Days of our Laives

These posts must be getting pretty boring!  Oh well, not very many people read this blog anyways. Breakfast:  - 4 oz milk  - buttered toast  - 4 large strawberries Lunch  - Chicken poridge with peas Dinner  - Linguini in butter  - Scrambled egg yolk  - Steamed broccoli  - Avocados Dessert:  - Apples Today was the first time I gave Kira apples.  I think many people would find that shocking and wonder why I hadn't given her apples sooner.  The only reason why I have not given Kira apples is because I wasn't confident that she could chew them!  Even today I sliced them paper thin so that she wouldn't swallow a big chunk.  She liked the apples. I usually give Kira a snack in the middle of the day, but these past few days I have not, as you may have noticed reading the food diaries.  Lately she has been waking up very early in the morning.  By the time 11 am rolls around, she's very very sleepy.  She will fall asleep in a chair if I let her.  A late morning nap means she wil...

Today's Menu Breakfast:  - 4 large strawberries  - 1/3 cup cheerios  - 8 oz milk I offered her a slice of cheese, but she didn't want it.  I'm thinking I might scramble an egg yolk for her to test her appetite. Lunch:  - rice poridge with chicken drumstick  - steamed broccoli  - water Dinner:  - stir-fried chicken thigh mixed with green and yellow zucchini  - rice We will also grill some lamb and maybe I will give her a taste of that, too. It's nice having her meals all planned out in the morning.  That way I'm not trying to think up of something at meal time!

Yesterday was an arduous day!  I had a dentist appointment at 9:30 am; that is very early.  Making it to the dentist at 9:30 means I need to leave the house at around 8 to drop off Logan at daycare and then to drop off Kira at my mom's house.  We ended up leaving at 8:30 instead of 8, and I arrived at the dentist office at 9:45.  It didn't help that I woke up several times in the early morning thanks to the heat and humidity.  We could leave our AC on all night, but doing that makes me feel wasteful. Before we left for the dentist, Kira had 8 oz of milk.  I took along with us some sliced peaches, one slice of cheese and about 1/2 cup of cheerios.  Usually, Kira is pretty good about eating her breakfast, but since she was at my mom's house, she was too distracted to eat.  She would eat the peaches or the cheese.  So my mom scrambled an egg for her, and she took a few small bites of that.  She did eat all of the cheerios though. For lunch she had left over chicken fingers fro...

Kira just had her 18-month doctor's appointment.  I was excited about it because I expected her to have gained more weight and be closer to the average weight for her size and age.  However, I was disappointed because the doctor says that she is even skinner this time than she was at her 15-month appointment!  He didn't tell me her exact percentile, but I'm not sure I want to know because last time she was in the 8th percentile!  I thought she would be closer to the average weight because she feels a lot heavier to me.  I have a hard time getting up the stairs with her.  And, some family members have mentioned that she looks a tiny bit chubbier.  Furthermore, she has a big appetite!  She eats well. Oh well.  Kira's pediatrician is not overly concerned.  He said that I shouldn't go out of my way too much to change her diet, but that I should use her healthy appetite to my advantage by replacing low calorie foods with high calorie foods.  We've heard this story be...

Pictures! Kira in June: (click the picture to see more) Kira in July:

I thought of one more annoying thing that Kira does.  She has figured out how to untwist the tops to tubes and bottles. Kira usually wakes me up in the morning by crying.  I pick her up out of her crib and take her back to my bedroom so I can brush my teeth and get dressed.  While I'm going about my business, she follows me into the bathroom and plays with all the objects in the bottom drawer of the vanity.  She's been doing this ever since we moved into the new house.  I have small bottles and tubes in that drawer; mostly travel size shampoos, lotions, etc.  She likes to take them out, stack them, toss them, examine them. But I have since had to take out everything with a twist cap.  No matter how tightly I twist the caps on, she manages to untwist them and squirt soap/lotion everywhere.  Not fun to clean up.  She does this with anything with a twist cap!

Baby Mess Hug Jee (chinese word for paper) Bett (chinese word for pen)

In no particular order: 1. Her great distain for going to sleep - She always puts up a fight when going to sleep!  And she is getting more and more persistent about not going to sleep!  A few days ago she cried for an hour in her crib before falling asleep. 2. Throwing - sometimes she throws things out of frustration; other times she throws things just because she feels like it.  Sometimes I make eye contact with her after she's thrown something heavy and she looks at me as if to say "I felt like it" 3. Playing with shoes - I have issues with this because shoes are dirty!  I walk into public bathrooms with my shoes.  Kira loves to touch shoes, put them on, and carry them around the kitchen.  I just bought an over-the-door shoe holder, but when I put it on the door, the door doesn't close.  Trevor needs to help me think of a solution for that thing. 4. Possessiveness over her bubbles - Kira was introduced to bubbles at a BBQ about a month ago.  Since then she has deve...

In no particular order: 1. She can say the name of all immediate members of each family - Mah Mah (paternal grandmother) - Yeh Yeh (paternal grandfather) - Buck Buck (father's older brother; she should be saying DAI BUCK for Brandon and YEE BUCK for Marc) - Poh Poh (maternal grandmother) - Gung Gung (maternal grandfather) - Yee Yee (mother's younger sister; should apply to both Patty and Natalie, but she calls Nat something else) - Naa Naa (Natalie) - Kiew Kiew (mother's brother; same name for both older and younger brothers) Confusing, huh?  Kira has it all figured out  =) 2. She dances; she has two basic moves - She bounces by bending her knees - She swings her arms around 3. She tells me when she's pooping; she actually tells me before she starts.  She might be ready for potty training!  I'm going to put her on the toilet and see how she reacts. 4. She talks on the telephone; and she is proficient with how the phone works.  She tells me who to dial, wai...

Trevor finally got a chance to go through the pictures from our vacation.  We came home from the cruise three weeks ago!  Weekends are just not long enough.  After going through several hundred pictures, we didn't really end up with that many we were willing to keep and share.  Here are some of the highlights. Day 1: Brooklyn Day 3: Bermuda (Day 2 was at sea...nothing interesting) Day 5: Puerto Rico (Day 4 was at sea) Day 6: St Thomas   Day 7: Grand Turk If you click on the pictures, it will take you to another website with even more pics from our vacation.

Since the day Kira was born, I have had trouble keeping her at a comfortable body temperature.  Until she was about 3 months old, she slept in a bassinet next to our bed.  I swaddled her and covered her with two blankets.  Despite that, I would almost always pick up a baby with chilly cheeks for night-time feedings.  I was at a loss for what I should do to warm her up.  It was the middle of winter when she was born, and our bedroom had vaulted ceilings, making it difficult to keep the room warm during the night. It got even worse when she moved into the guest room.  It too had vaulted ceilings, plus it had one fewer heating vent and significantly less body heat.  I did my best to dress her very warmly, especially because she was very good at kicking off the blankets.  A typical sleeping outfit would include a long-sleeve onesie, a lightweight long-sleeve shirt, tights, and a bunny suit (the one-piece, zip-up fleece with the footies).  I think towards the spring she actually developed a...