Weekly Seona pictures

Seona has been growing up so fast. I can't believe she is already 7 months old. Her face has changed. She is smiling and laughing more. She is already starting to practice the crawling motion. Since her stature is less bulky than Gideon was at 7 months, she has less weight to move around. She has a long and lean look.

Week 29

Thank you Auntie Bao, Uncle Chin, Camille and Marcus for the amazing sweater hoodie. We love it!

 

Week 30

Thank you Grandma Wong for the brown floral sweater! The matching sweater pants are now shorts.

 

Week 31

Thank you Auntie Jaime for the awesome Dragon onesie!



brother sister moments

Seona Week 1, 2 and 3

We have been super busy at the Chan household. There has not been a dull moment. I have been taking pictures but unable to find the time to upload them or write a post. Seona is definitely different than Gideon. We are still learning more about her every day. For Gideon's weekly pictures, we used a lion to show his growth. The lion was special to us because Garrett gave it to me when we were dating. Garrett wanted a dragon for Seona's stuff animal but Grandma Wong wasn't too keen on Toothless from "How to Train a Dragon." So we settled for Sully from "Monsters Inc." I gave Sully to Garrett when we were dating. I think it looks too big next to Seona.

Week 1
 

Week 2 
Hmm... still figuring out awake time. She was not a happy camper as you can tell.

 Week 3
 

 Oh, Seona, we love you lots and lots!

23 months 2 weeks and 3 weeks

Yes, we are all doing well at home. We are slowly adjusting to having more than one kid to take care of. We will post more later. For now, here are his weekly photos. 23 months and 2 weeks
Gideon loves to read the book, 5 little pumpkins. He wanted it in his picture.

23 months and 3 weeks
 
Gideon is now a big brother. It was hot in our house due to the warm weather. That is why he is bottomless!

 
Extra pictures...
 
Drawing with Papa

 
Drawing with Grandpa

 
Seona

23 months and 23 months and 1 week!

We have been enjoying the summer break as a family. It is so much fun hanging out with Gideon and Garrett without a schedule. We want to give Gideon as much attention now before baby girl arrives. She is still enjoying her time in the womb. I have no idea when she will make her debut.

Gideon turned 23 months the day after the fourth of July. I can't believe that he will be two years old soon. On the 4th of July, we had friends over to hang out and play board games. Here is Gideon entertaining his guests with the water table.





Matching hats!



Matching shirts!



Matching shoes!


We took Gideon to his first Caspar Babypants concert at the local library. Gideon enjoyed the music even though there were a lot of kids around and it was his nap time. He even got an autographed CD. Gideon enjoyed swimming at one of the few outdoor pools in Seattle. He liked the toys more than swimming. He was just content watching all the kids play and swim.



Happy 23 months with a haircut!



23 months and 1 week
Gideon is getting very wiggly. He knows what it means when I say, "It's time to take a picture." He climbs up on the couch next to the lion, but before I can get ready to take the shot, he is almost off the couch. He is wearing his Arizona Wildcats shirt with pride for Auntie Jaime! I found it at a Goodwill here and I have the exact same one too, but I don't know where it is right now.

21 months and 1 week

Gideon loves stickers. Thank you to Uncle Dustin, he believes that all stickers belong on your face. He would take a sticker and put it on my cheek. Then he would take the sticker off my cheek and put it onto his cheek. He doesn't know about putting stickers on his clothes or other body parts yet. I placed those stickers on his shirt since I didn't want to wear them anymore. I took Gideon with me to get the tires inspected at Discount Tire. The employee said, "Don't worry about showing me the car. You can take care of your sticker boy!" Guess what was on Gideon's face? =)



I have a book that I brought here from my childhood home. It's an ABC book that was published during my elementary school years. Gideon loves reading the book. When we get to "L" is for lion, he always roars.



Garrett took some pictures of Gideon while he was eating. They are awesome. I love Gideon's facial expressions. He is becoming more of a toddler: expressing his needs through words/babble and playing with toys for longer periods of time.





Thank you to Auntie Maria for my awesome Ralph Lauren white khakis!

21 months!

 Happy cinco de mayo! It was also Gideon's 21st month birthday! I cannot believe how fast he has grown up and he is only three months away from being two. Gideon is playing with his magnetic letters more and more. He tries to say the letters and make words with the letters. He puts them in a row and says the word in his language. He loves playing with magnetic letters at friends' houses too.  His current favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham. He loves to respond to the questions like Would you eat them with a mouse? Gideon would say "No!" It is the new bedtime story favorite.

Gideon went to a friend's first birthday party. Happy Birthday Mercy! There was a bouncy house. Gideon loved going inside. At first, I thought he would be scared. Yes, pregnant mom took Gideon inside the bouncy house. After a few minutes, I realized that Garrett should be inside instead. I took Gideon out and he was screaming and crying to go back inside. Woohoo for cell phones! I called Garrett who was inside the house to come outside. Here is Gideon inside the bouncy house.



