7 months, teeth, crawling, laugh, darkness, talking

Posted on December 13, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

7 month……does it sounds lot or just few days are left behind

It is just few days ago when I realized that I need to stop doing hundred and one things at once, because I realize that that sense Carlitos will just grow besides me and I will even not catch all his special moments and will not enjoy my little once fully.

So what have happened since last month I have been wiring. And I am going to talk only about milestones for now.

Carlitos:

definatelly grown and is more heavy, he has still less than 8 Kg, but my hand said no more, so he spends most of his time on the floor playing with the toys, so he actually became more independent
He has two new teeth, they just grown after he reached his 7 month and yeah I can feel it now while breastfeeding, but the curious think is his reaction. While he bites me, sometimes for fun sometimes because of his gums are itching he always smiles at me. Even I punish him by words or I touch his face with DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN…….but he is our smily boy anyway
He started to crawl, but even in 7,5 month he is standing, it is visible how much he wants to be running already with Eduardo, Floor is good and safe to be but running is much better. I can see it in his eyes.
Carlistos is for sure the lovely baby, whenever we are he gets all the attention of girls, ladies even guys. He is always looking to the souls of the people and can touch the good insight of us. So even in my case, I love to make him happy and to do maximum for him.
what is also important is his sleeping habits. Since we were teached by Edie not to spoil our child too much, we started to let Carlitos fall a sleep without chewing me or bottle. So he started to be used to fall asleep on his own, which makes easier our life too. I can go out, I can continue my business or just to hang out with my friends.
Also Carlitos likes to eat and I am happy that he is accepting nicely his baby food vegetables which I am preparing at home. I realized that whatever vegetable mix I am doing, it is good to put inside to boil also onion, because it makes it antiseptic and help his digestion and also has nice effect of sweetening the dish. So he really likes everything I cook for him. Ufff that is easy to see him enjoying. Now he is having 2-3 dishes per day, vegetables for lunch, fruit for snack and puree for night, he is still drinking mother milk, I am fully breastfeeding him so since we have winter now, I do not have to give him extra tea, just mother milk. So far so good 🙂

Eduardito

Edik grown also a lot. Became step more independent
Now he is going on his own to the toilet, he wants to have his private time 🙂 although there are many accidents happening, so probably our toilet will be the cleanest in the world because I am cleaning his desastres nearly every day 🙂 BUT LEARNING BY DOING is the best way to improve 🙂
He started to speak much more, he is putting words together and now we push him to speak more in sentences. He also like to learn word so me and Carlos wetought him already these letter using whole words T-tata, M-mama, O-oko, R-robot, A-auto, B-balon, C-cibule, D-dedecek/domecek, E-edicek, F-foukat, K-karlicek, L-lod, N-nos, S-slon, U-ucho, Z-zlata. I know there are some stil missing, but it will come in time. I just enjoy that he used to bring the magnetic board and he asks for to be thought.
In the kinder they told me that he is sometimes challenging other kids to get to conflict, just because he enjoys to complain afterwards. It is not always but many times. I have observed this behavior on him also. But not that different from other kids as I think.
He loves to read books, I mean to go through different stories with us, and keep listening. He likes theater and also TV as such. Those are things which keeps him calm.
Still he loves to help with with eveyday things. We are doing everything together, hanging clothes, cleaning, cooking, shopping, learning, working. He enjoys to talk to phone with grandpa and father. It is funny to see that he is explaining there something but the other side can not see it 🙂
He still wants to go to PISEK, sand yards even outside is cold, freezing and wet, but he will spend his life there probably. So luckily in Prague we found nice indoor playgrounds with sand where he can enjoy to play with other kids.
He is sweet, loves to kiss me, Carlos and Carlitos, he still likes to be hugged and caressed by mommy 🙂
And because video tells more than hundreds of the words, I made for you again short video.

