Monthly Archive for September, 2007

“10 Days of Fun” recap: Spoiled

It’s amazing how time flies! My parents were here for 10 days & they’re already on a flight back to Salt Lake as I’m typing this! Needless to say, Kaitlyn is spoiled rotten. Melanie is going to have “fun” with her for the next few days, as Kaitlyn adjusts back to a less exciting/entertaining life.

Here’s a recap of the kind of fun we had for the past 10 days.

Spoiled Princess:
What are grandparents good for if they don’t spoil their grandchildren? That’s why I still love my grandparents to this day!

Here are some pics of my parents bonding & spoiling Kaitlyn.

Yeh-Yeh & Kaitlyn Yeh-Yeh & Kaitlyn 02 Yeh-Yeh & Kaitlyn 03 Yeh-Yeh & Kaitlyn 04 Yeh-Yeh & Kaitlyn 05 Yeh-Yeh & Kaitlyn 06 Kaitlyn will play with whatever, as long as she’s being hold. Yeh-Yeh & Maah-Maah feeding Kaitlyn rice cereal Yeh-Yeh & Maah-Maah feeding Kaitlyn something Maah-Maah holding Kaitlyn Kaitlyn sits comfortably on Maah-Maah’s lap …it’s so comfy that there really isn’t much to cry or fuss about.

Tomorrow’s post: food!

Obsession

I guess many babies love to play with zippers, keychains, & straps.

zipper zipper keychain keychain biting on stroller’s strap chewing on the strap

But I got to say, her “true love” is tags.

chewing on a tag

Too Anxious

It doesn’t matter how hungry Kaitlyn is, as soon as she thinks you’re preparing food for her or even sees you holding her bottle, she gets so anxious that she would start acting like a starving puppy — huffing, puffing, whining & sometimes even crying.

And once she starts crying, you’re WAY too slow.

Even if you stick the bottle into her mouth, she would still keep crying, as if you have just ruined her future.

So as soon as we realize that it’s time for her to eat, we try to prepare everything quickly (milk, bib, high-chair, etc.), so that we can surprise her by shoving the bottle into her mouth before she can utter a sound.

Two weeks ago, however, Melanie was just a little too smooth, a little too quick, as she gave Kaitlyn the bottle, milk got squirted all over Kaitlyn’s face instead of her mouth.

too anxious

As you can tell from the picture, it got Kaitlyn totally off guard. She was so “speechless” that I was able to run over for the camera & back, and she was still in that state of shock, even though Melanie & I were laughing our heads off!

Baby Gap

Kaitlyn didn’t mind the gap between the pillow & the mattress. When she wants to stay asleep, she’ll stay asleep.
Baby Gap

First Kiss

They learn early…

Darion kissing Kaitlyn #1Darion kissing Kaitlyn #2

First was “mamamama,” now…

…”hahahaha”!

It was about 10:15 pm. We were all in the living room. Kaitlyn was on the “bouncy” smiling & bouncing, when all of a sudden she sneezed. She turned & looked up at me, so I laughed and then imitated her sneeze. She must have found it funny & just laughed/giggled OUT LOUD! I “sneezed” again & she laughed again! I tried one more time & she laughed again! So I got up & came back with the camera, & this is what I caught on video:

But then, right after I stopped recording, she stopped her giggling, as if she knew!

Kaitlyn’s Fan Club, aka KFC

Top Fans of the club:

Auntie Karen

  • #1 Fan: “Auntie Karen”

      She comes like every week. Kaitlyn loves her. But for some reason, we only have this 1 picture of her from of all those visits. Sorry!

Kaitlyn’s #2 Fan

  • #2 Fan: “Mrs. Anonymous”

      Unfortunately, we don’t know the name of our 2nd most active member. She’s a Mandarin-speaking caretaker for an 87-year-old lady from church. She’s not a Christian herself, but she’s happy to come every Sunday just to see Kaitlyn. Although she always forgets how old Kaitlyn is or that Mel doesn’t understand Mandarin, she’s still very obsessed with our baby.
      (One reason is because her only-child (a 30-plus-year-old woman), who has been married for 5 years, doesn’t want to have children.)
      Sadly for her, she won’t be “attending” our “club meetings” anymore because she has been re-assigned to take care of a different patient/client.

