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.
I got all my incisors, better to eat my food with
Caleb officially has 8 teeth now. His bottom side incisors came in next. His top central incisor truly came in dead last out of all 8, but it’s here now.
It’s been a rough, fussy week for Caleb. He’s had it tough with these 6 teeth coming in… and having a cold/flu, constipation, etc… Please pray he starts sleeping well again. This mommy wants to enjoy sleep again.
Here’s a picture of my not-so-happy Caleb. Unfortunately, this has been his face of the week.
Caleb’s first carousel ride.
Caleb’s already pulling up. He started doing that before he was even crawling. Here’s a pic of him standing.
More pics to come.
7, 8, 15, 21, 6, 7, 2
Yvonne had posted earlier that Caleb was popping out teeth 3-6 on his top. After that Yvonne told me that teeth number 7 and 8, the next 2 on the bottom don’t usually come out until 15-21 months. That’s when the molars and canines come out around the same time too. So we’re thinking another 5 months or so of good non-teething for our son.
So you know those lower teeth that aren’t suppose to show up until 15 months? Well they’re here. And yes. That’s 6 teeth coming out at one time. From 2 teeth to 8 teeth in 2 weeks. No wonder he’s drooling so much.
So besides the teething, Caleb is also sick (as is the rest of the family). He’s been sick since Wednesday. He’s got a cold and can’t breathe through his nose well. He’s been eating much less than he normally does since he’s been sick.
Not only is he teething and sick, but he’s also constipated. Last night before we put our son to bed, we took his temperature. As the thermometer was up his butt, Yvonne could feel the poop right on the edge. So we helped him along. Helped him along to about 7 inches of poop coming out. Now for some of you, 7 inches of poop may not seem like much. But you have to realize that my son is only 28 inches long. That’s 1/4 his length. Imagine Shaq dropping a 2 foot deuce.
Anything else besides teething, illness and constipation? Yup! He’s just started to crawl as well. Well he’s not really crawling in your normal baby sense. But he definitely scoots across the ground.
So what does this all add up to? Well, Caleb since the beginning of the year has been sleeping extremely well for night time and for nap times as well. It’s quite an amazing turn around that he’s had since his non-sleeping days, which lasted for his first 6 months.
Since Wednesday, his sleeping has been pretty bad. It might be just the sickness messing with his sleep, but it could be and can be everything else that’s going on. He’s slept some nights waking up only twice, and then some nights waking up every hour. His naps have gone back to 30 minutes, rather than the 2 hours he had been getting consistently the previous month.
We know Caleb is going through a lot of stuff, but he needs sleep. He gets sleep, then mommy and daddy get sleep. If he doesn’t sleep, mommy doesn’t sleep and that doesn’t help anyone.
Please pray that Caleb will get healthy soon and return to his good sleeping patterns. Please pray that these short naps don’t become a habit, and he’ll return to his long napping again.
The Race
So, in 2nd place is… the left incisor just adjacent to center one that showed its tip 2-3 days ago. In a close 3rd place is… nope, not the other center incisor… but the tooth to the right of it. That right central incisor is coming in dead last, but not by much.
Our baby has 5 teeth already with the 6th almost here. only 14 more baby teeth to go, Caleb!
I tried to get a picture of his mouth, but was unsuccessful. His upper gum is sooo swollen. Looks pretty painful to me.
You’re finally here after waiting 3 months
So Caleb recently turned 7 months. Right before 4 months, he got his first 2 teeth. We’ve seen no teeth activity since then until this past week or 2.
Tooth #3 has finally arrived… top left central incisor. It actually reared its pointy edge 2 nights ago, but poor Caleb’s gums have been so inflamed & swollen that I couldn’t feel the edge anymore for the last 2 days. Today, it’s made its obvious appearance. But wait! It’s not alone. Teeth #4, 5, and 6 are right there waiting for their turn. Caleb is getting his top 4 teeth all at once!!! Some infants get 1 tooth at time; some get 2 at a time. Our baby, though, has decided that cutting 2 teeth at a time is for wimps. He’s going to do 4 at a time. Way to go, Caleb. That’s how to take this whole teething business head on. 🙂
Caleb eating Cheerios
So we got our new camera the other day. Now we can take higher quality photos. And higher quality videos. Of course it goes up on youtube, so the quality doesn’t need to be that great anyways.
Here’s Caleb eating Cheerios for the first time. I can’t get enough of this. I’ll post more pictures and videos when I have time.
Pop Goes the Weasel
It was another rainy day here in LA. So what does any normal family do on a rainy day? Stay indoors and relax?
Nope. Not this normal family. Knowing we’d get a yelling by our parents in the future, we chose to go to Disneyland! We bought a rain cover for the stroller for Caleb. We got our new umbrella. We had Caleb bundled up. So we went prepared.
We enrolled Caleb in this music class that we go to every Saturday. So they gave us a CD that we can listen to; songs that they use in the class. One of the songs is "Pop Goes the Weasel." Now most of you, I would imagine, probably don’t remember the lyrics to this song. In fact, you probably only know the "Pop goes the weasel" part like me and Yvonne.
So we started listening closely to the lyrics and honestly, they didn’t make any sense to us. First we couldn’t really understand what they were saying since the lyrics didn’t quite make sense to us. So we looked up the song on wikipedia (I know wikipedia is frowned upon in the academic community, but they have almost always provided thorough and accurate information). Here are the lyrics on our CD:
All around the cobbler’s bench
The monkey chased the weasel;
The monkey thought ’twas all in fun,
Pop! goes the weasel.A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle—
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
Now after reading this… we still don’t know what it means. We know that fairy tales had all these meanings used for teaching. Real fairy tales were used to teach the children about certain things. So was there some hidden meaning we were suppose to get out of this children’s song? Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Goes_the_Weasel to check out the meaning.
I got six new videos at http://youtube.com/linwong. You can subscribe to my channel to get all the updates to the videos. Here’s one of him jumping.
We shall be getting our new camera soon. Should be much better pictures and much better video.
Google Juice
(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.
Tips for caring for a Baby
I saw this on Digg today. It’s tips on how to care for a baby. Great stuff.
http://www.wackyarchives.com/offbeat/caring-for-a-baby-101.html
Super Bowl
For the past maybe 15 or so years I have watched the Super Bowl live. I remember cheering for the Bills against Dallas, and Michael Jackson playing in the halftime show. Since then, I have not missed a single Super Bowl. We’ve had some good parties, some good days watching with few others, and then there is the Super Bowl party ruined by someone who says they’re going to bring drinks, but then doesn’t show up leaving everyone thirsty or drinking water.
This year is going to be different. Weekends are times I get to spend with my family. And now that Caleb is around, I’ve chosen to spend that time with him instead of watching the Super Bowl. So what are we planning to do this year? We’re doing what the Super Bowl MVP is doing, going to Disneyland of course.
You have to love PVRs (e.g. Tivo) though. After Caleb goes to bed, it’s time to watch the Super Bowl 3 hours delayed. So I don’t want to get any phone calls, or text messages or any contact from you people who have watched the Super Bowl already. I’m going to watch it straight through, commercials and all, after my boy is asleep. And then I can cheer quietly as the Giants beat the Patriots.