And here is also our 7 month pictures album

Tagged with: 7 months, baby food, breastfeeding, first teeth, Parenting
Posted in Baby development, Parenting

Carlitos got his first 2 teeth

Posted on November 5, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

First teeth of Carlitos,

I just like to share, you know me that’s why I decided to mention this new news. Carlitos got his 1st tooth when he was 6 month and 7 days old and his second tooth just three days after. It is so exciting to see how is he growing. Not just his length I mean but also other parts of his body are developing.

What is good

no fever
no cry
no pain
no hundred litres of salivas like Edie

Just he is biting everything what comes to his mouth. And he is STRONG and I mena really strong.

So he will chew while world and he will grown his teeth faster and painless 🙂

Tagged with: 6 months, baby growing tooth, first tooth
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Is parenting terrifying job or enjoyable life journey

Posted on November 4, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

We are the first generation which is scared by its parents and terrified by its kids…..

That is very interesting thought from the well known Chilean kids psychologist Pilar Sordo. She had mentioned couple of interesting points relating to the nowadays rising up style of us as parents and also about what we are actually growing from our kids.

But I will just let you listen and evaluate by yourselves. It is though in Spanish so good luck, but worth to hear

Tagged with: kids psychology, new generation, parenting tips, raising kids
Posted in Parenting, philosophy

5th and 6th moth development report

Posted on November 3, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Half year and more that 2,5 year report of our angels

…..achh finally I have some spare time to write few lines about our guys, so lets be breaf and now I will try to let pictures and videos talk on behalf of me 🙂 Imagine that

Carlitos 2 last monthes of his life

Carlitos weight is currently 8 785 g and his length is 72 cm……I was just wondering that I can not fit him into most of clothes which belong to his age
Carlito is still very smily and very talkative, he started to do grrrrr and also he is screaming like the root of mandragora, if you remeber Harry Potter movie, so exactly like those little things which make you def
As we know he was already turning but now he added also few falls from the bed (I know mean parents) and the recent movements are that he is training to hold on his four and by jump he is moving forward, it is quite funny to see him how much is he enjoying the life from this position
He loves but really loves to be caresed, kissed, touched, tuli tuli and simply while we are spending time with him, talking to him and showing different things. He also loves to observe Eduardo and many times they are just playing together. Or if we can call Eduardos crawling over Carlitos games as games 🙂 But usually both are smiling.
Carlito started already to eat, he had his first spoon of carrot, he looked surprised but he was not refusing, but still he preferes booobie, and his milk
From his travelling adventures he visited Budapest together with me and Carlos on my 28th Bdays and he celebrated with us by attending the huge conference of Lyoness Sensation.
In general he loves to meet people, to do something, he loves strangers and he likes a lot smiling women. If there is some women which wants to play with him and smiles at him he is giving back all his smile
Carlitos loves mirrors, he loves his picture and he is able lo laugh loudly on himself.
Simly he is social, talkative, smily and very cute

Edik

The last measures were 13 kg and exactly 90 cms
Edik survived moving of his things to the Prague, considering that he did not understand what was happening, I now can start to understand more the feelings of the kids of parents which are getting divorce because they feel uncertain. Eduardo was also overstimulated and manytimes he was reacting more attached to his things, like we are taking everything from him and he does no know why. Also that I was going to Prague and moving stuff only with Carlitos so he was a bit lost. But now he is happy back with his things
Eda started to attend kindergarten, he loved that since the first moment and after some time he is the one who is provoking the others and he is a bit the rebel as the teacher told us. Not all the time but sometime he just like to challenge us.
He became very skillful. Finally he is telling us eveytime he need to go to pee or pooh so he is 100% fine, just at night we used to give him diaper for his comfort. He loves to do everything on his own to put his shoes, to dress himself, to put shirt and socks and dress jacket and cup. He does not like to feel cold and start to be a bit more comfortable.
The words I always hear since early morning is pisek (sand), moto (motorbike), masinka (train) and caj (tea). He is speaking mostly in Czech but adding more and more words in Spanish. I like when Carlos is talking to him amd explaining things in Spanish because that way he is learning the most. So he is saying mariposa and azul as his favourite words and he can understand a lot what is he saying just doest not speak that much yet.
Edicek is simply independent unit, he likes to play with strangers and he does not like them in the same time. He does not enjoy much changes, while we are together he loves to stay with mom, but if I am going with him out together with Carlos he is fine with exploring new places and meeting new people.

