Happy belated 1st birthday, Jeni!
I know...it's about time that I've updated. It was little hard to do that when I was juggling school, work and taking care of a baby...oh let's not forget about planning my darling daughter's 1st birthday all at once. (And yes, I'm still nursing her, and I'm loving it.)
Now that school's out (until summer session begins, that is), Jeni's 1st birthday party has passed, I'm not currently working at the moment (although, I'm job hunting...if you hear any place that is hiring, let me know!), and even though that Jeni's getting over being sick slowly (she got this nasty virus, which caused her to vomit, and have diaherra and fever on Friday, and the pediatrician said that this type of virus usually last about a week to 10 days), she's napping right now...I thought I'd take advantage of this time to do an update and maybe try to post some of pictures. It wouldn't be as many pictures, but I'll try my best.
Jeni's 1st birthday party was just absolutely wonderful. Thanks once again to everyone who helped to make this party wonderful. We rented Disney Princesses Castle jumper house, and snow cone machine for this party. It was TinkerBell theme but we couldn't find Tinkerbell jumper house, so we had to choose Disney Princesses Castle design since Disney Princesses is a big thing for girls right now. We had so many people coming over, probably at least 60 adults and plus at least 30 kids. I know that we had more girls than boys at this party, even though according to RSVP, I was expecting more boys because when I handed out a party favor to all kids, I ran out of ones for girls, and still had about 11 bags left over for boys. So I gave those extra favor bags to one of my good friends when I went to her daughter's 1st birthday party a week later. Anyway, we had two half sheet cakes with two different Tinkerbell designs. Both were made of whip cream, instead of frosting, so it's a lot more healthier that way. We still have some of decorations up in our house, by the way because my grandmother insists that we leave it up there because it seems to entertain my daughter a lot. It's very ironic and sweet to see how my family treats my daughter. It's completely different than how I and my siblings were raised. Jeni's being raised with a lot of love...sometimes I'm little worried because she has been very spoiled brat. But she's starting to get better because I've been teaching her manners, and have gotten her to sign "Thank you," every time someone give something to her. A few months ago, she wouldn't ever give something to anybody. But we've finally got her to learn to give, and now that's all she does, give. She'd always give food to us, instead of feeding herself. We'd always say, "thank you but no thank you," and she'll start feeding herself. It's so cute.
She have learned a lot of sign language. After her birthday party, Jeni started to explore her new toys, and I saw it as a perfect opportunity to teach her new signs. For example, she learned the sign, "motorcycle" when I pointed to Barbie ATV that my SIL Nikki got for Jeni. So now if you ask her, "What is that?" and point to that ATV, she'll sign "motorcycle." I love it when she picks up on a lot of sign language. But that means I've got to watch what I say around her because there were a lot of sign language that she picked up on where I didn't even try to teach her. Like, when I saw her walking into other room, and I yelled out, "Where are you going?" and she signed "where." I was completely blown away by that. She picked up the sign for "crazy," too. Oh, and just shortly after she turned 1 year old, she started to throw away her own diapers! It's so cool to watch the little one growing up and being a big girl all of a sudden. At the same time, I wish she would stay newborn forever.
Brandon and I are way behind on many things, like planning a wedding...getting our own place. We're enrolled in school so we could finish and get a degree, then have a fabulous job. We haven't set a date for our wedding, or make any plans on buying our own place. I applied for teaching assistant position in Fremont. So if I get that job, we're going to move there. I'm still looking around for jobs in Sacramento, though because I know that both of us want to be close to both my family and his family. We really want our child(ren) to grow up close to relatives.
Anyway, Jeni finally started to grow her 3rd and 4th teeth!! About time!! It feels like I've been waiting forever for her to spout a tooth! And yes, I'm still nursing her! Babies don't use their teeth to suck. They use their tongues, so of course I'm not worried about her biting me. Do not believe the myth!! If they do bite, it's always for a reason. Like, if they don't feel being really secure...like they might fall off. Or they are just not hungry anymore. Or they are teething, so they bite to comfort themselves. There can be medical conditions that cause them like thrust, or whatever. So be careful and pay attention.
Last night, I told Brandon that I really miss having a newborn, and that I miss being pregnant. I told him about how I cannot wait to have a water birth for next kid. I wanted to do a water birth with Jeni, but Brandon was overly paranoid and insisted that I have a birth at the hospital where all doctors will be at. I should have throw a tantrum and fight him till he cave in, because I know I would've gotten him to cave in, but I guess I didn't want him to be all paranoid. When he's all paranoid, he tend to get a huge migrane headache. Sometimes, I think he's faking it to get his way. Hmmmm. Haha. I told him that I think it would've been so cool to be pregnant with sextuplets, and I would attempt to breastfeed them all, and use cloth diapers on them all. Haha, I know he wouldn't want to have multiples, especially the fact that he hates being a twin when he was growing up. Still, I think it would've been cool to be a mom of multiples. Anyway, originally, Brandon said that we can't try for another baby till Jeni's 3 years old at least. But I whined about how I missed it every day, so he decided to try for another one when Jeni's 2 years old. YAY! I totally want to have a boy this time.
