25 posts tagged “baby”

James made his first deposit in the porcelain bank today.  That's right!  He took his first poopy in an adult toilet! 

Kids - potty trained before a year old!??!  I could get used to this.  After having changed well over a thousand diapers by now, I am so ready to start working with James at "Infant Potty Training" or what the experts call "Elimination Communication".  If he can be potty trained by a year, it would totally rock!  I went to www.diaperfreebaby.org today to get the information I would need to get us started.

After reading the site, I decided that doing "Occasional EC" was the right path for James and me - it would take up much time and because I don't have a little potty for him in the kitchen yet, it would be the cleanest option to try.  Occasional EC entails taking James to the crapper when he wakes up, and during routine diaper changes.  So I watched him carefully this morning and tried to get him to do something while over the toilet.  No luck.  It wasn't until the end of the day did I finally get him over the toilet at the right time - and I was even rewarded with one of his award winning smiles when I cheered him on for his accomplishment. 

While I'm not going to hold my breath and expect him to be potty trained by the end of this year, I'm hoping hoping hoping!!!  Go James!

Life has been so busy lately!  In the past few weeks, Dan, James, and I have been to a wedding, several gigs, window (including the house!) shopping in Antioch,  and breezing through the digital world on our new Apple Computer.  Just imagine - this is just the abridged list of what we've been up to!

Dan and I have been house-perusing lately - there are so many houses on the market now!  While driving through Antioch, we discovered just how badly the housing market is: can you imagine that on every block there is at least one house for sale, in foreclosure, or just plain abandoned?  On window after window, we saw signs giving warnings about "no trespassing" and "Only PG&E may enter" and the like.  We also saw several 5 bedroom/4 bath houses (with detached in-law units in the back) going for less than $400k.  While this sounds expensive to many of you midwesters, for California it's ridiculously cheap for such a huge house!  We also drove through Danville and San Ramon - housing has dropped significantly there also, although not enough for us to buy anything yet.  We'll see how much more it will plummet...

Work is going well for us - while we don't have the jam packed library schedule like last year (thank GOD!), we have been pretty busy with corporate events and private parties.  Just yesterday we had a gig at the Dragon Bar in SF for a guy's 40th birthday.  This guy bought out the place, got catering from Yank Sing's, and hired a DJ, Hula Hoopers, and of course Dan and I.  Talk about throwing a party!  I was thrilled because I haven't been clubbing in ages!  The food was great, the dancing was fun, and of course Dan and I had a hoot providing some entertainment.  We also worked at Oracle and Shopping.com recently.  Hanging out in corporate offices like that almost makes me miss having a normal 9-5 desk job.  Well...I miss the free snacks, the goofy little toys, and of course the fun coworkers to yack it up with...the working under florescent lights - don't miss that at all.

I would write about the glories called Apple Computer right here, but I think this video sums it up a lot quicker.  I like my PC still, but Macs...oh, so kawaii and user friendly!!!  :D  Gotta love it.

Aight, James is awake again, so back to the most important reason why I haven't been online lately...my kid is all over the place!  Wheeeeee fun! ;)

The apple certainly doesn't fall far from the tree - and if you're a Chan/Wong, chances are you're gonna pick up that apple and eat it! 

James is complete with his first full week of dining on solids, and it's exciting for me to say that he appreciates trying new foods like Dan and myself!  So far, his menu consists of:


4/16 Rice Cereal
4/18 Carrots
4/20 Haricort Verts (fancy talk for green beans)

Deciding not to be a big hypocrite who feeds my kid salads and wheat germ while I snarf down Big Macs and french fries, I decided that whatever James eats, I have to eat.  In other words, if I can't even stomach it, why should he have to eat it?  This is good for both of us because there is little that I wouldn't eat (or at least try out) outside of eggplant or beets (eggplant because I'm allergic to it, and beets because they're just plain disgusting) and because having James eat healthier means Dan and I would eat healthier.  An added bonus is that if I made all of James' baby food and froze it in little blocks, we wouldn't have to spend $0.50 per tiny jar of pureed "whatever I can make".

Today I steamed collard greens and blended them up so James could eat it for part of his lunch.  Upon feeding him a spoonful, he did something that he hasn't done before with all the other new foods - he made a face and spat it out.  Figuring that this may be a "I don't want to try a new food" reaction, I tried it again.  He promptly made a face, spat it out, then sneezed it all over me.  Now, my brother is law Stephen touted collard greens as a delicious and healthy green.  I tried several more time with James and he ate about 4 spoonfuls before turning his head away, screwing his mouth shut, and giving me a dirty look.  So I figured I should try these greens.

Oh.  My.  God. 

I almost spat the stuff out myself.  What I thought was supposed to taste something like spinach ended up tasting more like bitter weeds.  To be completely fair, I sampled another spoonful.  I tried to add rice cereal to it and tried it again.  Stephen is a cruel, cruel man to have fed this stuff to my nephews.  With that, I steamed up some peas for James to eat and tossed the collard greens to the dogs.  Needless to say, the dogs loved the collard greens and rice cereal, and we will be serving the rest of that noxious stuff to them!

My sister and I were planning on going out to dinner tonight with James...alas, someone had a different agenda....

After feeding, diaper changing, burping, and trying everything in our power to get him to calm down, I ended up just calling it a night and putting someone to bed.  Bingo.  Looks like leftovers for mommy tonight!