father's day 2009breakfast at gazebo
post dinner hang out with the family
father's day early morning session with maya
gazebo line
kalia and daddy
papa and maya
kalia and her moustache like papa's
playing outside
maya's first meal - kalia feeding her
sucking on my toes in between bites
cuddling on the bedWe had a nice father's day. The morning started with a nice early morning maya lovey session on the bed. Kalia and Maya currently have completely opposite schedules, which makes it hard and nice at the same time. Maya goes to bed early (6PM - 6:30PM) and wakes up early (6AM - 6:30AM) and Kalia goes to bed later (8PM - 8:30PM) and we wake her up at 8AM if she's not already awake. This means in the morning we have some nice maya time, like we did on father's day morning before kalia wakes up and then we have kalia time at night after maya goes to bed. I'm sure this will all change once kalia starts going to school and we need to get her up earlier for school. We don't have a lot of alone maya time, so it can be nice in the morning, but some mornings it feels very early and I know I'm not fully appreciating my maya time. Father's day morning we had a great cuddle session with maya on the bed and I got to tickle her relentlessly. I will put the video on later.
Then we had a leisurely morning - gave daddy his card and present and then headed to gazebo to wait in the longest line we've ever waited in! The girls did amazing! Maya was great in line and sat in her car seat through almost the entire meal even though she was over due for a nap! Kalia also did great and was quite patient. She was really looking forward to her mickey mouse shaped pancake with white chocolate chips, so was I since I usually eat about half of it. Of course I let Greg convince me to get the full order of fried rice which is an obscene amount of food, but erik, kalia and i ate the rest of it for lunch the next day. Alana was able to meet us just when all of our food was coming out - perfect timing! It was a great time - Erik had to work later and we played outside with the girls.
Erik and I are a little afraid that Kalia is catching on too quickly to our spelling out words we don't want her to hear trick. Yesterday he asked me if it was going to be a "no N-A-P" day and she said, "nap?" Then the other day uncle greg spelled, "C-A-K-E" and she knew it was cake. I know that word she learned from wordworld, damn you PBS shows.
Kalia is also getting a little tricky. The other day I gave her a bowl with blueberries and apples for snack and I guess she didn't want the apples because she said to me, "Mommy, do YOU want some apples? You LOVE apples!" Very enthusiastically. Also at nap time lately, she has been wanting to read the books. It started out by letting her read one book, now it's two books and the other day she wanted to read all three. Some times if she doesn't know all the words to the story she makes it up and it ends up taking a while, so I don't want her to read the stories. Anyway, yesterday she had read two stories and then she picked up the third one and looked at me and said, "maybe I should read this story, since you're holding maya".
Today the girl's nap/quiet time overlapped by 11 minutes. I actually had 11 minutes all to myself. I'm sure that their napping will coordinate at some point...right? Will I ever had a clean bathroom? Actually I could clean more while maya naps since kalia is pretty good on her own, but i'm so far behind in life that i don't know where to begin. We all vacuumed yesterday, I forgot how physically exerting it is to vacuum with a baby in the baby bjorn. Kalia helped with her toy vacuum.
Maya has been able to stay up a little bit longer between naps and some naps are getting longer (although not today). So it looks like we might actually be getting out more. I took the girls on an extended errand run today to long's and safeway. Since I had to wait for a prescription, I decided to get kalia and I a snack at starbucks while I nursed maya. I was feeling pretty good about the whole trip and I had kalia all set up with her own cup of orange juice and muffin broken into bite sized pieces in front of her and I sat down to feed maya. Of course as soon as I think I have everything under control, I see Kalia get up and start doing the I have to go potty dance. I know the bathroom is clear across the mall and I have a baby attached to me and now kalia's bite sized pieces of muffin seem like a huge mess to clean up. I did consider asking kalia to hold it for a while, but we've had a few accidents lately and I could see one way where my situation could get a little worse. For someone who had to go potty so badly, she sure was distracted by the patterns in the floor, the toy store, the group of kids sitting on the bench, it took forever to get us to the bathroom. Anyway, it all worked out and we continued our snack at the food court and now I think it's all sort of funny. I'm just waiting for my video to upload, so I can go to bed...let me see if there's anything else to write about...
We fed Maya her first meal of rice cereal on her 5 month birthday yesterday. She was really into it. She was watching Kalia and I eat more of kalia's ice cream birthday cake and I decided to just do it. It wasn't very much, but she kept leaning in for more. I think I will make some sweet potatoes for her in a few days. I made all of kalia's food, so i feel like i need to make maya's food too or so erik and my mom have reminded me.
