My toes are yummy

Yes, Lauren thinks sticking her toes in her mouth is fun.

Here is just a picture of her in her crib with her Sharks hat on. We were in the middle of getting changed so she is just dressed in her bib and diaper. But she likes just being in her diaper, alas it is too cold nowadays to let her run around that way.


She likes to hold on to her bottle when she is sitting in her car seat. This picture is funny to me because it looks like she is trying to defend her bottle... as if I would take it away from her.

It is actually the face she makes when I take too many pictures and the red light on my camera is irritating her. Still a cute picture nonetheless.

December 20, 2007

Your eyes are not deceiving you, there are three cute little asian reindeer! Sophie, Lauren and Hannah sat through a picture session with mommy Joy taking the pics as I tried to distract them. We took almost 30 shots, so by the end Lauren was a little fussy.

This pic is on the couch.

I know you may be asking yourselves how many times will you see her in this outfit. But she is so darn cute, and I do wash them in between the wearings :P

Here is a non-reindeer picture of Lauren holding her bottle. She is now able to hold it if it is not too full. She will also pull the bottle to her mouth when she wants it. You can catch her putting it in her mouth and pulling it out as she familiarizes herself with being able to control the bottle.
It was just a little snack while she was playing...

We have been busy the past few days but no pictures to show for it, so I am going to post ones from a few days ago.

She doesn't look that chubby in this one but I like the candy cane like socks :P! She finally has some red clothes she can wear red socks with!

She is getting better at sitting up now as you can see in this picture. I think she still thinks if she sticks her toes in the air she will magically get into the seated position.


This is from Juney's Birthday lunch. Thanks Dad for the cute picture!

I promise to take some pics tomorrow and post them up!

Another month goes by

How can anyone resist that smile?

She turned 5 months on December 10th which was also Juney's birthday (Happy Birthday Juney). She is getting big so fast. She is no longer this tiny tiny thing. She has some heft to her.

As a commemoration of her age milestone I took some pictures to see how big she grows.

The first one is to show her on the burly bear scale.

The second one is on the Big Gorilla scale.

Look ma I learned a new trick

As some of you know we have been teaching Lauren how to sit up on her own. And as you can see from the pic below she is getting there. She of course does not stay upright for long, especially if she sees something to the other side of her. But she is steady enough for a picture and if you are right in front of her :)



I got her to laugh as well in the picture below. But maybe she is laughing because she is playing with her toes!

Eric will eventually get to the pumpkin story but here are some pics of her during a normal day.

Since she can roll over, the bouts of crying and yelps of frustration are no longer heard when we place her on her tummy to play. She will even pose for a pic every once in a while.

She lost almost all the hair she was born with but I think her new 'do is growing in nicely. :)

"Look mommy I can multi-task!"

Playing with her little rings and toes at the same time is a normal sight when I play with her. She really likes to play with her toes. I haven't caught a picture of it yet but she can get her toes in her mouth.


She always looks so peaceful and angelic when she naps. If I only I could get her to nap for longer than 20 minutes...

Thanks Vincy for the knitted hat, it keeps her nice and warm!

hard sometimes!!!

Mmmmmm taggy blanket.....



Wow.... how time flies...

So I just finished, for really the first time in prolly 2-3 weeks, an actual bottle feeding. Between her sleeping through the night, to her grandparents babysitting, to the constant flow of guests, I haven't had the pleasure of holding her through a feeding in quite some time... I wonder why it isn't that way with the diaper duty too....

So lets see....

First... turning over. This has been a mini-concern of ours for quite some time. It is one of those independence milestones for littles ones to be able to turn over on their own. First is tummy to back, then the much harder one is back to tummy. This of course, is directly related to coordination and comfort in a position. People say that you can put a little one down, and through frustration etc, they will flip over. So, Yes.. we pick her up quite a bit... and yes she used to fuss almost instantaneously when we put her on her tummy. But through lots of encouragement, frustration(on her part mostly), and knowing that she is QUITE strong, she now flips over with increasing ease. At first it just looks like an accident, but sure enough, if you put her down on her tummy, she'll slowly get all the necessary parts into position, and there she goes. Right now she is very partial to flipping over on her left shoulder(you'll know what I mean when you see it) so, if you'd like to see this done, please make sure she has room to roll in that direction!
Given her expression here, she could be holding a cigar and wearing a fedora!

