Martin Gumucio

Simon is just on the verge of starting to walk, he now stands up against furniture and walks along it. As always his mentor in all things Aron is pushing him forward towards new goals.  Here  you have some photos of Simon from yesterday when we visited some friends, all photos by @bostbstr

I am enjoying the first calm week in a while, with no special agenda to fill my evenings I am using the time to just relax and sleep. It turned out it was a good week to do so because Aron and Simon are both having trouble sleeping. Aron wakes up at 5am after a restless night, and that is on a good night. On bad nights he wakes up almost every hour. Thankfully we just completed a campaign to promote rest and sleep with Aron so now he at least accepts the fact that he has to sleep in his own bed.

Anyway as I’m writing this it’s soon 8 am and I have been up for 3 hours.

Simon weighs in at 9 kilos now for his 5 month bday. He has a wonderful calm about him, completely different from Arons red-hot temper at the same age. He has just started joining us at the table when we eat, and loves crunching up newspaper paper with his little hands and is just getting the motor skills to identity toys, grab them and drop them on the floor.

December was such a cramped month, that I haven’t had the chance to blog about this before. The 13:th of december 2009, we baptised Simon Alexander Gumucio Bergström!

Three babies were getting baptised during the ceremony that took place in the church of Helga Trefaldighet, a sweet little chapel from the 11:th century.  Aron was a champion and sat with us at the front the whole time without making a scene. December is a difficult month, and Simon can count many relatives that live outside of town, but to our great joy almost everybody could attend,  making this a great party.

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I just wanted to share this photo of Simon with you. It’s from our visit today to the eye doctors in Stockholm where Aron tested his eyes. Aron did very well indeed on the tests and will now officially make the move from contact lenses to normal glasses. It is going to feel very strange to suddenly stop  the daily struggle with him to wear the contact lenses, but we know that he will appreciate the change.

This also means that today was our last visit to St Eriks barnsjukhus, they have tended to Arons ocular needs for the first part of his life, he got his first contact lens prescription here at the age of two months. Thanks for everything!

Simon now weights 7.6 kg and is 63 cm tall. Not bad for someone just turning2.5 months old!

Another week zipped by, a very social one this time. While I was away in Sundsvall for a work conference we had visits from K and A, and we promise you that there will come a time when coming here wont be like a huge work-camp for you guys! Thanks for all the help. A & C also payed us a visit and we hope they had a good visit in the big city.

Aron had a rather nasty accident on thursday when he managed to tilt our bar-cupboard on top of himself and one of the mirrors broke. He cut his face, but thankfully needed no stiches. We got quick and professional help and he is now back to his former self, but now with stories about “Erik” the nurse who helped him. He also wants to clean our faces and put band-aids on them, hopefully soon he will be back to 100%.

Simon is doing great, growing like crazy! Yesterday is his date to get weighted and measured, it’s going to be interesting to see what his stats are, he already feels like he is approaching Valentina in size,

Link tip for today:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/18/obama-team-continues-effort-isolate-fox-news/