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happy new year everyone! how is your new year so far?

we went over to trisha + greg's house for a new year's get together. kai had the "happy new year" head band and played with absolute vodka disco ball case all night. he was up late enough to welcome the new year with us for the first time (last year, he was snoring away since he was only few weeks old).

maybe he's gonna like vodka in a future ;)

walked over to the park with the whole fam on sunday. surprisingly it was nice weather (about 55 F/13 C) and daniel haven't been to this park so we decided to go with the basketball. i think we see a future basketball star!

the ball is as big as his torso but he was having fun carrying it around the court.

he even grabbed the ball on the swing too. such a funny baby!

hope you guys had very merry xmas this year! kai sure did have a good one. of course he got the most presents from friends + families. he ripped some wrapping paper out and moving presents around on the floor, took forever to open all his presents but i think he was having a blast! on the other hand, he wasn't very ok with the moose head band thing i put on his head...he immediately took it off every time i put it on his head :P

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ohhh yes, he had this "crazy professor" hair today. i tried to fix it but didn't do much...

we've been kinda teaching him to do this hand gesture when he is done eating or when the food is all gone. this morning, i showed him the empty baby yogurt container that he just ate and he did "all gone." it's so cute when he does that :)

we totally forgot to take pictures with snoopy, so this is actually a day after his birthday. as i mentioned before, he does not sit with snoopy anymore so just took pics with him playing with snoopy.

the blue cup is one of his present, the stackable cup toy thing. for some reason he likes to pick one of the cup at a time and "drink" out of it. looking so proper using both of his hands :)

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just a little sign i made for the front door (sorry, can't see well, huh).

birthday cake that our friend, sue made for kai.

cupcakes that trisha and i made (trisha frosted all the cupcakes, thank you for that!).

kai and cupcakes.

after that, we gave him his cake, but he didn't really know what to do, so i helped him get started :)

hmmmm, yummy!

nice blue beard, ha ha. oh yes, it was fun cleaning him up and his high chair!

the damage he did to his first cake. his first time eating this much sugar all at once!

overall, his birthday party turned out great, lots of guests came over to wish him happy birthday and he got tons of toys! he'll be pre-occupied for a while now while i'm on the computer ;) only thing i regret is that i didn't take many pictures, well there's a few reasons why but i should've taken more pics with friends & families and things, ya know. thank you everyone for coming, for the fun gifts, and those of you who came early to set up the party!

went to the city with trisha on sunday and we did lots of shopping. one of the thing i really wanted to do was to have kai take his first pic with santa, so we did it. he was okay in the beginning but he started crying after a bit and sliding off of santa's lap. he definitely does look very unsure about this whole thing... oh well, i'll do better next year!

some xmas light decorations in the city. it was so pretty. that tree was so huuuuuge inside of neiman marcus, about 4 floor height. the little kitten was in one of the display in the macy's windows, they decorated each as a little "house" and had kitten on each. most of them were sleeping but some were playing, they were so cute.

went to another neighborhood park, this one is about 10 min. walk from our house and it was our first time going there. the other, bigger park don't have the baby swings so i was so happy to find the baby swings here (thanks to michelle + mike for telling us). another good thing was that this park is pretty empty because it's located in the newly developed area (maybe there's only 20 houses around), so we'll be coming here a lot now! anyhoo, i accidentally over exposed this photo when i was taking pictures but i kinda like it, it's kinda fun, no?

he looks is very complicated, wonder what he was thinking...

he was bouncing around and exploring the park too.

taking a nap on the blanket today.

oh yes, it is kai's 11 mo. old today. forget about him trying to sit with snoopy on the couch, it is officially impossible to do!

since he started walking around 9.5 months, now he drag snoopy by his ear and terrorize him. deedee looks pretty surprised in the side of the pic there, cracks me up! ha ha ha.

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ok, we are leaving to go to japan tomorrow, so i might not be able to blog for a few days until we settle down a bit. just letting you know, but i'll try to update on our trip tho ;)

kai sits like that a lot, and see all those bruises on his legs? the number of bruises increased since he started walking around crazy in the house at the age of 9.5 months!

kai is another a month older today. seems like at this point, it is easier to make him stand than sit still...he started walking now so he is getting in trouble left and right. i guess i have to be really careful what i wish for ;P

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wow, how did he get that crazy hair-do today?

he is still waking up.

i thought his face was just so cute + precious...pink rosy cheeks and sucking the bottom lip in as he naps this afternoon.

