Edie and his 20-21 months life story

Posted on November 23, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

Edie is a big boy

This title can express a lot from what I am going to tell you now. It is such unbelievable how fast he is Growing. When I started to go through the pictures and stories I have written about him I can not believe that he was little just 50 cm and weighted 3kg.

And now look at a big boy

On 23.10. he celebrated his 20th month of life. He is about 83cm long and 10,3 kg heavy. but sometimes I think that he is much more 🙂 and now one month later it is even more. I think that since my belly is growing my hands are a bit weaker. But he still wants to ride me and he loves to do HOPY HOPY on my back, so I look like little monkie mom with him on my back 🙂 lovely.

What to write about him:

his talking, such a fun……….hmmm ok talking it is not the right expression. He is definitely repeating words or he tries and loves some particular one.

- papapuuu – these are “papucky” home shoes
- piti – drink – for his bottle
- caj – tea
- agua – still favourite water
- hopy hopy – momy show your back and lets jump together
- papu, ham ham – food, hunger
- jeste – more, one more
- animals he understands and tries to imitate in Czech and Spanish – horse, dog, cow, goat, gorilla, dug, chicken, little chicken, cat, crab, pig – so funny I have to record him for you if possible

his motorical skills:

he is able to dress himself shoes, which does not have to be tight – rubber boots
he is able to put his cap, many times just for fun
he cooperates while dressing him up
he goes and gets things I asked him bring and treshes whatever I ask him to tresh
he like to help – cleaning, cooking (he loves to mix things in pot, he made with me egg bread etc)
he is drinking on his own from cup
he eats much better on his own by spoon, if he wants he does not lick
he is able to climb nearly what ever he wants – he climbed up from the bed, even is high enough, he found his way out——–uffff. you know how it feels if you put your baby into the bed, wished him good night and then suddenly he is coming back from the room dragging toys in his hands and saying hopy hopy……….better to laught or cry 🙂
he loves cars and engines – everything what makes sound is AUTO, no matter what
he is also able to put his big animal puzzle into the order
He is also able to ask “prosim” while putting his hands together and he does the same gesture like if you are asking for help. such a cute and effetive while I am sking him if he wants something more or I am teaching him not to scream at me but ask politely for the things.

His life in kindergarten:

he loves it there
he is able to forget me immediately we enter insight, he just kisses me and closes the doors in front of my nose, he waves me and kind of tells me go mom. He never cries.
they told me story: they went to dance “Mazurka dance” and he did not have teacher to dance with. So he grabbed close girl, in his age and started to dance with her…..he loves dancing and music especially electronic.
he is cooperative, nice to others – except time I am coming for him. He starts to kick and complain. He does not want to go home. He likes it there to play with another kids
I think that he brought from kinder also word “Moje” mine. Because now all the things around him are “Mine” which is sometimes problem. He is able to get totally angry if we are not leting him not to do something or taking some toy out of him. He wants to hit me and starts to cry………..yep time of punishment. It is sometimes hard but we wants him to understand that this is not the way. We also started to put him to the room, if he is just crying without any special reason. He usually comes after and asks for Hopy hopy – that is like appology.

He is growing I can feel it, but we are still fighting with potty time. He is not telling me when he wants to go, But if I put him there he do what he is supposed to 🙂 but I would love to get rid of diapers in his case. Also that soon we will need double pack also for the little one.

siblings love building: He likes my belly. If I say “Where is the baby” he used to touch my belly and caress him and sometimes kisses him. it is such a nice feeling. He knows that he can not kick me, but sometimes he does that.

Edie is loved and cared. I hope that we are giving him as much as we can, that is our life and our passion.

Edie’s picture gallery:

Pixie face

autumn dressing code – little dworf

Fishing out the pont

And after all playing our HOPY HOPY time ends with nice nap

Keep in touch with our improvements.

I loved one motto which gave me Carlos mom: Kids are borrowed to our life just for short time. We should enjoy every time we are with them, when they needs us and we can help them. We should be there as their guides and advisors. Because very soon they will go away from us and they will live their life. Our role will be not that strong but if we gave them everything now we will get it back later for sure. Time spend with our kids is the most important article we can give them”.Nothing can replace us!

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15 weeks – 2nd baby diary

Posted on October 30, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

How the things goes, how do I feel, how is the life of second baby?

