Sleeping Baby and Stuck Legs

Niran had been sleeping in his room since the middle of February. We left his pack n play in there and let him sleep in that until we got his crib in his room. We were putting that off until we could get his bedding set and have a bumper for him. When I realized we weren't going to get his bedding set anytime soon, I insisted we move him into his crib. 1st night: I wake up to a scream I've never heard before. Get to Niran's room, he had his led stuck in between the bars. I yelled for Dad to come help pull the bars apart and set him free. He slept in his pack n play in the living room. 2nd night: He went to bed just before we did, so he slept in the pack n play. I was a little paranoid. 3rd night: I wake up to that same scream again. Leg stuck and needed Dad's help. He finished the night in his pack n play. 4th night: Before we made it to bed, he was stuck again...We were done and decided he's sleeping in the pack n play until he gets a bumper. Luckily the next day after telling Aunt Brandi how he gets caught by himself, yet it takes two of us to set him free, she gave us a bumper pad to use. It's been only a few days and no stuck legs, although i have caught him with his feet on top of the bumper playing with the bars.


Friday night before going to bed I snuck in and checked on him, this is how I found him.




Understandable how he got his leg caught multiple times. I did move him after I got the picture.

Mom, You're Too Slow

I have to keep an eye on stored milk so it doesn't go bad. If there is some that is due to expire I give Niran a bottle just before bed. He knows exactly what that bottle means and gets ansy when I don't get in position fast enough. Niran finally decided to take the bottle from me when I didn't go fast enough. Of course I didn't fight him on it and let him try to get it in his mouth and he accomplished it after some work. Now if can only get him to uncurl his little hands to hold maybe it won't slip out so easily.

A Banded Boy

Dusty and I had been worried about Niran's "left looking" since day 1. We've done what we could to help him learn to look right. When we noticed a flat spot developing we asked his pediatrician who referred us to Cranial Technologies. It's a condition called plagiocephaly aka a flat spot of the head. Typically this corrects itself without any treatment, but our concern was Niran's desire to always look left along with doing everything with his left hand, so we went along with treatment to be on the safe side, which includes wearing a DOC Band.

The day we had him fitted for the Band was a bit rough. They put a stalking over his head and take digital images to make a cast of his head. He did not of course like the stalking and screamed and screamed. Of course as soon as it came off he was everyone's best friend again.


A week later we went back to get the Band. Niran let us put it on him and had no problem wearing it from the start. Some kids will have red or pink spots develope while they adjust, but Niran never got one. After reading the forums for Cranial Technologies, I thought the first week was going to be rough with possible one hour drives back for adjustments. Not with Niran, he started wearing it the 23 hours a day with the 1 hour off for cleaning and hygeine.


Dusty and I decided to decorate it so it didn't look so medical like. We were going to have someone paint it for us, but the only person we could find was on the west side of the valley and we'd have to spend the day over there. So we decided to decorate it ourselves. I took the first round of decorations and went with the theme from his bedroom. I used the wallpaper as my inspiration. I think it came out pretty well. We'll take it off in another week or so and let Dusty have his hand at it.


Today, was the first check-up, which happens once a week. His head is already changing shapes and some adjustments were made to accommodate them. Hopefully we won't have to go any longer than the original estimated time of 7-9 weeks.


The giraffe obviously had his perfect spot!

Punching Bag

When the nephews come over they have any toys to play with, so when KB Toys was closing we took advantage of those great prices. We got the kids cars and pieces to a city, and etch-a-sketch (Caitlyn didn't what that was...it's a classic!), and a spiderman punching bag. I thought I'd get the toys out of their packaging and the punching bag blown up. I guess you can say Niran enjoyed it.

2 weeks vs 6 months

Brandi gave us bouncy chair for Niran. We couldn't get him to stay in it until he was about 5 months. We had to use it as a new distraction for him while we made dinner. I told him to enjoy it because he won't have much longer in it. I later looked over to find him comfortable with both legs up and chewing on his thumb. After I took a picture I realized this is a great comparison shot. Wow...that's all I have to say.

2 weeks old...I think this one of 2 times we could get him this without screaming.

6 months. He really enjoys it now. It can chew on the toys and can start the music on his. I think he's getting close to 20 pounds and max weight is 25, so he doesn't have much longer in it.

Sweet Baby Smiles

Niran is a very happy baby. Our neighbor came over this morning while I was pulling weeds and played with him for a while. She can't believe how happy he his. I can, Dusty and I still don't really know what to do with a crying baby. We haven't had enough practice yet. But here are some big smiles for you.

New Veggie

Well, we went back to sweet potatoes after peas. Same result, so we are going to wait a month this time. We tried Summer Squash last night. I think Niran just likes to eat. He doesn't really seem to dislike foods, but he has soooooo many more to try.

He was getting mad waiting for his food. That's the first bite just going in. He was okay with it after that and continued watching tv.

It's Spring Time!

We bought Niran a pool last week. Just in time for him to spend one afternoon splashing around and then to put it away because it cooled off too much. Well, we got it back out yesterday to enjoy the weather. This time I had dad take a couple of pictures. Niran's going to be a little water baby like his Dad is and his Mom was.

Mom a bit anxious to let him play in the pool. He had fun when we added more water.

Moobie loves ears. Specifically, he loves to clean. When he cleaned Niran's ears he caused a twitch.
Hok almost jumped in the pool with Niran. Mom caught it just in time. We have to keep an eye on all the dogs. They enjoy giving Niran kisses...on the mouth...eeewwww! Hok still does the best. Niran can scratch at him and pat him and he doesn't care. Hok didn't like it when Niran grabbed an ear while he was walking by, but nothing bad happened, mom just reached up and released his fingers.

