Sunshades

This little boy is ridiculous.  We got a pair of sunglasses from a friend of ours and decided to use it today since it was soooo beautiful out.  We put the shades on JD, and he LOVED it.  So stinking cute.

Sick

You've probably all heard about the flu epidemic.  Well, my house has been sick off and on for probably the last month with the cold or something like that.  Luckily, JD hadn't caught any of it... until now!  It started off with a cough which got a little worse.  I mentioned the cough to the doc at his 4 month appt.  Well, it got worse so we took him in again a week later.  They confirmed it was not the flu nor was it the RSV virus.  It's pretty much a cold that we have to wait out.  Don't tell that to JD...  he's been pretty miserable with a nagging cough and what sounds like a sore throat.  Therefore, he has not been sleeping and thus his parents have not been sleeping neither!  I bet he did this to teach us a lesson about complaining about his 1am feeding!  I guess I won't complain about those anymore!  As of today, he seems to be coughing up the drainage and other crap which I guess is a good sign.  We're just waiting for his voice to return to normal, eating back to normal, and of course sleeping back to normal!  So keep all your kids safe by keeping them away from other sick kids and adults!

2nd Week of School

JD has now completed 2 weeks of daycare.  The daycare he's at has video monitors for us to be able to view him if we want to.  I probably log in once a day if I remember to.  He always seems to be enjoying himself so much.  He gets a daily report card which tells me he doesn't seem to sleep very much at school.  I guess this means he's playing???  Well once he gets home, we play with him and feed him, and he's pretty much tired at 7pm!  Be it good or bad, I don't know!

I definitely see how hectic life becomes when you have 2 people working and trying not to eat out every meal.  This only causes me to have to plan my week and meals out in even more detail than I've ever done before.  And if you know me, I have always planned my meals out!

I think we're going to try some crock pot ribs this week.  I'll let you know how those turn out!

Merry Christmas!!

This Christmas, hubby decorated our big tree and didn't even put out any of his superhero decorations!  I guess that's appropriate since we have a little boy now? 

We did decide that we should look for a small tree that JD can decorate with the superhero ornaments for next year.  Luckily, I saw that Hobby Lobby was having a 66% off sale on Christmas trees so hubby went by on Christmas Eve and got JD this tree below which hubby went ahead and decorated with his superhero ornaments!

We weren't sure if we wanted to get Santa pictures this year since he's so young and has no clue who or what Santa is.  We happen to run across one that didn't seem to require us standing in line for 4 hours, so we said 'why not?'  Santa looks awesome, doesn't he?

Lastly, JD has been wearing every holiday outfit he has for a few days now.  Below is a quite notably cute one.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

JD 1 Month Birthdey

My little man, JD, turned 1 month on 10/13/12.  My parents and sisters came up to help celebrate.  Here's a link to some details on the 1 month celebration:
http://www.babycenter.com.sg/baby/traditions/chinese-full-moon-celebration/

For the most part, we just have food and a small "ceremony" where you essentially in a nutshell wish good luck and prosperity to the infant.

Here is a picture of the food from the event.  There is fresh fruit, mini eggrolls, stir-fry noodles, stir-fry vegetables dish, black bean fish, crab rangoon, and 2 different asian desserts.

I made carrot cake cupcakes as well:







Finally, here are 2 pictures of JD at 1 month; one with a oneies on and one as the lil naked boy!

 

 

Final Progression Pics

I was finally able to update my "belly progression pictures" to include the last picture taken before I had to delivery the little guy (JD).

It's amazing to see the progression.  I can tell ya I was getting pretty miserable with the sheer size of this thing towards the end.  No telling how big JD woulda been if he went to a full 40 weeks!

Back Again

Hello, it's been almost a month now!

I guess I brought it upon myself b/c last post on 9/10, I said I was bored.  Well, little man showed up and was born on 9/13!  I'm not bored anymore!

So, I've been home for 3 weeks now.  We have a pseudo schedule... I guess as well as you can with a 3 week old.  He's been doing pretty good at night, i.e. just waking up twice.  I guess I'm lucky that I've always functioned in life with what many people would consider minimal amounts of sleep (~6 hrs) so I've been managing with getting up around 1am and again at 4am to feed him.  It is still very tiring to just sleep 2 or so hours and have to get back up again.

All well worth it at the end.  He's so stinking cute!  How do you get mad or stay mad! 

 

I am taking a picture a day of him so if you would like the link to this Picassa picture book, message me so I can send you the link!

Progression

When I was in school, I was all over everything.  It's like you're so busy that you don't have time to mess around so you get things done!  Now, that school is done laziness has ensue.  I don't want to do ANYTHING!  I'm just sitting around, growing bigger, and keeping track of things I should be doing.

I've compiled all my weekly photos of myself into one ppt and will share it below to show you how I am growing.  It's amazing the changes when you see one picture at a time.  I can definitely feel him.  During my last appointment, the doc said "that's all baby right there and he doesn't have any more space!"

Life in 3D

I had found one of those Groupons for a place that did 3D/4D sonograms.  I figured it was on sale so why not??

Here is probably the best picture of lil man:

Here is one of him picking his nose.  He's such a boy.

Finally... A Break

I finished my final at 7:45am yesterday.  It's official; I'm done with school for this semester.  Only 4 more classes to go.  Needless to say, I'm taking a break this fall.  It'll be the first time I haven't had any classes since the Fall of 2009!  I need this break.  I'm ready to do some organizing around the house to get ready for my little man's arrival. 

Baby Shower

My friends threw me a baby shower a few weeks ago.  It was pretty low key (how I like things) and consisted of food, friends, and creative oneies decorating!

Cheese tray

Blue punch + safety ducks!

 Spanakopita (spinach pie)

 Veggie tray

 Baked brie and crackers - my fav!

 Diaper cake

 Fruit salad in a beautifully cut watermelon bowl

 Baby boy shower cookies

Below are examples of some extremely creative oneies... 

And here is Ranger patiently waiting for his brother err food to be dropped on the floor!

Thanks everyone for spending this special day with me and the boy!

Soybean's Revelation

So, not that it was not official before, but it's even more official now.  I'm 19 weeks pregnant and expecting a baby Boy!  We've nicknamed this kid Soybean for the last 12 weeks simply because it was once the size of a bean at the time and the soy just gives it an asian flair.  Now that we know "it" is a boy, I guess it'll be called Soy Nuts???   =)  Nevertheless, I'm glad Ranger and Oliver will have a boy to keep them busy.  The two pictures below are from today's sonogram.  This kid was a MAJOR stinker.  He had his legs crossed and was being shy.  Even the doctor said she hadn't had a stinker like this for at least a month.  She made it her personal goal to win, and she did since we got the revelation!  He was very calm this time (especially compare to the trampoline-like episode of the last appointment).  Perhaps *cross your fingers* this is an indication of how he'll be once born: calm!

Soybean Smiling

Confirmation of the Boy!