Tips for going to the beach

It is summer and all of us are thinking how to make an escape to the beach, where you can breathe the smell of the sea and to relax on the hot sand with a cold drink.... mmm just amazing.

Everytime we took towel, cream and some food to eat, and a ball to play. Yes... this was 2 years ago, but now I have to think on 3 of us and not just 2. I don´t want to say that it is too difficult, but as well it is not as easy as when you go without children. Here I would like to share from my own experience what you really need to go to the beach, because first time I was thinking that I need to take all our apartment with us :D.

I prefer not to mention which one is more important and which one less, because each mum has to decide for herself what her child really needs.

1. Suncream 50SPF, are you or aren´t you agree, without this thing you just don´t have to go to the beach. Their skin is very delicate and it needs a lot of protection.

2. Towel, I think that even you won´t go without this to the beach.

3. Cap.

4. Swimsuite.

5. Food, water... a lot of water. Here you decide which food do you need. In my case I used to buy already prepared children food from the supermarket, as it is under vacuum and it lasts more, and here I ´m sure that after 3-4 hours he can eat this. You can take as well prepared food from home, but I don´t try as I don´t want to get disappointed at the time when he needs to eat this.

6. Inflatable bath.

7. Toys. My advice here is take just few toys, and little ones, so you won´t have a lot to cary on. In our case always Damian is playing with a plastic bottle, things that found there and very few times use his toys.

8. Parasol.

9. Dipers, wipes, and changing clothes. (I think that this is a kit, that you always have to take with you, not just at the beach)

10. Camera. You just want to save these great moments from his childhood :)

11. And last but not least... a lot... a lot of energy, your child would never get you bored. :)

Wish you´ll have a lot of fun with your baby.

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First haircut experience

I know that I´m not too active on my blog, but no worries I have a lot of things to share with you my dear readers. Damian is growing up and a lot of interesting things are happening in our little family. I will try to share with you these moments as quickly as I can.

Today I want to share our first experience at hairdressing salon... here I would like to mention that the images below were taken almost 1 month ago when we were preparing our sunshine for his  first birthday.

As all things that you are doing for the first time, makes you feel nervous, this moment as well created ourselves a lot of emotions. We were looking for some time the place where to make the haircut, and we have chosen one that is special for children. The one that we´ve chosen has a lot of stuff that your child doesn´t get bored and enjoys the process. Maybe for a grown-up child it is just perfect, but not all of the children are similar, someone are crying more somone less. When we have chosen  this hairdress we´ve seen a lot of little children crying as they didn´t understand what was happening. So, we were prepared for the worse... but, I think in our case we were very lucky. I  want to say that it wasn´t just perfect, and Damian wasn´t staying at the same place, and of course, he got nervous... but as a brave man he didn´t cry.

The good thing is that in  these hairdressing salonsm specialized on children, they know how to make the haircut quickly and how to  make feel your child better. In our case they prepaired a special chair, that looks like an automobile, they have put cartoons and less than 5 minutes our child  was ready to go. It was so quickly as we were surprised of a good and quick service.

I want to mention as bigger gets your child as more he enjoys sitting in a specialized hairdressing salon. I´ve seen girls and boys who were very happy to spend time in there.

How was your first haircut experience?

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1st of June - International Children´s Day

In many countries, including Moldova, where I am from, today is celebrated Children´s Day. It is a very beautiful tradition, as today you can see a lot of children playing in parks and as well a lot of things prepared exclusively for them on the streets in all towns of Moldova. I think, here in Spain today was a normal day, nothing exclusively important. But, we were thinking to make this day a little bit special, so we´ve opted to go on the place where always are a lot of children... guess where... of course an amusement park. So, we went to Tibidabo Amusement Park (www.tibidabo.cat), apart of a lot of attractions,  it  has a marvelous view over Barcelona, and of course we´ve done some pictures.

Damian likes watching how children are playing, he even can stop playing himself just to see what are doing children bigger than him.

Have a good day my darlings!!!

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I´m a big boy! I´m 1 year today!

Being a mum it is a nicest thing that could happen in my life, and today I´m feeling like it is my second birthday. Isn´t this strange? ....no, in case you are a mum.

As it is Damian´s first birthday we wanted to create something special for him, it was a little bit difficult if we take into consideration that he doesn´t understand that it is his birthday. So, we´ve opted for very colourful things today, that he can feel that today is a special day, no matter what is happening, but it is special for him.

All the decorations we were preparing during the last two weeks me and my husband, all the ideas came from pinterest and youtube, nothing new I think. If you want to create a nice party, just go there and you´ll find millions and millions of ideas. The only one thing you need is time and pacience.

We have choosen yellow, as it is our favourite colour, as well we were thinking about green, but we thought that it will be too much to combine more than one colour. See below how we´ve decorate our living room :)

We have printed 100 images, for creating this wonderful number one, with all the brightest moments during last year.... but in case you want to do it as well, you just need 50 as much.

Pom-poms are done by me, pinterest - my teacher :)...and how you like our big number one?

It is too much of number one.... are you sure?... no, I think it is good enough :)

Of course, how without a family portrait. And Happy Birthday our little sunshine!

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Carnival

This week was Carnival in Barcelona and all nurseries and schools are preparing different things each day, like drawing the face, put different shoes, pijama and so on. Each school or nursurey has its own agenda, but as an idea it is the same everywhere. The most interesting thing is that even adults dress up or masquerade during the celebrations, which marks an overturning of daily life. Yes it sounds very interesting and actually it is, but for me it was the largest week that could be and I am feeling very tired.

As I didn't have children before :) and during these years of living in Barcelona I have never participated in Carnival I didn't know about this week. On Monday when the nurse told me about this week and gave me a piece of paper with the program of all the week, I put in practice all my imagination to create something interesting for my child.

The first day, that was Monday, all the children had to had two different pairs of shoes so on one foot one shoe and on other another shoe with another color or form. This day we didn't participate as I didn't know about this. On Tuesday it was pijama day.

On Wednesday we had to draw Damian's face. Specially for this task I bought make up that you can draw on babies faces, as well it is important no to leave it for a long time. We opted for something unusual and it was little tiger.... rrrrrr.... our little tiger on that morning was moving so much, as on the picture you can see the third version of make up... and of course all the clothes or things which were nearby were full of these colours.

On Thursay we had to masqarade in somebody unusual, I opted for Mikey Mouse... here I would like to mention that on Monday night I was sewing Mikey Mouse ears and I think that these look pretty good.

And Friday, the last and interesting one. We had the task to bring a bonnet or any other thing for the head.... I bought a bee bonnet, very beautiful and very big as it was perfect for my head, so the night before I was spending on modifying the size of the cap. As well this day was important as in nursery the girls were preparing some costumes to all children and we (all parents) were invited to look at them how beatiful they are and how they are singing songs.... obviously that mine was not singing... but it was great to have a look to other children.

The funniest moment was that Damian fall asleep just before all the show started, and we made very few images. The personage that was represented by boys in the nursery was Pocoyo, very famous here in Spain.

Enjoy the pictures as I'm going to sleep, we love our readers!!!

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Toys everywhere.

I know that people who have babies know how it is to clean your house and in less that an hour all the toys are everywhere in the house and like you haven't cleaned before. In our case is the same, nothing special :), they are babies and they want to play.
Till this week we had no toys for playing with them in the bath. We were looking for perfect ones some days, actually we were thinking to buy these kind of toys some time before, but with our super busy life we were postponing this and also we were thinking that he is little and won't know how to play with them. But after having these toys I can firmly tell you that you have to buy to your child these toys earlier than we've done.
The advantages of buying these toys are: the ones that we bought are small enough and he can hold in his little hands, there is a lot of fun while bathing (I advice you to buy bathe toys in case that your child doesn't like bathing), these toys are very colourful and you like to look at them and help to develop motor skills. Damian likes bathing, but with toys it is somethig special, and he is so amuzed that he is smiling and shouting all the time we are bathing him.
Disadvantage: in case that you bathe your child in the room (as we do) be prepared that all the room will be full of water, because he is playing with toys and drizzle almost all the water that you prepared for him. We are thinking to prepare the bathroom (to heat bathroom specialy for Damian) and to bathe him there.
Below you can see some pictures of these lovely toys.
   

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9 months' vaccine

Yesterday our sunshine were 9 months. Each birthday is a great day, even if we are not celebrating each month, every month I make a photo of him, then to have in our family archive all the way he is growing. As well at 9 months we have to make our routine revision at pediatrician and as it was not possible to do it yesterday we went today. These revisions suppose to have a look at his eyes, ears, weight and how large is he and in some cases to vaccinate. Today we had to vaccinate for the third time with Prevenar 13. As mentioned in previous article about vaccines this vaccine had to be injected at 4, 6, 9 and 15 months.

Prevenar 13 is indicated for active immunization for the prevention of invasive disease, pneumonia and acute otitis media caused by serotypes Streptococcus pneumoniae included in the vaccine in infants and children from 6 weeks to 17 years old. As our child is going to the nursery and every day we are going with him in public transport we thought that it is very important to make this vaccines.

I was afraid that Damian will cry, but he was crying just in the moment of vaccination, then he was acting like nothing happened to him. As well after each vaccine some children can have fever as a reaction, thanks God Damian is ok, I hope that during the night it will remain the same.

As a conclusion my child is ok, he has 8840g and 73 cm.... BIG BOY!!! And we are very happy.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day my dear readers and dear mums!