The next steps in her mobility progression is going to be her learning to crawl. This is also going to be a funny and clumsy guiding thing. So she loooves to do little sit-ups. Unlike me, she doesn't like to slouch at all... so if you put her down, she'll either try and kick out her feet to lay down, or you might see her trying to grab her toes in an effort to sit up. She doesn't quite have the lower-body mass to be able to off-set her upper-body and head weight yet, so that's why the legs just come up.... she'll figure it out eventually.

So how this works so for is that when you help her up onto her bum, spread her legs open to a "V". This will help her concentrate on forward/backward stability a little bit more than the lateral stability. What then happens is that she'll wobble forward and backwards. Sometimes she'll eventually end up doing a mini-header, so please make sure she's on something soft. When she ends up leaning all the way forward, she'll wiggle a little bit to pull one of her legs out from under her so she's flat on her tummy again, pull her hands up into position, then she'll bust her roll-over move, and she's back to square one!

Here's an action shot!


Playing in her excer-saucer has been a progression as well. At first she used to sit for maybe 2-3 minutes and inspect the toys in front of her through staring at them. Now she's gotten to the point where she can spend somewhere in the range of 5-10 minutes, rotating around the different toys, fidding and playing with them. This is NOT a babysitter... but it does provide short and often needed breaks to do things here and there.


So going back to the fact that I'm up at 2am and doing a feeding and how this is a rare thing. Over the past couple of weeks we've tried quite a few new things, one of them is having her sleep through the night. As mentioned before, raising Lauren has been quite the moving target. Without going back into too much depth on that, understanding her sleep schedule is always a point of high interest. So sleep training is when you try and get the little one to put herself to sleep. And yes... this involves more drama than it sounds like. We established a bit of a routine. About 6:30-7:30, we give her a bath, Bethy takes her for a feeding, and then puts her down in the crib. The key here is that she's not necessarily asleep when Bethy puts her down.

The idea here is that over time, she'll learn the routine, we'll put her down, and she'll go to sleep, only to wake up somewhere in the range or 10-12 hours later in the AM, full rested and ready to go. What isn't mentioned is that the first couple times that this happens, she' cries.... and cries..... and cries. :( :(( :(((!!!!

So the first night took a while, I think somewhere in the range of 35 minutes or so. In order to reassure them that you haven't just left them, you are supposed to stop by in the 15-20 minute range and remind them that it's bedtime, but not pick them up. She woke up in the middle of the night maybe once or twice, but ended up putting herself back to sleep then. This night wasn't actually so bad.... the next couple of nights turned out to be harder, for us, or at least for me. It seemed as though she was learning to cry more effectively and it was REALLY hard not to go pick her up!!!

As it turns out, we think that she had a slight allergic reaction to the rice flakes that we were giving her, she was having some tummy-aches which weren't helping the situation much. So... sadly we've backed off the spoon-food, and we are being a little bit more conservative with her sleep training, but I think we're getting back on track.

Where'd my pot go???? So I mentioned earlier that our little girl is strong. How to measure this? its deceptive!! First off, its nice that she knows when she's being picked up and stiffens herself so she's easier to handle. She does her own weight and body part management so it's more like picking up a bowling ball with holes already drilled, vs, 3 5lb weights tied together with rope... next... she doesn't have a pot anymore!!! When I grab her by her mid-section... there's no rolls there!! no chubs, watermelon... you can actually feel her mid-section... and it's solid!!! Yes.. she still has some rolls and some chubbiness in her arms and legs, but sadly, I prolly have more relative mass around my mid-section than her.

So.... dating back to when we went to the pumpkin patch, I always had in mind that I was going to try and do something fun with her and the pumpkin. So the pumpkin sat around... and sat around... and sat around. It had a tiny little hole in the bottom and was starting to go bad, so this past weekend, while the accomplices of her grandparents, Auntie June and Uncle Greg were around, I figured it with time to give it a shot.

Wow.. it's getting late/early... I'll leave you all with this shot as a teaser for the next installment.... ;)

The holidays are coming

A fun thing you can do for the holidays is turn yourself into an elf. Click on the link below and you will see what I mean!
Let's see the elves!
I didn't find this gem on my own. My sister sent it to me, so thanks to my sister Joy!

With the holidays coming we went looking for cute outfits for Lauren and we thought this one was pretty cute.

You cannot see the part that says "Baby's First Christmas" but it does exist. We think she is such a cutie. These outfits are made for Babies R Us and were in limited supply thus they were hard to find. But through diligent and persistent searching by our friend Joy we were able to get one. We will try to schedule a formal picture of her in a Christmas dress sometime soon so we can get our cards out on time.

