What A Busy September!

Wow!! What a busy month!! Not only did I turn 2 months old at the beginning of the month, but there was PLENTY of other things to celebrate:

SEPTEMBER 7th: this was Grandparents Day, so I wanted to do something special for Por-Por & Goong-Goong and Mah-Mah & Yeh-Yeh. With my mommy's help, I made them fun photo flip books

On the cover, I put this picture of me holding a sign for them:

SEPTEMBER 10th: For those of you who know my mommy & daddy, you know they love to watch women's volleyball. They love it so much that we have season tickets to Stanford Women's volleyball with our friends Auntie Kathy & Uncle Chris. At first, my mom thought I wasn't going to like the games, but I actually love to go to the games! They have this HUGE TV for me to watch (I love to watch tv already at my young age!) and tons of lights. Every once in a while this loud band plays -- but it's okay, I just fall asleep then!

In addition to going to see the current Stanford Women's Volleyball team, about 3 weeks ago, my mommy took me to meet a SUPER STAR -- Kerri Walsh!! I am such a lucky boy -- my mom won an autographed volleyball...and THEN Kerri signed it just for me! She said I was super cute, loved my hair and hopes that she has a little one like me soon!!

                              

There was real paparazi there (not just my Por-Por and Auntie Jenny who I normally call the Paparazi) but sadly, we didn't make it into the newspaper article. Oh well -- I got to see her latest Olympic gold medal too! 

SEPTEMBER 12th: I have a new baby cousin! TYLER HUEY was born on the 12th -- yippee! Here's a picture of me with him. My mommy says I'm so much bigger!! But not for long, I'm sure Tyler will be just as big as me soon...

                    

The rest of the month was filled with lots of walks and adventures like trips to the Japanese Tea Garden, Target, other parks with my playgroups (Chubby Cheeks and Cutie Pies).

SEPTEMBER 30th: This was my mommy & daddy's anniversary, so I got to stay home with Mah-Mah & Yeh-Yeh while they went to dinner at Melting Pot. They had a great time and ate LOTS of food! My mommy had some shrimp and lobster...but it made me super duper rashy, so no more shellfish for my mommy!

October is off to a great start! I turned 3 months on October 6th, and then I had my first Red Egg & Ginger party! Look for more posts on those items!!

It's My Por-Por's Birthday!!

Today is my Por-Por's birthday! I know I'm not even 3 months old yet, but check out the e-card I created for my Por-Por!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Unfortunately, I made her another "surprise" for her birthday, but it won't be here until early next week :( Check back later for fun pictures of my Por-Por and her cool present!!

Two Months and Growing Strong!

Hey everyone! It's been a LONG time since our last post, and we've been busy! Below is a little slideshow of my 2nd month -- and what a month it's been!

Look for more posts soon!!

My First Visit to the Museum

I had my first visit to a museum with Mommy & Daddy on Friday! Mommy really likes Dale Chihuly, and he had an exhibit at the De Young, so off we went for an adventure! Apparently, I was a really good baby!!

Since the museum is expecting LOTS of people to come see this exhibit, they don't allow any strollers in! Good thing Mommy & Daddy remembered to pack my favorite Beco Butterfly carrier
so I could ride around with mom through the exhibit. (I noticed some babies' parents weren't as prepared as mine, and they just had to be carried the whole time -- yikes!)

I'm sure I would have loved all of the vibrant colors in the exhibit, but I chose to take a very long nap instead! Here are some of the pictures that daddy took.

What Daddy gets to see...

I love my son...but I think it took awhile for him to love me. Here's Daddy's slide show!

Pictures!

I know, I know -- this is waaaaayyy overdue! But, here's a slideshow of some of our favorite pics from Jaden's first month. Enjoy these!!



Thanks for keeping up with my blog!

A Day in the Life of Jaden

We haven't posted any videos in awhile so I wanted to show everyone some of the funny faces our son puts on for the camera.

Around two weeks old here...


Around five weeks...


We have some more pics coming as well...

brandon, michelle, and jaden

One Month and Growing Like A Weed!

This past Wednesday, I turned ONE month old!! Mommy cries whenever she thinks about how fast I'm growing...especially when I outgrew my "bog boy" striped shirt :) BTW, that was a preemie size!!

I went to the doctor's on Thursday for my one-month appointment -- and I weigh 9lbs 7oz now! That's 3lbs 1oz I gained in one month - wow! Dr. Tanaka says I am now in the 50th percentile for weight. And, I've also grown two inches to a towering 21-1/2" :)

I have learned how to scream when I need attention. Not the screaming you heard from me earlier, but just little single sound (very loud) screams so that Mommy & Daddy pay attention to me!

I've also learned how to smile and laugh with mommy -- and she swears it's not just gas anymore!! But...I'm camera shy, so when the video camera comes on, I don't like to do my tricks :)

All of my pictures are on Daddy's computer, but mommy will post them as soon as she can!

~Jaden

Three Weeks...feels like 3 Nanoseconds!

Wow! I can't believe Jaden is already three weeks old - it has literally flown by!!!

We are having a wonderful time getting to know our little Jaden -- even the 1:00 am - 5:00 am "social hour" that he seems to like!!

Here's a few things we've learned in our early weeks of parenthood:

• BEWARE of shooting baby poop during feedings! (Brandon learned this one a few times - Michelle has been lucky and hasn't had any "hands on" training with this one yet!)
• Grunting is a GOOD sound! Jaden has recently taken up this very animalistic grunting sound - which at first frightened us - now we find it quite entertaining!
• Waking up for night feedings every 1-1/2 to 3 hours is okay -- I'm getting used to it!
• White noise is our friend -- it seems to calm Jaden down at times (he even was soothed by the sound of the gardeners' blower yesterday!)
• Spit up in the bath water makes a pretty swirl! Yes...even though our baths are supposed to be for removing spit up residue and such. Sometimes spit up makes it into the tub...yikes.

In all seriousness, we couldn't love our baby any more! It seems that all of those things that we found SOOOO important "pre-Jaden" aren't so high on the priority totem pole anymore! At least for me, Jaden is truly the center of my universe and I am cherishing EVERY moment with him and can't believe he's already three weeks old! I think Jaden actually listened to his mommy's request of "please stay little until you come out! Once you come out, you can grow up to be big & strong all you want!" We had our two week appointment with Dr. Tanaka on Monday, 7/21. Apparently, the goal for weight at the two week mark is to be back at the original birth weight. Well...little Jaden was an "overachiever" in this area! He weighed in at 7lbs 7oz!!! He only weighed 6lbs 6oz at birth!! What a good little boy!!!!!

During his first three weeks, he has had lots of visitors!! THANKS to everyone who has come to visit Jaden already! We know there are lots of other friends who want to see the baby as well, and we hope to get those visits scheduled soon! BUT...some of Jaden's favorite visits were with his great grandparents - all the "Tais"
Tai-Tai (Brandon's Grandma)

Tai-Por & Tai-Goong (Michelle's maternal grandparents)

Tai-Tai (Michelle's paternal grandma)

Okay...time to catch some ZZZZ's while Jaden is sleeping. Below are a few of my favorite photos from the past weeks.

Enjoying my warm towel after bath time...

Smiling for my mommy & daddy...

Mommy's favorite "big boy" striped shirt...

That's it for now! Please keep checking the blog for more Jaden updates!!

I'm Going Home!!

After two short nights at the hospital, we all were "released" to leave the hospital! Although, Brandon & I thought one more night in the hospital would have been good -- extra visit from the lactation specialist, help from the nurses, etc., we were happy to bring our new little guy home with us :)

I know I'm a biased parent, but he is just SOOOO cute!! Look at this face!! In this picture, he's making one of my favorite "oooohhh" faces - he does this one a lot!!

During Jaden's last day in the hospital, there was LOTS of activities...he had his "boy procedure" done first thing in the morning. AND, if that wasn't enough 5 minutes after he came back from his procedure, they came to do the CA Newborn Screening test. What they have to do for this test is prick his little foot, and drop blood into 5 spots for testing. Please note the ENTIRE spot on the paper has to be filled, which was taking about 3 drops of blood each time. POOR BABY!!

All of his visitors didn't bring drama though!

The on-call pediatrician, Dr. Tillman, came in and made sure Jaden was okay to go home! He passed with flying colors :)

All in all, it was a GREAT day to leave the hospital -- here's a picture of us leaving the hospital with our favorite nurse, Mary Jane! And, also a picture of Jaden in his carseat for the first time!


And, last but not least, here's our little boy at his new home for the first time!


Time to get some sleep - we'll write more later :)