And now the gallery of the two last monthes

Our trip to Budapest, more pictures here

othe rpictures from album of 5th and 6th month

and I am preparing for you also video, soon it will be lounched 🙂 I promiss!

and it is here then:

Tagged with: 2, 6 month, 8 years, Baby development, baby growth, Lyoness, Parenting, Sensation 2011, travelling to Budapest
Posted in Baby development, Parenting

And today we will cook Kulajda our typical check mushroom soup

Posted on October 21, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

And because i want to safe my time, I used the receipt from very nice czech blog, so keep following this receipt and your tasting papilas will have orgasm 🙂

What will you need

Recept na “Pravou jihočeskou kulajdu”

hrst čerstvých hub (hřiby, křemenáče, lišky) = mushrooms
6 větších brambor =potatoes
špetka kmínu = kumin
nové koření
černý pepř (po třech kuličkách) = pepper
2 bobkové listy = laurel leaf
hrnek smetany (hustá kysaná je do kulajdy jako dělaná) = cup of sour cream
hladké mouky na 2 lžíce = soft flour
1 až 2 lžíce octa = vinegar
4 čerstvá vejce = eggs
sekaný kopr nesmí chybět (čerstvý, sušený, mražený) = cutted dill

Kulajda, jak na to?

Buen provecho, Dobrou chut, Bon apetit!

Tagged with: kulajda, mashroom soup
Posted in food, cooking and healty life style

Lyoness the new way of life, the new way of doing business, the new way of shopping

Posted on October 20, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

To manifest that nothing is impossible watch with me this video and share with us our DREAMS

Do you think that Carlito will one run huge Lyoness business once he will grow………we attended Sensation 2011 conference in Budapest. Just for your imagination :There were 11 000 people from 40 countries. Tickets were fully sold out since july and imagine that, we got recorded by the cameras among sooo many people. And the nicest things is that our spot is among the part of lyoness I enjoy the most. Lyoness child and family foundations. And we are the ambasadors.

Thanks lyoness I will have always what to do and build

Thank you Lyoness for great experience

Tagged with: Budapest, home business, lyoness.net, Sensation 2011, travelling
Posted in Business

Not new but special nowadays phenomenon “business mother”

Posted on October 20, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

MOTHERHOOD OR/AND BUSINESS

I have been just having already few business meetings with Carlito and since many people were asking “How are you Zlata” I decided to describe my so called working days.

I think that “business mother” is kind of phenomenon nowadays since there is such low parenthood support that if there is not father which earn for whole family and even more that nearly every mother has to go and work. I speak about part time, some full time if somebody else is taking care of their kids and most of the moms is having online businesses or if it is possible then is having work in which can include also her family and babies.

And you know how I do that? How can be managed all together. The fact that I was afraid of moving to Prague, I mean internally anxious, was because I was afraid of loosing my connection to the business world. I love to be with my kids at home……..but my brain can not just simply stop and just be thinking only of what to cook, what should I clean first today (kids nose or dishes…..), what should I buy to be able to cook tomorrow……and so on and so on. Rat race…….brain is on hold just screensaver is on.
So in the end what happened is real and nice natural mixure, or creature if you want. I mixed two natural phenomenons into one and look what I created

So just to describe you a bit what is beeing happening and how you can deal with this combine status for inspiration:

I look like mule with business face, because I used to have front kangaroo career, I am pushing trolley and Carlito is being either in one or the another, depends on his laud decision (understand crying :)), while arriving on the meeting I have simple decision what to drink…..please water (cause after passing hundreds of stairs in metro, walking on the street and pushing trolley, same as going in and out from trams) I am thirsty as mule and then after deep breath in and out I take my business bag with infromational leeflets together with my boob out if needed to calm down baby and prevent him to talk, we start our business mtg. With smile and little bit of easy mind set I forget that I am breastfeeding mom and i focus on business. I am fast, persuadive and smiling. After we shake the hands and business is done. LOOKS SIMPLE ISN’t IT? After we talk a bit about our life and imagine usually kids help me as great icebreaker and door opener.

