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Swing away

a nice morning… took Christian out to the park, just for a walk and a quick stop at the park (there was a lineup for the swings by the time we got there, but a sweet little girl let us play first)

One step closer to skating!!

and finally…

He’s Walking

We took Christian in for his 12-month shots the other day and there’s only one word to describe it all – waterfall! It was painfully funny watching him cry and scream and the tears just kept gushing out. The nurse asked us if we had any concerns about his development, and even though I know not all babies walk/talk before 12-months…she reassured us that Christian’s doing great and some things just take time.

Somehow her reassurance didn’t help…I kept thinking I should’ve done more with him, and I secretly blamed Jason for being such a lazy parent – he could’ve done more, too! I was walking at 7 months and Jason, too, before 1. So, what’s wrong with Christian? Then..finally…today…he took his first steps! *Whew* I guess we are not bad/lazy parents afterall.

Now, I just need to get him to drink his milk from the cup. He’ll use the sippy cup only if it’s juice, water or Chinese soup. But once I put milk in it…he just throws the cup back at me.

Happy Birthday!

Balls!

Birthday present from Grandma!

Photos: Cultus Lake

Jason and I took Christian, Grandma Bubbles and Smakey to Cultus Lake on Saturday. The weather was gorgeous – not too hot not too cold (could’ve been a bit warmer tho). The lake wasn’t as busy as we expected (we got there after 1pm). We found a nice spot in the shade for our little picnic and afterwards it was splash time in the lake. Though we didn’t get any pictures of Christian in the water, but we got quite a bit of before and after ones.

Hopefully, the weather’s going to be nice this summer so we can take Christian to more parks and lakes…maybe even Kelowna, too!

Photos: 11 months

the “Butter Tart” duet

Warning: it IS quite annoying!

Project 365

In less than a month’s time, our chou-chou will be 1. It was just like yesterday when we first saw the “+” on the pee-stick, now we’re now planning for his 1st birthday party. We are also going to start a “Project 365″ blog – we’ll be taking a picture a day of the chou-chou, so that some day (or 365 days later) we can look back and remind ourselves of the little Kodak moments of the many days that we’ve “endured” together as parents, as a family.

link: http://mychouchou.com/365

(we have just started the project so there isn’t much photos there yet!)

Seriously, Grandmas are God-Sent

My maternity leave has officially ended. I am now back at work, though only part-time, I couldn’t have done it without Grandma Bubbles (Jason’s mom). Tuesday was my first day back at the office and Grandma came over early – offering to feed Christian his breakfast so I can leave for work early in case of bad traffic. Yesterday was my work-at-home day and needless to say, with the little monster at home, I wasn’t able to get much done during my supposedly-9-to-5. So, today (my 2nd work-at-home day), I sent Christian over to Grandma’s in the afternoon so I can get some work done.

I just finished my week’s worth of work, including VMO design stuff. I even managed to power-cook and freeze a bunch of his food this evening, plus “managed” my CafeWorld/Hotel City/Social City/Baking Life on Facebook. Imagine if I didn’t send him over to Grandma’s today…I’d still be working and probably will be through the night, and my pot-roast and voodoo chicken salad on CafeWorld would’ve been ruined!! (Oh no!! Can’t let that happen…ever!!)

Seriously, Grandmas are God-Sent. I just hope that later on, when Christian has his own kids, I will have the energy and mulahs to be the supportive grandma Jason’s mom and my mom have been to Christian and me.

side-note: Who has it worse, the full-time mom with a part-time job plus freelance responsibilities, or the full-time 9-5 with once-a-week beer league hockey plus nightly HK-soap series chasing dad? Sometimes I wonder if guys DO have it easier…