Martin Gumucio

Last weekend saw a tremendous party for Aron and his third birthday. We decided it would be best to divide up the occasion into two different parties, one for the family and another for his friends. It turns out to have been a very successful decision since each day was just as much as any party-planner would like to handle
The bicycle present was so huge for him that he still can’t really admit that he owns one,

Thank you so much to everyone for making his days great!

It is very hard to believe, but two years have past since little Aron came to us. In one way the time has gone by so very quickly, and in another it is hard to even imagine what your life was like without him. So radical is the change in a parents heart that life without your kid turns into a faded memory.

With cake and champagne (for the older children..), we took up a little table in the sun where the kids could run freely and the grownups talk more or less calmly. Many friends and family joined us and Aron could well have been entirely without toys before this party, since there was a veritable flood of trinkets, toys, and adorable books for him. Extra fun was also the presence of the many other kids. Aron is a bit rough now, never late to push och pinch people of his own size, but the party managed to pass without great incidents.

Thanks to all of you who were there and made our evening a great one. Aron got so many impressions that it was very hard for him to go to sleep.  

Photos by Gabriel, here is the full gallery

Its a big day today. Yesterday Aron lost the last one of his left contact lenses. Its has been a morning routine since he was very small to wrestle him down and put in or take out the contacts. Up until this week he really disliked the procedure, but this week he actually let us do it himself! Its a very big step, since now that he is talking more and more, that kind of morning trauma isn’t the best way to start your day. So anyway, yesterday he lost the last one of his contacts. This is always a problem, since he is not supposed to be without them or his vision changes for the worst. We had no option but to ship him to daycare without contacts and with his pair of glasses instead.

Imagine my surprise when the following little guy comes to meet me at daycare when its time to pick him up!

He had been using his glasses for the whole day without any problems. Its the first day of his life with glasses, and its a great day.

It has been way too long since I posted updated pictures of Aron. Here we see him playing the piano and singing at his grandmothers house. He is very talkative and can now differenciate between a car, a bus, an ambulance and a truck. You might say his special interest is cars, very noticeable at his recent eye exam, in which he scored a much higher scores when trying to find cars compared to any other objects.

This is our last week in Fålhagen by the way, next week we will be moving to a bigger apartment a bit out from the central parts of town. The only bad thing about the move is that kids daycare does not move so easily. Its going to be interesting to cart him across town in the mornings..

L spent last week in South Africa on a conference, so for one week I got to live the hard and unforgiving life of the single parent. While the kind services of my mother made it possible to still work full-time the nights with him were mine and mine alone. Aron has never been very good at sleeping entire nights, in fact were got pretty upset when we found out that there is a special section of BVC that only deals with infant sleeping disorders, when the first year, and the worst period had already passed.

So anyway, what you see in the photo above is young Aron annecting the vacuum-hoover into his already extensive collection of carts. He got very annoyed later when his pushing it around was impeded by the fact that it was hooked up to cable and hose.