Those are the questions I am asked the most, so I decided to share with you, with my future little one and make some note also for myself. simply not to forget.

Things around are so different. You would not believe me how many things changed in 2 years and which situations I am facing now.

Conditions I am living with my second “belly baby”:

I am self employed, not anymore student. I am helping in my dad’s company as administrating officer, so called “girl for everything what is needed to be done” and second part of my day belong to www.skupiner.cz our newly starting business. I love this job, especially because of the feeling on building something on my own. I am meeting a lot of companies and I have to say that my belly image is helpful 🙂 Thank you my love!
I am having already Edie, so there is not so much time left for myself, actually there is not time for myself 🙂 With Edie we have lots of fun. He is riding me as a horse, he is jumping on me, he is constantly caressing me, kissing me, licking me. And if I ask him where is his baby sibling, he always caress also belly, kisses him and hugs him. Such a lovely time and such a lovely boy. let’s see in the future.
With Carlos we are both very busy. We try to steal some time for each other, but it is not easy at all. Life of hard working parents, who tries to build business for the future financial freedom means to keep their common time as something sacred and in scarcity. But we know why we are working such hard and restlessly.
I meet my friends also very seldom. Now I am spending time mostly with our business partners, my skupiner partners and my closest family. But it is fine it is how it should be.

How do I feel?

In general great, full of energy so that’s why I am able to work many hours per day up to late night and wake up every day with Edie at 6 or 6:30. Simply he always throws some toy over my face, caress my head and kisses me. He tell me “hum hum” and mammy has to wake up 🙂 No time for discussion
I felt quite sick previous days, but mainly because I did not have that much time to eat regularly what makes me hungry and sick. But now after 3 month passed I feel much better and fine……….luckily NO womitting at all, but sometime I was close, to tell you 🙂
I am in 15 weeks now and I start to feel movements of my baby. It is such a cool things to start to feel some interaction. Baby is telling me when it is tired so starts to kick me or when it does not have enough space, while I am sitting behind computer like wrapped package. So these are the moments when I stopped to do everything and just caress y belly to say, I know, sorry I understand you, I love you.

Baby in its beauty in 13 weeks of my pregnancy

I realize that with Edie I had much more time to think how the parenthood and motherhood will look like. What I will do with him and what kind of things I will show him. i was going to pregnancy gym and I was doing more sports. I am not lazy now at all, I am walking a lot and running around Edie. But I do not have time to take gym classes and point my mind to my pregnancy. That is the reality. So the calmest time is for me at night, before I go to bed I take shower, I am talking to my belly baby to let him know that we love him and we are waiting him/her of course 🙂
My mind is busy. I know that and it creates the feeling that the belly is living it’s own life and I can strongly believe that it will take such a short time until the due date. It will past fast like hell and I will start to write reports about our second one.

I already surprised all my friends that we are expecting the second baby and I started to receive congratulations. I hope that everything will go fine. In the last check up I had lower limits of lymphocytes and thrombocytes so I am going for next check up son again. But so far we are fine, feeling great, not having thoughts of slowing down in the process of our lives.

“Life is change worth to live and fight for”

And in the end one life joke. One of our very known female actor was meeting during the gala night some politicians. In general, she hates them. So when one of them was making mess with his cigar around and having points this one is from Cuba from Fidel Castro and being so proud of it. She just looked at him and said: do you think it will help you when you will dye? We will all meet anyway up there:)………and for me it was such a great smart answer. He was out of his words. Everybody around was laughing and for me it ment only one thing. There are many people around the world, but few of them are unique. Everybody can be unique. It just depends on us what we want to do with our life time.

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My promise to the second child

Posted on October 9, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 3 Comments

My dear readers,

yeah the time is here, I am sharing with you great news I am becoming double mom……….juhuuuuu.

Those who knows me and Carlos know that we are not big planners, but really this baby was planner 🙂 Imagine that. We had kind of rough idea. What about having second child while Edie will be between 2-3 years old.

