Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Iris exercising her neck muscles while lying on a Boppy pillow. She was able to do this for 1 second…

Then collapsing to suck on her hand. I think she is going to figure out how to suck her thumb pretty soon.

One of my favorite sleeping poses, arms up!

Iris was in a really good mood today. Smiling and cooing a lot. I think she is over her gassy stomach and slept well.

You can listen to Iris cooing:

Iris and I went for a walk around downtown Walnut Creek and even though it was over 100 degrees, it was good to get outside. I had an iced coffee and strolled about with Iris.

We did some shopping at Gymboree and although these looked cute, we didn’t get them.

But got Simon this awesome shark hat. It has a shark fin on top that you can’t see in the picture. He loved it and was eager to wear it right away.

I got to take Simon to his swim lesson today and saw how much he has improved. He is able to bob under the water to pick up a weighted stick, he can float on his back and stomach with assistance (before he would always bend at the waist), his kicks are much stronger, and he’s great at blowing bubbles. He still has a lot to work on but seems like he is better about listening to the teacher and learning.

Grandpa Tam came over for dinner and I caught Iris smiling in her sleep while he was holding her. I think she had a happy day.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Iris is now very good at getting one arm out of the swaddle while she sleeps. I guess she is getting more comfortable with being free which is good because with the weather being so hot recently, it could get really uncomfortable being swaddled so tightly.

Naptime. Leaning tower of baby! There is that one arm again.

Simon had a big movie day today. He went to see Monsters University with daddy then also watched Despicable Me on TV. I am sure he is going to love Despicable Me 2. Sometimes when the TV is on, Simon will ignore everything else around him, including mommy taking pictures of him.

Soundly asleep with both arms up.

Goodnight everybody!

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Today we took a road trip to Monterey to visit the aquarium. Simon has been asking to go see the sharks and tuna fish. He also wanted to see angler fish but they are not on exhibit. It’s all because of a song called “slippery fish” that they sang at story time at the library.

However we were a bit late getting out of the house and had a somewhat long journey with some traffic. We had to stop a few times along the way to stretch our legs. Iris was fussy being in the car seat and had to get out to nurse so we made a gas station stop. Her happy face after filling her tummy.

Simon got a watermelon lollipop at the gas station.

We stopped at a place called Chopstix for lunch. I had the BBQ chicken banh mi for lunch. The meat was both spicy and heat-hot. Pretty good for $3.50.

Grandpa Chung played with Iris while we finished our meal.

We finally made it to the aquarium!

Simons favorite thing to see all day were the sharks. I personally was happy to see the turtle.

After the aquarium, we had a quick snack at Pinkberry. Simon had chocolate with strawberries, mochi, and chocolate crisps.

I tried the cucumber sunflower Greek yogurt which also had olive oil and chili pepper. Overall it was a bit bland and not too appetizing. Next time I will stick with something sweet.

We ended the day with dinner at Mama Chen’s in Santa Clara, yummy Taiwanese food. Ron was happy.

It was over 100 degrees in Walnut Creek today so I was glad to escape the heat as it was more than 20 degrees cooler in Monterey.