Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
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Family Picture - Week 22
We took some pictures for our holiday card. This one didn’t make the cut – Maile basically decided that she was “over” the holiday card thing… but don’t worry – we did get some good shots!
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Maile helped us light the menorah ...
... and then she opened her very first Hanukkah present - a book from Grandma Jill and Grandpa Mike
On Friday night we celebrated Hanukkah for the first time with Maile girl. Our original plan was to celebrate with Maile’s friend, Wills, but unfortunately they got stuck down in Palo Alto (yep, Maile got stood up!) We called an audible and celebrated with just the family (and then we actually did a second Hanukkah for Dan, Esther and Wills when they arrived a little later).
Maile seem to like the candles and she really liked eating the wrapping paper off her gift (and then later the gift itself). Daddy did his best with the prayer – although Dan and Esther put him to shame when we did round 2 with Wills. Luckily, Maile was already asleep so as far as she knows, Daddy is the best at the prayers. I’d be remiss if I didn’t add, that Mommy made some truly excellent sweet potato latkes!
See below for a video of Maile’s first Hanukkah – we hope everyone is having a great holiday!
(Click here for the video.)
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We’re off to bed early tonight – need to rest up and get well, we have a big day tomorrow: Maile’s first Hanukkah with a surprise guest!
We’ll leave you with a quick video of Maile reading – with her mouth as always…
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After a brief delay due to Maile’s cold (she’s still got the sniffles, but doing just fine) – we decorated our Christmas tree tonight. Chris has all her ornaments going back to when she was born! She has one for each year – and they all have a story. Even though the Christmas tree isn’t a part of what I grew up with, I like the tradition – its a great way to remember the stories. I really look forward to when Maile is a bit older and Chris can tell her about her childhood as we put up the ornaments.
Here are some pictures we took as we decorated the tree…
Tell me again what we are doing tonight? Decorating a tree? Is this going to take long? Blue Monkey and I were in the middle of a pretty heated discussion when you pulled me over here...
Oh, I take that back - this looks interesting! Let me see Daddy...
Hmm ... hard to place the flavor. Smoother than plastic. Has a hint of musk - has this been in the basement for awhile?
Wait, that tasty ornament goes on the tree? Can you put it a little lower? Going to be hard for me to reach up there...
Mommy's famous - she's on one of the ornaments! She's 3 in this picture, a bit older than me, but I definitely think I look like her...
Here's the (almost) finished product - Maile's first Christmas tree! All that is left is to add a Maile ornament... coming soon!
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Family Picture - Week 21
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You’ll have to wait another day before getting the view of our Christmas tree. Unfortunately, Maile girl has come down with her first cold. It’s nothing serious – some adorable sniffles, a little runny nose (less adorable) and a slight cough. She’s having a little trouble sleeping – the phlegm gets caught in her throat and wakes her up, but other than that she’s been a champ, eating and playing at almost full speed.
I’ll spare you the snot pictures, but here’s a shot of Maile and daddy trying to keep warm…
Maile and daddy staying warm...
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On Saturday, Mommy and Daddy took me to go Christmas Tree shopping. I always like looking at the trees when I go on my walks – this was even better. There were trees EVERYWHERE! We went to this big house looking place that was just full of trees. How fun would it be to live there? (Dad note: we were at the Festival Pavilion down by Fort Mason.)
Below are some pictures we took of our Christmas tree hunt – since its my very first Christmas tree, we took our time to find the perfect one…
I really like trees. I'm a bit overwhelmed here.
Daddy, I think we should pass on this one - I'm just not sure these branches are going to hold up well.
Mommy and me checking out the tree scene...
Daddy is helping me get a bird's eye view so I can spot the perfect tree for us...
So what did we end up with? Stay tuned!
TO BE CONTINUED…
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I don't know Mommy, this seems way less efficient then the bottle or your breast, but I'll play along if this is what you want...
At Maile’s 4 month check up, her doctor said we could start introducing “solid” foods sometime in the next month. We decided to wait until after the Thanksgiving travels and on Saturday Maile had her first non-milk meal!
Sort of.
Turns out that the first “solid” thing you introduce is rice cereal mixed with breast milk. I was expecting it to me be a bit more solid than it actually was – the initial mixture was 1 tablespoon of rice cereal and 4 tablespoons of milk.
Regardless, Maile couldn’t get enough of it. I’m not sure how much of the cereal actually made it into her stomach, but she sure had a lot of fun with the whole eating experience. Check out the video below (with appropriate musical accompaniment, of course 😉
For now we are going to be giving Maile one “solid” meal a day – which is a good thing, because it takes awhile and is definitely messier than her milk only feedings!
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Family Picture - Week 20
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Thanksgiving kicked off (literally) with Maile’s second tailgate in as many weeks. She’s becoming an old pro at these things – although she’s probably starting to wonder why we come all the way to a parking lot to hang out if we never actually go watch any football!
This time Maile got to meet some good dudes from Boston – about half of daddy’s close friends from high school – St. John’s Prep in Danvers, MA. The best part for Maile was meeting two new friends: Maggie and Gannon! Gannon is a few months older than Maile, but Maggie is almost a year older. She will definitely be teaching Maile some new tricks as they get older…
Luckily, Auntie Brooke was also there and she snatched daddy’s camera right away and took lots of pictures – see the slideshow for the highlights!
(PS – And we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that the brothers Gillis did an excellent job cooking up the pork products – we had bacon, pork steaks and sausage and cheese sandwiches. More details to follow – but daddy and his friends bought a pig last spring and Uncle Ryan’s cousin raised it for them. It’s been all butchered up and they are having a big pig roast on Friday night – how fun is that!? The preview from the tailgate was delicious so we have high hopes for the rest.)
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