Baby Wong (Caleb Wong & Caris Wong & Chloe Wong) – Page 25 – The adventures of Caleb, Caris, Chloe & Family

January 20, 2008

Olive Oil

Not just for cooking… or the name of Popeye’s girl (“Oyl”).

So, we’ve been making homemade baby food. It’s pretty easy, and it’s so much cheaper than buying baby food jars. Caleb gets to try a larger variety of food, like avocado, asparagus, white sweet potato, turnips, rutabaga, spaghetti squash, etc. When’s the last time you saw rutabaga in a Gerber baby food jar? Exactly.

We made carrot puree for Caleb 2 days ago. It stained our food processor bowl bright orange. I read on a friend’s RSS feed that vinegar can clean toilets, hardwater stains, garage oil stains, etc. So, our food processor bowl has been sitting in vinegar for 2 days. It helped, but there was still obvious orange-staining on it. Let me tell you olive oil works wonders on carrot stains on plastic. My goodness. Simple wipe and voila… beautiful food processor bowl again. Who would have guessed?

January 17, 2008

Videos

So if you didn’t notice from a previous post, I’ve been putting up the rare videos I do have of Caleb up on YouTube. I haven’t posted all of them, but the ones I do have are at http://youtube.com/linwong

January 16, 2008January 16, 2008

Solid Food = Solid Poop

Caleb has been trying lots of new food the past 3 weeks since he started. He’s been eating rice cereal, avocado, nectarine, pear, sweet potato and oat cereal (and possibly other stuff). This "solid" food starts off actually very mushy where it’s in fact mostly just liquid breast milk. But as he’s been eating more and more, the less mushy it gets, and the more solid it gets.

Last week, we started feeding him solid foods for dinner right before bed as well as in the morning. Last week we were feeding him sweet potato in the morning and rice cereal in the evening. Well for those of you who don’t know, those foods can cause constipation. Fortunately for our son, he didn’t have bad constipation. He pooped a little on Friday, and didn’t poop again until Monday afternoon, which is a long time for our child, since he’s been pooping regularly a few times a day. So not having to clean poop on Caleb for weekend was quite nerve wracking for us. But alas, he finally pooped on Monday with a nice series of long poops to make up for it.

Caleb is struggling to get this new poop out since it’s much thicker than before. On breast milk alone, he pooped liquid. Now that he’s on solids, he poops thick like daddy. Caleb’s poop is even as stinky as daddy’s. Except daddy’s poop is covered in water, so it doesn’t stink as bad. Caleb’s poop is out in the open, just like a doggy’s poop after he’s meaty food. It don’t smell good.

I had an opportunity to see Caleb poop in action this morning. As I was changing him before his nap, he started releasing a bunch of poop. Not thinking fast enough, I wasn’t able to get video or pictures of it. Too bad. Next time though.

January 5, 2008

6 Month Pictures

We went to Kiddie Kandids this morning to take our baby’s 6 month photos. We also got a nice family picture. It’s awesome.

And my favorite. Don’t mind the person on the right, or my jeans in the picture. Or even Caleb’s outfit sticking out a little. Gotta love that tongue sticking out.

January 3, 2008January 17, 2008

Hello, Touch Typist. Meet Your Stinky Poo

Caleb has found a new toy. And this is not something that we tried to show him. Caleb was left out on the middle of our carpet. While Yvonne was doing stuff, Caleb somehow moved (he’s not crawling yet) his way along the carpet and next to the TV. For those of you who don’t know, I have a computer attached to my TV, and there’s a keyboard underneath the TV. Caleb notices it, rolls over and starts banging on the keys. Just what Yvonne wanted. Another computer geek in the family.

Ever since Caleb started eating solid food, his poop has been stinky. It started off with rice cereal, and his pooped the first day started to smell like rice which wasn’t too bad. The next day, though, I had to change his diaper in the middle of the night. As I was changing I felt a little faint from the stinkage. He has moved on from rice cereal to avocado and now onto pears.

We got a couple’s annual pass to the zoo on New Years. We went there for a few hours. I don’t know how much Caleb enjoyed the animals. We were trying to show him Ernie the elephant and George the giraffe, but he didn’t see as interested in the real animals as his toy ones. In the future, we hope he’ll enjoy it some more. At the moment, I think he’s fine just getting pushed around in the stroller.

And now he’s playing with is new toy. Spin!

January 1, 2008January 3, 2008

Big Baby

Updated: 1/2/08
New pictures uploaded

Yvonne and I were marveling at how enormous our baby has become. We were looking at his pictures from when he was just born, and he barely fit into his car seat. Now he overflows from his car seat. And that’s after we bought a new, bigger car seat cause he grew out of his infant seat.

From our measurements, Caleb now weighs about 20 pounds and he’s about 28 inches. That’s about 85th percentile for weight and 90-95th percentile for height. And remember, he was born 6 pounds 13 ounces, and was 18 inches long. That’s 25th percentile in weight, and 10th percentile in height. My how he’s grown.

7/1/07: Notice his feet and his head in the cushions

7/29/07: Legs are a little longer, and his head fills the cushion a little more

9/8/07: Can’t see his feet, but now we’re down to a single layer of head cushion

10/18/07

11/19/07: Caleb has outgrown the car seat. Head no longer fits in cushion. Legs hang off the end of the car seat

11/25/07: New car seat.

1/1/08

January 1, 2008

Wail, wail

As I sit here writing this post, our munchkin is wailing his little heart out in Chris’ arms. Caleb decided about 2 weeks ago that he would not tolerate being put down for naps or bed by anybody but me. In the middle of the night, Chris has tried to get him back to sleep, but stubborn Caleb would wail an hour+ and then continue to wail in my arms until the only thing that we could find to soothe him would be to nurse him. Oh my. Now, Chris is trying to get him down for his second nap of the day (with his first nap ending in 25 minutes). In order to avoid listening to the persistent wailing, I went to take a shower… a really long one where I tried to clean all the soap scum off the tile and glass doors. After 40 minutes, he continues to wail in Chris’ arms with only nano-moments of gasping quietness. Why does this child not like to sleep at all?

December 27, 2007

Happy Birthday!

Happy 6 month birthday, Caleb!

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, dear Caleb!
Happy birthday to you!

December 26, 2007December 26, 2007

Baby’s First

The past few days, Caleb has been going through a lot of first’. Here are some of them.

First Christmas

First Time at Disneyland

First Ride (Finding Nemo)

First Solid Food (Yumm)

First Time in High Chair

December 21, 2007December 21, 2007

Stinky poop, here we come

So, early this month, we started Caleb with sippy/training cups. He’s a bit young, but we decided to do this vs. getting him used to bottles and then sippy cups. We’re hoping to virtually skip the need for bottles. He’s done pretty well. He still needs to learn to hold his cup up higher to get the breast milk out. And he’s not as messy as I expected.

On Christmas Day, Caleb will have his first taste of solid food. Single grain rice cereal. Yummy. With solid foods inherently comes stinkier poop. Oh well. Our boy must grow up.

Caleb loves playing with balls now. Well, playing with almost anything makes him happy. Just don’t put me to sleep, mommy. Please don’t put me to sleep.

Caleb’s still a little sick, but better. He still has snot/congestion/postnasal drip cough. Here’s a picture of what his room looked like when he was first sick and we had to hold him upright so he could breathe better. The chair in the middle is where one of us sat to hold him. His cool mist humidifier was on the folding chair next to us.