he's been working on feeding himself lately. sometimes he does it just right, sometimes he doesn't quite get it so he gets frustrated cry about it. well at least he is trying and growing...

deedee got her hair cut today. no more fluffy for a while and less chance over heating during the summer time. she kinda looks like a black lab puppy?!?!

i just found this outfit called "stickee buns" and it's so cool! i guess those "buns" are nonskid design for baby's rear end and back :) i LOVE the idea of this and the bakery packaging but i think it's kinda pricey...($42 for bodysuit and a pair pants)? you can check it out here.

there is this website that generates any words you want and any colors you want (well...web colors) and lays it out with a bunch of options try it here.

if you are a designer, you'll love this. it's hilarious!!

remember, about a month ago i was looking for a nursery poster? well we decided to go with the isak bird poster series and here they are!! the size of these frames are 20.5"W x 28.25" so they are kinda big and taking over the whole wall space but that's ok ;)

since kai is somewhat crawling now, we had to get the play yard gate thing. he doesn't seem to mind that he is "captured" in the cage... it totally gives me a piece of mind when i'm cooking or cleaning.

we recently upgraded the office desk. it's 8 feet long so that daniel and i can both sit side by side and don't have to play the elbow game ;) i'm still thinking as far as decoration goes...maybe i'll paint the wall? I'm thinking about getting the white lacquer docking station to organize some camera/phone junk on the desk. besides that probably i want some cute paper filling thing and calendar. but i'm planning on keeping it pretty simple here. i'll keep you posted.

i put kai's mobile up in his room yesterday. these fabulous birdies and branches are laser cut from walnut veneer designed by an L.A. designer, Helene Ige. i love the wood grain, so cute. oh, kai fell asleep "watching" tv with daniel on the couch after he ate, it was funny 'cuz he already got daniel's traits :)

i picked the first batch of cucumbers today. these were 2 cucumbers from the 9th (see the bottom pics), amazing how much they grew in 9 days!! it was super crunchy and yummy, can't wait to eat more!

when i went to check on him when he was napping this afternoon, this is what i saw. i thought it was super funny, a little chubby hand dangling from the crib... ^_^

kai got a gift in the mail from his great grandma in japan. two baby blue bibs for his uncontrollable drooling with danish embroidery (she's actually teaches danish embroidery and has exhibits in japan). i think they are very cute.

he is 7 months old now! he can definitely sit and play by himself longer. on the other hand, he started to have a little bit of stranger + separation anxiety. he loves the tag/label on things, right here he is totally checking out snoopy's butt for the tag but he does that to blankets or toys too.

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kai's been teething a lot and just eating everything he can find around him. i finally took a picture of his two bottom teeth! i've been trying to take pictures of them but it's been a struggle to take a good one. so the perfect opportunity happen to be when he was wailing his head off, sad.. but at least i documented his first two teeth, right?

finally we got blinds installed throughout the whole house today. it's so much nicer to have blinds after 2 months of living with no privacy and proper shading. i swear, old towels on the windows weren't doing so much in this triple digit weather out here.

i saw two baby cucumbers today, one on top and bottom. i'm really excited now!

daniel's hand looks pretty wrinkly compared to kai's chubby cute hand :)

he is about to crawl... he gets in the position and rocks back and forth. he hasn't actually taken a first step yet but i know it is coming pretty soon.

we finished painting his room on sunday. yes!!

and we put a light fixture in there too. now we are going to decorate so i'll keep you posted.

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i swear, i never get the right color paint for the first time. i always have to go back to diy store and buy more paint and hoping second one is the right color. the bottom big circle one is the first one i bought for kai's room. i love the color but i think it's too saturated + dark for the whole room. so the left one is what i got for the second time and i think that's good . top right is the dining room color and top left is the first color i bought for the dining room i thought i'll compare...

here it goes the painting frenzy starting again. i'm painting kai's play room/office right now (it will be kai's room soon in a future). hopefully it'll be done by this sunday.

since we moved into our new house, we haven't decorated or have done anything to kai's room yet. so i was looking for inspirations on ohdeedoh and found some cool ideas. i like the idea of decals and the different and colorful wood typography on the wall. i think we gonna do blues, chocolate brown, tan, and maybe pop of red? we'll see about that... we're painting his room this weekend so i'll keep you posted :)

we currently have the eco friendly agent 18 iphone cases (daniel is black one and mine is clear) and works very well for us (i dropped my phone few times and the case or phone didn't break!) but we like the design of this hard graft cases too 'cuz it's very sleek and made out of wool felt so definitely won't scratch your iphone! but it's kinda pain to put your phone in and out, maybe? you can check them out here, they also have laptop sleeves so you can match if you want to.