Dusty's Birthday Weekend

Dusty has a custom of celebrating his birthday the following weekend. Actually it's a superstition. He won't celebrate early, he'd hate to jinx his day. The celebration does in fact start after 10:oo am on his birthday, but the real party doesn't start until the weekend.

Well, his weekend started Friday with a movie date with his bestfriend Ryan. Actually, Niran and I joined them for dinner and then they went and saw Watchmen, while Niran and I ran errand errands and went home and took a nap before driving back into town to pick him up. Why didn't I go with them to the movie as well? We weren't able to find a babysitter for me to join. Dusty loved the movie and can't wait to take me to see it. Any babysitters?

Saturday was another dodgeball tournament. Granted it was over an hour drive for us to the tournament it was well worth it. The boys, with the help of their coach Brandi, managed to sweep the tournament and took home gold medals. It's been mentioned by Dusty, Brandi and McKay that I have many shots of Jeremy. Yes, I know, but he was closest to me while I was protecting my son from poorly setup of the dodgeball courts. But just for everyone, here's my favorite shot of Jeremy. Oh and some of Dusty and the other players, including them with their medals.

Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but I'm pretty sure that's a shot of Dusty in action.

Brandi is not getting ready to run, she's coaching. I made her move over so I didn't cut her off. Afterward I realized I made her look like a player. And they're off!
Gold medals!!!

So as I looked through the pictures to see which I would put up. I realized, my camera was not very willing to take good photos of them in motion. This could be because I didn't have it on the correct setting and it could also be because I did not use the flash. My camera thinks it is moving around like crazy without the flash. At the next tournament I'll make the appropriate adjustments

Sunday, Dusty did not wake up sore like he thought he was. Hoo-ray! But we did have to jump into the car nice and early and head up to Tempe for the Angels vs Giants spring training game. Yay!! Niran's first game. Although, this was not the original plan. Our babysitter wasn't going to be able to watch him at 9:30 when we needed to head into town for the game, so we had to settle with taking him to the game or not going at all...or both. Let me explain. I was excited for this one since I grew up watching the Giants. I sported my Giants hat and Niran sported his Giants tee and new hat! I wasn't able to take Dusty out to dinner for his birthday since we had a ton of extra bills this month and I wasn't able to go see the movie with Friday night. I finally got to participate in a birthday event! We drove into town, swung by our friend's house just in time to pick him up and get to the field on time. We got to our seats with about 15 minutes to spare. Everything was going great until the announcer gave out some important information about refraining from throwing items on the field. Apparently Niran wasn't too pleased with this information and began to cry. Wait, scratch that. He began to scream. Dusty and I ended up in the family restroom doing everything we could to quiet this little boy down. When nothing worked we agreed that we needed to leave. So we found our friends and informed them we would be leaving and we'd pay them back the $50 for the tickets. When I realized that was a lot of money for us to come up with at this point in time, I asked Dusty to stay and have his friend meet me half way to pick him. Luckily he said yes, so only $25 is owed. Phew! Niran was kind enough to scream all the way home. A full hour and half drive. When we got home, it still took me another hour to get him to sleep which lasted 15 minutes. When the game was over...the Angels won...bad news to me, I headed up to Chandler to hang out with friends and happily handed over a screaming 5 month old to his father and Uncle Ry-Ry. Dusty asked if I had tried orajel. Yes, probably a little sooner than I needed to, but I did try it. He decided to try some more but on all his gums. Who would have thought that was all he needed, a completely numb mouth. In the end I got to enjoy an evening with Dusty and friends during his birthday celebration. Enjoy the pics from the game Dusty enjoyed attending!

About 5 seconds to scream mode.

A sea of red. How many do you think are true Angels fans or are just cheering them on because of close proximity?

Dusty acting as a Giants fan in place of me! He can be the Dusty Baker of spring training! If only they still had him...

Jason and Dusty

Score: 8-1 Angels

Dancing Baby

Niran was hanging out in his walker and Dad went dancing by in front of him. He laughed and started dancing to. Dad stopped a danced with him for a bit.

Random Events

Just some shots of Niran doing his thing.

I got a massage pillow for my birthday and Niran loves it. Just put it on his belly and the giggles begin!

I love the walker. It keeps him occupied for so long. He enjoys watching Sesame Street in the morning. As soon as Elmo is on the screen he just laughs. I didn't get the video rolling in time.

On Dad's XBOX Live account he keeps a shot of Niran update monthly. This is them working on the perfect picture. Niran would sit still until he saw himself on the tv and then he'd get so excited he dance and ruin the shot. This is usually a 30 minute task.

I needed to run into the mall the other day. I knew he hadn't taken a decent nap for the day, but I figured I'm running in and out he can survive. Notice he clunching that frog. I don't like to forget that when we leave the house.

New Kicks

Niran needed some new shoes. He doesn't fit into a bunch of his shoes ranging from sizes 1, but the 3s are still way too big and we don't have size 2s. I take that back. I'm pretty sure we have dress shoes in 2s, but he needs something to wear every day. My mom bought him a pair of size 2 tennis shoes. They would have looked great with jeans, but they didn't even come close to fitting. While I was at Target I found some sandals and since everyone thinks Niran has great toes for sandals I bought them. He'd rather eat his sandals right off of his feet. Luckily he doesn't hate them!