6month check up update

Meghan had her 6month check up last Thursday. She is as healthy as she can be: 75% (17lbs) on her weight, 90% on height, and 95% on head. One thing we all notice is she need physical therapy to correct her neck muscle (forgot what's the name called, will ask dr. again next week). It's not that obvious, but her head leans towards one side a little more. Will see what therapy says next week.

She is such a happy sweet baby, and sure her personality starts to build up more and more. We'll see how different she is from Kaitlyn. Let me catch up the pics for now:

Back in March at 5month - busy tasting feet and fingers the same time:

Some random pics from her playtime and bath time:


Busy eating Kaitlyn's homework - jealous she got a 100?

What's this? Another homework for me to eat? Does she look like mommy at all? Why everyone is saying she looks like daddy a lot?

Hey, I found my Halloween costume already, haha... So confused looking at herself in the mirror!

Mealtime - fun time! It's a show when Kaitlyn and Meghan eat together.

Can I taste it, please? - Meghan OK, just one lick! - Kaitlyn Camera, look at the camera! - Kaitlyn
Yeah, I'm ready to eat, (really meant to play...) Let's share - half and half! Good sister time! - Kaitlyn
I can't wait any longer... - Meghan Who is gonna eat first? We both want it! I want it! - Meghan
We were at the park Easter weekend:

With grandma -

It's me - the non-stop girl! With grandma again. What's so funny?
Kaitlyn being a nice big sissy! Meghan agrees too! Ohh, yeah mommy got a picture too! And we both looking at the same direction - but not the camera... I like this one - looks like Kaitlyn is telling Meghan a secret or kissing her.

Nursing strike... Miracle... stressful weeks!

I started the title but didn't have time to write anything, because I was too busy dealing with a very fussy baby, plus a very mind-challenged six-year old the same time!

I went to Circle of Mom asking for help, this is my message there, kind of described what happened at the beginning:

Since two nights ago, my 6month old daughter has been refusing to nurse. She will arch her back and scream when I put her to my breast. I walk her around and rock her while I try to feed her or I will wait until she is sleepy, but still unsuccessful. I thought she was teething since she bites/sucks fingers sometimes, but I don't see any tooth cutting out. (She already had two cutting out couple weeks ago). I doubt she has ear infection since looks normal and plays well. This is especially frustrating when she awakes in the middle of night or morning hungry but can't eat and we both loose a lot of sleep.

She does take bottle better twice yesterday and drank 15oz all day with some rice cereal and applesauce. I tried to pump but can barely pump anything out now, guess I'm too stressful. I'm afraid my milk supply will stop soon. One of my guess is she just learned to drink from bottle few days ago, and has been eating with spoon. So she is either too busy with learning all the new skills or confused.

I am stressed out and frustrated I'm thinking about weaning her to a bottle. Is this just a stage she is going through? What can I do to get her back to breastfeeding or at least eat at normal amount?

Well, miracle happened on the Good Friday. She slowly start taking milk again, but very cautiously. I just want to cry at the moment! For several weeks, the whole family was exhausted since she cried so much at night and woke up for 2-3hrs playing since 2:30am. Then the daytime struggle continued... she is as happy and sweet as she always is, just struggle with eating, reflux, tummy pain...

I checked with drs. She guess it's her reflux coming back again! It was painful for all of us. She is so painful, especially with the silent reflux when she laid down, that's what's keeping her up many times at night. The reflux and gas medication don't help that much either. She just have to outgrow it! So, I've been watching my diet, modify her feeding schedules, massage, medication, whatever it takes to get her feel better. Six-month sounds like a big transition period.


Today, three weeks later, she's doing much better. Back to eating milk again with some solids, but still have bad spitting up and reflux everyday! I'm already happy she only wakes up 2-3times at night and goes back to sleep soon! Thank goodness!

Meghan sure looks fine when she plays:

Special post attributed to my 6year old teenager...

Well, from the title itself, you know what I'm bragging about today...

Just like this morning, Kaitlyn is all happy nice when she got up. The 2mins before walking out of house, her mood changed just like that - she cried that she is too tired of walking. She would not say she wants take car ride, she just suggesting we can park across the street from school, and she doesn't want to walk, doesn't want grandma. I told her it's too late to wake up daddy driving her to school or she'll be late for school (because we had a deal that only if it's raining or too cold/hot, daddy will drive, otherwise we'll walk to school). Plus it's too late to get Meghan ready for the walk.

