15 month Stats

Max had 15 months check up yesterday. Here are his stats:
Height: 32 inches
Weight: 25 lbs
Head: 47cms

And there are the list of things that he can as of now (Max is 15 months old today)

1. Crawl: from about 9 months
2. Cruise: from about 10 months
3. Pull-up on furniture
4. Stand up alone
5. Walk: from about 14 months
6. Flip through pages of board books
6. He can say "tinky" for his blanket and "susi" for our cat, Sushi.
8. He can climb up steps.
9. He is extremely attached to his blanket.
10. He can do "high five".
11. He loves to play peekaboo.
12. He eats 100% table foods. He loves fruit and vegetable except pea and corn.
13. He doesn't like strangers. He will cry if the strangers try to talk or play with him.
14. He can drink from a sippy cup -Nuby-.
15. He can sometimes respond to commands such as "sit down"," eat" and "come here"
16. He can respond to his name.
17. He has 7 teeth. 4 on top and 3 on the bottom.
18. He loves taking baths.
19. He takes one 2-3 hours nap a day and he sleeps very well at night.
20. He can clap, wave and hug.
21. He loves to brush his teeth.
22. He likes to point at things.
23. He is trying to feed himself with spoon and fork.
24. He wants to play whatever Sam is playing at the moment.
25. He loves his family, mommy, daddy, Sam, Josh and Sushi.
26. He hates to be in stroller and car seat.
I think that's it.

ARG!!

I'm really annoy at my mom. She cut Sam and Max's hair even though I told her not to do so!!
She was complaining about how long their hair are. I did tell her that we like their hair long and I'll take them to get it trim if the hair gets to their eyes.
I left Max with her yesterday morning while I dropped Josh at school and Sam at pre-school. I normally take him with me but he was sick so I decided it was better for him to stay home resting and I won't be long. I came home and noticed that his hair was much shorter and not even!! I was so upset and mentioned it to her how bad it was. Then she said don't complain if you want it perfect, do it yourself. I said back to her, I won't do it because I know it will come out bad and he DOESN'T need the hair cut!

Fast forward to early evening, I was giving Sam and Max a bath and I took Max out first because Sam still wanted to play with his bath toys. I asked my mom to hang out with Sam in the bathroom while I was getting Max ready to bed. While I was getting max ready, I heard Sam's screaming and freaking out. He was yelling and screaming "no Ama(it means grandma), no" to my mom. I went in I saw my mom was trying to cut his hair with the comb with build in blade(you know, the one that you using for layering the hair). I was pissed so it's Sam. He told my mom to get out the bathroom and don't cut his hair. "NO Cut Sam's hair, Ama. NO"
Apparently, she didn't get much of his hair. Still I could see the different. By the way, she got the comb from my aunt. She borrowed it while she stayed with them.

Sam and Max still sick. They both seem to get worse. Max is the worst one. He's also teething pretty bad on top of having a cold. Poor guy! He didn't take his afternoon nap yesterday so he was super grumpy. Somehow I got some good pictures of him before I tried to put him down for a nap. Can you see the different of his hair?

PT day1

I knew for awhile that Sam is ready for PT but I'm so scare to do it. Somehow I did start it today. He did make it to the potty twice and got a little piece of chocolate for reward. He had 3 times that he didn't make it. I think he did great for a first day. We'll see what's going on tomorrow.

Any advice??

I post some pictures of Max sucking on his blanket. I think it's kind of cute and I want to share them. He LOVES his blanket. I don't think he can go to sleep without the blanket!

Roseola?

Started Sunday night Max had a fever between 100-103 degrees and it had been bother him for 3 days. Now the fever is gone but this morning I noticed some rash all around his chest and trunk area. I suspect that he may has Roseola. I sort of remember when Sam had it when he was 10-11 months old. It's nothing I can do just like a cold. It eventually will go away by it's own. It is contagious but once he has had it, he'll have immunity to it.

I love my mom very much but sometime she just so aggravating. I know she loves me so much that the reason why she is who she is. She can go on and on how I should live my life and take care of the kids. I think she just forgets how the life here is different from Thailand.