tickle attack on the floor! we found out that he has 3 top teeth coming out, totally surprised!

he was such a good boy today and played by himself for a while.

after standing in line with kai for the 1.5 hrs for the gap casting call photo shoot at the mall, these are 2 of them that i like out of 4 that they took. i guess i'm a little disappointed on the pictures but i guess that's ok. maybe i'll try to take pictures kinda like this on my own this weekend. but i was gonna ask you guys if i were to pick one, which one would you pick to enter it to the contest?

this was the line when i first got in line...it wrapped around the store.

finally painted + decorated kai's bathroom this week. it's light turquoise/mint kinda color with yellow color pop! this paint is actually called garden gazebo by glidden (really, i would think "tan" when i hear that name of the paint, is that just me? i wonder how they name these things...) i wasn't too sure about the color but after serious thinking, i decided to keep it and think worked out pretty good (especially with that color of shower curtain). i'm thinking about putting a little white shelf above the toilet to put candles and such. well i'll keep you posted on that one ;)

i think he likes it too?

he has been very curious about things and started checking out under neath things. he loves to see what's under neath the couch. i think he actually found his own toy before but he can probably find deedee's toy, dust bunny (maybe if i'm lazy about swiffer-ing), or boogie man? lol

my friend vanessa took this picture and sent it to me. who would've thought that kai is already a business man at such a young age! ha ha. we need to go eat at this place and see how good it is (i guess it's in old oakland).

walked over to our neighborhood park again so kai can play in the water. he wasn't scared today and did so well. he was just crawling around everywhere (luckily wasn't very many older kids around then) and checking out the water fountains. so glad that he is ok with the water now!

happy 9 month b-day to kai! it is sure getting so hard to keep him still on the couch. now he doesn't only want to wrestle the snoopy, he wants to drop him off the couch too. since it was on sat., daniel helped me with this photo session but it was hard with two of us. i don't know what i'm gonna do when i have to do it alone in a future.

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kai went to 9 months check-up appt. yesterday and he was 19.12 lbs (40 percentile) and 28.5 inch (55 percentile). i was surprised to hear that he wasn't one of the "bigger" boy now compare to before. he is slowing down on growing ?!?!

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kai has found new toys around office lately... one of them is a printer, he likes to constantly "jam" his hands in it. another one is the external hard drive case (it broke so we gave him the empty case, remember when we bought this hard drive, we took a pic with him and he was sooo small and monkey like? i'll put that pic on cont. reading), apparently he wants to fix with his purple toy wrench ;)

can't believe that hard drive is a size of his torso back then...and he looks so different now.

"brown rice" birth mark behind his left ear is still there...must love rice, right?

just love the wrist rolls :)

he is still learning to feed himself and he is definitely getting better and better!

i got his smiles!

every time he is on the couch, he pulls himself up on the back of the couch and just check out the backyard. there's nothing to see really, just dirt and cucumbers :) some day, we'll have trees, lawn, and patio area...

like teething with this "bath time" toy. i guess it has the perfect texture to make him wanna eat.

i gave him a few bites (or licks, should i say?) of the fudgesicle and this is what happened. he definitely loved it and he just looks so silly :P

i entered kai on the american baby cover contest and this is one of the picture. please go here and vote on each pictures and also recommend the pics too! i want him to win so he'll be on the cover! ^ _ ^

p.s. every computer counts! so if you happen to have more than one computer, please vote from each computer if you get the chance. thanks!

he explored the laundry room today. he LOVES the washing machine, apparently dirty clothes in a water is really amusing to a baby ;) also he noticed that there's some clothes and hangers hanging above him.

sitting pretty...he is looking at himself in a mirror here.

then, he passes all his toys to go play with something that he is not suppose to play with, like a chair. oh great!

kai has been crawling better and faster these days. and we found out that he loves cell phones as well. he is already showing interest on geeky-techie stuff and definitely taking daniel's foot stpes :)

since he's been mastering his standing up move, this is what i see when i hear him crying and go to his room in the morning or end of nap time.

kai is 8 months old today. i swear, time flies!! apparently at 8 months old, he just want to wrestle with the snoopy rather than sit next to and look cute.

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went to aquatic park today with a friend and her daughter katelyn (she is 22 months old). it was kai's first time going to a pool and he didn't do so well but on the other hand, katelyn was loving it! kai was just crying, whining, and especially clingy (he had that face expressions the whole time!) but he did get used to the water a bit after 15 min. of being in there. i think i have to take him more often and get used to the water so that he can learn to swim in the future!

a little penguin is in the house!! this is actually a halloween costume that i bought for kai last year. i just thought about it today and decided to put it on him to see if it'll still fit him in 2 months. the answer is, no. he fits it in perfectly now and no way he'll be able to wear it on halloween (besides that we'll be in japan for halloween this year). so this is his halloween picture, therefore, happy early halloween from kai everyone!

p.s. sorry for bad pics today...my computer is acting wired and not making it pretty for some reason.

i was on my computer as usual, and when i looked back, omg!!! he was standing up, supporting himself in his playpen. i had to get the camera quickly so here it is, kai has a crazy expressions but at least i got the moment ;)

he has been practicing to crawl all the time and he is getting better at it.

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...

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.

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?

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.

kai got "wish come true" series toys few days ago made by Strangeco and designed by aka FriendsWithYou! These figures have weighted bottoms and built-in bell chimes, so they have playful rocking motion and a subtle, soothing sound. He seems to love them and obviously very appetizing to him ;) i love the character designs, i think they are super cute. if you want, you can check more info here.

we got him a new high chair toy. this toy is so awesome, it has a suction cup at the bottom. so, i don't have to play the "pick up what kai drops every few senconds" game at all! it's there to stay ;)

he is getting so much better at bath time. he doesn't hardly scream or cry anymore. now that he has a little bottom tooth coming in, he just wants to chew on everything. so i think he is actually too distracted by these colorful toys and forgetting to cry?!?!

kai is now 6 months old! he can sit up pretty well now for a while. he is 28" long (91st percentile) and 18 lbs (73rd percentile). god, he is really tall but that just tells you that he is our child for sure ;)

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love the sunglasses, he is pretty cool looking like a dragon fly ;)

not to mention he loves walking around in his car, he's been "parking" in front the tv for the front row seating! i know it's bad and i've been trying not to let him watch tv but it is kinda funny ;)

he took a nap like this for a few hours. if i sleep like that i would totally have a sore neck for few days! he must be very flexible...

he didn't fight with me to put him in a car seat today. he was pretty calm and happy at the moment.

with his grandma on the weekend visit.

kai has been practicing on holding bottle on his own. he is getting there but not quite all the way there... he is looking very serious there.

he has been eating very well on his food. he can finish the one little container no problem!

he thinks his feet are his hands!

telling you something with those little eyes...

he is 5 months old today. one thing i noticed from last month was that he kinda sit still now. wow. that was amazing and totally an improvement!

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took some pics of his little hands and feet today. he's been rolling around and doing the tummy time so well. he's gonna start crawling in matter of time!

few kisses from deedee weren't so hot! poor kai, he had to find that out in a hard way!

he is super flexible and he thinks he has four hands! he likes to grab things with his feet and use them as hand. he can pretty much hold his bottle with his feet. amazing ^o^

at his usual spot.

very serious!

trish got kai a cute shirt from san diego! kai will wear this shirt when he gets a little bigger. thank you trish!

he's been very talkative lately. he sounds almost like some kind of kitty going crazy (and a bit ear
piercing noise...).

he is officially a big, chubby boy. he is now 26.5" (85 %) and 16.02 lbs. (75%). it was so difficult to take these pics cuz he is so wabbly! out takes on cont. reading.

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this was the calm before the storm...
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are you serious that i have to eat that!

simply gross!!

help!! i don't wanna eat this stuff!

he is still loving his car, looks like he is pro at it. ha ha ha :)

but this one, looks like he is wanting something...a little sad face.

lounging on daddy and sucking on yummy hand.

(kri'bā'bē) n. one who cries or complains frequently with little cause

kai's been a cry baby a lot lately. he is especially bad during bath time, he HATES IT for some reason. i don't get it, he was in a "water" for 9 months, why doesn't he like it? the best part is that his voice echoes real well in there, yes, how lovely! i need a pair of ear plug! i wish kai came with a magic "mute" button for me to push when i get fed up!!

with those super chubby cheeks.

when i went to the city with alexa + kate the other day, we went to kidrobot store on haight street. i saw this super cute grey shirt for kai but i didn't buy it. when i showed it to daniel that night, he LOVED it! now we are ordering it online and when we are doing that, we saw this kid's red doma shirt for sale so we just had to buy it since daniel has one too. i swear, everything for kai...

i just got curious and counted how many dunnies we have... we have six 8" dunnies and sixty 3" dunnies (remember these are just dunnies...). i think it is getting out of control and needs to stop sometime before dunnies or vinyl toys take over our house!

loving it!