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over the weekend

Over the weekend, we not only celebrated Isaac's second birthday..we were super busy running around. Saturday I went a Christmas luncheon at a friend's church. It was really nice hanging out with ladies and just remember the meaning of Christmas. Dan on the other hand, took the kids with my friend's husband to a German St. Nicholas festival. Although, everyone spoke german to him, he had a lot of fun, and Isaac ate every sweets there were presented to him!

Saturday night I had my work party. It was a great excuse to dress up and hang out with people outside of work.

Sunday--Seattle Jingle Bell Run for the Arthritis foundation 5 K. I ran it and Dan walked it with the kids. He backpacked Isaac and frontpacked Jed. Isaac's hands were frozen by the end, but he keep sing jingle bells and really enjoy the holiday festivities. I don't know my final time yet, but from just going by the songs I was listening to, should be about 30-35 min. I had a great run. It had two hills than we ran thru the I-5 Express tunnel while everyone was singing Jingle Bells. I had a celebrtiy sighting as well. I saw Susie and Matt from the Biggest Loser! It was neat since I"m addicted to the TV show...

Isaac's birthday party with the family! It was a praise jam at the Solversons!

Isaac singing

So much to update!!!! Where should I start?

Thanksgiving 2007
The day before Thanksgiving, Isaac came down with the Hand Foot and Mouth disease. And it's not pretty..he got blisters in his mouth making it hard for him to eat and rashs of blisters on his palms and soles...poor kid. He would take a bite of food and scream because it hurt so bad. We spent the day lounging around and then went over to the Solversons for the festivities. We topped off the night by watching Blades of Glory...The following morning, I was up by 5am with jed and then hit the malls by 6am and left the kids with Dan. Let me tell you...it was CRAZY!!!! But, i guess the fun of it was just being in the holiday season..I wish I had more people to give presents to...

Now I have offically gone back to work...it wasn't as bad as I thought...between getting two kids ready in the morning and pumping through out the day, it hasn't been too bad...my boss is really laid back and easy to work with. Our offical sign is that if I have a picture of my kids on the door--i am pumping.

Jed sleep 8 hours at 10 weeks but still refer back to 4-6 hour every couple of days...in the past two days, he has been sleeping 4 hours and feeding every 3 hours..he finishes the 5 ozs of the bottle too..he is a growing boy! He is the sweetest baby...always smiling and very chilled. Isaac will be playing rough with him, he would still laugh back and just hang out with us. THe brothers I know will be great friends. They are both sleeping in the same room and Isaac isn't waking up anymore by Jeds cries in the middle of the night. If Jed is not in the room with Isaac in the morning, Isaac would roam around the house going "Jed di-di." Very sweet!! I can't remember when kids roll over, but just yesterday I put him on his stomach and I turned around he was on his back....

Isaac just turned two yesterday. We had a little party just ourselves...We decorated his room the night before with streamers and balloons...The following day, did he feel like the special boy. He was singing happy birthday all day to himself. The highlight was going to the doctor for his 2 year check up...He was very cooperative and enjoyed beging "checked out" except for the two shots he got, which immediately afterwards, he said to me "Isaac go, Isaac go.." I guess that was enough for him and he was ready to go...Potty training--we are not pushing it, but we did buy a potty and are just more aware whenever he is about to go especially pooping. He has been telling us whenever he goes to poop for months now..so in the past week, we've been catching him starting to push, we would then rush him to the toilet. He gone in the potty twice and very proud to see his poop get flushed away!

Dan--he is the best dad ever! Whenever he is home, he takes over the kids and lets me have my time....which has been nice...the best part is that, he is the one getting up at night...we are finally adjusting as a family of four, and it wouldn't of been so smooth without Dan being so hands on and helpful..the other morning Isaac asked, where's daddy..I said, at work..Isaac answered "oh, yeah" just daily fun with the KIDS!

