Well Justin's been doing a fine job keeping the blog updated, but I can't help but add some of my writing here too just so that it's balanced :)
Come to think of it, I had a lot of thoughts last night about what I want to write on here while I was trying to fall asleep, and many of them seemed wonderful at the moment. Well you see the problem with having such thoughts at such a time is that you can never keep them in your head until the next day. So here's a quick update... maybe some of those thoughts will come back while I write the boring stuff.
Ummm I'll start with Kai, since he's the main focus of my life right now.
Kai will soon be 3-months old (this coming Saturday to be precise), and is continuing to grow at the same rate that he has been growing since birth--that is, approximately 0.8 lbs./week--the result so far being that he's 18.3 lbs. (as of 5 pm today, I measured him on the wii fit). So he's a very good live version of the Michelin tireman--but don't let him hear you say that, he'll cry in
protest.
He started smiling a lot since about two maybe three weeks ago, and now will even giggle if he's really having a good time. Cooing and talking is another sign of his intellectual development (and I'm going straight down the tube on this aspect, seeing that I just had to double-check the spelling of 'intellectual' on the internet :p) He especially likes it when we repeat what he says, and will almost smile every single time we do it (I don't know, he probably either thinks that we are having a real conversation with him, or that we look really stupid doing it...) . Also, he recently found his fingers, and really enjoys sucking on them. I am grateful for this, because he still doesn't take a pacifier, and fingers are a good alternative--easy to find, hard to lose, and can be brought to his mouth whenever he feels like it. Please don't tell me how hard it is to wean children from sucking their fingers, I'll worry about that in two years. The strange thing is that he is a index finger-sucker, which I've never seen other kids do (probably for a good reason too, cuz I've seen Kai suck his finger a little too hard and almost gagged himself...).
So that's that about Kai... overall he's growing well and a very easy baby to take care of. I am grateful everday for that.
Justin is about to be done with the Summer Semester, and I think he's very glad that it's coming to an end. Both of his classes are going well (according to my standards I think he's doing great, but he can be an overachiver sometimes, and hopes to do better :)), and he will have his finals next week. He's working on a project right now, thus the reason for me updating our blog at 12:03 am... After Justin's finals we are going to California! I'm so excited and can't wait to see all of our family in Cali, it's going to be so much fun! And Kai will meet cousin Henry for the first time, and see cousin Ethan again, YAY for the 'meeting of chubby babies'! Other than that, I guess there aren't anything new about Justin... he IS losing weight according to his plans, which I
think he's secretly happy about :) haha
As for me, there isn't anything new at all. I'm losing weight too--I think all of my calorie intake goes to Kai--but not feeling any smaller. Can a person lose pure muscle and not any fat?! I've made a goal of 'exercise for 30 minutes everyday--or do things similar to exercise such as going grocery shopping with Kai strapped on me'. Don't laugh at me :), with Justin being gone so much I can hardly get out of the house... Not that I have any problem with that, because everyone that knows me know that I'm a ひものおんな (an indoor person in short, though the word means much more than that :)), and is very content being indoors as long as I have some books, a little food and the computer. But I decided that I need to make an effort to go out more for Kai's sake, so here is me working on it.
So that's our life updated. My brilliant thoughts didn't come to me so I had to bore you with this post, what a shame.
All the people that feel neglected because I haven't updated our blog...sorry, you'll have a take a ticket : ) Things at school have been so busy the past 4 weeks, I'm not 100% sure Kai still recognizes me. I've been going to school on the 7:11am bus, and coming home on the 7pm or later bus, the last two weeks I've had one night that I don't go to sleep, just code the night through. It's been frustrating, there is no such thing as finding a balance in school. You do your homework until it is done, sleeping and eating are done in you 'spare' time.
Yuan has started some (very) parttime work for a charter school teaching Chinese. She has 3 boys in her class, ranging from 12 - 16. She's so glad to get out of the house and do something else, even if it is only 4 days a week for an hour. She's also getting into makinng different kinds of foods that Kai can eat.
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