I want to hold onto her as long as I can, soaking up in all those precious moments.
Today, Jeni turned 8 months old today. And yes, I'm still nursing her. I have no plans of weaning her off anytime soon. When I first started nursing her, I was aiming for one year. Now, I think I'm aiming for two years, 'cause that's what World Health Organization recommends, and I figure I'd follow other countries, especially Asian ones, 'cause they always seem to be healthier than us here in America, even when they're older. A lot of my relatives are very active, even in their 80's or something. My grandmother is 67 years old, but a lot of people say she looks younger. She's still able to do a lot of manual labor. She's always cleaning up in backyard, weeding out things. She's even helping me to do some of baby duties. So, I'm giving Jeni all I can give.
Anyway, I made broccoli and chicken for Jeni. What I did was cooking chicken by itself. I added a little water. Then when it's all done, I put them in the blender, and started mixing it. I added a little more water to make it more consistency. Then I steamed broccoli. Once they're tender, I put them in the blender with chicken. I added a little bit of my milk.
We had to throw broccoli and chicken 'cause Jeni hated it so much that she threw it all up. I made the food, but I had to leave home before I got to see her eating them because I had this orientation at school for my online courses. But my brother got it all on video. It was funny.
So, after I came back home from the orientation, I made carrots and chicken since Jeni likes carrots, and it goes with chicken. She loves it so much that she ate so fast.
It's crazy how mobile she is now. She can pull up to stand by herself. She took a step a couple of times. She loves to use the walker to walk around in the house, as you can see in the video in my previous blog. We didn't force her to do that, by the way. We have been putting her on this giraffe rocker that I got her for Christmas, and she loved it. She was always standing up on it, getting off it by herself, and she started using it as a walker. She just held on the handlers and pushed it as she walked beside it in the house for a while. So we finally got around to getting the exasaucer top off and changed it into the walker, so she could use it instead of the giraffe rocker. Everyone keeps on telling me that anytime now she'll be walking.
I cried about how she might be walking anytime soon 'cause that means, she's a step closer to that phase where she'll want to get away from me. Screaming, "Mom, leave me alone!" "I want to hang out with my friends, not you!" Or something like that. She's becoming more independent. I mean, I want her to be independent woman growing up, but at the same time, I want to hold onto her as long as I can, soaking up in all those precious moments.
Anyway, on Wednesday, we all left to Lake Tahoe to celebrate my brother's 24th birthday. Yes, I'm 24 years old too. And no, we're not twins. So many people asked us that. We're 10 months and 1 day apart. Yes, I know our parents must've been so busy. Believe me, we've heard it all.
It was Jeni's first long trip. We drove 3 hours and half to get to Lake Tahoe from Fairfield. We spent a night at Marriott's Timber Lodge's villa...it was 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. They got a living room, kitchen, and a huge bathtub in master's bedroom. It was AWESOME. I'd love to come back and stay at the same place! Anyway, after we woke up next day, we were supposed to go snowboarding. But due to high risks of weather, they closed almost all slopes but one. However, the guy said if we buy tickets right there, and they could close anytime after that, we won't be able to get refunds or rainchecks. So we decided it wasn't worth it especially when one ticket cost 65 bucks alone. So we went to eat at this seafood restaurant (omg, it was expensive!). After we finished, the snow got worse! So it was definitely safe to say that Heavenly closed right there. We might come back in March when it doesn't snow like crazy, but we'll see.
So we all decided to start heading out for home before we get snowed in and has to stay in Lake Tahoe...although that would be awesome but we had to get back to our lives. We looked for this snow park where we could play. It closed 'cause of snow. We saw two cars flipped over, and one car running off the cliff or something. There were bunches of police cars, ambulances, firetrucks, and even news van. That totally sucks. But yea that was how bad snow it was. So we decided to just find a good spot right off the freeway. We found one and we all played for a little while.
Anyway, here are some pictures from Jeni's cousin Mia's 1st birthday party and Jeni's Uncle Steven's 24th birthday in Lake Tahoe. Enjoy!
