Deep in Thought...

... pondering the mysteries of life.

Or just trying to figure out how to get more fingers into her mouth, like this:or this:

Today I wanted to run 4 errands with G. We left around 1:30 with a clean diaper and a full tummy. Our first stop was the post office to pick up a package from Grandma. This is a package we could have received several weeks ago, but Grandma sent it registered mail for some reason and it takes us a while to make it to the post office. For anyone reading this that might send us a package in the future, our neighborhood is safe, please just send packages regularly, without requiring us to go pick them up, it's kind of a hassle with a baby. Tomorrow I have to wait all day (it will probably just be all morning or half the morning) for a Fed Ex package. At least in this case, I've been tracking it, so I know it will arrive tomorrow. What's the package? My new bass! I'm so excited. This is what I'm expecting, my belated birthday, Christmas, Valentine's, and everything else present.

Anyways, I was relaying today's errands... After the post office, we went to BBB. This is trip very long overdue. Before G was born, I went there intending to use my "20% off entire purchase" coupon, to buy a bunch of stuff for the house when we thought we were going to get to move into it. In my pregnancy brain, I forgot the coupon, but they said I could just bring the coupon and receipt and they will credit the difference. The next time I was able to make it out, G was maybe 2 months old. And I left the coupon in the OTHER diaper bag. Oh well, at least I was able to return stuff. The next time I tried to make it to BBB was with my friend, and we were G-less, but never made it to BBB before I got the call that a hungry baby was awaiting me at home. The next time I tried to go to BBB, I again didn't have the coupon because I had put it in my purse last time I was G-less. So this time, I had G, I had my receipt, and I had my coupon. Yay!

Lastly, we went to Target to return stuff and buy E some more cough drops. Today was E's second day working from home. It's funny that he's always whispering, took me awhile to get use to it, because my first reaction is always, she can't hear you, it's ok. Anyways, G was starting to get fussy, probably because she didn't sleep all that well from going in and out of the car. If I had just left her at home, then she probably would have slept at least a solid hour.

So the trip to the bank will have to wait. Hopefully tomorrow after my bass arrives! Oohh, can't wait! By the way, this was the first pic I got of my bass, many months ago (see the pencil outline?)...

Delayed 1 Month Update & New Discoveries

So, I had intended to post something on G's first month, but that was last week and this is the first chance I've had to get online to post. That's what parenthood is about, everything takes WAYYYY longer. Had a family get-together for her one month "Man Yue" thing. According to my grandmother, because G was born at 11:30 at night, it counts as the next day, and in addition to the Chinese tradition of starting out life at one year old at birth, that means technically we celebrated her "thirteenth month plus one day"...

Oh, also in her first month, I got to discover the wonderful world of plugged ducts, we took G on her first trip to SF (for her friend's Red Egg party), met all her grandparents.

G also graduated to the next diaper size, maybe a week or more ago. We are using 7th Gen diapers and when E was sent on his first trip to buy diapers a few weeks ago, he called from the store wanting to buy Size 1 diapers instead of the newborn ones because you get like 12 or 16 more diapers for the same price. Uhh, she's not that big yet so stick w/ the newborn size. However, she is now on the Size 1 diapers, yay! We've got "new parents" written all over our foreheads, I took pictures of her in her Size 1 diaper... like I'm going to have time to scrapbook all of this! We'll see, I still have high hopes.

On a more recent note, today G discovered her fingers/thumb. This morning as E was changing her diaper, she was unusually quiet, and E noticed that she was sucking a finger. Of course we had to stop everything to take a picture because it was oh so cute! Then, later when she woke up from only sleeping an hour, I was doing everything I could to get her back to sleep. I put her in the sling, trying it left-handed for the first time which totally threw her off because she kept turning her head into the sling instead of outwards (way to freak out new mom smothering her baby in the sling). Anyways, we finally figured it out, and she was still crying and seemed to want to nurse, but I had started heating up some chicken & rice soup my mom had made because I was hungry so I wanted to eat first before feeding G (yeah, that didn't happen...) So, I was walking around with G in the sling, and she would quiet down and nod off in between crying and one of the times she nodded off, I noticed her thumb in her mouth, fingers up along her nose towards her eyes... so cute! Of course, tried to get a picture of it, but have you ever tried to take a picture of a baby while wearing her in a sling? Very difficult. I'll have to get E to upload the pics from my camera...