Lakers!

OMG! I stayed up for that??? I can't believe that! I'm not watching any of this post game stuff...These games are way too late for me.

my mother's day

 

We didn't end up doing much for mother's day this year. We had some friends visiting from out of town and that was fine with me, but I was a little upset with Wei Yan for not doing anything but say "Happy Mother's Day" a few times...so today he made it up to me by taking me to brunch and then giving me some earrings with Max's birthstone in it. He also got me a shopping spree and a nice card with some much needed words of appreciation. I never realized so acutely how people need to be appreciated. I mean I knew this was something nice, but it was good for me to realize that this is something that I need. Ok, too bad the Lakers are playing tonight...I'm not going to make it the whole game yet again...

Kickin' It

So Wei Yan woke up this morning and told me to come quick. Max has been kicking a lot lately and these gerber onesies have been looking a bit like gay muscle shirts when he kicks so much they pull down to show a some baby cleavage. This morning he definitely out did himself with the kicking though....

 

Happy 4 months

So Max is 4 months old. We practiced Lakers cheers in the car on the way home from day care...but Wei Yan ended up trying to start Max on a "Beat LA" cheer. Needless to say, he got a few words and a raised eyebrow look from me.

LOL, Max just blew a HUGE booger bubble with his nose. Only that could take our eyes away from the game. Luckily we have witnesses....

Go Lakers!!!!

Tdap?

I was just reading a magazine and saw and ad saying that adults around infants (under the age of 2) should get a booster for whooping cough. Guess I should look into it....Wei Yan also need to get that chicken pox vaccine too...Anyone heard of this vaccine?

Gross!

One thing I never really thought about when looking forward to seeing Max smile and laugh at us, was that this was a product of him being able to have & express feelings of joy and pleasure...which also comes along with him being able to feel and express displeasure. After a good nap today, Max woke up rather grumpy to say the least. After trying to calm him down a bit, we gave up on that idea and proceeded to get him ready to nurse. We suctioned out his nose since he's been very congested (and even started coughing productively this afternoon) and I tried to nurse him. Boy, was he even more ANGRY! He cried and screamed....so we walked him around a bit with a paci trying to get him to calm down again. We suctioned out his nose REALLY well this time and he was able to eat finally. He really hates having his nose wiped...I think he actually dislikes it more than having it suctioned.

Course he did start to cough a bit & proceeded to spit up all over me while nursing. And when you see pictures of women nursing in books on breastfeeding, they never show a picture of a woman with boogers all over her and her hungry babies nose. Sorry, I know this is more than some folks would like to know, but I ran to get dinner with spit up all over my undershirt just to get out of the house for a bit, so it's been that kind of an evening where I really just don't care that I'm supposed to look like I've got this all together 24-7. So anyway, as we eat dinner, Max is happily laying on his playmat talking to his toys and Wei Yan says to me (the topic of the day), "Do you really think Max is sick???" I don't bother pausing as I shove food into my mouth (I didn't realize I was hungry until I was on the way to pick food up at 8:30pm) and reply "Yup". Wei Yan says, "But he seems so happy now. I wonder what he was so upset about earlier" Wei Yan then decided to check on Max on the mat since we need to wipe his nose every few minutes it seems...and I think we've got our answer about him starting to get sick...

 

Story time

 

Before we put Max down, we've been reading him stories. I usually end up rocking max while I'm reading so that he's snuggled up to me rather than looking at the book - right before we put him down. This seems to be a good signal to him that it's time to get comfy & sleepy and he usually is alseep 5-10 min after we put him down if we do this. Dad likes to read to him & Max loves to look at the pictures while dad reads to him. I think this must be the scary part of Brown Bear, Brown Bear....

Bumbo

 

Max has been has been wanting to see what is going in the room these days...no longer happy just laying on his back looking at his toys forever, so we bought him one of these bumbo things. He's been kinda fussy with the whole growth spurt thing, so we decided to go for a car ride (goodberry's frozen custard....yum) and a trip to target.

Uh oh!