We have been keeping her busy in her exersaucer which I have included a pic of. She is wearing a hat because it is cold in the morning when she is playing! It is funny to watch her sometimes because you can see her go to each toy and pay special attention to each one.
You have to watch her though because too many toys in a row and she get sensory overload. She gets quite upset :P

catching up?

Wow... how should this go?

So much to say... a really long post? a series of shorter ones?

ok... organize, simplify... react..... that's what has made it possible and enjoyable about dealing and interacting with the daily challenges and changes of our little girl.

There have been so many things that have happened in the last week+... I'll just spew them out individually, and worry about the chronology of them all later...

Of the two big changes.... rice-cereal. It's really only cereal from the standpoint that it's "stuff" that you add milk(boob juice) to, stir it up to consistency and then feed it... This has got to be one of the coolest experiences to date.

but of course... a little backstory..

So somewhere on the innernet, it reads that solid food is supposed to start somewhere in the 6-9month range. For those of you who think that is a really long time out, please remember that most places in the world breast-feed until like 4 or 5 years old or something seemingly insane to us here in the US that have store-bought formula, supplements, and often times place priority on working, shopping for shoes, handbags, purses, and getting rid of their pregnancy weight as quickly as possible, higher than the well-being of their children. --- end rant ---

That being said, I've known since our little girl came out of her warm and happy place that she was expressive... the first expression "the concerned look" to the heart-melting "the pout" that I'm still trying to figure out where she learned. And we all know expressiveness is going to be a endless reactive guage when it comes to having her try new food. Salt and Vinegar chips? Toasted Almond Ice Cream from Fenton's? Wasabi? how long do I have to wait till I get to experience her first taste with her? I know it's a long path to get her up to complex foods and tastes, but not having even started yet is sad.

So for what has probably been the last couple of weeks, if not month, when Bethy and I break our fingers free from the mighty grips of the little girl to eat, we've gotten the feeling that she is staring and watching us eat....... possibly wondering where hers is, or what we are doing and how it tastes.

So this past week we gave it a shot... some bbq chicken with a side of macaroni and cheese.

no really. So during the last dr visit, she recommended we start with the rice flakes. So, we stopped by and got some of the gear... a box of rice-flakes, $1.50 or so, some little spoons, 6 for $2 or something. The "flakes" aren't really flakes so much as they are a white powder, when mixed with some milk looks like jook or oatmeal without the lumps(is that possible?). We made it pretty watery the first time around as we weren't sure how she was going to react or manipulate something that she had to swallow the first time around.....

So the first reaction was one of "huh? what IS this?" she kinda held her mouth open and looked at us like we'd done something wrong, but without the drama. The tongue rolled around a little bit, more like in and out, than around.... some of it came out, and the mouth closed. Now I've never really been good at telling exactly when she swallows, but I know from the empty bottles that she does do it from time to time. This was about the same.... put some in, get some out, wipe up the dribbles, put it back in, get some out, maybe go back to the teacup for some more from time to time. I knew that SOME was going in and staying in, but also that there was a fair amount on the face, and definitely on the bibby. This was an amusing event... it lasted for probably 30 minutes or so before I think she got a bit tired... I do have it on video, so if I can ever get it off, it'll definitely get posted.

The first time, I used a full teaspoon, and that was waaaay more than she ate. She ate an unknown amount, but it was a good first experience.

The second experience was actually with Bethy feeding her, and Grandma holding her, and she was ferocious. I think she knew was it was, and had a little better idea of how to deal with it, and it couldn't come fast enough. It is still unknown the capacity that the little mouth can hold and manipulate to swallow, but the eyes are definitely trying to tackle tablespoon sized portions. I would hold up the spoon, and moth opened. She still doesn't have control over her upper-lip to be able to clean off the top of the spoon without help, but she'll get there. Maybe she's not a big toy-fan yet, but I haven't seen her this eager for anything yet. This time we adjusted the consistency from wattery to thicker, and got a pretty good amount into her before she got tired.

The third experience was in the car yesterday while up in Vacaville waiting to celebrate U Ken's birthday. Apparently the bottle that Grandma was using didn't have a whole lot of milk in it, and the consistency was a bit on the thicker side.... thick enough so you can actually make a mound of it with some definition instead of it all just being goop... Well... this feeding resulted in quite a bit of drama.

Not only did she like it, but we ran out.