Monday

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day. I had the worst one this year but I don't want to go on to the detail. Thank you for my lovely husband, Steve who tried to save my day. I'm very thankful to spend my day with my children, my husband and my mom. Steve got me a beautiful bouquet, Sam painted a flower pot and Josh, he is so sweet. He wrote me a letter as a mother's day gift. This is what he wrote.

Mother's Day
Lets face it, We often forget to get things for mom. And on this day, what could be worse? Here are poems I have created for mothers day to express your love for her. Without getting a million dollar bracelet.
Note: Don't use these as gifts, If you can get the bracelet.

Haiku: To one who loves me
To the one who cares for me
To whom I call mom

Limerick: Just giving something
To someone kind and loving
Wise and smart and knows what to do
You know who I'm talking about,
I'm talking about you!


Life's been busy lately, I guess since my mom showed up. We had a great birthday with Max. He really enjoyed it. I think he knew it was his birthday day. He also had a one year check up on that day. Now he is 21lbs 14oz and 30 inches.

On Saturday we went to see Thomas at Day out with Thomas in Sacramento. Sam had so much FUN. He was so excited to ride on the real Thomas train. We brought the camera but I forgot the memory card(still in the computer after I uploaded Max's birthday pictures). We bought one picture with the Thomas train from there. I'm trying to figure it out how to scan and post it.

Happy Birthday Max!!!

Happy Birthday Max,
I love you so much!!

Busy ..Busy...Busy

Max's birthday and Max's 1 year check up is tomorrow. Also it looks like my mom will make the flight and will be here tomorrow.

Me, I'm running around like crazy!! There are couple things need to be done.
Cleanning the house, get the car wash and get something small for Max. He doesn't need any more toys. I'm also making montage at One true Media for Max as well. It's almost done. It looks pretty good. I'll post it tomorrow.

Halloween already??

No.....Sam found his Elmo costume from last year and wanted it on. He's such a funny boy...LOL

The weather is super nice this weekend. It's too bad Steve has to work today and he will be there pretty late. That sucks!!

The boys and I went to check out the playground close by. The closest one is about 4 blocks away from our house. It's in the Golden Gate park. The playground was OK, it's more for older kids. Max couldn't really play anything but a swing. Sam and Josh didn't seem to care much about but it was so good to walk around the park a bit.

Great news from Bangkok

I love these pictures of them, Sam is so goofy and Max is so curious.

Sam and Max were helping daddy put the TV. back together!!

My mom called me last night and told me that she is coming to visit us next week! Yay! I'm so excited. Last time she was here when I gave birth to Max. It's about a year ago. By the way, it's reminding me that Max's 1st birthday's coming up. Geez!! I can't believe it. It's been a year already???

It would be great if my mom can make it by Max's birthday(May 9). She will fly standby and so far the Tuesday's flight is looking good. It's so sad that my dad can't make it. He hasn't met Max yet. Too much going on with works, like always.

Such a daddy boy!

Max is such a daddy boy. He prefers Steve over me even though I'm the one who spend most time with him. When Steve come home, Max pushes me out and try to get to daddy. He doesn't want anyone else to hold him except daddy. It does bother sometime and I'll try not to think too much of it. I'm not used to it.

In the other hand, Sam is a mama boy. He wants me to do and helps him with everything. I mean everything! Give him a bath, get dress, put him to bed, get him out the crib, etc. It's tiring but I love it.

Update on Max's cold, It's nothing serious. The doctor just told me to give him some decongestant drop and spray Alfrin before he goes to bed. He hates the spray, we have to hold him down but it's clear up his nose and he can breath better and sleep better at night.

Oh! on the hammer thing, there is no hole on the wall but the piece and some of the paint came out. We can paint over it and doesn't look to obvious.

Here the pictures

Most of the time when I tried to get his pictures, he always closed his eyes. His eyes are sensitive to the flash, I guess.

Number 1

All the nice ladies that I met on Asian American board on BBC are inspiring me to make my own blog. So I did! I love reading all the blogs that you guys made.
Here is some pictures of the boys.