we have a crawler!

... Sloane that is :)  She went from raising up on all fours and rocking back and forth at about five months -- doing that for a couple weeks, then started taking a step here and there and tumbling -- to now full on crawling at six and a half months.  She can also puh up to sit, but is still propping herself up with one arm.  We also started her on solids about a week before she turned six months.  So many new things!

She also just had her six month check-up and is growing at a steady rate -- although very much smaller than Colson was at this age.  She is about 50th percentile for weight and head size and 75th percentile for height/lenght.  Colson was in the 90th percentiles until he was about a year old!  Sloane is our sweet little petite gal ;)

As she gets older and is learning new skills, Colson kind of goes through a whole little mini jealousy phase all over again ... and he is learning and growing himself.  His vocabulary and language amaze me ... he is soaking everything up like a sponge.  He is fascinated by trains and firetrucks and police cars - pretty much anything with a siren.  He's also enjoying his new big boy bicylce with training wheels. 

summer fun

Hanging out at GP's house ...

Girl cousins: Shaylen & Sloane

OC Fair

rolling both ways now ...

OK it's official -- Sloane has rolled over three times today from back to stomach -- and umm ... I missed every time! Twice was on the playmat while I looked away for a few minutes and the last time just now in her sleep. First I looked at the monitor and she was sleeping on her back and now she's on her stomach :) -- just shy of four months old (which will be on August 16).

dry all day!

today was the first day that Colson wore underwear all day (even during nap) and stayed dry all day -- yes, even during nap!

i'm sure this will be a two steps forward, one step back process ... but we are making progress, little by little.

she rolled over today :)

just shy of 12 weeks old! Sloane rolled from stomach to back today at the end of her afternoon nap ... now she looks like a turtle on her shell ;)

Three-Year Wedding Anniversary - June 28, 2011

Father's Day 2011

Colson's father's day craft from school -- the T.A. spelled his name wrong :/

Colson and I went to Walgreens and picked out a father's day card and a fun recordable book called "dad & me" ... you can record for each page and we did it early father's day morning while Nick was shaving and Sloane was taking a nap ... thank-god Colson cooperated and the recording went relatively smoothly (only had to re-record one page!).

We had a spontaneous day, starting with a family trip to the asian grocery store. Per Nick's request we picked up vietnemese sandwiches for lunch and some fresh seafood for dinner -- oysters and I sauteed some fresh clams served with steamed rice.

Both kids took 2 1/2 hour naps that afternoon and so did mom and dad!

Sloane 2 months - June 16th

2 months already! Can you believe it ... her appt went well, but this time she was also due for a round of shots :( she did really well ...

She's growing well too -- not as chunky as Colson at the same age, but she's 80th percentile for weight at 12 pounds, 70th percentile for length at 23 inches, and only 45th percentile for head circumference at 15.2 inches. Her small head is probably why she has such great neck control and can already raise her head and chest pretty high when on her tummy.

Happy Birthday Nick! June 16th

Nick turned the big 3-1 a few days ago ... it was on a Thursday so we opted for a little family party :) I made seared ahi salad with avocado and cucumber and grilled up some ribeyes with a baby greens salad. Of course no party is complete without cake! Instead if indulging in an entire cake, I opted for a champagne cake square from Nugget -- Nugget has a great bakery! I recently co-hosted a baby shower for my girlfriend Crystal (twins!) and ordered a delicious fruit basket cake from Nugget too ...

Anyway - Colson thought it was pretty fun to sing and blow candles out, once, twice, I think we did it three times :) We told him that morning that it was daddy's birthday and that we were going to have a "party" later that day after he got home from school. That whole morning he was skipping around sisnging: "daddy-party, daddy-party" So cute.

He has gotten used to parties -- from March to June we had a bday party almost every weekend. This past saturday he asked if we were going to a party!

Mother's Day 2011

mother's day was pretty mellow here :) Colson made me an adorable craft at school ...

the kids (Nick) had an yummy edible arrangements delivered to the house, and we had a delicious dinner with Nick's mom ... she actually cooked a huge meal for us and Nick's sister Anna and her family ... thank-you Barb! The day was a little hectic, so I didn't get any pics :(

Potty training ...

we have been "officially" potty training since about the end of May ... this means -- underwear at home, pull-ups at school and for naps and a diaper overnight.

At school they will take him to the bathroom about every hour or so and his pull-up has been pretty dry most days. At home he has been doing pretty well too!

I think starting July we will go to underwear full time *gasp* and use pull-ups for naps and overnight ... and go from there!

