Caleb loves water… in his baths, in a pool, in the ocean… or even in the kitty bowls (if mommy doesn’t move them away in time). Here’s one cute video of him having some bathtub splash fun.
Bathtub Fun
9 month birthday
ok, ok… so our son is nearing his 10 month birthday and we have yet to blog on his 9 month one. we’re a little behind with our blogging. we’re a little behind with everything!
At his 9 month checkup, we discovered that our son is no longer this huge baby anymore. Always in the 90-100th percentile, he is now in the 50-75th percentile in everything. Hmm, am I starving my baby? Strange thing is that Chris and I get different measurements than Caleb’s doc. Our scale told us that he was 22.5 pounds, and we measured him at 29.5 inches. Oh well. We know our munchkin is a healthy, active baby.
Length = 28.25 (50 percentile)
Weight = 20 lb, 14.5oz (60 percentile)
Head Circumference = 45.5 cm (50-75%)
Grandma & grandpa bought Caleb his first ride-on toy. Caleb loves it!
Caleb’s crib now looks like a white prison. Since he started crawling, we’ve had to remove the bumper from his crib leaving it completely bare. Good thing, though… cuz Caleb loves to stand and climb. He climbs onto our bedside tables already. He pulls out his dresser drawers and tries to climb them. He pushes boxes and get on top of them to reach things on higher shelves. Where did he learn to do all this from?
Caleb is looking more and more like his daddy. Both of them are so adorable!
Caleb still loves his music class, but now he’s more active and can stand and hit the drums hard.
Awh, Caleb had his first (and hopefully) last allergic reaction. We tried out a new rice cereal, not thinking that there would be any problem. Within 5 minutes of having it, he started getting unusually cranky and his face turned red. Then his eyes and face got puffy and itchy (see picture below). It was pretty scary. But our newlywed fellowship was there and prayed for him. He got drastically better within a couple hours without any need for a visit to the ER or for medications. Praise God!!!
Pupu (mommy’s mom) visited Caleb at the end of March. I had so much fun with her.
Caleb now occasionally can fall asleep at church for a short morning nap. This is far better than the hour or more of wailing he used to do when we took him to church.
Caleb is usually much better when we go out to eat now. He loves menus… maybe more than mommy and daddy.
Caleb’s 1st time on a playground swing.
clarification of april fools
for those of you who read the last couple blogs, i need to clarify. i’ve had a few people ask me questions, obviously confused by the blogs. no, i’m not pregnant. and, yes that was my hubby trying to be humorous for april fools day. the funny thing is that some of it is part truth. a few months ago, if you had asked me if we would have any more children, i would have told you, “we had never wanted just one, but now one just might be enough.” Life post-Caleb has been physically and emotionally challenging for me (despite my lovely son). But, once again, God is at work in my heart. He is far bigger than even my own fears of being unable to handle postpartum again. God, the almighty and holy Creator of all, can certainly take care of me and my family. So, chris and i actually have been talking about when we want more munchkins. Not right now, but we do want our children to be close in age…. all in God’s timing obviously.
have a look at our cute family (Dole Plantation & Hanauma Bay):
Surprise, Surprise
As most of you know, Caleb wasn’t in our plans. He was quite a surprise for us, since neither of us wanted kids yet. But he’s been such a blessing for us (even though he still doesn’t sleep well), and we wouldn’t want to have it any other way.
So now that Caleb has come, Yvonne and I have started talking about #2 and when that’s going to happen. We never wanted just one child. It was always 0, 2 or 3. And we never wanted our children to be too far apart. 2 years, maybe?
Well #2 was not going to happen yet unless God had another surprise for us again. Well, God is always surprising us, huh? #2 is a surprise again. I should go register elisabethwong.org and obiwong.org just to make sure.
Elisabeth is kind of a boring name though. Maybe it should be Leia Wong or Padme Wong. Well maybe not Padme. I could think of a whole mess of insults for that name. I started looking up names, and I found this interesting one. Mara Jade. You should read her profile. Quite interesting, I must say.
An Early Birthday Gift
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jeff Su wrote:
I got Caleb… calebwong.com and calebwong.org…
Happy Birthday Caleb!
-Jeff
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Chris Wong wrote:
It’s not his birthday yet! 🙂
– Chris
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Yvonne Wong wrote:
hee-hee. thanks, jeff. i guess you won’t be here for caleb’s one year party? we’ll make sure he knows he has his own websites. 🙂 so, when he gets older and asks me why he got websites for his birthday, i’ll just tell him that these are the kind of gifts you get when you have a nerdy dad and all of his friends are nerds too.
yvonne 🙂
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Jeff Su wrote:
Geek… not nerd… Erics a nerd… I’m a geek… I didn’t get good grades in HS and I’m proud of it!!