Oh, this might be considered TMI, but I'm going to write it anyway. Maya had the biggest blow out this morning. She has been going pretty long without pooping, but she sure made up for it this morning. It was everywhere. It was all over her sheets, it was all over both the front and back of her onesie and all over her. I didn't know where to begin and we ended up throwing her in the bath and I think I need to just throw out that onesie. OK, sorry that was definitely TMI. Come on video...I need some sleep.
I'm canceling the video, I'll do it tomorrow, I need some serious sleep.
Then we had a leisurely morning - gave daddy his card and present and then headed to gazebo to wait in the longest line we've ever waited in! The girls did amazing! Maya was great in line and sat in her car seat through almost the entire meal even though she was over due for a nap! Kalia also did great and was quite patient. She was really looking forward to her mickey mouse shaped pancake with white chocolate chips, so was I since I usually eat about half of it. Of course I let Greg convince me to get the full order of fried rice which is an obscene amount of food, but erik, kalia and i ate the rest of it for lunch the next day. Alana was able to meet us just when all of our food was coming out - perfect timing! It was a great time - Erik had to work later and we played outside with the girls.
Erik and I are a little afraid that Kalia is catching on too quickly to our spelling out words we don't want her to hear trick. Yesterday he asked me if it was going to be a "no N-A-P" day and she said, "nap?" Then the other day uncle greg spelled, "C-A-K-E" and she knew it was cake. I know that word she learned from wordworld, damn you PBS shows.
Kalia is also getting a little tricky. The other day I gave her a bowl with blueberries and apples for snack and I guess she didn't want the apples because she said to me, "Mommy, do YOU want some apples? You LOVE apples!" Very enthusiastically. Also at nap time lately, she has been wanting to read the books. It started out by letting her read one book, now it's two books and the other day she wanted to read all three. Some times if she doesn't know all the words to the story she makes it up and it ends up taking a while, so I don't want her to read the stories. Anyway, yesterday she had read two stories and then she picked up the third one and looked at me and said, "maybe I should read this story, since you're holding maya".
Today the girl's nap/quiet time overlapped by 11 minutes. I actually had 11 minutes all to myself. I'm sure that their napping will coordinate at some point...right? Will I ever had a clean bathroom? Actually I could clean more while maya naps since kalia is pretty good on her own, but i'm so far behind in life that i don't know where to begin. We all vacuumed yesterday, I forgot how physically exerting it is to vacuum with a baby in the baby bjorn. Kalia helped with her toy vacuum.
Maya has been able to stay up a little bit longer between naps and some naps are getting longer (although not today). So it looks like we might actually be getting out more. I took the girls on an extended errand run today to long's and safeway. Since I had to wait for a prescription, I decided to get kalia and I a snack at starbucks while I nursed maya. I was feeling pretty good about the whole trip and I had kalia all set up with her own cup of orange juice and muffin broken into bite sized pieces in front of her and I sat down to feed maya. Of course as soon as I think I have everything under control, I see Kalia get up and start doing the I have to go potty dance. I know the bathroom is clear across the mall and I have a baby attached to me and now kalia's bite sized pieces of muffin seem like a huge mess to clean up. I did consider asking kalia to hold it for a while, but we've had a few accidents lately and I could see one way where my situation could get a little worse. For someone who had to go potty so badly, she sure was distracted by the patterns in the floor, the toy store, the group of kids sitting on the bench, it took forever to get us to the bathroom. Anyway, it all worked out and we continued our snack at the food court and now I think it's all sort of funny. I'm just waiting for my video to upload, so I can go to bed...let me see if there's anything else to write about...
We fed Maya her first meal of rice cereal on her 5 month birthday yesterday. She was really into it. She was watching Kalia and I eat more of kalia's ice cream birthday cake and I decided to just do it. It wasn't very much, but she kept leaning in for more. I think I will make some sweet potatoes for her in a few days. I made all of kalia's food, so i feel like i need to make maya's food too or so erik and my mom have reminded me.
Oh, this might be considered TMI, but I'm going to write it anyway. Maya had the biggest blow out this morning. She has been going pretty long without pooping, but she sure made up for it this morning. It was everywhere. It was all over her sheets, it was all over both the front and back of her onesie and all over her. I didn't know where to begin and we ended up throwing her in the bath and I think I need to just throw out that onesie. OK, sorry that was definitely TMI. Come on video...I need some sleep.
I'm canceling the video, I'll do it tomorrow, I need some serious sleep.
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