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Jed's 8 week appt (though not quite 8 weeks yet)

Jed-di-di is what I call him..he is now entering 8 weeks old next monday. He has been sleeping 6 hour stretches, but starting at 7pm, which wasn't set by me but himself. For some reason, he will not stay awake pass 7, wondering if he knew that his brother was going down that same time. With Isaac, we had to stay up till 10 and then he'll do his 6 hours stretches as we call it--sleeping thru the night:) but back to Jed. He'll sleep from 7 to about 2am and wake up every two hours from then on, which is not too bad..in fact, since we've been back from Chicago, we've been going to bed around 8:30 -9...kinda in between time zones...

The appointment--

Weight 13lbs 10 ozs--90th percentile
Height 23.25 inchest- 75 percentile
Head 15.25cm- 40th percentile
He cooed the whole way through the appt. THe doctor was like, is he like this all the time? yup, we have a talker, he has been like this since 5 weeks old. He is so interactive, which made me love him even more! He had a hard night last night after the shots..i'm crossing my fingers as in how he'll sleep without the vaccination still brothering him..will update soon!

We are back!

Jacob and Jed
Before the reunion--check out my ghostly face--its an illusion the makeup artist was trying to create.
Solversons

Solversons and yangs at my church
Jeanette and Lester
Isaac and his friend, Nathan--if we lived closer, these twos would be
best of friends!
Isaac and my sister

We are back from our week in Chicago...boy, do we miss home...nothing like the easy access to family, friends, and of course for me personally-chinatown:) We went there twice in one day..kinda crazy...The plane ride was good, Isaac was doing really well until landing after waking up still tired! Jed pretty much slept the whole way, which was nice..the hardest part was trying not to pack so much, but how can you when you have two kids...we had three suitcases, two car seats, one stroller, my breast pump, diaper bag, oh, and our two kids...It was nuts! I should of taken a photo of our stuff!

It was a jammed packed week from visiting family to friends...and meeting new friends (Jen) as well. It awesome to see my kids playing with our friend's children. I hope and wish that our friendship will last through generations..what a blessing!

Highlights:
Yang's home coming dinner was food heaven...as my parents welcomed us home with tons of friends and family from my church
Visiting the Burks at their new Narnia
Hanging out in Chi-town with my sister, Michael, the Wongs, and Muriel..oh, and catching up on Heroes till wee hours of the night (DAN!)
Kat's awesome massage treatment and some good quality time catching up and hanging out
Stall's gourmet meal and seeing the kids play together was such a treat!
Meeting Jeanette and seeing old friends--Lester, Judy, Courtney
Chicago outing with my sister and hanging in her new dig as Dan catches up on "Heroes"--he stayed up till 3 am!
Hanging out with Carla and her baby Jacob
Hanging out with the Solversons and celebrating Kat and Mo's b-day
Shopping by myself--trust me, it was great!
Power shop with Mo and Keri

One of the main highlight was Dan's 10 year high school reunion...can you believe it, 10 years? It was a nice night out for Dan and I..can you can see, I got my makeup done at the Estee counter...I didn't realize how ghostly white my makeup was until the photos, yikes! But, it was nice to see some of Dan's friends that I've only heard about and never met.

Every time I see family and friends it makes me treasure those moments even more...it's amazing how even though we live states away that we always have great family and friends whom always hang in there with us as we journey thru life...

Isaac vs Jed at 5 weeks

Isaac

Jed

Isaac

Jed

Finally, the double stroller...Halloween

Finally, after some convincing telling Dan that I cannot juggle two kids with one stroller...and after visiting several stores and talking to random strangers, we found the double stroller! Its lite and compact! Its the Joovy sit and stand, I saw it on Jackie's blog and tried it out at the store...and we are loving it!

Below are also some pictures of Isaac bonding with his brother. He is getting better in terms of being gentle..every morning, he would run into our room looking thru playpens and blankets for the baby..."where baby go?" he would ask...then, I had to remind him that the baby is sleeping with him in his room now. Its amazing that after a few weeks of sharing a room, Isaac dosen't even wake up to Jed's cries..thank GOd!