You know what I was thinking. Oh the romantic moments in the parent life are much more sacred. Imagine simple moments when you are thinking…………hmmm now is the right time and right moment to extend our family members, and you prepare yourself mentally, physically. BUT there is still somebody else to be considered. Yeah there is the little one in the crib behind your head, which is sleeping like angel, but NEVER KNOWS, will he wake up or not? Will he cry or not? will he ask for water as usually or not? ufffff just let keep relax……….hehe so you can imagine how I was feeling and even having in my mind while having in my heart, we want the second one.
So after forgeting that there is Edie in our room and our romantic momnets should not be spoiled I thought that anyway, I am not the person which would keep counting my fertility days and things like that. That both me and Carlos have to be in mood of creating new life. And you see……………we tried once. We had great time together and in first month we managed.

So what I am personally persuaded now!

There is no limit of having baby
until you love each other and you make real love out of making babies only there should not be problem
also you have to be persistent, do not think that it can happen just in one day, we were enjoying more days together for sure 🙂

And if I am sharing too much………….sorry, but You know me, I just want to remember how great time full of love was the reason and source of the second life which I am growing in my body.

And here is the proof 🙂
Is there Hanicka or Carlito? Who can say?

We love you and we are waiting for you…………so far our Baby Bean :0)

And my promise to the second child:

I will love you as much as my first baby
I will write about your improvements as much as about my first one
I will share with you as much time as possible

Like this I promise, your mom 🙂

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Funny stories from Edies kindergarden

Posted on September 16, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Hi dear readers,

I have been laughting soo may times recently that I have to share with you few stories from Edie´s kinder.

Obviously as we thought with Carlos he loves the teachers, kids and simply the fact to be there with group of funny people. And what have happened so far which is soooo funn?

After few days Edie became the most loved baby in the preeshool and wh?

he is not crying
he is very independent for his age, he is eating alone, drinking, playing on his own
he loves other kids – he started to kiss girls, smell their nice girlish smell
and he love also guys he is kissing them too already 🙂
Nearly every day he is sooo knocked down that when I am picking him from kider 7:30-12:15 he is already sleeping after lunch
He already 2 throuwn his home shoes into the toilet because he was trying how they swimm
and he is well known because of his tons of litres of salivas – they are everywhere
He loves to play, do activities and teachers likes him a lot

So as they said: if every child would be like your son, we will not have any work, So great that there are some which cries otherwise they would be soooo bored 🙂

And some advice for decision making process whether to put your child to kinder or not:

if your child is searching for another kids constantly
if he is fuzzy at home and he is very active
if he like other people and he is not affraid of meeting them
if he is more or less independent of doing things
if he like to explore and do new things
if he is very active and you are running out of ideas 🙂

Then you baby is ready to go to kinder like Edie was. And he/she will be happy there.

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How to cope with diarrhoeia in case of kids

Posted on August 31, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Sickness case: Kids DIARRHOEIA

I am not writing oftenly about the sickensses of Edie, because in reality he is very healthy child and he does not need muchdoctor attention. Which is great.But sometimes like in this case he ate something strange probably (and this is not anything special becuase he is trying to taste basicly anything from the ground, table whatever hidden place)

So as result he got bad bad diarrhoeia some times ago and because there are many things happening and also this can happen easily again I decided to share with you basic cure and steps to heal this sickenss.

Diarrhoeia has simple simptoms:

Kids are usually very thirsty because his liquids are more going out of his body
Edie had his stercus very liquid with peaces of vegetable or anything he ate

So the basic prescription from the doctor which helped us to heal him in 3 days was:

1 day: avoid any fruit, vegetables, milk products, avena and he had to eat only rice (plain rice boiled in a bit salty water, no oil nothing), and for snack plain roll (something like white baget), he should not eat bread becasue it boosts fermentation process in his intestines
2 day: he could eat already banana, apple except rice and rolls, The banans and apple should be smashed not as peaces , because it is smoother for his digestion and his body can better absorb the vitamins
3 day: contineu with rice, also smashed potatoe, carrot (boiled and smashed), banana, apple, roll
As day drinks: prepare soft black tea without suggar and lemon, if you want you can use a bit of fructosis and prepare drinks from special medicine easy to find called SMECTA – those are little bags from which you creates drink. I made these drink in to bigger bottles such as 1,5 l and Edie could drink it during while day.

And the cure is done and your child will be very happy agin. The most imprtant is to hold on. Your kid will be much better of if you hold on because every brake of this diet will prolong his sickness…………sooo GOOD LUCK!

