Baby Wong (Caleb Wong & Caris Wong & Chloe Wong)
The adventures of Caleb, Caris, Chloe & Family
Yesterday afternoon, Caleb and I had a Daddy’s day. We went to Travel Town Museum over at Griffith’s Park. Now for those of you who know Caleb, there are certain things he likes. He likes trains. He likes trucks. He likes dogs. He likes ducks. Pretty much, he’s interesting in anything he can get his hands on. He’s now touched all these things now, except for ducks. And I’m sure he would if he could chase the ducks down.
Caleb has heaps of bumps and bruises. He’s discovered this amazing ability to be able to walk one direction while turning his head and looking another direction. Of course, this leads to trouble. He’s run into so many walls and tables. And he likes to try to walk really fast. His knees and shins look like mommy beats him.
So, last week, Chris tells me his head hurts. Why? He closes my trunk SUV door on his head. What?! How did you do that? I’ve never heard of anybody closing a trunk door on their head. I laughed at him. I’ve had this SUV for 7 years, and I’ve NEVER closed the trunk door on my head. Caleb must have gotten his klutziness from his daddy.
Today, we went to the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus in Anaheim. It was Chris’ and Caleb’s first time. Caleb had so much fun, but he didn’t nap long on the way to the circus. And, it lasted much longer than we expected. Caleb was ready for a long afternoon nap. So, we were hurrying at the end to get him home. We removed the stroller from the SUV trunk to make room for a quick diaper change. Chris goes to put Caleb in his car seat. I put the stroller back in the trunk and close the door. I had to lean in cuz the stroller was starting to fall out. Whack (really hard)! Whoa. That’s right. I hit myself. No, not just a little hit. I whacked my face hard. My vision went black for a couple of seconds, but not to worry… I didn’t pass out. I made it back to the passenger front seat. Tears were rolling down my face. It was like some uncontrolled reflex since I hit the bridge of my nose so hard. My forehead, nose, & eyes were throbbing. Chris tells me I’m bleeding across my nose and it’s getting swollen. Then, he says, “See, I’m not the only one who can hit my head.” It hurt my nose so bad to laugh. 6 hours later after lots of ice, it feels much better. Just a dull ache. The cut really isn’t bad at all. I wonder if I’ll get a bad bruise across my face. Poopers, we have a wedding next Sunday. And, we’re supposed to have Caleb’s 1 year old family pictures taken. Oh well. It’s pretty funny now. Watch out for those dangerous SUV trunk doors! I guess Caleb may get my klutziness too. Poor Caleb.
We went out on our second date since Caleb has been born… Well, our 2nd date without the baby. It was part of Chris’ Father’s Day celebration. We went to Ruth Chris… compliments of a gift card given to us by a friend.
It was nice going out, but I felt completely out of place. Me dressed up when I’m normally in sweats and a tank top nowadays. I feel strange without a baby clinging to my legs or attached to my left hip.
Caleb’s been sleeping so poorly for a while now, but even worse for this past couple of weeks. (We’ll blog more on this later). Grandma was babysitting Caleb so that we could go on our date. I warned her before we left that Caleb has been waking up multiple times in the night even at the very beginning…. and he cries hard. Whatever you do, don’t turn on the lights or talk to him. It’s an invitation to play. And he gets much harder to put to sleep. Haha. As I was walking up the stairs after we got home from our date at 9:30PM, I saw Caleb’s bedroom lights on and I could hear chatting (grandpa had come over to eat dinner with grandma). What?!!! Lights, talking?! What’s going on? I walk into the room to find Caleb bouncing up and down on his air filter, with a couple toys strewn around the room. Grandma and grandpa are chilling in his room like it’s their new living room. Hee-hee. Caleb cried hard, grandma couldn’t handle it. On came the lights. And naturally, the talking and playing came next.
Chris took a short video clip of Caleb playing. He was soooo hyper. The video clip really doesn’t do justice to how hyper he was.
Chris commented, “I’ve never seen this boy so hyper before.” And believe me, we’ve seen him very active. As I was trying to calm him back down into a slumber, he was jumping from my arms, crawling/walking from one piece of furniture to another. Finally, I got him to nurse (cuz he hit his head hard on the crib edge). In my arms, he reminded me of this crack drug baby I once held in the hospital. He was so jumpy & shaky. Yes, this is our son when he doesn’t get enough sleep. My goodness. We were surprised that it only took us 30 or so minutes to get him back to sleep. Good thing he was so tired. God, You’re merciful. Thank you for not making us stay up for hours with this boy.
So, when you get busy with life, certain things don’t get done. Yes, my husband badly needs a haircut. Don’t get mad at me for putting this picture on Caleb’s blog, Chris. I couldn’t help myself.
Poor Caleb has had his share of sickness & discomforts since being welcomed into this world. His eczema started when he was only a few months old. He has chronic nasal allergies (he’ll be seeing a pediatric allergist next month). He caught croup when he was 5.5 months old. He was sick for 3 weeks before going to Hawaii, finally needing to take antibiotics for a sinus & ear infection. Then he caught a cold when he got back from Hawaii. Then he had an unexpected allergic reaction to Beechnut rice cereal.
