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Last Sunday was Mya's red egg! It was a pretty hectic day, but overall, it went really well. I had envisioned that she would be crying and at least would need to be held for a good hour for the event, but she surprised me and actually only cried once when she was hungry. She was pretty cool meeting new people and even being held by some of them :) Got there early as anticipated. She actually woke up early that day and the way I calculated, she would have napped the 45 minute car ride and then be ready to partay by the time we got to the restaurant. Of course, in typical baby fashion, you can't EVER expect anything to turn out the way you expect. She ended up being awake for the entire car ride, and then falling asleep about 5 minutes before we parked. So I ended up sitting with her for about 45 minutes just keeping an eye out, while my mom and Carlo set up for the event. People started rolling in, but she was still sleeping so I asked my mom to watch her instead. I wanted her t...

New mom things: Walking with your baby in the carrier for 90 minutes, just praying that they get an inkling of sleep. When you're a parent, you'll do ANYTHING to get your baby to sleep. Especially on the days they're hysterical. The carrier is one of the sure-fire ways that Mya calms down and is able to sleep (even if it takes her a while sometimes, because she's so curious and likes looking around. She is heavy and nearing 16 pounds, but I didn't care, just wanted to make sure she got a wink of sleep. It took her about an hour to fall asleep and then she only got about 25 minutes after that. Eh. Better than nothing. The night before and yesterday were hell. The night before, I tried getting Mya to sleep pretty much for 4 hours. I tried putting her in her crib four times before I gave up. It was 1:30 AM and I was like.. FUCK IT, YOU'RE COMING TO BED WITH ME. I don't like to start bad habits, but it was BAD. Most of the time, I'm not physically tired, b...

Well, three posts in 3 days. I guess that makes up for the lack of posts in the last 2 weeks. (I woke up early because I'm getting my hair done for the weekend and have some time to kill while eating and being alone (it's nice!!)..) Yesterday, Mya had a LONNGGG three hour nap. I probably should have woken her up because that's more like a short sleep, but I figure she's been through a lot of changes and new things this week, so I let her be. But yeah. THREE hours. I had no idea what to do with this free time. Simply because, I don't really get free time anymore. I mean, I do, but usually not for over an hour at a time. Usually the SINGLE hour I get, I check up on my emails, blogs, and social media, or I'm eating or prepping for the next meal. The first hour I checked up on my email, ate my lunch, and read my blogs.. went to peek at the baby and she's sound asleep. Second hour rolls around and I'm like.. HMM, I guess I'll actually start actually going...

WEEK 2 OF 2 UPDATE! This is the only full week that Carlo's going to have and we honestly didn't plan anything, but it's turned out to be quite busy week. Making the most of it while he's here! Thoughts of being back in San Francisco after an entire year: It is definitely one of the most beautiful cities we've ever visited, and we're blessed to have been grown and raised here. But MAN, is it expensive!! Everything is just more expensive here.. obviously rent/housing cost - but most noticeably - FOOD! We'll eat the same thing in NY and it's like 25-30% cheaper. It makes us re-evaluate if we really do want to return to the Bay after our stint in New York is over. Another thing is because education here is also more expensive and ridiculously competitive to even get into a good daycare or private school. We'll see. So much has changed.. already! There's been a lot of constructions projects around the city which have completed since we left - ...

Mya's 4 month update / accomplishments! Not too much new.. kind of just like a more advanced 3 month thing She only started putting hands to face at 10 weeks, but now she eats her hands. JUST started grasping at toys Touches her own hands and fingers alot (like how Mr. Burns of The Simpsons goes.. "Excellent..") Still just cooing Can extend neck higher and longer at tummytime Neck fairly strong - can pick her up by the armpit and she can hold her head up for a while Didn't play on her playmat this past month because we did a lot more talking and sitting upright Still disliking bathtime but doing much better TYPICALLY only 1-2 night feedings. It was only the first week of month 3 that there were 0-1 night feedings :( Still not rolling around HATES being put to bed for some reason. Always takes an extra hour or two just to put her to bed for the night.  LOVES looking outside the window. She just likes looking at things that are moving. Doesn't necessar...

Y'all!! I can't believe it's been two weeks since my last post. A LOT has happened and I haven't had any time to sit still, let alone, write.. especially since Carlo only has about 10 days here in SF and then he's gone to Kentucky. So I should have lots of more free time then. WEEK 1 OF 2 UPDATE! Friday-Monday 6/7-6/11: Essentially, during this time, we were packing up our entire apartment. Hard to do when you have a baby to look after (essentially, it was me taking care of the baby, while my mom did a lot of cleaning/packing, and then Carlo doing all the hard work of moving heavy furniture and all of our things to storage in lots of mini trips (let alone going up 3 flights of narrow stairs up and down on his own during each of these trips, not to mention, in 70 degree weather.. HOLY SHIT.. it was already hard enough lugging it down, and then to walk back up 3 flights and to do it all again... thighmaster 3000.. Tuesday 6/12: This was our last day in the apa...

It's about 8 PM right now and I'm in the dark in the bedroom keeping tabs on Mya to make sure she's getting her last restful nap of the day. At 3 months, she should ideally be getting 3-4 hours of daytime sleep and she's only had a little over 2 hours today so far. FINGERS CROSSED. It's annoying though because there's always TONS of honking and police sirens going off and I can see her stirring in her sleep -_-.. Noise. The main reason we are moving to the 'burbs. New Yorkers, man. Likely one of the most impatient breeds of people. We live at an intersection and I can confidently say that, about 50% of the time RIGHT when the light turns green and the first car doesn't move within 0.5 seconds, there's most likely going to be a honk. We hear yelling throughout the day as well lol (usually for the first car to get a move-on.. if they take more than a second, some folks get mad.. LIKE Y THO) ANYWAY. 8PM. It's crazy because I'm reminiscing t...

Wow, lol, I've been so busy - I meant to post about our Memorial Day weekend last week but got caught up - but I'll just lump it into this post :) It's been so nice after she's turned 3 months old because we can have actual weekend outings where we're not restricted to just going out within the area. We've been ballsy and have pushed it to Manhattan, Flushing, and Brooklyn by both train and car, and she's actually done really well! At 3 months, she can stay up for up to two hours, so it's nice for her to be able to get out of the house and be able to observe things outside of the house. And it's good for us to be able to go out again! She does pretty well on the subway and mostly sleeps through the rides, and with the car, she's actually adjusted pretty well. I'll have a more updated note on this in the 4 month update post. Last week was SUPER eventful! It was nice to be able to go out with friends and be social again for the first time...

Earlier this month, I thought she was going through sleep regression because she was acting like a newborn again, waking up every 2-3 hours crying. Thankfully, I think we narrowed that down to constipation, because that only happened for 2 days and she was back to sleeping 4+ hour stretches again after a HUGE poop. Thank god. Because of that though, I started reading on sleep training. I already heard that you can't start sleep training until 4 months old because babies don't have the ability to self-soothe themselves to sleep before then. I was reading on 3.5-4 month sleep regression and most sleep regressions only occur because their brains are developing or they've learned a new skill. At the 3 month mark, most babies tend to have inconsistent sleep just because they are going through so much at this time with being able to see further (and hence staying awake longer than they should because they're so excited just to look around) and so the overtiredness from th...