She whined, cried, and slammed the closet door while getting her shoes. She ask for car ride tomorrow, and I told her we'll see if daddy has time to do that. She burst into tears saying "That means no!" Things going downhill even worse - because she knows that's not a sure yes commitment from me!

Anyway, she ended up walking to school with grandma in a very bad mood, not said hi to any of her friends on the way...

Second thought, she is competing for my attention with Meghan. She wants me to go with her. But how could she change her mind so quickly? Should I compromise in her way? Is it a big deal? Her quick fuzzy mood change drives me nuts sometimes... Count 1, 2, 3 before I scream out, haha...

Am I having a six-year old teenager? My payback time is here already!! I have to say she is very sweet, caring, independent, mature most of the time. She is mommy's big helper, she loves her baby sister. Only when she is in bad mood, the whole world would turn upside down. She would a different person that drives me crazy! Parenting, uhh, parenting...

Here are some lines she talks to me quite frequently nowadays:
- Why you are always the one who is setting the rules in the house?
-You can't FORCE me to do that! I don't want to go! I don't want to do it now! I don't want to...
-It's so not FAIR!
-You didn't say I can't do this!
- You don't understand! Nobody listens to me!
-Urr, what did you say?

I have to admit Kaitlyn loves reading, and there are good and bad influences from it. She understands/comprehend contents much better, she had fun to read what other kids doing (in novels), she understands the social socienty better, but she does pick up attitude and "not so good" language from books as well (I don't mean bad languages, but bad words used by mean kids in her children's books. )

She's so advanced in reading chapter books. That's the time she'll be quiet for hours and not be distracted by anything. She could finish a whole chapter book within a hour. When she is so into the story, she could not hear any of us talking to her! Isn't that annoying sometimes? Well, I remember I did the same thing when I was young.

Her finished chapter books "AtoZ mysteries", "The Wimpy Kid", "Junie B. Jones", "Nancy Drew", and "Hannah Montana" of course. I pretty much let her choose the books from the library, just give her recommendations every once a while.

Ohh, speaking of that, since she loves playing games on computer and watching funny animals/babies/songs on YouTube. This is what she showed me the other day when I left her alone for a little while - "naked girls" OMG! I heard her giggling and she showed me what she found. We need to upgrade parental control on our computers!

What else, she tries to figure out our computer password - she watched us when we type, and wrote it down on a notepad and kept it her draw. I found out accidentally. It's really close with only 1 digit off! Who am I dealing with these days?

Enough of talking for today, it's not that I don't love her, I play favor between my two children, but every experience I have with Kaitlyn is my first time. Through her, I'm learning how to be a better parent, a better person as well! Thank you, my Little girl for giving me this opportunity! I love you so much!

Spring Break!

Yeah, spring break is here! I can tell Kaitlyn started getting the ideas of school breaks now, which should be normal right? She is going to bed late and sleep in later on weekend and holiday. Not like in Kindergarten, she loves to go to school and get up early on time:-) Why we teach our kids to have good sleeping habits while we barely follow the same rule? Are these just rules for kids so grownups would have free time for themselves?


We had a relaxed spring break this time, mainly because I don't want to travel with baby Meghan, too much hassle to bring her along, and she gets tired in 1-2hrs. Or she could hold for 4-5hrs, but I'd prefer not stressing her out. Am I too protective?


Here is my outgoing sporty girl Meghan checking out a basketball game.
Kaitlyn is learning about money at school. So she is practicing using her money while we're out eating. Here she was counting money to pay for her drink? Umm, I need to teach the girl to buy drinks for mommy later! Haha...

One day, she's helping daddy planting roses. We lost many plants this winter, only roses survived, so they're replacing with more roses. First, Kaitlyn is cleaning dog poops in the backyard to play freesbie. Good job!Dumping soil:

I don't know how this one got sneaked in - anyway, they're helping me making pancakes. Kaitlyn is showing off how to mix with chopsticks, haha... As far as why I don't have much of her pictures, check these out - she doesn't know what's WALKING ever since she learned how to walk!This girl is full of energy, running around and jumping all the time. How could I ever find her still?! If she was a boy, would she be on our roof all the time? Haha..

We went shopping couple of times with my mom. That's when I find Meghan can hold on 4-5hrs without napping, even though she was sooo tired. At the Memorial City Mall playarea:

More at First Colony Mall: