sleeping as well as you can expect from a 10 day old. I have been getting use to the idea of naps and how refreshing they can be.

We have had some visitors the past couple of days.
Grandma "M" held him for a while...

Cousin "A" was quite happy when he got a chance to cuddle with NB.

Uncle "P" has two kids of his own, so it takes a lot to make an impression on him.

Aunt "M" and Cousin "J" were way easier to impress.

Aunt "A" and Cousin "E" couldn't take their eyes away from NB.

Neither could Uncle "S"...

Cousin "O" was happy to smile for the camera!