c's 68th week

We are loving being off work for another week! It has been so nice to relax at home and hang out with C.  It's terrible, but we haven't done anything super exciting with our time off as we've also stayed super busy trying to get our house finished, which seems to be like a never ending project.  Once this house gets done, our life is going to change so drastically as we'll suddenly have time for other things.  I cannot wait!

The highlight of the week was attending a fun Easter event a friend hosted.  We were so happy to be included as it was a fun morning filled with Easter crafts, an Easter egg hunt, and an ice-cream sundae buffet! This year C totally got into the spirit of finding the easter eggs and enjoyed filling his basket up with the eggs.  He didn't need a lot of help and stayed super focused the entire time.  C also had some ice-cream, which seems to be the only dessert he likes. 

April 15 - April 21


C started off happy and ended up crying! Not a fan of the man on stilts...

Sawasdee krap!

C's furrowed brows always make me chuckle!

A boy on a mission! Gotta find those eggs!

Eggs!

Waiing again.....

Happy Easter 2014!

...All About C...

C has been sleeping in these days, probably because we haven't had to get up early to go to work.  It has been really nice and we are enjoying waking up after 7am (so sad that this is now considered sleeping in for me).  Sleep is still an ongoing battle as C has a bunch of terrible sleep habits.  You'd think we'd get right on it and fix it sooner rather than later, but it really doesn't seem to make sense to deal with any of it until we move into our house and have more space.  So for the time being, C is still nursing to sleep, sleeping in our bed, and waking up throughout the night to nurse.  Good thing he is so cute is all I gotta say! :) Fingers crossed that when the time comes to fix all of these bad habits, C will be more mature and will understand the changes that need to be made and will transition easily.  A girl can dream....

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c's 67th week

We are on our Spring Break and are loving every minute of it! The only bad thing is that C's grandma Jacquie finally left us and is heading back home to Canada.  We have so enjoyed having her around and will miss her greatly.  C bonded with her and loved playing with his grandma.  Thankfully we'll be back in Canada this summer and we'll get to be reunited again! YEAH!

This week has been a low key week with lots of family time.  We've not done a whole lot and have tried to just decompress from the stress of school and building our house.  It's been nice to spend time as just our little family of three as it is easy to get overloaded with all of our obligations and forget to make time for just us.  Matt and I even made it to a movie this week and had time to go to the mall by ourselves.  Who would have thought that this would be such an achievement for us?!?

The highlight of the week for sure has been celebrating Songkran, which is a fabulous festival in Thailand.  My mom, C, and I got up really early on the 13th and went to a cool food market that we went to last year to start off the festivities.  I'm pretty sure this is going to be a new tradition as I do really enjoy it.  We bought tons of delicious food and enjoyed being out and about.  We missed the monks, but did catch a glimpse of some of the ladies running for Miss Songkran.  On this day, we ate a real Thai breakfast of sticky rice, friend chicken/pork, spicy sausage, and a couple of different different spicy dips/sauces.  YUM!

Matt and I also headed out to play Songkran with our friends.  It was so much fun hanging with friends and celebrating Songkran together.  This is for sure a tradition now as we've done this two years in a row.  We played on the streets and had tons of fun splashing people.

If that wasn't enough, this year we ended up meeting up with my extended family and playing from the back of a truck! That's right.  We sat in the back with large buckets filled with water and blocks of ice.  We had a ton of fun getting people with our cold, cold water.  Don't worry, C joined in the festivities too...from inside the truck! He hung out in the truck with my mom and his other grandmothers while my uncle, cousins, Matt, and I played out back.  He loved it and had a great time watching everything.  Since there was so much traffic, C ended up eating non-stop while on the drive.  He also tried a happy meal for the first time from McDonald's as it was the easiest thing for him to eat.  Definitely not a proud mommy moment, but it's not the end of the world, right?

April 8 - April 14

Ready to go swimming!

Fun in the pool!

All ready for Songkran! Strolling along with Apo.

With papa and mama (yes, we are embracing the Chinese names!) :)

My cutie pie!

Making friends!

