Reunions

Thanksgiving is a time of reunions and family, and that has been equally true for G and I; but personally for me this has been extra special -- I am riding the Caltrain as I am typing this, returning from the 20th Reunion of my San Fran elementary school. That's how long i haven't seen them. These guys remember so much - my Chinese name, all of our teachers, and even the ones whom had only been there for a year together remember me. They say I look the same. Most of them are recognizable as well. To say that they are strangers since I haven't seen them in 20 years would be a mistake. Nothing could be farther from the truth, it was like family. They remember my parents first names, playdates, etc etc. I met my math teacher and my English teacher who brought Apple IIs into our classrooms and defended our playing the game of pong against parents. That same teacher is probably partially responsible for the fact that I am a software developer today.

It's funny that I'm the only one in high tech. A lot are in finance; two live in Hong Kong now; one is a tattoo artist and another a Hollywood director. Anyways I'm very thankful to the Wo's for babysitting tonight.

Thanksgiving was a day full of yummy food thanks to the generosity of my sister-in-law's family. That was a reunion in many ways too since I've barely seen them since our wedding and I haven't spent any time with my brother lately. G was the star, they kept saying how well behaved she is and how cute. She would climb into her chair by herself and start eating food on her own G managed to sleep 3.5 hours in her tent - which amazed me as she really only sleeps well in her crib these days. She got comfortable after a while:




She also had fun playing with rocks in the backyard:


Today my cousin and her daughter A came over to play with G. They love her and even follow this blog! Sorry I don't have any photos but it was a fun time for everyone.

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Prunes, overboard

So, after several days of mixing in dates and prunes into G's diet with only slight improvement, I decided to step things up and get serious about this constipation thing. Thursday (sorry, it happened to fall on Thanksgiving) I did an all-prune diet for G. 3 meals. Ok, there was a tiny bit of pear mixed in, but pretty much just prunes. Not even dates added. Just before dinner, after 2 prune feedings, G had a large poop, still mostly firm, but quite large, we'll call it a big lump, rather than the little rocks she had been passing for several days. We were both quite excited and happy about it. After her dinner, her 3rd prune feeding, all the cousins were sitting around hanging out, and I happened to check G's diaper... more "stuff", this time very smooshy, regular looking, yay! G's constipation bout was finally over!

We got home too late to give her a bath, so G just nursed and went to bed (a little more poop). We talked about how happy we were that G was "regular" again. The next morning, after she woke up from her early morning nursing, G pooped again, let's call it an explosion. After cleaning her up, we decided to do a baking soda soak again (we had been doing this earlier for her back end issues) just to clean things up. We decided that we would not give her any more prunes. We checked her diaper just before putting her down for her nap, to find more poop. 

After she woke up, we fed her lunch, which she hated, fussing the whole time. After both of us attempting to feed her, we finally gave up and went outside to look around our neighborhood (actually we were checking out the leaves that we had raked, we took turns whoever wasn't feeding G was raking leaves outside). While outside, I noticed something on her pants that suspiciously didn't look like her lunch... yuck, more leaky poop. This was the 6th consecutive diaper change with poop. Maybe the prunes worked too well.

Her dinner time diaper change was the first one the whole day that didn't have poop in it. 

But this morning there was plenty again. And again after her morning nap. Sigh. Will it ever end?

Here's our Thanksgiving spread. G only had prunes, but the rest of us had a feast!

Thanksgiving family portrait:

It's so difficult these days to get a good picture of G, as she's always moving and on the go. The second I sat her down, she was trying to crawl away. It was a race to sit her down and move out of the way fast enough for E to take a picture before she crawled or rolled away. We had to repeat this several times, this was the best we could do.