What’s better than a pacifier?

A tag or a strap.

the tag on the towel helps make her stay stillchewing on a tag“Should I do it?”“I'm addicted!”

They both keep her occupied & quiet.

Cry baby? Not Kaitlyn.

At least not last Saturday.

Since Mel had to work, I took Kaitlyn to see Dr. Chou last Saturday morning. She was due for 2 more shots. She was so happy to see Dr. Chou that she kept on smiling & laughing (without sound, of course). Because of that, we couldn’t get her to lie down, so Dr. Chou just gave her the shots with her sitting up.

Two more shots on the thighs

With both shots, immediately after she was poked, she looked at Dr. Chou for a moment, then turned to me & started frowning. I was expecting her to start crying, or at least after the second shot. But to my surprise, she didn’t!

The funny thing was what made her “cry” at the office wasn’t the shots, but it was Dr. Chou’s daughter. Dr. Chou’s wife & daughter came by the room to see her while I was on my way out with her in my arm. As soon as his daughter smiled at & touched Kaitlyn’s hand, she turned & cried for like 5 seconds. :-)

She fell asleep in less than a minute after we got into the car. And she stayed asleep for almost 3 hours that afternoon.

Kaitlyn took a 3-hr nap

BooO!

Somebody scared the heck out of Kaitlyn… I wonder who…

*edit* If you listen closely, Ether made me do it!! =P

Got milk?

The first time we tried to teach Kaitlyn how to hold her own bottle was when she was only 5 weeks old. I know, it was a ridiculous idea. I mean, come on, the bottle weighs more than half of her!
5-week-old Kaitlyn

Now a 7-month-old baby, with bigger rolls on her thighs, Kaitlyn is now able to hold the bottle steady for the most part. Since she has that natural tight grip, we just need to help her 2-3 times during the feeding & that’s it.
Kaitlyn holding her own bottle

She is still far from being a bottle master (like her cousin Talon) though. When she’s too excited & too hungry, she still gets confused as to which side the milk comes out from.
“Got milk?”

Who’s your mama?

Kaitlyn now says “mama” to tell us that she’s getting tired, cranky, hungry, bored, or about to cry.

She kind of started saying “mama” a few weeks ago. But now she can say it clearer than ever before.

Kaitlyn’s First Playdate

Two Saturdays ago (Aug 25) we were invited to German & Kitna’s place, along with the Yaus, for a potluck dinner. It was fun to see them interact with the others, since our kids are all about the same age & it was Kaitlyn’s first playdate.

Darion can now lean against the wall & stand for a little bit:
“Put your hands on the wall!”

Kaitlyn playing with Darion & Keona:
Having Fun TogetherHaving Fun Together 02Having Fun Together 03Kaitlyn & Darion

Darion rejected Kaitlyn!:

“Get Out Of Jail Free” card

Unfortunately, Kaitlyn didn’t have the card, so she’s stuck in her crib. And when mommy found her, she had a stinky poopy diaper!

The Escape“Oh, no! I’ve been caught!”

FYI, when these photos were taken, she wasn’t able to pull herself up, nor could she sit upright without help. So don’t worry, she was, and still is, safe with that crib.

We Are Alive!

Are y’all shocked that we haven’t updated in over a week?

Well, because there are like 30 of you who look at this everyday, and only a handful of you ever leave comments! :-p

Asleep in the Car

Just kidding! — sort of…

What happened was, the computer was running out of hard drive space (again), so I got a 1 TB (that’s “terabytes”; or roughly 1000 GB) external drive. In the process of moving some files to the new hard drive, I accidentally “erased” everything on the computer!

Fortunately, I found a really good recovery program that let me recover the files. Unfortunately, I also had to pay a good sum of money for it. :-(

Ling Family Trait: asleep with eyes open

Anyway, after days of re-installing programs & stuff, the computer is about 80% back to how it was.

So, stay tuned, more updates will be coming!

p.s. If all of your digital photos are on your computer hard drive & no place else, BACK THEM UP before the hard drive fails on you! Copy them to blank DVDs or whatever! It usually doesn’t take more than 3 to 5 years before hard drives start to act up or even fail. When it does, you’ll run the risk (high risk) of losing all those precious memories that you never bother printing out.