Sloane one month photos

Update ... her 2 day and 2 week appointment were great! She is growing steadily -- born at 8 pounds 1 ounce -- she lost a few ounces by her 2 day appointment, but more than made up for it at her 2 week appt. The expectation is that infants get back to their birthweight by 2 weeks -- Sloane was 8 pounds 13 oz at her 2 week appt. Here's the rest of the stats:

Weight:

birth: 8 pounds 1 oz

2 days: 7 pounds 12 oz
2 weeks: 8 pounds 13 oz

Length:

birth: 21 inches

2 days: 21inches

2 weeks: 23 inches

Head:

birth: 13 inches

2 days: 14 inches

2 weeks: 15 inches

Next appt is at 2 months ...

big brother

my first baseball mitt(s)!

Nick told me he was going out with Colson to find a baseball mitt ... he came home with 3 of them! Well .. he bought 2 of them - the smallest right handed glove he could find and a bigger left handed glove. Colson has been favoring and primarily using his left-hand for eating throwing, drawing. Then Nick called Rawlings and ordered the smallest left-handed glove that they manufacture ...

a little princess ...

WELCOME BABY SLOANE!!

Two weeks ago we welcomed the newest addition to our family -- Sloane Maysa Street! Her middle name means "April" in Cambodian - for her birth month.

She was born Saturday April 16 at 6:21 in the morning ... weighing in at 8 pounds 1 oz and 19.5 inches long (Colson was 7 lbs 14 ounces and 20 inches - but he was also 10 days early and she was four days overdue ... imagine how big C would have been if he had been four days late!).

Here's a shorter version of the birth story: my original due date was April 12th. The last few weeks of my pregnancy I was going in about every week. At around 37 weeks my OB asked if I wanted her to do an internal exam to see if I was dilated or effaced. With Colson at my 38 week appt my OB checked me and I was at 3 cm and 100% effaced - she said that it wasn't any great predictor of when labor was going to begin. She said I could have the baby that night or walk around for a couple weeks at 3cm (C was born 3 days later).

So this time around when she asked if I wanted the internal exam I said no - (1) because it wouldn't really tell me anything and (2) sometimes the internal can trigger contractions and I was deadset on delaying labor as much as possible. I actually wanted her to be about a week late! There were some things I wanted to finish at home, and just to have more time before the chaos of having two children began ...

So three times she had offered to do an internal exam that I turned down ... the day before my due date at my appt, she suggested that she should check for progress, so reluctantly I agreed. I was almost 4cm and 80% effaced. She asked if I had been having any contractions -- I had not been except for the usual Braxton Hicks ... she was concerned that since I went so fast with Colson (contractions started around 5am and I was to 10 cm by 11am) that I was going to be even faster with this one. So, that day she sent me to the Labor and delivery unit of the hospital to get monotired to what they call "rule out labor."

Of course an hour later they said I could go home, or suggested that I walk a few laps around the hospital because I seemed to be so close ... I opted to go home. But the doctors really made me feel like it was going to happen within the next 24-48 hours ... well that was Monday and the whole week went by and still no baby. I finally just made that Thursday my last day at work and spent all of Friday nesting ... good thing to because finally on Saturday morning at 4:20 a contraction woke me up. The next one came at 4:30 - yikes! The doctors had advised me that given my past delivery, I should come to the hospital when contractions are 6-8 minutes apart (they generally tell first time moms to come when contractions are 3-5 min apart).

Needless to say, I woke Nick up right after the 2nd contraction and said the classic "it's time" line. The third contraction came 10 min later -- after which I called Nick's mom to come and stay with Colson. Barbara got to our house a few min before 5 am and we were ready to go. Got to Kaiser South Sac about 5:20 -- thank god they were not busy at all. A nurse got me into a triage room right away and checked me -- the next thing she said was "don't push." Then she got onto the phone and I heard snippets of "need a room ready now .... got one here at nine and a half cm." She was pretty calm though -- all i could say was - 9cm again ... this is just like last time. I was in a gown into a delivery room by about 5:40 ... I started pushing around 5:50 --- the nurse and doc were still getting gloves and goggles on ... they were still lowering the big light from the ceiling! And after about 25 min of pushing Sloane was born!

Everything happened so fast that they had to officially admit us and do all the paperwork after the fact. The nurses and doc were all laughing and saying this was the best way to have a baby and they called this a "stop and drop."

So of course did not have an epidural (again) but I was grateful that it was so fast ... we were into a post-partum room with breakfast by 8 am :) My parents came back into town the day she was born and my mom spent the night in the hospital with me so Nick could be at home with Colson.

Sloane came out hungry! Right when they placed her on me, she was rooting around immediatley. She nurses like a pro and passed all her newborn screenings/exams. We were discharged around noon the next day. Nick's mom also brought Colson to visit the next morning. Nick and I were both holding our breath to see his reaction -- which was actually less dramatic than I thought. He didn't seem to either care or quite get it at that moment ...

Fourth and last birthday party March 12 - phew!

Our last party! Friends, family, a bouncehouse and a taco cart = good times :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Colson - March 10, 2011 - party number three

The night of his actual birthday - had some family over for a small party -- but Colson's third time blowing out a candle!