Max has been pretty fussy the last few days. He's been waking up after ~5 hours and been pretty cranky so he might be on a growth spurt. Anyway, the day before yesterday we went for a walk at 8pm in the evening, because nothing else was working. He got quiet as soon as I put him in his car seat and while we were walking he didn't want his paci. Guess he found something else he likes better....

Bad Lakers fan

i'm such a bad lakers fan. it's 11:06pm, max went to sleep (finally) at 10:30. i'm going to bed. in my defense, max has woken up at 4:30am this morning (after waking up from 12:30-2:30am) and 3 am the 2 previous mornings. guess this is his ~4month growth spurt. he's been really hungry and pretty fussy. he's also been sleeping a lot and still acts cranky when he's awake. we'll just say it's cuz i know they are going to win. crap. 2 point game now. night everyone.

Bears!

So apparently there were a few bear sitings across the street behind the Walmart in Brier Creek! Pretty crazy, huh? Guess that's another reason I should make sure our garage is closed at all times. Stuff that would have never happened when I live in LA.

Mother's Day part II

 

 

 

 

So I guess Max's first Mother's day present is that he didn't do this to me. We were just telling our friend (5 min before this happened) about Max's biggest poop/leaky diaper. Apparently Max felt this was a challenge & decided to work on a new all time best.

Mother's day part I

 

Yesterday, Max got to celebrate Mother's day a day early with Mom, Grandma (mama) and great Grandma! He got a little overstimulated by the end of the day, and fought harder than I'd ever seen him fight going to sleep.

2nd haircut

 

Our friends mom is a real hairstylist and she fixed Max's sideburns & near his ear for us. Mom is feeling much better about his haircut now. ;-)

Yum!

 

Thanks to HM my old roomie!

1st haircut...sort of

So Max's hair was turning into a mullet and we've been meaning to cut it. I was really nervous about how to trim it - especially the sideburns. We weren't going to cut any of the top - just getting it away from the spit up trail was the main idea. We ended up cutting it a little too short (in my opinion) and weren't sure about the sideburns, but I almost cried I was so upset about cutting his beautiful hair afterwards. So we might have to find someone more experienced to cut it next time or clean it up a bit, but at least he's not looking like a redneck anymore...from the back anyway.

 

1st pics with my (er, i mean "our") new Nikon

 

 

So dan gave me the 10 min tutorial...and i'll get around to figuring out some stuff soon, but here are some pics we took with the new D40. Thought I'd post a pic of max mad that we're in the car and he's not going to eat just yet since we always post pics of him smiling. He is a pretty laid back baby though - he's mad and he's just taking it out on the pacifier (times like this when i am SO THANKFUL he takes a pacifier) frowing his eyebrows until we get home and he can eat.

31st Birthday

 

We went out to Mimi's cafe for lunch. Sad that I didn't know it had been open for a year now near the Triangle Town Center. Lunch was yummy and Dan took this picture of us. Later that night we were able to head out to Mura for some food (sake & sushi for me) and a movie (we watched Harold & Kumar). As far as dumb movies, H&K definitely delivered. I you didn't like Eurotrip or the first H&K then yeah, don't waste your time - but if you like mindless, racial, high school male humor than knock yourself out (i like almost any kind of humor - as long as i know what mode to set my brain on).

Pre-birthday treat

Postpartum hormone fluctuations have been causing some breakouts on my face so I decided to treat myself to a facial. Also have credit still from the gift card Wei Yan gave me for my 30th birthday last year, so I figure I should at least try to use it one more time (got a pregnancy massage last time) while I'm 30. I think maybe I should have gone for the massage...but I suppose I'm too sore right now. The whirlpool was nice on my sore muscles though! Got to have breakfast/brunch at Briggs with a friend before the spa...so it was a nice relaxing day!

So Sore!

Thursday I went to a stroller fitness class at the clubhouse in our neighborhood. I even did the modifications to some of the exercises and didn't make it through all of the repetitions before we went onto new exercises - but I am still super sore today. I think I'll probably be sore all weekend. So luckily, Wei Yan will be around this weekend to help take care of Max some while I get out a bit to celebrate my birthday and just relax.