And that is how the life of business mom goes. Really it is just about mind set, nothing more. If you think that YOU CAN DO IT, YOU CAN. If you think that this is NO WAY it will stay that way.

IT IS JUST ALL ABOUT US :)!

I MEAN ABOUT YOU!

Tagged with: business, kids and work, motherhood, Parenting, part time, work from home, work with kids
Posted in Business, Parenting, philosophy

We moved to Prague……time of change

Posted on October 13, 2011 by zlatavaskova — 1 Comment

New city, new life, new start

Never get stucked… keep moving.

That is certainly the motto according to which we are living our life with Carlos and our darlings. I just wanted to share with you a little from our life story.

How the family Botero moved to Prague

After three weeks of partial packing, and putting things to the bags and boxes, (while Eduardo was taking them out and putting them to the previous place) I managed to move all our stuff to Prague. I went with Carlitos 5 times to Prague just on our own. And also once we drove a big truck stuffed with boxes together. I was a bit funny truck driver I guess, because on the petrol station while getting out I was carrying a baby on my shoulder and instead of taking coffee and a snack I was sitting on the bench to feed Carlito while eating an ice cream to kill my gravies 🙂

Carlos was playing an important role of unpacking everything from the boxes and bags, but he got stucked with the feeling of loneliness after few days, so in the end we were unpacking our things another 2 weeks here in Prague piece by piece together with kids. But in the end it was fun too……….Edie loves plastic bags and he perfectly fits there.

What was new for me

f…k I can not go any more by “Šalina” …… but I have to use “Tramvaj” instead…. but I promised myself that I will never change this, so I am teaching Edie that he is going by “Šalina”, so he will not forget his Moravian roots 🙂 …… but he has already perfect pronunciation of “Heleeeee vidiiiis!”
I had to arrange a couple of things, but also I have to admit that all the administrative people in Prague 9-Liben were nice and helpful and all the people around too. We managed: 1) Parking card for our car, 2) Get our cards for public transportation, 3) Searched and found the nursery for Edie, 4) Found a very nice kids doctor, 5) We now know where to shop, repair our shoes, where to go to play outdoor, 6) We got our internet, 7) Repaired the heating system, 8) Got fixed also some electricity plugs, 9) Arrange all the rest of the things in our home, 10) and finally I will have first meeting because of Skupiner next week and also because of our start up Lyoness.net……so everything is going in the right way.
Now I just started to feel, that very gooood feeling of having my own home. Of not getting tired of cleaning, cooking and taking care of my darlings. It is such a boosting moment to feel…. yes now I am finally building my family, thing which are or are not around me are because of my effort and what I want in some way is done in that way. I LOVE THAT FEELING.
So, everyone who is coming to Prague, feel free to contact me. I will be happy to share time with you, to talk, to bring new ideas and introduce new business opportunities which we can all build together. Because right now I start to understand more that “together we are strong” and only together with friends, with business partners, with family we can get what we want. Carlos was sharing with me an importnat idea that: “First we have to get independent and just after that we can get interdependent”. And this power of synergy will then lead us and guide us through any obstacle.

Sooooo KEEP MOVING and believe me after I heard, “ohhhh you have it soo difficult to move the whole your family…” I just started to ask myself: Is it really more difficult for me? Or perhaps it is for the people around me who never took that step before in their life and just stayed bitching about stereotypes in their life? And about loosing me from their circle………

I just got also one nice learning: Because of the moving, I found so many non-usefull things around me which I trashed on the way or gave away to someone who might need it more, so many things that were surrounding my family that I strongly believe that I also left some of the heavy thought and obstacles behind.

So now with a free mind is goot time to continue building what I started before.

See you in Prague!