Don't worry. Nikki was a smart mom as always...she replaced frosting with cool whip. A lot healthier that way!
I took so many pictures during this party. Come and check the rest of the pictures out on my Myspace page!
No, that is not her drooling. That's snow falling.
You can check out the rest of pictures on my Myspace page as well.
Anyway, I made broccoli and chicken for Jeni. What I did was cooking chicken by itself. I added a little water. Then when it's all done, I put them in the blender, and started mixing it. I added a little more water to make it more consistency. Then I steamed broccoli. Once they're tender, I put them in the blender with chicken. I added a little bit of my milk.
We had to throw broccoli and chicken 'cause Jeni hated it so much that she threw it all up. I made the food, but I had to leave home before I got to see her eating them because I had this orientation at school for my online courses. But my brother got it all on video. It was funny.
So, after I came back home from the orientation, I made carrots and chicken since Jeni likes carrots, and it goes with chicken. She loves it so much that she ate so fast.
It's crazy how mobile she is now. She can pull up to stand by herself. She took a step a couple of times. She loves to use the walker to walk around in the house, as you can see in the video in my previous blog. We didn't force her to do that, by the way. We have been putting her on this giraffe rocker that I got her for Christmas, and she loved it. She was always standing up on it, getting off it by herself, and she started using it as a walker. She just held on the handlers and pushed it as she walked beside it in the house for a while. So we finally got around to getting the exasaucer top off and changed it into the walker, so she could use it instead of the giraffe rocker. Everyone keeps on telling me that anytime now she'll be walking.
I cried about how she might be walking anytime soon 'cause that means, she's a step closer to that phase where she'll want to get away from me. Screaming, "Mom, leave me alone!" "I want to hang out with my friends, not you!" Or something like that. She's becoming more independent. I mean, I want her to be independent woman growing up, but at the same time, I want to hold onto her as long as I can, soaking up in all those precious moments.
Anyway, on Wednesday, we all left to Lake Tahoe to celebrate my brother's 24th birthday. Yes, I'm 24 years old too. And no, we're not twins. So many people asked us that. We're 10 months and 1 day apart. Yes, I know our parents must've been so busy. Believe me, we've heard it all.
It was Jeni's first long trip. We drove 3 hours and half to get to Lake Tahoe from Fairfield. We spent a night at Marriott's Timber Lodge's villa...it was 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. They got a living room, kitchen, and a huge bathtub in master's bedroom. It was AWESOME. I'd love to come back and stay at the same place! Anyway, after we woke up next day, we were supposed to go snowboarding. But due to high risks of weather, they closed almost all slopes but one. However, the guy said if we buy tickets right there, and they could close anytime after that, we won't be able to get refunds or rainchecks. So we decided it wasn't worth it especially when one ticket cost 65 bucks alone. So we went to eat at this seafood restaurant (omg, it was expensive!). After we finished, the snow got worse! So it was definitely safe to say that Heavenly closed right there. We might come back in March when it doesn't snow like crazy, but we'll see.
So we all decided to start heading out for home before we get snowed in and has to stay in Lake Tahoe...although that would be awesome but we had to get back to our lives. We looked for this snow park where we could play. It closed 'cause of snow. We saw two cars flipped over, and one car running off the cliff or something. There were bunches of police cars, ambulances, firetrucks, and even news van. That totally sucks. But yea that was how bad snow it was. So we decided to just find a good spot right off the freeway. We found one and we all played for a little while.
Anyway, here are some pictures from Jeni's cousin Mia's 1st birthday party and Jeni's Uncle Steven's 24th birthday in Lake Tahoe. Enjoy!
Don't worry. Nikki was a smart mom as always...she replaced frosting with cool whip. A lot healthier that way!
I took so many pictures during this party. Come and check the rest of the pictures out on my Myspace page!
No, that is not her drooling. That's snow falling.
You can check out the rest of pictures on my Myspace page as well.