...All About C...

So C has been off on his naps this past week.  It's sad, but it seems as though he's beginning to go to only one nap a day.  It's not consistent though, so we do try to get him down for two naps.  Sometimes it works and other times not so much.  On the positive side, on the days he only has one nap, C does tend to go to bed a bit earlier than usual.  That's right, gotta find the silver lining in all of this.  HA!

We also took C swimming again this week and used a super cool new inner tube that we got from the US.  He wasn't a huge fan of the pool, but at least he didn't hate it.  Hopefully as we get into the pool more, C will start enjoying it as much as he does his baths.

HERE are more pictures from this years Songkran festivities!

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c's 55th week

I can't believe that it is already mid-January! The month just seems to be zipping by and I am left without a moment to catch my breathe.  Things are pretty busy with work, finishing (which might be some wishful thinking on my part) up our house, parties galore, and of course just life in general.  

This week I have been working on balancing my time better.  I have been trying to keep my work at work so that my home life belongs to my family.  I have worked hard this week to keep all prepping, grading, and anything pertinent to my job done during the school day.  I've only had to do a couple of things during the week after C's gone to bed, but this weekend was a success with no school work done at home! I'm hoping to continue this trend as it was really nice to just enjoy the weekend without thinking of my long to-do-list for school.

Balancing my time has also involved not jumping right onto the computer the moment I get home.  I'm working on being more present with C and really interacting and playing with him during the afternoons when I get home from work.  This has meant trying to do my blogging, facebook, e-mails in the evening once C goes to bed.  It's working okay, although poor Matt is getting the short end of things.  So I think I'll have to work on setting time aside for just the two of us without the computers on each of our laps.  We'll see what sort of progress I make in this coming week as I work to find more balance in my life.

January 14 - 20


In his brand new front facing car seat!

Reading a bedtime story....oh so serious! 

C loves his books and likes to choose a few to read at random times throughout the day.

Playing with people on the other side of the glass.  

We were at breakfast and C would not stop flirting with everyone around us.  Silly boy!

...All About C...

Not to jinx us or anything, but C has been sleeping so much better these days! Matt is amazing and one day just put C into his crib and powered through the tears, stayed encouraging, and remained consistent until C went to sleep on his own.  He told C that he wasn't alone and to go to sleep.  He also used beach sounds from a white noise app on the ipad to help soothe C.  That first night took about 30 minutes, but  since then, the time it's taken C to fall asleep on his own is down to a matter of minutes! It is so wonderful! 

Since C's been sleeping in the crib, we've all been sleeping a lot better.  He now wakes up about once a night to nurse for a little while.  This has been a life changing thing for me as recently C's been up anywhere from 3 - 5 times a night to nurse.  Now though, C wakes to nurse and then goes back into the crib until morning when he nurses once more and remains asleep in our bed till about 7am.  YEAH! I know there are bound to be bad days, but right now I'm enjoying this change in C's sleep habits.  We are so thankful that he's taken to sleeping in the crib and learning how to fall asleep on his own, because seriously...I may have had doubts that he would ever learn this! HA!

Some funny things that have come from this is how C falls to sleep.  He starts by crying loudly for a minute or two.  Then he sits down and falls asleep sitting.  He'll kind of fall over and wake himself up only to try to stay seated for a while longer.  A couple minutes later, he gives in to sleep and simply lays himself down onto his belly and goes to bed.  This process has gotten much better and the other night he went from shrieking for a minute to dropping flat asleep onto his belly.  It was hilarious!

So C has some interesting habits while asleep.  One of them is to move all over the crib throughout the night, which will occasionally wake him up as he'll bump himself on the head a fair bit.  Thankfully he's learned to just roll over and fall back to sleep on his own.  Something else he does in his sleep is to talk in his sleep.  He mumbles all sorts of things, and of course shouts out "ball, ball" every so often too.  Occasionally he'll cry out and look so sad while asleep, which may or may not cause him to wake up.  The best thing though is when he smiles and laughs while sleeping.  I could honestly watch him all night during those times and so want to know what he is dreaming about.

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