Tagged with: change, life change, moving family, Prague, Praha, travelling
Posted in thoughts

And here we go 4 month and 1st turn

Posted on August 29, 2011 by zlatavaskova — 2 Comments

Last month update, Carlito is 4 months and Eduardo 2,5 year

There had been few things happening but very important once.

Short summary of my guys:

Carlito “Smily angel”

put another few hundreds grams so he has now 7,3 Kg and 62 cm
he started teething, so we have it again, everything with salivas, everything is sooo tasty that is worth to put it into his mouth
he is very smily, he loves anybody who can give him hug and smile. Who can play with him
He has tickles, imagine that. It is soo funny to hear him laughting, he has them nearly everywhere, like are his feet, ribs and also on his cheecks, while I am kissing him close to his ear
Carlitos sleeps quite well, he has his 3 hours rhytm, but that is not difficult to follow up
He is making sounds like the crows, whenever if he can he tries to talk to us
And he started to turn. My mom saw him first, he was 4 months and 2 days old

Calritos is star, his pixies eyes and huge smile and huge eyes are attracting every women and even men tend to be playing with him. He is happy of having his brother and since he is calmer he is able to survive his love attacks, his crawl overs etc.

His albums are here:

Carlitos in Bojnice

Carlitos in the park with whole family – rest of the pictures are available here

And our prince Eduardo

in general our sons started to be devided very clearly, Edie is the crying baby, Carlitos the smiling baby
He has his stubborn days, when everything is going wrong, he loves word NO, and everything is no no no
He is crying to get anything and I have to be very patient not to be punishing all the time, I think that Edie is my the best teacher of how much I can bear.
His favourite wor ds are dedecek kakadak, had sssss, azul, ostry pich pich, pozor, something is pavany (jako spinavy – dirty). He is speaking generally about anything in his own way. He is not making full sentences but connecting 2 t0 3 words.
He loves reading books and I made him used to go to bed together and read him fairy tale after the lunch time. So he always expect from me to stay with him and read him. His favorite book is little chicken with chicken mom and also krtecek.
He is still in love with cubics, he is already able to be building on his own, if he has good day and also he loves puzzle from his granddad. There is of course krtecek.
He love to be wathich youtube fairy tales. If we would let him he could stay there hypnotize for hours. But our routine is that he can be watching only in the evening after dinner before going to the bath and bed. Anyway he knows already how to switch on PC, so it is not big deal for him to show us what he wants.
Edie had also his first big trip. He became little canoe expert. His grandfather took him for first 3 days sailing trip on the real canoe. Since that time there exist only grandad and voda tsuessss bac.

Here is his album: Sazava 2011

And the story continues………hugs to all of you and my dear sons especially!

Little insight from the current mood:

With all my love to my sons from their mom. I finished the post it is 1:35 am, Edie has a little cold so I heard him coughing and Carlito is sleeping nicely even he got running nose from Edie :). It is calm and silent around and only me and our rentee Juan is awaken.

Posted in Baby development, Parenting

3 month Carlitos and life changing Eduardo

Posted on August 29, 2011 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

3 month Carlito and 2 years and 5 month Edie

Such a simple to count their age if both of them were born in the same date 🙂 But that is how it should I guess. Although I am still thinking about the third one, but let see, what the future will tell and also my body will accept.

So lets go to the point, how my guys, your little friends and grandsons are growing an improving.

Carlitos:

his last weight was 5,8Kg and he had 61 cm while having check up in 2nd month, so I guess since he is more heavy now and he is wearing clothes with the labels for 3-6 month and they seems to be small that he grown too as well. I went with him to doctor and he had 6,7 Kg and 62 cm.

Carlitos got registred as VEnezuelan. SO his official name for Venezuela is Carlos Enrique Botero Vaskova…….imagine that, because according to Latino standards kids are getting surname of mom 🙂
During the month he gor 3 in one vaccination. Which means that he got vaccinas 1. part of hexavaccination, then agains pneumococks and also drops agains the rotaviruses (those are bad dirrhoeas types, because of what kids used to stay in the hospital because of deshidratacion).
Carlito is in general unbelievable talkative, I got one video which I will put here and you will laught, because he is trying to talk all the time. With his grrrrrrrrr, uhhhhh, ahhhhhh, he looks like he is having regural chat with us. He likes to comment things and when he hears some music he used to calm down and is silent. So for me it is obvious that he will like music as well as Eduardo. And even when I am singing him, he used to calm down.

