I've been a very busy boy...

Hi all sorry i haven't been posting much lately but i have been a very busy boy!
Now the last time i posted was all about my 1st Christmas, but as you can guess there have been loads of things keeping both me and mommy and daddy busy since then...

So lets begin... during and just after the Christmas season we were busy house(or at least dog and cat sitting) for uncle Pierre and aunty Rene and also for uncle Sean, aunty Larine (also Thomas and "sunshine")so all in all it was 5 dogs and one cat! lots of fun...

Then came my 1st New Years, well that was also loads of fun, aunty Mel and uncle Andrew came and so did aunty Gerry and uncle Kevin and my friend Tyrone! we had a nice braai, (Tyrone and i pretty much polished off a big bag of flings between the two of us) and we then played for a while. But alas i didn't make it to see the New Year in... Mommy was mean and put me to sleep, it was all her fault!

I have also found a new hiding/play place i call it "Toy land's cupboard of fun" but mommy calls it " the Tupperware cupboard" this is a really fun game for me as i pull absolutely everything that i can get my hands on out of the cupboard and then climb in, and sit there like I'm on my throne,surveying my wondrous deeds of unpackment... (yes unpackment is my new word, i am the king, that's why i can make up my own words)

I have also been cruising now for a while BUT i have some new tricks too, i can pull up on gates and shake them like I'm in a prison movie, i can also climb up all the stairs at home now, i must admit it was quite funny the first time i did it, i gave mommy and daddy the fright of their lives!

Hmmm now what else can i do?
... oh yes i can stand unaided for about 15-20 seconds- this is my proudest accomplishment this year as it totally amazes both mommy and daddy, Yes i know I'm ammmazing! i just cant wait until i can walk, WOW it's gonna be great!

OK OK so it wasn't just me that's been busy, it's mom and dad too!
mommy has been busy planning my party- it's going to be such fun,I'm turning ONE! and practicing the cupcakes and chocolates so that when she has to make them for real they will ROCK! I love my mommy!

And daddy has been very busy at work, he has been building some new applications for the teams to use, he has made quite a few apps for me to even start explaining what each one does, but he is very good at it, he won two awards for it, the first award he got a really cool trophy and the second one he got a trophy and a 27" LCD screen for his PC at work(he has a BIIIGGG picture of ME on it) we are so proud of daddy, he is so clever, but he must just be careful because one day i am soooo going to be more clever than he is... hey dad watch out!

Oh yes i also have a new play friend, her name is Angeline and she comes on Thursdays, she is our new maid, i love to follow her around the house and watch her work- such fun!!

some things i love to do:

1) i love to swim





2) i love banging on gates





3) i love playing in Toy land's cupboard of fun




4) i love the beach




5) i love ice-cream






6) i love smiling




7) i love to pull my tongue





8) i love my dog

Our First Christmas!

Okay so I'm pretty sure that you have all gathered by now that this was Aidan's first Christmas, so you will then realize just how much excitement there was in not only our household but that of the Granny, Grandpa, and Noona and Goompa's homes too...

To say that mommy and daddy went a little crazy with the gifts, could, well, be an understatement, the floor under the tree was crammed with gifts and Aidan's stocking was,i guess you could say, overflowing...

Anyway our Christmas festivities really were extended this year, it all started with opening some pressies on Christmas eve with moms side of the family, then Christmas day we stopped by at Noona and Goompa's to give Nana and Granddad their little gift and was surprised to see that the little Mr got yet another noisy toy... however mommy doesn't mind it too much as it's not as bad as some of the toys that were around back in her day! After we left Noona and Goompa's we went home and had a lovely fruit breakfast and open (wait for it...) more presents and spent the rest of the day playing with our new toys.

On Boxing day we went down the coast to visit daddy's family, and lo and behold there were more gifts... Now both my toy boxes are full! Yes that's right i have two! Well i suppose everyone needs just a LITTLE spoiling at times...now we have enough toys for upstairs, downstairs and in a bag for when we go out!!!

Sleep Training...