P.S. I'm having little trouble uploading pictures here on this blog for some reason. If you have either Myspace or Facebook, you can check the pictures out. Sorry for another blog without pictures! I'll keep working on fixing this problem, though.
Now that school's out (until summer session begins, that is), Jeni's 1st birthday party has passed, I'm not currently working at the moment (although, I'm job hunting...if you hear any place that is hiring, let me know!), and even though that Jeni's getting over being sick slowly (she got this nasty virus, which caused her to vomit, and have diaherra and fever on Friday, and the pediatrician said that this type of virus usually last about a week to 10 days), she's napping right now...I thought I'd take advantage of this time to do an update and maybe try to post some of pictures. It wouldn't be as many pictures, but I'll try my best.
Jeni's 1st birthday party was just absolutely wonderful. Thanks once again to everyone who helped to make this party wonderful. We rented Disney Princesses Castle jumper house, and snow cone machine for this party. It was TinkerBell theme but we couldn't find Tinkerbell jumper house, so we had to choose Disney Princesses Castle design since Disney Princesses is a big thing for girls right now. We had so many people coming over, probably at least 60 adults and plus at least 30 kids. I know that we had more girls than boys at this party, even though according to RSVP, I was expecting more boys because when I handed out a party favor to all kids, I ran out of ones for girls, and still had about 11 bags left over for boys. So I gave those extra favor bags to one of my good friends when I went to her daughter's 1st birthday party a week later. Anyway, we had two half sheet cakes with two different Tinkerbell designs. Both were made of whip cream, instead of frosting, so it's a lot more healthier that way. We still have some of decorations up in our house, by the way because my grandmother insists that we leave it up there because it seems to entertain my daughter a lot. It's very ironic and sweet to see how my family treats my daughter. It's completely different than how I and my siblings were raised. Jeni's being raised with a lot of love...sometimes I'm little worried because she has been very spoiled brat. But she's starting to get better because I've been teaching her manners, and have gotten her to sign "Thank you," every time someone give something to her. A few months ago, she wouldn't ever give something to anybody. But we've finally got her to learn to give, and now that's all she does, give. She'd always give food to us, instead of feeding herself. We'd always say, "thank you but no thank you," and she'll start feeding herself. It's so cute.
She have learned a lot of sign language. After her birthday party, Jeni started to explore her new toys, and I saw it as a perfect opportunity to teach her new signs. For example, she learned the sign, "motorcycle" when I pointed to Barbie ATV that my SIL Nikki got for Jeni. So now if you ask her, "What is that?" and point to that ATV, she'll sign "motorcycle." I love it when she picks up on a lot of sign language. But that means I've got to watch what I say around her because there were a lot of sign language that she picked up on where I didn't even try to teach her. Like, when I saw her walking into other room, and I yelled out, "Where are you going?" and she signed "where." I was completely blown away by that. She picked up the sign for "crazy," too. Oh, and just shortly after she turned 1 year old, she started to throw away her own diapers! It's so cool to watch the little one growing up and being a big girl all of a sudden. At the same time, I wish she would stay newborn forever.
Brandon and I are way behind on many things, like planning a wedding...getting our own place. We're enrolled in school so we could finish and get a degree, then have a fabulous job. We haven't set a date for our wedding, or make any plans on buying our own place. I applied for teaching assistant position in Fremont. So if I get that job, we're going to move there. I'm still looking around for jobs in Sacramento, though because I know that both of us want to be close to both my family and his family. We really want our child(ren) to grow up close to relatives.
Anyway, Jeni finally started to grow her 3rd and 4th teeth!! About time!! It feels like I've been waiting forever for her to spout a tooth! And yes, I'm still nursing her! Babies don't use their teeth to suck. They use their tongues, so of course I'm not worried about her biting me. Do not believe the myth!! If they do bite, it's always for a reason. Like, if they don't feel being really secure...like they might fall off. Or they are just not hungry anymore. Or they are teething, so they bite to comfort themselves. There can be medical conditions that cause them like thrust, or whatever. So be careful and pay attention.
Last night, I told Brandon that I really miss having a newborn, and that I miss being pregnant. I told him about how I cannot wait to have a water birth for next kid. I wanted to do a water birth with Jeni, but Brandon was overly paranoid and insisted that I have a birth at the hospital where all doctors will be at. I should have throw a tantrum and fight him till he cave in, because I know I would've gotten him to cave in, but I guess I didn't want him to be all paranoid. When he's all paranoid, he tend to get a huge migrane headache. Sometimes, I think he's faking it to get his way. Hmmmm. Haha. I told him that I think it would've been so cool to be pregnant with sextuplets, and I would attempt to breastfeed them all, and use cloth diapers on them all. Haha, I know he wouldn't want to have multiples, especially the fact that he hates being a twin when he was growing up. Still, I think it would've been cool to be a mom of multiples. Anyway, originally, Brandon said that we can't try for another baby till Jeni's 3 years old at least. But I whined about how I missed it every day, so he decided to try for another one when Jeni's 2 years old. YAY! I totally want to have a boy this time.
P.S. I'm having little trouble uploading pictures here on this blog for some reason. If you have either Myspace or Facebook, you can check the pictures out. Sorry for another blog without pictures! I'll keep working on fixing this problem, though.