Carlito is not crying baby at all. He has its moments but in general terms he used to smiles and he is terribly curious. He already hold his head very well, so while I am carying him in the carrier he is turning his head to be able to see everything what is happening around him.
If anybody comes closer, and smiles at him he gives him smile back. with his huge dark eyes he is very lovely and with his smile over whole face he looks like little angel. I know that every mom has its angel but Carito is my special one 🙂
Carlito tries to turn also, I am just waiting maybe next month it will come. He is pushing himself out of the place where I used to put him, so I guess he will try to move himself soon too. Lets see.
He is chewing his hands quite a lot, but he is refusing dummy so again mum’s breast is the best :). And regarding to the amount of salivas which he is producing I guess that some teeth are on the way………no way 🙂
He is learning finally to drink from bottle. He is quite successful which makes me happy. He is drinking only mother’s milk, so far he did not have anything else and I hope I will keep feeding him. But sometimes because of business I need to run away for a while and it is good that my mom and especially Carlos can take care of him and feed him.
He enjoyes to be swinged in our home swing, same as Eduardo, and cries while going in the car, same as Eduardo. We were wondering with Carlos, how come that our babies cries in the car, because we heard that babies should sleep there. BUT NOT OURS!
Carlitos is sleeping nice during the night. He is with me in the bed for some time, but when he falls a sleep around 9 or 10pm I used to put him to his bed and he is able to sleep there until 2 or 3am, whihch is good time for me to do my own things or rest 🙂 He also enjoyes morning naps with Carlos. They are very cute I think.

Carlito already went with me to many business mtgs, so I guess that I will grown from him some sales man. Since he attended many sales mtgs 🙂 but that is faaaar faaaaar future 🙂

And in general I could see that he is very resistent against Edies love attacks. Edie loves his brother very much, so sometimes he rolls over him, he kisses him nearly to his death and tries to play different death games with him. But in general he used to call me when Carlito is crying. He tries to take care of him and if we are together he tries to play with him too 🙂 they are simple cute and creates nice folk.

Picture gallery:

more pictures you can f ind in Trencin trip
Carlitos second month album and Edies time too

Eduardo

His biggest success for this month was that he learned finally not to wear diapers and started to tell us for pee and pooh:)

During the time he is growing into the draculito man as we call him. He is very but very active and I think he is missing kinder. he needs to be walked outside for few hours per day or he is able to destroy house. but that is natural i guess.

He is very in love with all kids and also Carlito. he takes care of him and also wants lots of attention from me. Especially mornings are ours. When rest of the house is sleeping and he used to wake me up around 6 or 7am we go to have breakfast together and have caressing and hugging time. After I have to spend lots of time with Carlito.

He likes other kids a lot and whenever we are he loves to play with them. He loves sand yards and lego. His favourite toys are bagres and bulldozers. While seeing them on the street he is able to get lost. He forgets the world and he is able to be watching them for long time.

Edie loves to be taking things out of the shelfs and he does the mess around but he understands very well if he needs to clean its mess. There is just sometimes fight to do it.

He has many days moaning time. If he wakes up with his bottom first, then his hard to turn his mood, but can be managed too. by constant action. I let him cook with me, to clean, wash dishes, go fir shopping etc. I just need to make him bussy.

Edie has lot of fun with talking like “deda kakadak” – grandfather truck, kocicka, mysicka, he started to say colors and trying to mix czech and spanish. It is fun.

Edie is still very active, now even more and more. I’m spending with him lot of time outside just to spend his energy.

He is very much momy boy again. He wants me to do everything for him and he loves to be caressed and cared in general.

And now better than any words are better videos: