Taisei Buffet

Happy 1st Birthday Taisei!

We made it through the first year relatively incident free. No major accidents or setbacks. Our only problem with him is that he doesn't eat. Taisei has been a happy baby. Whenever he's not, then it's nap time. Maybe that's taught him that he'd better stay happy or else. heheh

Taisei's such a spoiled boy. He got to have two birthday parties, with gifts, cake and everything. Bev and company surprised us by having a big bash in DC the weekend before his birthday. There ended up being 18 people, all from our BYU days, at his party including 5 of his own little-people friends - Andersen, Elias, Evan, Brennan and Clayton. Although we had planned to get a baby-friendly, not-too-much-sugar cake, we didn't know we had to pre-order and eventually had to settle for a Costco cake. Wami and I were in shock. After an entire year of discipline and careful feeding, here's Taisei with his first cake - with heaps of frosting and sugar.


For Taisei's actual birthday, we had to do something again, of course. Wami made this awesome cake loosely based off a Martha Stewart recipe. This one was baby friendly. For example, the frosting was replaced with yogurt cream. The scary thing is, I think he liked the real frosting better.

posted by Jerin at 10:15 PM | 10 comment(s)

Breakthrough Number Three!

The first two broke through the bottom gums and the latest is breaking through the top gums. We saw it on his eleven month birthday. Yes, a new tooth. We're excited because he might be able to chew things soon. He's tired of his baby food, rejecting most of the stuff we make for him and consequently not gaining any weight at all. In fact, he's so skinny, he looks like he has muscles. Babies are not supposed to look muscle-ey.

At least we don't have to worry about his development. His development is clearly taking place, although it's not always in the form of a new trick. When my parents came for a visit, we all watched him crawl backwards down the steps. When he made it all the way from the upstairs to the downstairs, we all clapped and cheered. He was so happy and started to clap himself. By the next day, Wami and I had forgotten about that and let him climb down the stairs by himself again. When he got to the bottom, he got really excited and started clapping again. We didn't ever realize what was going on at first. He was re-celebrating the moment and we quickly joined in. Taisei has a better memory than I do already! Oh no!

He's cautious about taking steps (not yet walking - he's taken about 4 accidental ones) but he's not cautious about standing. He refuses to sit in his high chair and stands up instead. He also stands in many other dangerous places, such as in the bathtub, on tables, on airplanes when they're taking off and banking, or on uneven surfaces. One day you're going to fall down, baby!

posted by Jerin at 1:33 PM | 4 comment(s)