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

Gideon's Imagination

Lil G has become quite the imaginative young man... here's a video of him pretending to be a cook, making "pancakes and sausages" for his friends, the Transformers:


Feeding the Transformers from Gar on Vimeo.


Eating play-doh is the right of all sentient beings.

-Gar.

More weekly pictures!

Week 21

Thanks Auntie Ginger for the awesome outfit!



Week 22

Return of the monchichis!



Week 23

What a smile!



Week 24

I love my uncle Dust!



Week 25

Gideon wanted to be in the picture too!



Week 26

Wearing a Tea collection dress!



Week 27

Thank you Auntie Maria and Uncle Raymond for another awesome outfit!



Week 28

Deer in headlights look!

More weekly pictures!

Week 11

"Go Giants!"



Week 12

More crazy hair!



Week 13

Funny expression again!



Week 14

Cute ladybug outfit for Halloween!



Week 15

Another outfit that Gideon wore. I can't believe how alike they look.



Week 16

I love her expression in this picture. I bought her this onesie for Garrett. It says, "Rad like Dad."



Week 17

Thank you Auntie Maria and Uncle Raymond for the awesome Ralph Lauren outfit!



Week 18

Looking grown up in a dress



Week 19

Linus onesie that Gideon wore when he was little. 



Week 20

Peanut-free household

 

When Gideon turned two years old, we started introducing Gideon to different nuts. We soon found that he loved the most expensive nuts, cashews and pine nuts. I think he takes after his mother. 

We decided to introduce peanut slowly. First we gave Gideon peanut butter on toast and noticed that he got a red mark on his cheek. We waited several weeks and tried again. Gideon got a red mark on his cheek again. Then we tried crush peanuts with raisins, like a trail mix. He started to cough a lot after eating the peanuts and raisins. The pieces were very small so we thought they just tickled his throat.

We waited a few weeks again before introducing peanut butter puff cereal. Within minutes, Gideon had itchy and puffy eyes. We stopped the cereal and gave him benadryl. I was worried about the reaction. The benadryl helped and Gideon was not fussy. He was hungry and wanted more food since I took his cereal away.  We took him to daycare and I called the doctor's office about next steps. Our pediatrician responded right away and referred us to see an allergist. On January 4th, the allergist pricked Gideon's back with a small amount of peanut. Within seconds, a hive appeared and quickly increased in size in the 20 minutes.

We have become proud owners of epi-pens. We are a peanut-free household. We read every label before purchasing items in grocery stores. We love our son. We are learning as we go along and I am glad that I had learned about this in my preschool teacher days, learning about how to use an epi-pen and how to read labels.

So now, if Garrett and I want peanut items, we eat them at work. =)

We're back!

Since it was the lunar new year yesterday and due to Jaime's persistent emails, I have returned to the blogging world. I probably will not be writing weekly posts but I am determined to post twice a month at least. The first of many posts will be Seona's weekly photos.

We have been taking them each Sunday morning before we go to church. They have been on the memory card for a while and we tried to make a new habit of uploading often because of the stolen camera incident. It is probably the reason why the lack of updates. I now have to explain how sleep deprivation caused us to leave the camera in the car overnight. With the stolen camera, the hospital pictures and week 4 and 5 pictures of Seona went with it. Garrett and I mourned over the loss of the pictures and we even posted a sign asking for the return of the memory card. Every day we would look on our front steps or the mail box for the card but we found nothing. So lesson learned, upload pictures right away after taking them. =)

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Week 10

See Kai Run casting call

I apologize to all our faithful readers, (Grandma Wong that is you!), but we have been busy adjusting our family life from 3 to 4 people. Auntie Jaime is making me write more posts now that she is in town. It has become mountain of backlogged posts that will someday make it. Here is a fun one for now!

Garrett and I saw the casting call on our facebook and both decided we should enter Gideon into it. We love their shoes and we know that Gideon is cute on camera. The tough part was choosing which pictures to send to the casting call director. Here are the photos that we chose.







And of course this video!

Gideon's Gangnam Style from Gar on Vimeo.

We received an email for a callback. Woohoo! Garrett's mom watched Seona at home while I took Gideon. I wanted Gideon to feel comfortable in his clothes. So I dressed him in a T-shirt and khakis. He wore his velcro Stride Rite shoes. When we arrived, there were many kids waiting to be measured and photographed. They were dressed much more dressier than Gideon: fancy dresses, fancy shoes, button up shirts, polos and hats.

We checked in with the friendly lady. She noticed right away that Gideon was the dancer in the cool video. She liked it too! I thought that was a good sign. The children (some Gideon's age and some who were older) were sitting with their parental units waiting to be called. Gideon was not that child. He wanted to play with all the kids. He would come up to them and say hi. He would try to hug the girls. He also ran around in circles while waiting. Gideon was making himself known to the crowd. In true Gideon style, he was also trying to scavenge some goldfishes and fruity snacks from other kids by staring at them.

When we were called, Gideon was very excited to go behind the tables that he ran to the lady who was taking photographs. Unfortunately, Gideon was photo bombing another child's photo. I had to corral him back to the lady who was finding a shoe for his big feet. "Wow, a size 8 foot!" she said. Gideon tried on the right shoe and loved walking in it. He did not want to take it off. He started to cry, so the lady said he can wear it until we leave. Gideon was the only one who was upset by the shoe.

Then it was our turn to talk to the lady. She had bean bag balls to play with which Gideon loved. She asked him to hold the ball and throw it to her. In true Gideon style, he threw the ball away from her, probably thinking it was the Billy game. Then she wanted to take a picture of Gideon. He did not stand still for the photo. He decided to run away to the nearest wall and lean on it to pose for the picture.

Example but Gideon was not smiling. He was "smizing." (smiling with your eyes, term by Tyra Banks.)



I had to hold Gideon while she took a picture. He was compliant but wanted to run around the room more with the balls. We said goodbye to the lady. As we were walking away, she wrote something down in one second and turned her page. Any thoughts on what she was writing down? At least it was a fun experience. We will probably still buy See Kai Run shoes. We will find out on October 15th if Gideon is called back for the photoshoot in November.