Monthly Archives: June 2013

2013 Week 25 – Kai Goes To The Beach

Kai goes to the beach

After 6.5 months Kai has finally made it to the beach.  I’m not quite sure how it would compare with his 9 months amniotic fluid experience, but I can definitely say he loved it.  He couldn’t wait for the waves to come crashing. He threw some sand, he splashed the water, but interestingly enough he never tried to eat the sand.  I have to say I was pleasantly surprised that he didn’t try to eat the sand.  He touched it, looked at it, probably thought “only a silly baby would try to eat this”, then he tossed it like a salad.  Hopefully he behaves the same way when he discovers dirt.

2013 Week 24 – Kai’s Father’s Day

Kai's Father's Day

I’m not 100% sure if Kai is aware of this, but he’s the reason for his father being able to “celebrate” father’s day for the first time.  It was a day filled with joy and laughter, but so is any other day spent with Kai  (even though he’s showing off his rude boy smile in this picture).  He’s my precious, however, I’m a bit hesitant to say that I’m his Smeagol.  Time will tell.  Love you Little Buddy!

2013 Week 23 – Kai Bounces Himself To Sleep

Kai Bounces Himself to Sleep

Around the time that Kai was 4 months old I was advised by my challenged cousin (**cough** Brenda **cough**) to purchase a bouncer for Kai.  Being the first-time-baby-father that I am, I Googled it, read tens of reviews, watched videos, and in about 30 minutes; maybe less, I made the purchase.  Two weeks later Kai was sitting in his bouncer and he hated it.  The first thing that came to my mind was that it served me right for following advice from a challenged family member.  But like most things in life, timing was the key.  A few days later Kai was back on the bouncer and loving it.  He jumps when he’s happy and he jumps when he’s mad (crying, screaming but still jumping).  Here we see him drunk off jumping

2013 Week 22 – Kai Is 1/2 Year Old (Kaimetrics)

Kai is 6 months old

Introducing first, from the Brown corner (Coley also but that’s not really a color), weighing 8.5 kilos, and standing (well, laying most of the time, but still) at 69 centimeters.  He hails from Panama City, Panama (with a little bit of Brooklyn), and is rated by ALL as the best kilo for kilo baby of the last 6 months.  With too many wins, all of them by way of love and Kainess, and 0 defeats.  He is the current Baby Weight champion of the world, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I INTRODUCE TO YOU THE ONE AND ONLY… Oh please, you know he needs no introduction.

For those of you who are metric system impaired, and too lazy to use Google to convert, Kai weighs 18.7 pounds, and he’s more or less 27.165 inches long (2′ 3″ for the NBA scouts)

2013 Week 21 – Kai, The R. Kelly Fan

Kai The R. Kelly Fan

Historically Kai has been very good with babysitters.  This time around it was his 11 year old (going on 21) cousin Cailin’s turn.  We had tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s Sunday showing, and we had to do what we had to do to make it there (awesome show by the way).

[After the show]
Me:  So how was he?
Cailin: He was good; he peed on me.

Yes that’s right, Kai is notorious for pulling his R. Kelly move on innocent bystanders.  He even smiles while doing it.  He got me almost every day when he first arrived; multiple times per day.  I blame myself for the lack of experience.  So I’ve been trying my hardest to remember if any R. Kelly tracks were playing in the background when sperm was trying to meet egg, but I’m older now and my long term memory isn’t as good as it used to be.  “I don’t see nothing wrong” – R. Kelly.

2013 Week 20 – Kai Self Medicates

Kai Self Medicates

Kai has been going through his “put everything in your mouth” phase for quite some time now, but these days it’s more than just for research purposes; it is his form of self medication in order to alleviate his teething woes.  Yeah, we purchased some teething toys for him, but he doesn’t have time to wait for mommy and daddy to get him what he needs, so he makes due; in this case by pulling on the jump through hoop of his Splash Mega Exersaucer.  I think Don Drapper was involved in the naming of this toy.  Genius!