Here is also some basic treatment for adults if you need help.

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17 and 18 month Edie’s life story

Posted on August 25, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Yeah and I am again here with latest news for you

Mum who never sleeps and sneaks her sons activities 🙂

Now, really I have such amazing things for you to share ,because Edie made big improvements in last two months……….yeah I do not know even where to start.

But lets go on:

For his measures of height and weight I will go to regular doctor check up, so datas later :)………but I can say he is heavy (while I have to carry him and long…..most of his clothes is gone 🙂 )
He has 3 more teeth – so in total he has 8 frontal once (4 up and 4 down) and than left upper back tooth and two bottom once (it would be n.4 back tooth) – so count down is 11 teeth in his 18 month and 1000 litres of salivas also 🙂
He improved his speaking………and we start to mix Spanish, some English, and Czech. He is very smart. He simply choose words which are easier to pronounce in different languages

water – agua (Spenish)
tea – taj (in Czech is čaj)
to sit down – hačí (Czech)
to lye down – hají (Czech)
NO – ne, no (depends on the day mood)
YES – no, ano (sometimes he moves his had like no but it means yes, especially regarding to food he likes)
There is not something – Nená, Není (Czech)
Mom – mama
Mema – no identified
car, aeroplane, machine, engine, bus – autoooo
any kind of animal – baf baf (sound for dog in czech)
expression for surpirce and happines – juuuu, jeeeeee
if he want to make hors ride on my back, or just wisit park with slides and swings – hopy hopy (which is Czech is houpy, houpy – expression for swinging)
hunger – is expressed by ham ham (Czech word for kids for eating) and puting his hands into his mouth)

He likes to communicate. He loves to be with another kids. Wherever we are he is searching for kids. And he loves small onces. He wants to kiss them, to caress them and later to pull their hands and legs just to see if they are strong enough 🙂 Older kids they are running away from him so far, they do not share that much attention love with him as he would like to. Unfortunatelly. He also like to observe the older one what they are doing. It is so interesting to learn every day something new.

Since he is exploring all the time something new and we try to give him opportunities to see new things we decided to take Edie also to our Central european sea side. He went to Croatina to celebrate his 18 month B-day. He was wery happy over there and he learned new things. How to climb up the slide, how to swing on his own. We took him also to the mud lakes to try new experience.. He touched the crab and observed the fishes.

yeah he did not like it much, but some experience is not the most pleasurous in the beginnig I know. But it was so cool to play in mud 🙂

The curious thing is that he is not affraid to touch the animals. He just wants to try and see what it does with him 🙂

Edie also traveled on the big boat and visited national park Kornati

After the exploration of the boat he had resting time to be ready for exploring salty lake and Kornati islands

He could not miss also to visit Krka national Park water falls and let him swimm in the sweet water, we needed to unsaltied our bodies a bit 🙂

He was also running on his own around to see what he can get out of this trip 🙂

And after hot trip he got promised swimming in the waterfalls……brrr it was refreshing and great

And he got also his sand cake, it made dady Carlos for him. Such a beautiful had work from love and his hands. And edie enjoyed him with his big shuffle 🙂

picture comming soon 🙂

And whats more. He is running like hell. Since he startet to walk he is only running somewhere no matter where am I or what I want and where I want to go 🙂
He got his first serious dirhoea, so we had to keep 3 days rice and plain roll diet, black tea and water. uffff after that 3 days he ate big chicken stake. He was soo hungry imagine that.
We are still going to the doctor because of his feet. He is still turning his feet insight. We have to excercise special excercises with him but nothing difficult and painful. It is more like a game.
I try to teach Edie reading, but he is so bussy with another things, that is also more game for few minutes every time. We started to paint also alfabet letters. More like art time. He drawing lines across the paper and I am creating letters from it 🙂
He loves to help me in the kitchen and we are doing basicly anything together.
He is eating first and last things which he can find. Loves fruits now in sommer melon, peaches, grapes etc. And he loves fish, fresh steamd fish meat with potatoe pureee………..mnami
Edie sleeps also very nicely. Now like already before he sleeps from cca 9 pm until 6 or 7 am. Great time to rest enough with him 🙂

So keep tuned.

