c's 65th week

This has been a super crazy week.  We started the week off by enjoying a fun and festive meal with my Chinese relatives at a popular Chinese restaurant as we had family visiting from Taiwan.  It's always fun getting together with family, even though things do get a bit hectic with C around.  C can handle restaurants, but long meals are more difficult as C usually can't sit still for the entire meal.  This means Matt and I get to tag team one another in order to hopefully keep C occupied so the rest of the family can enjoy the meal in moderate peace.  Fun times! :) 

The week continued with me getting really sick, which is never fun now that there's a baby around.  It would have been fine though if I could have recovered at home, but we had to go to Bangkok for a conference.  Thankfully my mom and Matt's mom were able to come with us to take care of C during the day while Matt and I were busy learning new things.  It wasn't a bad trip, but definitely wasn't the best as after a couple of days in BKK, C got what I had and became really sick and had a major high fever.  It is so not fun when your baby gets sick, but it seems to be even worse when you aren't in the comforts of your own home.

March 25 - March 31

Playing with rocks! YEAH!

With Daddy and Grandma Jacquie!

Making friends.  The parents of these kids kept wanting to take photos with C.

Having fun with the tissues.  I swear I only turned around for a moment!

In a Songtaew and heading to the Airport with C's Apo and Grandma.

Enjoying BKK!

Heading home.  YAY!

...All About C...

C hasn't been eating that well this week.  I don't know if it's because he's been sick, but it is so weird to see his appetite change so much.  He's still nursing lots, so I'm not too worried about his food intake.  However, I'm sure hoping things will pick back up soon as I definitely prefer C eating more and nursing less! HA! 

While we were in BKK, C picked up some new habits.  Since we were out of routine, C was able to stay up a lot later causing him to sleep in longer.  This was quite nice as this meant that we all were able to enjoy some extra sleep and boy do I love sleeping!

An odd thing that's happened this week is that C has begun to seriously HATE having his diaper changed.  He screams and cries and refuses to stay still.  It has made changing his diaper a real chore and not such an easy task anymore.  We can't figure out why this has happened or what's caused him to be so uncomfortable with getting his diaper changed.  Is there a diaper hating phase that I just don't know about? I hope so as it's going to be really miserable if C hates having diaper changed from here on out.  Or we are going to have to start potty training him way earlier than I anticipated!

(Linking up with Our World Tuesday, P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday, Wednesdays Around The World, Little Things Thursday, 

Photo Story Friday, Favorite Photo Friday, Practicing Simplicity, Simple Things Sunday, and Sunday Snapshot.)

c's 58th week

I have a confession...I have been a slacker blogger and am WEEKS behind on all of C's weekly posts.  My lack of posting has been really bad these days (the worse it's been in a long time) and because it's been so long, I've not been motivated at all to start playing catch-up.  The ridiculous thing though is that I have all of the photos and even have notes jotted down for each week, so it shouldn't actually have been that hard to get the posts done.  However, getting the rough form into a blog worthy post has been one extra step too many for me these past couple of months.

So do I give you the basic excuse of "life has been too busy" or do I try to come up with something better? The truth of the matter is that life HAS been busy, but honestly, not so busy that I couldn't just write a quick blog post once a week.  The real reason though is that I've let myself get sucked into the whole "who really reads this blog anyways" mode and "i don't have anything cool to share" mode, which has given me the excuse I needed to not to continue posting things.  After all, it's gotten to just be about C here and there are times when it sure doesn't feel as though there is a whole lot of ME left in this blog.

Thankfully I've had time to think this through and have come to realize that this blog is for ME.  This blog is not about seeing how many people are reading what I'm writing or to get recognition on what I've shared.  This is a space for me to keep track of all the amazing things life has given me and blessed me with.  This is a space to share MY story as it happens and the way it happens, which explains why it is all about C these days as he is someone I'm totally and delightfully enamored with.  One day this space may change again and highlight some of my other loves like photography or traveling or food.  But for now, it is C's world and I am thrilled to be able to document it as I'm hoping C will someday take a look at it all and hopefully not be too embarrassed by all that his mamma has shared!

Don't think for a minute that I got this mojo back on my own though.  I have to say a MAJOR thank you to a lovely fellow blogger (shout out to Carrie who just commented on my 57th week post) for reminding me that there are others around me who are going through a similar phase in life.  Our lives may not be super exciting or exotic, but it is OUR life and boy am I happy to be living it and sharing it!

February 4 - February 10

C visiting his great grandma, his Aitai!

C saying "brrrm, brrrm" and trying to push his Aitai around.

Looking pretty sweet!

Love this profile!

...All About C...

Poor C had it rough this week and was teething again, or at least we think so.  Again, I feel as though C has been teething for forever now, but still no new teeth are coming out! Poor guy has been miserable in the evenings when there are no distractions to keep the pain at bay.  Hopefully something will happen soon as his next set of teeth will show up as we are ready to be done with teething!

C also has had a bit of a cold this week and has had a really terrible cough.  He's back on medication and hopefully he'll feel better soon.  I think we are super wary of coughs now as we definitely don't want it to be another hospital visit like his pneumonia episode.  So what might have just needed some time, ended up sending us taking a quick trip to the doctor to make sure it doesn't get worse.

To end on a fun note, C has been dancing a lot this week.  He does this adorable little stomping thing when he hears music or when we read certain books that rhyme.  It is so cute! I'm hoping he'll get my rhythm as time progresses though! :) 

(Linking up with Our World Tuesday, P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday, Wednesdays Around The World, Little Things Thursday, 

Photo Story Friday, Favorite Photo Friday, Che and Fidel, Simple Things Sunday, and Sunday Snapshot.)