The adventures of Caleb, Caris, Chloe & Family
Caris got her 9-month shots today. Her thighs are sporting some Charlie Brown blue bandaids. Caleb got his influenza booster shot. It’s a “I’m really out of it†benadryl day for him.
OK, the 9-month stats for our baby girl…
Length – 28.5†(80%)
Weight – 18lbs, 6.5oz (45%)… and everybody tells us she looks so chubby! Maybe it’s just an Asian thing to tell somebody their baby looks chubby.
Caleb left me a voicemail this afternoon. It’s quite long, cause he never actually hit the red button. But you only need to listen to the first 12 seconds or so.
I’m a reader of Bill Simmon’s articles on ESPN (not a listener of the podcasts though), and I finally started catching up on his article(s) from last week. Here’s a quote relevant to raising kids (as he has 2 of his own). I can relate.
(Important note: Being a parent of young kids sucks. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. About six months ago, I wanted to start a Twitter account of quotes my wife screamed in the heat of those my-kids-are-driving-me-crazy-moments such as these: "If you don’t stop crying, I am going to stick you in the microwave!!!!" and "Fine, climb up the stairs again; I hope you fall down, I really do!" She wouldn’t let me because she thought child services would arrest us. The truth is, every parent snaps from time to time. We can’t help it. Our kids’ job is to suck all forms of life from us, frighten us, embarrass us in public and prevent us from sleeping until they turn 4. We pretend it’s not so bad when, really, it’s mostly horrible and even somewhat indefensible. But — and this is a big but — they parcel out just enough, "Wow, I’m so glad I had kids" moments to make it all worth it. And that’s what Halloween is: an entire "Wow, I’m so glad I had kids" day. At least until they eat too much chocolate and wake us up at 5 the next morning because they’re Exorcist vomiting. But I digress.)
Now that I have the DS-3 up in the office, I should be able to upload many more videos than I have been. Here are some recent ones.
Emily Lam, the last two videos are just for you (and the rest of you who complained about poop). Enjoy!
Yay, we got our suitcase yesterday night around 6:30 or 7PM. The right one this time! It came fresh off of a flight from Philly. I guess our suitcase wanted to enjoy a longer layover than us.
Bummer. It wasn’t our suitcase. It did say Wong on it. Not this set of Wongs, though. Oh well. Caleb, you’ll just have to wait for your little cars.
Yay! Just got a call… they say they’re delivering our lost suitcase in an hour. Praise God!
Last Saturday (despite delayed flights, a 5-hour wait in Atlanta, and a last minute change in our destination airport), we arrived at our resort in Williamsburg, VA in the wee hours of the night.
7 days later…
after enjoying Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg…
swimming nearly every day…
Caleb dealing with an incessant chesty cough (bad Virginia allergies?)…
Caris catching roseola…
Mommy (with Caris strapped on her chest) slipping on water in the Philadelphia airport…
Running through the Philadelphia airport barely making our transfer to L.A…
Arriving in LAX one suitcase short…
Coming home to cats that appeared to have never left our 100 degree bedroom (how much fur can 2 cats shed in a week?… a lot!)…
Yes, we are home. Pictures and vacation stories to come if we have time.
We’re going to Williamsburg tomorrow for a week. Chris checked into our flights. We have 5 or so hours going to Atlanta, and then we fly into Richmond. Chris just told me that the flight is completely full. He couldn’t even find 3 seats together for our family. Oh my. This could be quite interesting. We were really hoping for an open seat so that we wouldn’t have to hold Caris in our laps the whole time. Now, we’ll just have to see if we can even sit together so that Chris and I can help each other out during the flight. Hmm, 2 children and 2 adults in a 20 square foot area for 5+ hours. The 1 hour car ride after the flights is starting to sound comfy to me. 🙂
So our little girl started crawling right before 6 months. Well, kind of. She did this modified form of crawling… she looked like a caterpillar. Pretty much at the same time as this crawling developed, she began sitting up really well. So, I started letting her just sit. She seemed to really enjoy this upright position. I didn’t let her practice tummy time as much. So, then about a week ago, I started putting her back on her tummy more often. Caris was not so happy about this change. But, now she’s back to practicing her crawling. She’s finally starting to get more control of her mobility, though she’s not yet doing full on hand-knee crawling yet.