Another month is comming and since I started to go to work, part time in my dad’s furniture making company and I will teach English in the morning as private teacher, Edie will start to attend preschool in that time. He will love it I know that. Because there are planty of kids who can play with.

There is always something new happening and I will share with you.

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Going from Fat to fit – home receipt 1

Posted on August 19, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

From Fat to Fit

so called “Fast home Golden recepies”

It is long time ago since I was thinking that I should started to put all my fast home recepies on the web. Most of my friends knows me as passionate chef coock and big experimentator. Since I have traveled through 3 continents I have tried many cousines what enriched my coulinary world.

Mostly I will speak about kids food, which is fast, healthy, colourfull and cheap. Compare to the jar food which is hell expensive for me and the taste……..you know all the time the same. Without special mum’s touch and love. Because non of the industrial process can replace home coockig for me. And what is the most important for me. I am cooking with Edie and he is such cuious guy that he is wathich under my hands and cooking with me.

Risoto with cheese and ham

Ingredientes:

oil – one big spoon
onion
rise – one cup (100ml)
water (double amount to rise)
100 g cheese (chedar, eidam) – hard cheese which you like
3 slices of ham – one for kids better (it has lower amount of salt) – ham can be replaced easily by any kind of meat (chicken, minced pork or beef)

Preparation:

1 Big Spoon (BS) of oil let heat up, add choped onion and let it fired a bit 1-2 min, then add rise and put twise as much amoutn of water than you put rise. Let it boiled according to the type of rise, usually it itakes about 15 min if long grain if parboiled type then cca 20 min.
In the meanwhile great the cheese and ham cut on small peaces (if you have meet you need to prepare it before. It is up to you how you like it. Chicken can be boiled, the other minced meet you can fry them with little bit of onion first and then put a bit water to biled it until it became soft, if needed put more water.)
When rise is done, and other ingredientes prepared just mixed everything together. Cheese will nicely melt and will give to to whole food nice texture. You can cut any kind of vegetable your kid likes. Edie he loves tomatoes, which givs to food nice colour and give them on the plate around. You can create nice colourful border.

And whole dish is done. Fast, cheap and healthy.

Time of preparation : cca 15-20 min

Since last time I was speaking about big world nightmare which is obesity I would love to teach Edie to cook and be able to eat healthy, still tasty and fast. There is no deal of teaching our kids to survive in today’s world of fast food, E additives chemicals and bad dietary habits.

Advice: Guide your child through early childhood. Let him try all the different kids of food, vegetable and fruits and especially those which you do not like. Support him to try, make fun, play and decorate the plate if your baby does not want to eat. Do not let them to learn to eat chips, sticks, fast food in general, sweets before proper meal, sweet sparkling beverages rather than simple plain water.

Remember: Anyway everything fast food is more expensive and less stuffy, if you do not trust me, just try to count in monetary units and amount of portion how much “goldie risoto” costed and compare it with one hamburger, french fries and one coca cola…………hmmmm

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Obesity….. the biggest boogie man of 21st century – Guess WHY?

Posted on August 13, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

“Who does not have time to exercise, it has enought time to be sick.”

(Kdo nemá čas na to, aby cvičil, má dost času na to, být nemocen).

Ghandhí

I was thinking a lot recently walking on the street with Eide and looking on the gids, how much is today society becoming lazy, comfortable and obese. We are actually eating like hell and because I will also speak about myself as example I did the same some time ago.

And you know what is the result. Yeah we are becoming obese then sick then we have to cure ourself or we make our body dissabled to heal and we became forever creaps.

This is not fun story this is pure fact. Look at these statistics which has been shown in UN:

Currently 1 billion people on the earth are overwight
and the projections goes far behind this. With current trend it seems that in 2015more than 2.4 billion people will be overwight and 700 million obese.

These numbers are alarming for me and especially if high percentage of this number will be based on current amount of kids which are becoming obese now and later seriously overweighted.

I just want to talk to the heart of every parent, I just want to safe your kids lives, your future happy moments and also your nerves and your money. You wonder why nerves and money? So simple. Count with me. Insted of spending 2-3 hours with your kids outside playing (which makes him definately happy and he will gain some experience and possitive habbit) you have to spend:

electricity for running TV, PC or just common house light, heating or cooling system
food – usually staying at home we tend to eat more, we have gravies and we are constantly searching for something – I learn from Edie that he gets very busy by doing outdoor activities that he forgets the hunger. And when he gets hungry he eats with full appetite everythis what I have prepared for him. No complains, no refusasing 🙂
staying at home creates lazy habit in our minds and bodies, we do not learn how to “move out of our shelfs”, how to explore and move our bodies
And the final result………….layziness, obesity, doctors, payments for treatments and whole life dissability and limitation.

So the final advice is simple: MOVE, PREVENT yourself and your kids from lazyness, ENJOY OUTDOOR activities and THINK what you can do for your health and your kids.

Parenthood is whole life mission which needs to be improved constantly and restlesly. So being healthy does not have to be boring. Contrary, let your kids help you to prepare something nice. In our case at home Edie is helping me like the kid on the picture. And Edie is just 17 month old. And I gave him his own vegie pealer, his plastic knife to cut with me, he has his fork, spoon, wooden spoon for mixing things in the pot and so on. There is no need to be worry and awoiding your kids to help you. We give them the experience of different textures, tastes, smells in real life.

Isn´t this picture cute?

And like this can look your child too. Just Do It! Just Let Him To HELP You and Explore!

PS: this web page can be interestiog for you as source of ideas “what activities to do” with yout kids: Going from Fat to Fit

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Why not to be worry to do different activities with your kids

Posted on August 1, 2010 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Because they love it!

Because they are curious!

Because our mind is more fragile then body of our kids and our fear is bigger than their passion to explore!

I need to share with you again. There have been some days and I faced different questions from my friends and family. I even thought to put Edie to the kindergarten because he is such curious and so social that to be alone with him is basically stopping him from development,exploration and interaction.

I felt that we such as modern society are putting more and more limits to ourselves and our minds which affects our kids. We think that we need lot of things to give them to sustain and keep their comfort. But it is not true at all! Try to imagine much happier kids living in a poor countries and why they live fuller childhood compare to our “modern society”?

When I started to think about this I realize that we as modern parents are too over-caring and too comfortable. How many of us is thinking………ohhh how much I would love to drink my coffee calmly , how much I would love to just sit on the sofa, put my legs up and read my favorite book or watch TV?………..but that is not purpose of our life! Just be comfortable in our own bodies because we took over the most important part of our life time here. Those who can have kids, the next generation should think how to be raising them that they will learn how to learn fast, how to explore, how not to be worry of changes and how to life cosmopolitan! We are not any more closed societies and we have to face different environment, different cultures and different thinking.

And not only because of that I strongly believe that travelling and exploring should be our parenthood mission for our kids. To let them explore their close environment, to let them burn and cut and hurt themselves is the best way to let develop their senses. To show them how to travel on their own, how to understand the different cultures and different behavioral patterns is the best way to avoid further conflicts, because they learn, they feel and the most important they experienced it live not by reading it in books.

So that’s why we should not be worry about ourselves to explore worlds side by side with our kids. They will enjoy, they will be happy to spend time with us, our of our homes. What they need is YOU, FOOD and your understanding while they are tired or hungry or you know………. 🙂 (psssss mum just change me please!).

So in the end let me just share one little tip for going cycling with your child. We gave Edie as 17 month present cycling trip. He did not have yet his helmet but we managed anyway.

Have you ever taste the lake water…………brrrrr it’s fishy 🙂

How to sleep comfortably while parents are still cycling…..

If you think that Edie was too hanged then you are not right because he was fine and sleeping very deep. He even did not realize that we are moving 🙂

And after the while we went for lunch and Edie could have changed his moving bed for something more original 🙂

And I would say that the most relaxing was the after swimming party in the lake. I would wish you to be there with us. It was such a nice time, after cycling 55 Km in the 35 C we were very happy to cool down our bodies and relax in the lake.

And you know what: in the end of the day Edie was sleeping like an angel. He enjoyed the trip a lot and he tried many new things!

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15-16 month report

Posted on July 16, 2010 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

15th and 16th month story of Edies diary

Today I will speak generally about the biggest improvements and changed which have happened in Edie’s life. You know as 1st time parent you are always surprised by your child. And because Edie is running like a hell fast, exploring every single thing around him by touching it, licking it, eating it he already know how it feels to be burn (just a little do not worry), he knows how to feels to be cut, how feels to have infection in his mouth because bad fountain water.