So about 2 weeks or so ago, Andrew and i decided that it was time to start training Aidan to sleep in his cot, as he is too long and wriggly now to stay in the bed with us...

So this was how bedtime in the Bevan household happened, mommy and Aidan went to bed and Aidan would have his last feed and fall asleep, then later in the evening daddy would come to bed however by this time Aidan has almost successfully pushed mom out the bed and has laid claim to pretty much every inch of our queen size bed , mom and dad ended up practically sleeping on the seams of the bed whilst the smallest body of the lot, stretched out ,proud as a peacock with this feat that he managed to pull off once again! Now this was getting out of hand so we decided that it was time to train him to go down in his cot, we decide to put his camp cot into our room(so that he still has the same sights,sounds and can still smell his mom and dad's presence (nooo, I'm not talking about fart smells!)
Anyway night 1 was a complete disaster he nearly screamed the whole complex down when we tried to transfer this presumably sleeping baby into the cot...well that didn't work... anyway we waited a couple of days before we tried again, but this time mommy pulled out her DIY skills that she tends to hide, and totally disassembled Aidan's proper cot moved it through to her room and reassembled it next to her side of the bed,(now i didn't think that this would work either as he hates this cot just as much as the camp cot!)
Well that night we tried again expecting another sleepless night and after his feed next to mom, we rolled over and went into our cot! now the only time he comes into our bed is just before his bedtime to have his feed then again when (still sleeping - i might add) he climbs back in bed at round about 3-4am for his morning feed then low and behold he goes back into the cot after that...

Now this makes mommy so proud when she puts him there and he is content but last night he decided, "well OK I'm full of milk i think I'll just crawl into my cot on my own thank you very much!" that almost made my heart break because it made me feel like he didn't need my help anymore, he could now do it himself...
well anyway the point is, now all three of us have a decent chunk of bed to ourselves...

I was a GOOD boy this year, Father Christmas...

"I was a GOOD boy this year, Father Christmas... Now give me my present!" Not quite the words coming from Aidan as he sat on the FAT mans lap, it was more of a case of, "DUUUDE! I have never seen such a big grey beard like that before, are you sure it's real? if only i could reach it and give it a pull... But alas, my arms aren't long enough to get over this Fat belly!"
Oh well i guess i'll have to take his word for it!

Anyway besides not feeling totally 100% of my normal self we still had a great time at daddy's work with all the other children, even my friend Tyrone was there with aunty Gerry and uncle Kevin and his granny and grampa... there was so much food and things to see but my favourite part has got to be my funny bloon doggy that the nice fairy lady made for me, it looked like Aimee, ooooh yes and when i opened my present and saw a cool truck...
Man, it's sooooooo cool, its a blue tow truck with a red bumper and green tow hitch, but the reason it's super cool, has to be the tinted windows, i think i'm so cool cause i have a car, Wah wah wah wah wah!
well bye for now i'm going to go and have my nap and then when i wake up i'm gonna play with my truck... VROOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

Some cool breastfeeding facts

Found on: http://www.kellymom.com/writings/index.html

Did you know....

1.Human milk has over 300 ingredients, including interferon, white blood cells, antibacterial and antiviral agents, while formula has only 40 ingredients.

2.Human milk has been shown to kill cancer cells in a laboratory dish and has been used in oncology.

3. The human breast "custom-makes" antibodies to fight whatever pathogen the infant is exposed to in the environment.

4. Breast milk has been used to treat eye infections, ear infections, pimples, cold sores, and nail fungus and prevent infection in scrapes and scratches.

5. In some parts of the world, donated organs are bathed in breast milk for the protective factors.

6. There were 22 "significant" recalls of formula for potentially life-threatening situations.

7. Human milk lactoferrin is patented for use in killing E. Coli in the meat packing industry.

8. Donor milk is being used to treat malabsorption and short-gut syndromes, renal failure, inborn errors of metabolism, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, immunodeficiency diseases, burn cases, cardiac problems, and infectious diseases such as intractable diarrhea, gastroenteritis, infantile botulism, sepsis, pneumonia, and hemorrhagic conjuctivitis in both children and adults.

9. Adoptive moms, grandmothers, and yes, even men have been able to lactate for an infant.

As Thomas would say: " I'm a WEEEENA"

My Winning Picture!!!!

So this morning mommy got an email for Mommalicious Mamma's saying that 'I' (yes that's correct) 'I' won their Summer photo competition.
How cool am i? But let me not get a big head about this, i mean the other babies that entered were also very cute, anyone of them could have won it- HA HA HA but I DID!-
So this means that i have won the first of many contests to come...(as long as mommy doesn't enter me into those naffy beauty contests I'll be fine- please daddy, tell me u have my back on this one!!) because if i know anything about my mom, she will use anything to show off how good looking i am...
I don't know it's almost like she thinks she had some hand in my gorgeosity!( my new word- oxford dictionary will be calling soon)PHU-lease, i was the one doing all the hard work in the belly- i put in the hours!-ME!who do you think was up and busy working on my looks when mom was trying to sleep? HUH?! it was ME! the slacker was sleeping while i was busy!!! she dare not try take the glory with this one, i WILL fight for it, even if it means i must bite...oh yes, hold on, it doesn't take much to get me to bite, Wait for it... "CHOMP!" see i told you, any chance i get to sink these chompers into anything i take it!

So there you have it folks,as my friend Thomas always says: "I'M A WEEEENA!!!!"

All the things that have been keeping me busy

So i have been away for awhile because i have been very busy learning things...
i have learnt how to sit properly so now i don't roll all over the show and sit still and watch my Baby Einstein programs.

I have also learnt how to talk so mommy gets a big earful all day long, she is supposed to understand English... howcome she doesn't have a clue what I am saying when I keep saying LA LA LA LA LA all she responds with is : Yes Aidan LA LA LA LA, you such a clever boy! - YES! mom I know I'm a clever boy!! And they say mother's know everything... YEAH RIGHT! anyway that's that I can also say baba, dada,nun num(that is when I get food) I can also say ninganing which mom also has no clue what it means, but to be fair neither do I, I don't think, its just fun to say!

I can share now too, I learnt how to do that the other day, i like to share with Aimee, I have a bite of my biltong then i offer some to her, then i have more, then her again, she also shares with me... the other day she bought her bloody meat filled bone to me and left it there for me to chew on, when mommy realised it was Aimee's bone, she nearly flipped, naturally i thought it was funny when mom took it away from me and threw it outside and Aimee thought she was playing fetch and bought it back in...
I have also found a way of getting her to follow me when i'm in my walking ring,(which she normally runs and hides from because i chase her so much)i just drop a piece of my biltong in my walking ring seat and sit on it, then we go round in circles following each other, wow that is so much fun...

But man, have i been busy! not only mastering the sitting and talking, i have also learnt how to(well kinda) crawl,it just seems to take me forever to get from one place to the other and mom also sits and claps and says yay alot when i try,well forget it, i have also discovered that i can pull up and stand so now i have been 'cruising ' a bit it seems cool, but am i ever impatient to walk and run for real. That way i can play with Tyrone and Thomas and join them in running down the passage and not have to sit on moms lap- i can tell you how BOOORING that is!

But how cool is this, with all the standing and cruising i have been doing i had my first real ooops when i fell off the the small step into the pantry, now although i bit my tongue and bumped my head, it was mommy that nearly had a heart attack, (yes i did cry, but once mommy put me in the bath and i was surrounded by my toys i could have cared less)besides i think my bruise on my forehead looks kinda cool!
and i certainly think it impressed my little girlfriend, see aunty Candice had a baby on the 26th Oct- and she is my girlfriend! her name is Kyla- Lee and wow she is pretty, mommy said i must be gentle with her because she is small, and that when i touch her i must be soft with her Because of her soft baby skin...
anyway this is me signing off and saying sweet dreams to my girl! Mwah! ( yes mom that includes you too)