So... keep in mind here that these rice-flake-feedings are only supposed to be supplementary. Mom's milk still provides the bulk of nutrition in vitamins, minerals and all that other good stuff along with the hopes and prayers of all you, that have kept our little girl perfectly healthy so far. The rice flakes have some guidelines around them in that they aren't supposed to be a first or last feeding, not supposed to replace a feeding etc. So, when we packed a little bit, we didn't pack that much. But when it ran out, we were alllll sorry. She cried and fussed for the car ride from the outlets over to BJ's. She wanted more, and milky wasn't going to suffice... Luckily for us, the carb-rich rice, coupled with the car ride worked like a charm and she was out like a light.

So I'll have to look at the little booklet that the dr gave us that goes over all the stuff like single grain this, single vegetables and fruits here and see where and how far out the good stuff is really going to be.... and make sure I have the camera handy for the expressions and reactions that will come too. BBQ? Salt and Vinegar? oooooh! I might have to state a rule where if you feed her new stuff, you MUST capture it on camera!!! SOOO MUCH FUN!!!!

That's right I am 4 months old!

Lauren turned 4 months old on Saturday. So she was due for her 4 month check up with the pediatrician. We went on Tuesday Nov. 13 and everything went fine at the doctor appointment even though we waited an hour and a half for the doctor to see her. Dr. Kenney says she looks healthy and she has really strong neck control. Dr. Kenney also got to experience the "I don't like being on my tummy" cries.

She was measured at 15 lbs and 25 inches long. Those measurements put her in the 75th percentile in weight and 75th percentile in height. So it isn't our imagination she is growing!!! It's a big step from her 25 percentile beginnings.

She also had four shots again, DTap, polio, Hib and Pneumoccocal. She cried when she received the shots but after the band aids were put on and I picked her up she stopped crying. She promptly relaxed with my ministrations and she was asleep by the time we got to the car. She of course only took a power nap. She didn't develop a fever from the shots this time. I got my flu shot at the same time and I didn't develop a fever either :).

One thing I have noticed is this funny flip in her hair on both sides of her head. No matter how much I brush it the little curl reappears. In some pictures you can see the little flip on both sides. Hmm I wonder where she gets that from.

She is slowly losing all the hair she was born with and a new fuzz is growing underneath it. Its kind of funny to see all her short hairs everywhere (on her clothes, on the bed, in the crib, on the changing table, etc.) Should I collect it all and save the little hairball as a momento of the hair she was born with?

Unrelated to anything I have been talking about here is a picture of her taking her mid-morning nap.

a quiet house...

Is what I came home to today... I got home early today... just after lunch from work... yes.. lots of work from home.. and it's quiet here.

No big goose... no little girl... just a couple of kitties sleeping in my clothes in the closet.

The last couple of days or so have been hard...no... not in that usual way, that would be too easy, and too complacent of us as parents if it was the same thing over and over.
Lauren has been quite fussy lately, and Bethy and I think it's because she is starting to teeth. At times she'll cry uncontrollably and unconsolably..... to a result of a little bit of frustration and great sadness. The frustration in language barrier in us not being able to pick up or understand the signs that she is trying to tell us :(

Overall she is doing well though... last week or so, Bethy started swaddling her again at night, and she seems to be sleeping much better. A couple days ago Grandpa said that he got her to laugh quite a bit as well....and sure enough, Bethy was holding her, and we got a laugh out of her as well. Another great step!!!!

she is quite a ball of fun... she giggles... she smiles... she is reactive... now I just need to figure out how to teach her how to set and hit left handed ;) (all in time Ken.... all in time)

So since I was home all alone(save a little man and pika) I was poking around some old pictures and thought I'd post them up.

Enjoy!!!

Hats and gorillas

The days go by so fast and I keep saying I will post or try to get Eric to and we seem to never get around to it. Apologies to all who look for the updates. I will try to catch you up of the happenings of the past few days and here are a bunch of pics too!

After having dim sum with the family for Greg's birthday Andi came over for a visit. Here she is feeding our little chubby baby. Of course Andi is tiny.. our baby isn't that big... is she?

Thanks Andi for watching and feeding her for a couple of hours. She looks peaceful here, but she wasn't so peaceful at Uncle Giff's that night she was fussy baby. It was nice to see Tam, Kai and Malia though :)!

On Sunday, we had a bunch of friends over since one of my old roommates from college was in town. Vincy and her knitting prowess is shown here as she knitted a cute little hat and scarf for Lauren. You would have never known it was like 80 degrees outside the house the way that Lauren was sporting the hat and scarf! The temperature this week has cooled down quite a bit so the hat and scarf will be very useful in the near future.


Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday we fall into our little routine. She will fall asleep when I feed her and since I haven't included a pic with her in the boppy in a while here is one.
She doesn't fit in the little curve anymore, but she is still darn cute. We can't believe how big she is getting and so fast. She has her four month appointment next week and we will see what her pediatrician has to say :).

The next pic was at the request of Eric. We always intended to take her pic with our big gorilla stuffed animal when she was born but we never got around to it. Now that she is bigger the effect of the picture isn't quite what I was looking for but it is still a good pic. You can also see little moo moo in her hand as a comparative toy. Thanks for the cute little warm outfit mom, it keeps her nice and toasty.

I used to have this big stuffed animal dog when I was little. Or it felt like it was a large stuffed animal. When I was in my 20s and saw it again it seemed so small compared to my memories. I wonder if Lauren will feel the same way about this gorilla.

A trip to the city...

Lauren and I went to the city on Friday with our friends Joy, Hannah and Sophie. We went to see a singer named Ingrid Michaelson at the Borders in Union Square.

As a preface to this trip I want to say commercials and advertising these days can give exposure to little known artists. Anyone who watches a decent amount of television has seen the Old Navy commercial highlighting their sweaters. The song on that commercial is called "The Way I Am" sung by named Ingrid Michaelson. (If you aren't familiar with the song here is a link: Ingrid Michaelson) She isn't with a label but with the exposure from this song and another one called "Keep Breathing" which appeared on Grey's Anatomy she is now heard nationwide.

It was a treat to go to the city and see Ingird sing. She sounds exactly the same as what you hear in the produced version. She was also very nice in person. We waited around for her to sign our cds. Alas Lauren was hot and tired by the end so she was not a happy camper. Joy got this great pic of Lauren crying and Ingrid making a sad face lol.
Here is a pic of Joy and Sophie at the outing, if you look real hard you can see Ingrid and Allie in the background.

On the way down the elevator Lauren got hungry and she was trying to put the bottle back in her mouth because it fell out. Yes, she is trying really hard but that bottle full of milky is heavy.


Here is a pic of Lauren in her cute little dress that my sister Joy lent me. She is promoting the cd!

The hunny pot and the pumpkin

Grandma and Grandpa came for a visit on Monday and brought Lauren a pumpkin from there garden. It was a nice looking pumpkin so I took a pic of it with Lauren. Yup there she is kicking back with her little pumpkin...

We bought candy to pass out on Halloween but no one came before 6pm. We went out to dinner with Auntie Di and Uncle Clem and of course the grandparents. Apparently kids still trick or treat after dark as our neighbor Joy attested to. She even got to see some of the neighborhood kids in their costumes. By the time we got back from dinner there were no more trick or treaters out. I guess Eric is going to have to eat all that candy.

To celebrate Halloween we put her in her outfit. Here she is with her two pumpkins. Yes, Lauren that pumpkin is as big as you.


The funny thing about this outfit is the yellow honey blob underneath her chin. She kept licking it and 90% of the pictures we took she has her mouth on it. By the time we took the costume off of her it was drenched. Whomever designed this costume must have known little kids would lick/suck on that piece as it is made of a different material than the rest of the costume.

Eric likes this picture of me and Lauren so I am posting it. She is such a funny little girl.

experiencing your first earthquake!

or..... sleeping right through it. I guess she is a true California girl.

For the rest of us... quite a bit of rolling shaking... nothing fell down and we're all ok.

The little girl was sleeping in Bethy's lap and didn't even peep!attached picture isn't during the earthquake.. .but why not post what she was doing anyway!

Good night!

more interactivity

She has been quite a bundle of joy lately... more interactive, more expressive, more portable.

Yesterday was, if I remember correctly, the first "kid" thing that we have done.... meaning stuff that Bethy and I normally wouldn't go to. Yes.. there were lots of little rug rats running around, getting dirty, and providing Lauren with perfect examples of what we'll expect her NOT to be like. I'm not sure if she fully comprehended the lesson, but I'm sure there will be plenty more cases for reinforcement of that message in the many years to come;)
Hopefully tonight I'll get a chance to map out and execute on my plan... but until then, I won't tell you what it is so that if it fails miserably... oh... did I say something?