There was so much traffic coming home that we decided to make a pit stop at Matsu Sushi. Gideon is looking at the menu with Garrett.



Weekly picture: Gideon knows now that when the camera comes out he has to say "cheese." He usually stops the cute thing that he is doing in order to look at the camera. Oh no!

20 months and 3 weeks

Gideon is growing too fast. He loves to imitate sounds and play with the magnetic letters on the refrigerator. He loves meeting new people. We went to a girl's birthday party last weekend. I had to wake him up from his nap so that we could arrive in a timely manner. He was not happy when I woke him up. He was still grouchy when we arrived since he was still waking up. It wasn't until the host brought out all the "boy" toys that made sounds that Gideon felt social. In addition to being groggy when we arrived, he also has been super congested due to new teeth coming in and only eating dairy products for a few days. So he was coughing in the car from the phlegm in his throat that he threw up in the car seat. He had to borrow a pair of pants from the birthday girl.

This is Gideon with the birthday girl waiting for more guests at the front door.



Gideon's weekly photo. He is wanting to be more independent and in control of his choices. This was the best picture since he was so wiggly.

 

Gideon doesn't like anything sticky or messy on his hands/fingers. He shows me what he wants to be removed with a whining sound. You can add the audio from his facial expression. =)



This is a cute video of Gideon dancing and trying to do the worm.



This is a cute Father-son moment, Gideon feeding Garrett and Garrett feeding Gideon.

20 months and 2 weeks

Gideon has been active this week. He loves to play with all the toys and walk around the house. He has been learning more about letter sounds and tries to have conversations with us rather than signing his needs. He is saying "wa, wa" for water. He says "mik" for milk. He totally knows the word, ball. He says it all the time even when it's not a ball. I am taking an apple out of the fridge, "ball." I am putting away mangoes from the grocery bag, "ball." He is making connections to the spherical word.


Gideon is super snotty. I think he is getting new molars. Also, he loves dairy products which cause more boogers. I think his weekly picture, you can see a glow under his nose. =)

 

20 months and 1 week

I cannot believe how fast this week has gone by. I am working on the name bracket, ranking the names in the four categories: S-names, Biblical, International, and Pop culture names. I feel more pressured to get it done but I am procrastinating. I have cleaned out a cabinet in my classroom of old documents that I haven't seen in 5 years that I probably do not need. Garrett has graciously typed out the names in a word document so that I can rank them and see which "regions" will be matched.

Gideon loves drawing and playing with stickers. He learned this from his Uncle Dustin in California.





Gideon has grown out of his size 6 shoe. I had a size 7 shoe in the closet that I took out for him to wear today. It is a challenge to walk in them since they are a little big for him right now. We were also given a bag of hand-me-down shoes. There is an almost new pair of Keens in there, size 8. We are now a Keen family. =)

Garrett's volleyball team had a playoff game on Saturday. Instead of sitting and watching the game, Gideon wanted to walk around. It was a beautiful day so we walked to the park behind the community center. Gideon was shocked by all the kids running around and screaming. He sat on the grass and watched for five minutes. He wanted to go down the slide but he didn't want to climb up the steps. After watching all the other kids do it, he finally got up and climbed the stairs. He was rearranging his legs on the slide to go feet first. It was taking a while and this little boy behind him almost pushed Gideon down the slide because he was so impatient. My maternal instincts quickly stopped the boy and gave a stern look. I couldn't be too mad. He was an Asian boy, the same age as Gideon and he had Down's Syndrome.

Thank you to Aunt Betty, Uncle Dennis, and Uncle Albert for this awesome bunny shirt!!!

20 months

Gideon is 20 months old, only four more months until his second birthday. Oh my! We spent our spring break in California, visiting family and friends. Gideon had an amazing time. He loved playing with all the little kids and family. He stayed up way past his bedtime because of all the great company. I think if he was staying up with just Gar and I, he would have melted down pretty quickly. Unfortunately, he was still waking up around the same time as if he went to bed early.

Easter Egg hunt: Gideon had his first egg hunt thanks to Grandma Wong. He did not know what to do with the eggs at first. He usually opens them and finds nothing inside. This time he would find pretzel goldfish and toys. He got it at the end of the egg hunt, 5 eggs. =)



20 months



"Stop taking pictures of me" look



Back at home, Gideon has found a new love: outdoor play. In California, he would be outside every morning watching the leaves blow by or playing at the nearby park. Now that he is back in Washington, he wants to continue outdoor play. Thank goodness it was 64 and sunny. We played with water toys and got all wet. So we had an indoor break, eating papaya and playing with the bead toy. Gideon tried very hard to get the beads to move. He would get frustrated, but he would continue on. I hope that means he will be persevere even when things are tough or he is just that stubborn.



Baby girl name bracket is on its way. Garrett and I have the 32 names. Now I just need to find the time to put it together. I cannot give myself a firm deadline since report cards are due this week. Take care everybody! We miss you all in California and we will return soon with baby girl Chan!