I'm sure that even if you are not celebrating this beautiful tradition, all of you are thinking about their lovers, their family and friends. We are full of life, energy and big emotions in this day... but I wish you that this feeling to stay with you always as there is no reason to show your love only today.

This year is the first year when Damian is with us and I feel like my heart is beating twice as it is beating for my husband and as well for my son. He is our Cupidon, who shows us how much we love each other. I love my husband and I love my child.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you!!!

We love our readers...

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First steps...

When did your child begin to walk?

I would not say that Damian begins walking at his 8 and a half, but as I know there are children who are walking at this age...he is just trying to do this. All the evenings we help his muscles to be prepared to walk alone, with helping him go with us or with a baby-walker, as well helping him staying on his feet alone by keeping by a chair or sofa. And for sure, massage his feet before sleeping.

He is not crawling on all fours, and at the seven months I was a little bit worried, as I have heard and read that almost all the children at this age are crawling on all fours and in case they are not crawling they are staying on two feet. Damian liked to stay on feet almost from 5 months and a half, but he wasn´t walking... till grandpa showed him how to do this :). From 7 months and a half he began to do his first steps, little ones, but for us it was a really big success. Now he is performing and he is walking quicklier and you have to run after him, and in case we leave him in a baby-walker he is walking by himself. The bad thing is that we cannot leave him for a long time in a baby-walker, as he becomes bored and sometimes even begins to cry... but I would like to mention that baby-walker is a great invention as it can save 10-15 min for you, and for things you have to do.

It is hard to mantaint his walking pace, but we try to enjoy this, as each moment of his growth is priceless, and never it will be repeated.

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Constipation or diaree? What is worse?

Thanks God, during 8 months that will have Damian on Monday, I didn´t have the problem with diaree, but I know a mum who suffered a lot because of diaree on her baby. When this mum told me that her son had diaree, I was thinking that how good is that, because at that moment I was trying all things possible that my son wouldn´t be constipated. Now, looking to the past I´m gratefull that my son didn´t have this problem, as this affects theirs growing and this affects you a lot when you see that your son is putting just 500g when it is normally to put 1000g or 1500g, or worse when your child is not growing at all and this is worse.

But not having one problem, I had another, constipation. My problem was that Damian was constipated, and not just when were intorduced solid food, but also when he was eating exclusively my breast. I was trying a lot of things: glicerine (the worse thing that you can do to your baby), enema (special for babys), eupeptina powder (powder to drink with water) and giving him right food.

I know that a lot of you when is reading that I tried glicerine or enema on my baby is thinking that I´m a crazy mum, but nope, I don´t think so, just because my baby at that time was crying a lot and couldn´t have the power to do his poops. I was really disperate as it is my first baby and when you are not giving nothing more, just your breast and you cannot do anything else to help your baby. I am accepting that maybe I don´t know what to do, but there is a solution.

As all of you know babies are growing fast, mine as well :D. Pediatrician told us, that is the worse thing that I have done was glicerine, because even if he is crying he must do his poops alone without any external help and that it is normal that a breast feeding baby is not doing poops for 7 days. What??? Really??? Is there any mum that will leave her baby more than 3 days crying and trying? I´m not one of these...sorry.

My next trying was eupeptina powder, sorry I don´t know how it is in English, it is a powder that is mixed with water...YESSSSS, this helps, if only your baby will permit you to put this into his mouth, and this is very difficult. And as well you have to give Eupeptina till he is doing regularly his poops. We were giving when it was possible, and this didn´t help a lot.

So, our last trying was giving him right food like plums, apples, pears, pods. Later I will share with you some porridges with these ingredients. Now, we have more than 2 months that we don´t know what is constipation, and we are very very happy.

This was our way to find a solution for constipation. Hope you didn´t have these problems, but in case you had, please share your experience.

Love you, see you on the next post. xoxo

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I LOVE Barcelona !!!

We moved from Chisinau (Moldova) to Barcelona for almost 3 years ago... young, freshly graduated with a lot of hopes and dreams looking for new opportunities and new adventures. From first day I felt in love in this big city and this love didn´t change during this time... more than that this feeling is growing each time I found a new place to go. I hope that Damian will love this city as much as we do and that he will be proud that he was born here.

Why I am talking now and not early about this wonderful city on my blog... you will ask... just because I didn´t have the opportunity to see this city with Damian and all the photos that we have were without him. Now, my parents were on holidays here and as it was theirs first time when they came to Barcelona I was trying to show a lot of places that tourists won´t go, or won´t have time to go.

Enjoy the photos !!!

In almost all of the images Damian was sleeping... as all kids do on fresh air :D
P.S. A lot of our dreams come true during these 3 years, one of our big wish was Damian, and now he is growing so fast that sometimes I feel like living in a dream.

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