She has been quite a bit more fun lately to be around too.. .not that she was a party pooper before... but there was just more poop than there was party ;) Putting her in the Bjorn and walking around with her beats the heck out of lugging around a stroller, so that's what I'll prolly try to suggest more in the future. Mind you, the back will need a bit of conditioning as well. If you'd like to simulate on your own... visit your local grocery store to heft that bag of potatoes around for a while, or your local bowling alley and hang a bowling ball off the front... you'll get a better idea.

So she walks around... talks to people(not with people... that's later), and is generally very curious. And it's nice for Bethy and I. While our world does focus on her during feedings and partial play time... the rest of the world and chores and dishes and bottles and errands still accumulate. I've heard that for 16k+room/board, that we could get an au pair, but imagine that would be generally frowned upon by the family(JUST KIDDING!!!!!).

Clothes are SOOO EXPENSIVE!!! Thanks to everyone again for all the clothes that we haven't had to buy. All the cute outfits that she's going to outgrow so quickly. I was looking online for cute holiday outfits and they are pricey!!! especially considering she is going to grow out of it by next year... spending $80 on an outfit for her seems crazy. but I may yet still do it ... we'll see how it goes.

She's making progress on her tummy too. Bethy bought the little tummy boppy and she's doing good hanging out on that too. yes.. she gets a little tired on it, but if she didn't... we wouldn't need it would we!

ok.. that's all for now... maybe there will be some good pictures tonight.

Pumpkin Patch Sunday

It has been getting cooler outside so we have started putting hats on our little girl. The knit cap is one that Tai Tai made for her and now it fits. I think she looks really cute in this hat. I am obviously biased though :).
She is trying very hard to eat the taggie blanket but alas it didn't taste as good as her hand.

We decided to go to the pumpkin patch today with Lauren. We went to the Ardenwood pumpkin patch in Fremont. We should come earlier in the month next year to see this patch with many more pumpkins. It was still fun to walk around and try and find a Lauren size pumpkin. We love the pictures of Lauren as the pumpkin girl and the sunflower.

Of course her head is too tiny to fill the hole so it makes it all the more adorable.

You can see we have been using the Bjorn carrier. She likes looking out while we walk around. She is sometimes extremely quiet while she is in it as she observes her surroundings. Eric got the pleasure of hearing her chatter/make funny noises today as we were walking around. I always wonder what she is doing and what faces she is making when she is making these funny noises in the carrier since you can't see her face when you have her in that thing.


We finished our day out by having a late lunch with the grandparents and Tai Tai. We tried feeding her some milk when we first got to Barney's but she became a little upset when she realized we had the extra slow flow nipple on the bottle (unintentional). Her hunger outweighed how hard she had to work to get milk so she ate anyway. Alas the slow nipple has its consequences, she fell asleep pretty quickly. She woke up from the power nap she was taking during the meal and gave everyone a fierce yawn. Thanks Tai Tai for coming out to come see us for lunch, especially since you were tired.

always having new things to do and play with!

Today we did a little this.. did a little that.... spent some time with A Jan and Jordy....

Then we went over and spent some time with A Juney and U Greg. But... she slept most of the time... I guess that's what happens when you put away 8 OUNCES in one sitting!

Yup.. this morning started interestingly with her taking about 5 oz at about 3:30. She finished those 5 ounces at about 3:40(which is really fast for 5 oz going in). I took her upstairs, put her in her swing before she was really asleep, assuming that since she just pounded the 5oz away, that she'd drift off into sleep....

riiiiiiiiiight

After playing a little bit, bethy offered another 3 oz... sure...



gone.


but this time.. she was sleepy, and she went down.... till about 9:30!

So anyway.. we spent some time up in Oakland with AJ/UG, but she was sleeping most of that time and didn't really visit much.... and that's pretty much how the rest of the day went too. Verdict is out on whether her sleeping so much is a good or a bad thing....

but until that gets decided... at least I have some pictures!!!

First off is her first lollipop!!! yummy!!!


Ok.. she never got the wrapper off, but it looked like fun!

This next pictures is what happens when I find a deal on Disney.... about $15, and she gets her first Halloween costume! We didn't put the leggings on yet.. but she's a cutie!

I wonder if I can score some candy for having such a cutie little girl! I promise I'll stash it away so she can enjoy it when she gets older!!! ... and be sure none if it goes bad too ;)


Next picture is her new throne. Yes... she matches well with it.. and is such the cutie in it too!

I kinda feel bad about putting her in this, as I know it'd drive me NUTS if I had to sit in something like this. Hopefully it will allow us a little bit of free time and encourage her to sit up more!