Thursday, April 24, 2014

Simon’s lunch of mango pudding, strawberries, noodles, and chicken wings. Grandma Tam made the mango pudding yesterday while she was at our house but unfortunately Simon did not want to try it. Mango is one of his favorite fruits but for some reason he did not care to try the pudding. I ended up feeding some of it Iris and even offered Simon some while feeding her and he still did not want to try it. Oh well, more for Iris! She loved to munch on the cut up mango pieces.

When I showed the picture to my Dad of Iris sitting on the grass at the Easter egg hunt, he reminded me I had a similar picture sitting on grass when I was about 8 months old. I definitely did not like the lawn, Iris seemed pretty happy.
This is me in 1979:

This is Iris in 2014:

Maybe because the lawn she sat on was greener and therefore, softer. Or she’s just less of a complainer. 😀

Little Iris loves getting into everything though. Either taking Simon’s books or his toys.

Simon chillin’.

Iris, “whatcha doin’?”

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Simon’s lunch of pizza rolls, fries, mango, and a fortune cookie. So Simon only ate the “beak” and the “butt” (that’s what he said) of the Peep. I guess he doesn’t like it which I’m surprised because he loves regular marshmallows. Well, more for me!

This evening we had a dinner in Oakland Chinatown that Grandpa Tam invited us to. Grandma Tam had come to our house during the day to watch Iris so I left work early to pick up Simon and pick up Grandma Tam to bring them both to the dinner. Iris all dressed up pretty in purple.

Iris and Simon were both well behaved during the dinner. Simon just got a little bored near the end so he watched a movie on my phone.

We stayed out quite late and didn’t get home until almost 10pm. Both kids were exhausted so we quickly put them to bed.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Simon’s lunch of salmon and carrot sushi, strawberries, clementines, Whopper eggs, and Peep. For some reason he didn’t eat the Peep yesterday but he wouldn’t tell me why so I packed it again just in case. He might not want to eat it because it’s cute or because he doesn’t like it. Those are usually the reasons he won’t try something but he wouldn’t/couldn’t tell me when I asked.

Simon’s favorite thing to draw these days is Skipper from Disney’s Planes. This is his interpretation which he incorporated into his artwork at school today.

Iris playing the drum.

Iris excitedly climbing towards me.

Simon playing with LEGOS in his room.

Grandpa Chung bought him a large LEGO set to build a plane so Ron and Simon have been working on it almost every night after bath time before going to bed. It’s been good to teach Simon patience for looking for certain pieces and also that sometimes not everything can be done right away, that it takes time to build something so complicated.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Simon’s lunch of apple pear, salmon and cucumber English muffin sandwich, a chocolate covered Peep marshmallow, and Whopper eggs. The candy was in his Easter bag yesterday but he didn’t get a chance to try them so I said I would pack it for lunch today.

I was exhausted last night after my long walk so my “brain was not firing on all pistons” and I left my pump at home so had to drive home at lunchtime to pump. It might not have been too big of a deal if I just didn’t pump at all during the day but it would have been uncomfortable. This is the home stretch, I’m almost at my goal of breastfeeding until Iris turns 1 years old. I still have some stored in the freezer so she will have breast milk for > 1 year but I will be done with pumping additional milk for her after she turns 1 year. The only good thing about having to rush home is seeing my sweet baby. She was napping when I got back though.

I hope her fascination with phones doesn’t translate to her teenage years.

Simon is all about “mei mei, no!” (mei mei = little sister). She’s always getting into his stuff.

But he gets over it pretty quickly and tries to help out when he can.

“Hello?”