Marc's parents in town

I kind of like to call it a mini-vaca when we have guests. This time I was able to sleep in every morning -Fery would get him out of bed when he woke up at the crack of dawn and feed him breakfast. I would then wake up around 8/8:30. I went to yoga a few times, got a massage, ran a few errands, went to lunch with friends...it was so nice. Unfortunately Caiden was a bit sick while they were here so we spent a lot of time indoors. At the end of the trip we got out a few times and went to La Jolla Shores and Del Mar to walk around.

They spend a lot of time speaking to Caiden in Farsi and by the end of the week he would speak a few words like "bird" and "eat". We are also teaching Caiden to call Fery, "Mamani", which is as close as you're going to get to Grandma in Farsi and for Osi it is "Babai". He has totally got it down and I feel like it helps him not get confused calling both sets of grandparents "Grandpa" and "Grandma". And I think each set of grandparents like that they have their own names and aren't called the same thing ;)

This is at the playground. He just lays on the ground and stares up and points at the moon. He does this everywhere, not just this one time and strangers always get a kick out of it.

Sometimes he loves to hold your hand. He'll stand there and say, "hand, hand, hand" until you give it to him. This was one of those times. Sometimes he'll just walk me around the entire house with a big grin on his face.

At the beach he was obsessed with collecting as many rocks as he could and carrying them around.

Caiden's first bike ride

And he loved it! He had a huge smile on his face the entire time. We just went out for about 15 minutes around our neighborhood but I can't wait until we can take our bikes to Balboa Park or to Mission Beach and ride around.

Caiden's 18-month check-up

We had his 18 month check-up today. However he's been sick for a couple of days now so it was good and bad. Good because we were able to see the Dr. -bad because he wasn't able to get his shots so I have to go back in a few weeks when he gets better. Also, he hasn't been eating well the past few days so I feel like the weight they took of him wasn't accurate...pretty sure he's at least another pound heavier.

So back to him being sick. His canines are coming in for sure, one popped through earlier this week and the rest are so swollen and red that they have got to be popping through any day now. So earlier this week he had a clear runny nose and constantly fingers in his mouth and even waking up just crying with his fingers in his mouth so I was just thinking it was his teeth. Then by Wednesday he started developing a cough and a little wheezing. Same sort of stuff he had 2 months ago when we took him to the Dr. and they gave us an inhaler to help clear him up. It worked and after a few days it went away. At this appointment the Dr. said the same thing, they checked his oxygen levels and they were fine so he said to just keep using the inhaler until it gets better, shouldn't be more than another 3 days or so. Last night was brutal, he was up at 9pm and again at 1am for an hour...then up at 5:45am for the day. He wasn't breathing well at all and he was just so uncomfortable all night long. He seems to be doing so much better today so that's a good sign.

So they weighed him at 23 lbs. 12 oz. (42nd percentile), 32.1 inches long (34th percentile) and his head is in the 55th percentile. We'll go back in two weeks for the two shots he missed out on today and it will also be interesting to see what they weigh him at. After that we'll go back when he's 2 years.