-Jeff
Is my son going to be a nerd or geek too? Or, is he going to be normal like his mommy? 🙂
Big Island Travels
We just spent the last 3 days on the Big Island with Bel, Stan, & baby Noah. Here are some highlights and funny moments.
- We explored a lava tube and lots of lava rocks. The volcano here is currently active, so we were trying to go visit the site where you can see lava going into the ocean. Well, let’s just say the boys were navigating and we found ourselves at a totally different spot. But I must say, where we went was nice too… and probably heaps safer for the babies. We saw the area of the last most recent lava activity (about 5 years ago). Caleb was so fussy after not getting any naps and being in a car all day. He wouldn’t be soothed in our arms. Finally I had to nurse him while we walked to the lava site. It was like carrying a sack of potatoes on a hike. And, baby Caleb decided to have another poop explosion… this time all over mommy’s shirt and pants and the Ergo baby carrier. It was quite impressive.
- On our trip, Caleb found himself a new toy… baby Noah who lays there like non-moving target. Poor Noah. Just wait ’til Noah can roll and crawl well. He’ll be chasing after you, Caleb.
- Caleb fell asleep on the beach. I put him down in his tent… and he stayed asleep!!! well, it was for only 25 minutes, but it’s a first for him to go to sleep with lights and sounds without much of a fight.
- We wanted to visit a macadamia nut farm. Stan found one on the internet. We went there and found this house on a farm. Very interesting. Nobody else was there. We got a nice personal tour of the mac nut trees, kona coffee beans, & avocado & banana trees. We learned that bananas were originally eaten on the Island by only males. Females would be killed if they ate this food associated with male fertility. We found big spiders there. Chris liked them a lot! He wanted to take one home with us.
- Chris looks mighty cute taking care of 2 munchkins.
Poopy Poop
So, Chris takes Caleb to our local grocery store here (Tamura’s) by himself. He wants to give me some time to rest since I haven’t been feeling well since yesterday. All we really need is some water, and maybe a little bit of something for lunch.
I wake up from a nap wondering where my hubby and baby are. I call them. Chris starts laughing on the phone and tells me that Caleb had a poop explosion… a diarrhea one. Caleb has been having diarrhea since starting antibiotics last week (he had been sick for over 3 weeks).
Chris comes home carrying baby Caleb in only a diaper. His purchases = diapers + baby food (peas and prunes). Chris’ white Bucks t-shirt is spotted with brown liquid poop. I couldn’t stop laughing. Chris forgot to take the diaper bag with him, so he had to buy diapers there. He carried dripping poopy Caleb thru the supermarket to buy diapers. He didn’t have the hands to carry a big jug of water, but he could hold peas and prunes baby food jars. Hahaaa. So, are we really going to be feeding prunes to Caleb after he’s just had a diarrhea explosion? Hahaha.
Caleb came home with a big smile on his face. He had fun with his daddy.
Awh, too bad I didn’t take any pictures of Caleb’s poopy clothes or Chris in his poopy shirt. You’d be laughing too. Here’s a cute pic of Caleb in his sunnies, hat, & New Zealand swimwear.
My, How I’ve Grown
[Caleb just celebrated his 8 month birthday on Wednesday, 3/27. Happy birthday, baby boy!]
I’ve got 8 teeth now. Can you see them when I smile big?
I can brush my own teeth now… kind of.
I’ve really excelled in my music class. This is how we play those jingle bell things.
I’m getting faster, but I still crawl like I’m a soldier.
I like to pull myself up on anything I can.
I’m fine tuning my pincer grasp. I’ve gotten much better at eating cheerios, except for those few slippery ones that just don’t want to stay in my mouth.
I’ve learned some new tricks along the way.
I’ve even learned how to shake my head no.
[We love you so much, baby Caleb! It’s so fun watching you learn new things.]
Yummy Yams
The video speaks for itself.
Self-feeding is messy.
Gonna get you, kitty
So, Caleb is learning to crawl. Here’s some running commentary on one of his attempts.
I’m tired of playing with my ball. I see you, kitty.
I’m gonna get you, kitty.
Here I come.
Wait for me, kitty!!!
OK, so Caleb isn’t that fast yet.