But the big fun is his talking. Yeah I know he is not talking fully, but he start to use simple words and practicing different letters, such rrrrr, sssss (he is able to spill thousand of salivas around by doing sssss or rrrrr). Also he is greeting Carlos in Spanish ” Hola!” and saying Agua for water, in Czech he continue to say papapapa (buy bye), he started to say “Auto” car or wheel,”nana” something like more or again”Ba Ba” is any kind of animal, because dogs and any other animal which can lick his hands or his face of just snoofe around him he will love. He loves animals in general and last week when we visited our friends in Prague he fall in love with their hamster. He wanted to touch him all the time until the little poor animal was only sleeping being tired from Edie’s constant care 🙂

But also Edie is running like a hell. He stopped to walk because it is boring already. And running is much more fun. So I started to run too. No matter where he is he always founds some water fountain, water tank, drinking spot for dogs and starts to play with the water. So it results in my runs after him, or just him being wet and happy and me constantly changing his clothes over and over again. I think already look like Santa, because my bag with spare clothes for him is being bigger and bigger. Yeah today for example he found these springs fountain running in the park and wash himself like in the shower. And you can imagine how angry he was when I took him away. He always lay down to the ground, starts to kick and bend himself that I can not nearly take him. But I always know the way how to combat him 🙂

I realized that: “If you know that your child will be angry from particular thing like Edie can be, PREVENT THE SITUATION OF ANGER!. I realized that for example, if he sees the fountain, and he is heading for it. I start to play hunting with him. I run against him and try to catch him with open arms. He understands it like a game instead of me being draging him away and instead of cry and anger I deserved laugh and smile! Ufffff one mission done!

If you want child to play with the things you think that they are for him, then surround him with them and keep them in your hands and show him their advantages and usage. Kids are following us and they will think that these things are something special worth to use them. SO if I am cutting vegetable or cooking than I put into Edie’s hands dining knifes instead of sharp one and peace of soft vegie like cucumber. Bot of us are cutting but since I am faster I can prepare whole lunch, Edie is entertained by fighting with his peace of food and happy to do something and learn.

So the basic rule is DISTRACTION, ENTERTAINMENT, ACTION. Always make fun from the things which he should not do. But If it does not work do not be worry to punish him. I have to show Edie his limits, or later he will not respect me, other kids and people.

And also something from his social life. He is more and more social. He loves people, he is not afraid to go with my friends away. He likes to play so anybody who can do some fun with him will be his friend.

Edie still loves eating and especially carrot, vegetables in general, fruits and yogurth. He does not like much bread, potatoes. But as we say that “The hunger is the best chef” I always make him hungry by and then he eats with full appetite. I do not like to give him cookies and other sweet stuff. So he learned to eat fruits rather than sweets and vegetable rather then chips. It is just matter of habit for the kids. What you get used to him, it will eat. He loves also fish meat and other types if they are soft.

And he sleeps very well already. Since circa 9pm until 7 am. sooo goood 🙂

He is still producing liters of salivas, but no teeth arrived. He has still 8 teeth.

And now some gallery:

Now we have harvesting time here in Brno, so we were picking some cherries…..hmmm sweet and tasty. Edie was eating them fully even with seeds from ground. But he was just fine, no stomach issues.

Before we cut Edies hair, he looked like and angel. So you can see him while he is exploring the animal world and hunting butterfly

I also recorded how active he is at home. Because when we are outside he is calmer and while playing with another kids nobody believes me that he can be also very energetic and hyperactive 🙂 and he likes to take things out of shelf and draws. And if something does not go as he wants he used to shouts, cry or became angry.

So and since we are constant travelers we have done few exploratory trips with Edie. Actually I also wanted to show Carlos more from South Moravien region where we lived. And we also visited Slovakia, where lives my friends.

Porta Coeli

And after we went to watch tower in Tisnov, town just close by

We went also the the medieval festival in Cesky Krumlov, south Bohemia

Bojnice in Slovakia – in Tindas home land and house

And as I see I had soooo many things in my head to share with you , that I am already from short post writing long long story. But you know me. Life is fun and my blog is my relaxation, my passion, my share of my life with you. So stay tuned and let me know what you would like to know from me 🙂