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Well I can say now that I survived one week of full time work.  Not surprisingly, work is still the same as I had left it. :-)  Some how, miraculously, we all manage to get out of the house and to work/daycare/pre-school on time.  I am managing amazingly well on about 4 hours of broken sleep each day.  Ahgoo has also done well at daycare.  But I do miss her terribly during the day.  Because she's our last baby, I've been much more aware of her growth.  Every time she outgrows a piece of clothing or baby product, I am happy to get rid of it.  But at the same time, I get a little sad that I am another day away from having a baby.  I find myself definitely giving her more kisses, smell her hair and skin more.  I wish I can bottle her baby smell so that in twenty years I'll remember how wonderful she smells.  I am thankful that we survived one week of me going back to work full time. I'm sure there'll be times when it's not so smooth, but I know we'll get through it somehow.   




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Posted July 22, 2012


Happy Friday!  Or in my case, not so happy Friday.  This is my last maternity leave Friday and I'm very sad.  I still have so much that I would like to do at the house!  But thankfully, I've successfully transitioned Ahgoo into daycare and have my pumping milk schedule down.  She seems to enjoy daycare and when I go to pick her up each day, she's been pleasant and well fed.  The only kink in the process is our sleep schedule.  She's still nursing about twice a night.  Then she will have a "wake" period where she wants to play (coo, smile, etc.) for about an hour!  Sometimes this will be at 3am, sometimes it's at 5am, right before my alarm goes off at 6am!  So I'm pretty exhausted through the day.  Work shall be interesting with the lack of sleep!

One of the things I wanted to accomplish during my leave, which won't get done, was to paint the "kids" room.  Currently, Buzz is still sleeping in the crib in the baby room.  But in about a month, we will be transitioning him into a twin bed and moving him into the other bedroom.  Then, when Ahgoo is 6 months old, we'll move her into the crib and she will share the larger bedroom with Buzz.  The baby room will then be converted into the guest room.  This will be the arrangement for a few years until we likely move to a bigger house.  

So what color should we pick for a kids bedroom shared by a boy and a girl??  Since we used green in the baby room, we thought we'd pick a different neutral color.  Since pink doesn't really work for a boy and our living room is already yellow, we go with blue. :-)  Simple right?  Well, not quite.  I never knew how many shades of blues paint can have!  We bought 8 paint samples (thank goodness they are only $3 per can) and were thoroughly confused!  Which do we choose? All of the colors look so similar on paper but completely different on the wall.  They all have beautiful names like Niagra Falls, Mineral Water, Geyser, Morning Breeze, and Utah Sky.  There's also the added complication of having to match our existing curtains, which is yet another shade of blue-gray.  So after a week of getting different samples, we are getting close to picking one color.  Sadly, I will start work on Monday so it may take us longer to finish the painting than I would like.   Hm...maybe this weekend during the kids' naptime, I can get some painting squeezed in.





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Posted July 13, 2012


I've never been a slave to fashion.  I prefer very classic styles but I do like to update my wardrobe with new pieces occasionally.  Recently, the Fedora hat has been seen everywhere!  I have been secretly thinking about trying one on.  I have been wearing the same sun hat for years so I felt that it was time to get a new one.  But I also had reservations about whether the Fedora will look good on me.  I fear that it was too masculine.  Until I saw this wardrobe recommendation by Rachel on her blog.  The hat she featured cost $50, which is too much for me to spend on a hat I may or may not like.  Then I discovered this gray straw Fedora at a Japanese dollar store!  It was, brace yourself, $1.50!!  I tried it on and liked the way it fit my head.  To make it just a bit more feminine, I added a brown ribbon and a flower.  The flower is actually the one I wore on my wedding day!  Now I am all caught up with the latest fashion trend.  :-)  Oh, here's another outfit put together by Rachel that I love!  I adore this woman's style, very classic and just beautiful. 




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Posted July 11, 2012


Happy July!  I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July.  Toby survived yet another year of his most dreaded day of the year.  This year, my BIL and his family came to visit us from Chicago.  This is the very first year we are vacationing together with all of our kids together, that's eight people and one dog squeezed into a 1500 sqft house for ten days!  It was a blast and as chaotic as you can imagine. :-)  The cousins all got along swimmingly, even Baby Ahgoo!  She just took it all in quietly as her brother and two boy cousins storm all over the house.  The boys LOVED playing in our sandbox and needless to say, baths were a necessity.  

We took day trips to different places in LA.  The weather couldn't have been more perfect, mid 70's all week.  I'll post some pictures of our activities in later posts.  For now, I'll leave you with pictures of the cousins.  Buzz completely idolized his 8 year old cousin and wanted to do everything he does.  It was the cutest thing to watch all the kids play together.

Downtown LA


MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Arts)

Home

Palos Verdes Estates Library

Hermosa Beach

Disneyland

Home

Botega Louie Downtown LA

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