Today is Halloween..and Isaac is the fierce tiger..as you can see..he loved this outfit. We already had a dress rehearsal over the weekend..he even said "mommy, color Isaac" so I can paint his face:) He is so sweet! We are thinking of going to our church's Fall Harvest Carnival....more to come..

Jed at 1 month

At one month, Jed is still sleeping about Q3 Hours..what is interesting is that by 7pm he is ready for bed. He would sleep till 9:30pm and go back to bed and basically start his night routine. The interesting part is that every day around 4:30am he is up for his feeding, but would wake up at 5:30am and then finally go back to bed at 6:30am. So, Dan is basically up from 4:30am on...we are wondering since its not until later that we would try to give the baby an earlier bedtime, but that with the earlier bed time Jed set for himself is causing him to wake up earlier. He is not hungrey at 5:30am..just wanted to move..so typically, I would move him to bed with him and he would sleep till about 7:30am...boy, this kid is awake a lot more than I remembered about Isaac. Isaac was always sleeping...

On her way out the door to a dinner party, Jo poses for the camera.




Isaac actually smiled for this year's school pictures.

Jed is 4 weeks old

I am a bit lazy on downloading pictures..so more to come on that...Its been 4 weeks since Jed's born and boy, what a significant different from overwhelming, emotionally rollercoaster to now, enjoying my KIDS. Isaac is doing better in adjusting to his new brother that is not going anywhere anytime soon. He still wakes up periodiaclly, but has been really good for the past few days. He is talking up a storm..yesterday, we asked him what he learned at school, he mumbled something I didn't understand so I kinda brushed it off. I could tell Isaac knew that I had no idea what he was saying so he kept repeating it...finally dan goes, "Astranut!" I was like, no way...well, we looked at his daily progress sheet and yes, they learned about Astronut and Isaac was so excited that we finally understood him!

Jed is sleeping 2.5 to 3 hours...haven't hit that 4 hour stretch like Isaac did, but from pumping breastmilk, he is already chowing down 4 oz at a time...overall, his schedule has been somewhat predictable and boy does he get mad when food is not getting to him fast enough. Last night was a bit rough, I think he's got a cold of some sort--nose was all stuffed up, which was hard for him to breath thru his nose...He is smiling--don't know if its just gas, but I say he is smiling.

As for Dan and I, we found a great college babysitter...first time was over the weekend as a trial...so we can go on regular date night...this is how sad we are, we left the house and didn't even know what to do...we finally decided to go to Borders to sit, read, and chat. we both got a coffee..after about 10 min. Dan was like, are you done with your mocha? I looked down, and I was probably 1/4 left. We laughed and realize that we've been on kids mode, everything was in a hurry...

As for me recovering from my c-section---I am so much better...I started running/ slow jog..at 2 weeks. I know I wasn't suppose to, but the exercise really boost my energy dispite the sleepless nights. I've been taking Jed with my to the Y and have him in the carrier, while I do cardio or wts. I am still craving sweets, mainly chocolate--I thought that part of the pregnancy was over already..oh, well...

Mo visit, Pumpkin Patch, & Sleep Update

Maureen was nice enough to come out on a short notice to help out. In fact, she had the baby with her for three nights doing the feedings and changing diapers so Dan and I can get some uninterrupted sleep! That was a God-send, I didn't realize how much more human I feel to get some sleep! She also helped cleaned our house and organized the the kids clothes and added some new fun shoes for Isaac!

Over the weekend, we went to a Pumpkin patch just outside of Tacoma. Isaac really enjoyed the hayride and looking at the chicken. The Pumpkins were a bit big and dirty, which he refused to touch, but did manage to find a school bus in the patch.

Sleep update....When Jed was with Mo, he was doing really well, fairly spaced out. Last night we had him, we put him down at 7pm sound asleep, woke up at 10 for feeding and slept till 1am...from 1 to 2:30am, he was sleeping, but grunts all night. Dan and I were going crazy! By 4am he was up for another feeding, the grunting stopped when we put him in our bed, wondering if anyone elses baby is like that? Last night was Isaac's first night sleeping thru the night in two weeks. I hope its a sign that he is adjusting. It has been hard going between one baby to another...