A few days ago, he had a very unhappy tummy. That was my first time seeing Caleb puke so much stuff at one time. It looked like he threw up much more than he ate. Poor thing. Green avocado and stomach acid was dripping out of his nose and mouth. It sprayed a 3-foot radius all over the carpet where he was sitting, hitting his dresser. Then later in the afternoon, he puked blueberry oatmeal liquid all over the dining area tile. This time I was more prepared. I felt Caleb’s spasmic stomach while holding him and moved him quickly to the much more easy to clean tile. He’s much better now. Caleb’s just a little apprehensive of eating now, especially anything green. Who can blame him?
Chris was sick too yesterday. Really sick. I haven’t seen him that miserable since before we were married when he got food poisoning from a smoothie he drank at work. Hmm, stomach flu or food poisoning this time around? I’m certainly hoping it was just food poisoning. I’ve been feeling nauseous too, but I have such bad sympathy nausea that I think it’s just from seeing both of my cuties so sick.
Oh, I have a picture of Caleb’s second round of impressive puking. But I figured there are many who would prefer not to see it. so here’s a picture of caleb on one of his happier days. yes, caleb loves to climb everything in his path, including me if i’m in his way.
Yes, yes… I know… we really are behind in our blogging. We still haven’t finished blogging about our Hawaii trip.
Our Hawaii Alarm Clock
I forgot to blog about one story while we on the Big Island with Stan, Bel, & baby Noah. It’s memorable. While we were in Hawaii, Caleb was our 6:30AM alarm clock. No matter how late we put him to bed, no matter how many times he would wake up at night, he ALWAYS woke up at 6:30. On our last Big Island day, Caleb woke up at 7:30AM. When we saw the clock, Chris & I cheerfully got out of bed and praised our boy for sleeping in. The pool opens at 7:30AM, so we decided to go swimming. On our way to the pool, I pointed out to Chris that it’s a gloomy/cloudy day since it was still a bit dark for 7:30. We get to the pool. It’s locked, but somebody’s inside cleaning. He tells us to come back when the pool is open. We tell him that the pool is supposed to open at 7:30. He looks at us and says something like, “It’s 7:30 already? Oh no!! I’m running late.” Then he looks at a pool clock and tells us that it’s only 6:45. What?!!! We still have no idea how our bedside clock got changed. It was right when we put Caleb to bed. Oh well.
Our Flight Home
We were running really late to the airport, so Stan & Bel came to help us return our rental car and get checked in quickly. Our flight was with ATA. Stan knew one of the ATA worker guys. He was one of Stan’s high school friends. Stan tried pulling some strings to get us ahead in this long, long slow line (since we were already late). He found out from his friend that our flight was canceled (though nobody else in the line knew that yet as the flight was only announced as being delayed). We got pulled out of the line with our luggage. His friend got us onto the next American Airlines flight back to LAX. Yay! Go Stan. It’s nice to have our Hawaiian connection. Only a few were given tickets onto this AA flight. Most had to wait until the next departing ATA flight (I think that was in the middle of the night or the next day). And out of the ones who received AA tickets, we were the only ones who had our luggage. You know why? Because the Wong family was running really late and hadn’t checked in to our original flight like everyone else already had.
Yes, Caleb and I got chosen to be personally security checked. I guess we just look that dangerous.
Caleb slept for only 30 minutes on this plane ride home. He really had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. We tried to make him as comfy as we could, but it was one fussy plane ride home.
Daddy even tried to help Caleb with his ear pressure by enticing him with a pacifier.
We got back from Hawaii on Friday, 3/14/08. We needed that whole weekend to unpack and decompress from our vacation before Chris went back to work on Monday. Here’s Caleb helping us unpack.
Yesterday, I discovered that ATA filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 3rd and ended all of their passenger services to Hawaii. Good thing this happened after our trip to Hawaii. We probably couldn’t have afforded to pay for another set of airline tickets.
We just spent the last 3 days on the Big Island with Bel, Stan, & baby Noah. Here are some highlights and funny moments.
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.
We’re trying to start the discipline of setting time aside for family devotions.
It’s been quite interesting for all of us. Either Chris or me reads and the other tries to stop Caleb from eating the Bible.
(Wow! 3 posts in a single day)
If you haven’t done it yet, you need to search your name in Google. I do this every once in a while to see how I’m doing and see what page I land on ("Chris Wong," by the way, is the number 1 search result in Google now).
So I searched for "Caleb Joshua Wong", which is the number 1 result. No problem there. How about "Caleb Wong?" Not on the first page… Not on the second page… Third page it’s on. Not bad. But not good enough.
So here’s where you can help. Caleb needs some Google juice. Referrals to this website. That’s what we need. Help Caleb be number 1 in Google just like his daddy.