mommy and daddy have been hearing a lot about something called “sleep training”.  supposedly, it’s a way to teach me how to sleep through the night.  but since they are obviously inexperienced in that arena, they would have to read up on it to learn how to train me.  and mommy and daddy don’t like to read.  so much for that idea.

lucky for them, i’m a natural.  i trained myself to sleep through the night!  i am now sleeping about 10 hours from about 10pm to 8am, waking up only 2-3 times for snacks and diaper changes.  and after i eat, i go right back to sleep.  mommy no longer has to rock me in the glider or sing old skool slow jamz to get me to go back to sleep.  yay me!  (mommy says that if the sleep-training book says anything about how to make me sleep 10 hours without waking up to eat and have my diaper changed, someone please let her know!)

don’t tell anyone, but i’m still sleeping in mommy and daddy’s bed.  daddy wants to kick me out, but mommy likes having me sleep next to her.  she says it makes the nighttime feedings easier for her, but the truth is she just likes having me to cuddle with 🙂

anyway, i’m glad i got a good night’s sleep last night because i had a date with an older woman today.  sierra is in town visiting her gung-gung, and we all went to the children’s discovery museum.  i’m a tad too young for that place, but i had fun anyway.  i even have green paint splattered on my face and glitter stuck to my feet to prove it 🙂  but i’m so mad at mommy for not taking a photo of me with sierra!

i am growing up so fast!  i have learned to do lots of big boy things, like sleeping at nighttime, holding my head steady, and making spit bubbles.  i can even sit up by myself (only for about 2 seconds, but who’s counting?).  before you know it, i’ll be walking and talking.

my greatest recent accomplishment is that i can burp all by myself!  and lemme tell you… my burps are long and loud.  i gotta admit, i don’t know how those big ol’ belches come out of li’l ol’ me.  mommy says that i belch like a frat boy.  and whenever i let out a good one, she gives me a high five!  i was surprised that mommy would have such an appreciation for such uncouth behavior, but then it dawned on me — now that i can burp by myself, mommy can go right back to sleep after my nighttime feedings 😛

yay me!  i am so proud of myself.

lately, i’ve been having lengthy conversations with mommy, daddy, and even koda.  our conversations usually go something like this:

“gaaaaah”

“oooooh”

“aaaaah”

“cooooo”

but for the past couple of days, mommy has been saying the same phrase over and over again.  “mommy, i love you.  mommy, i love you.”  i think she wants me to repeat after her.  she even told daddy that when i say “oooooh”, it really means “mommy, i love you.”

i think i know why mommy has been acting so crazy.  when we went to visit cousin zoey last week, zoey kept saying “dada dada dada”.  mommy doesn’t want me to learn from my cousin — she wants me to say “mama” before “dada”.  mommy is silly.  obviously, my first real word will be “koda-leave-it”!

it’s tough being a supermodel.  mommy did a photo shoot of me and cousin zoey today, and whew, what a long day it was!

modeling by myself is hard enough as it is.  i’m expected to look at the camera and smile and sit up straight and hold still?  what the heck?  i am only 2.5 months old!  any one of those skills is an huge accomplishment by itself.  trying to remember all of those things and get another baby to do them too…  fuhgedaboutit.

after all that hard work, i hope we got at least a couple of good shots!

i am nearly 2.5 months old and guess who hasn’t held me until today.  i’ll give you some hints:

• he calls me an alien
• he refers to me as “it”
• he is one of my uncles

if you still haven’t figured it out (and you don’t recognize the top of his head from the photo)… it’s uncle randy!

i’ve seen uncle randy plenty of times.  i know he loves me, but he’s never wanted to hold me.  no matter how hard i try to convince him that i am durable, he’s so afraid to break me.

normally, mommy and daddy ask uncle randy if he wants to hold me, and he runs away.  i guess that’s his way of saying no.  but today, mommy didn’t ask.  she cornered him and tossed me at him.  ha!

now that uncle randy knows he can’t break me, i wonder if he’ll play with me more.  i know he can’t wait for me to get bigger so he can take me out and teach me fun things.  i have a feeling that we are going to cause a lot of mischief together!

at my doctor visits, the nurse always measures my length, weight, and head circumference.  if you’ve been paying attention, you know that i’ve been above the median weight and length for almost 2 months now.  but in every visit, my head circumference has measured on the small side.  i just figured that the nurse had been measuring wrong.  i always thought that my head looked normal and that other babies had big bobble heads.  but what do i know?

tonight, i went to a holiday party where i saw two of my friends.  zachary is 1 month older than me and chloe is a little more than 2 months older.  but guess what — i am bigger than both of them.  and guess what else — of the three of us, i have the smallest head!  i guess babies are supposed to have big bobble heads, and my normal-looking head is actually not so normal after all.

hmmm, now that i think about it, this explains why i have such good head control at such an early age.  mommy and daddy aren’t complaining though.  they are enjoying not having to support my head while carrying me up and down the stairs and all around the house.

i hope zachary and chloe will still be my friends when we grow up and i have a pinhead 🙁

(chloe and i are unhappy in this photo because mommy kept trying to make us hold hands.  i like older women and all, but chloe and i are still getting to know each other!)

i am san jose’s littlest sharks fan!

daddy was really reluctant to take me to the shark tank because he thought i would be too cold, being 10 rows from the ice and all.  but i was nice and warm all bundled up in the new sharks fleece that i got just for the game — it has covered feet and built-in mitts.  pretty nifty, eh?  it’s too bad that i won’t fit this outfit for very long.  mommy said that i was gonna outgrow it before the first intermission 😛

i’m so glad that mommy and daddy took me to the game, because i loooved it.  my eyes were wide with awe through all 3 periods and OT.  there were so many new sights and sounds, not to mention the two hot blondes that i was flirting with.  but i just couldn’t keep my eyelids open through the 13 round shootout.  that’s right, 13.  mommy was so tired from all the standing, sitting, standing, sitting, standing… (you get the picture) while holding all 13 pounds of me every time a new shark skated out.  we were just waiting to see nabby shoot — that would have been so funny.

i can’t wait to go to my next game, but i’ll need to find a new warm outfit to wear!

mommy took koda to spidey’s birthday party tonight.  they ate stuff like edamame, veggie crudite, and artichoke dip.  and they sipped fancy wines and cranberry vodka cocktails by the fire.  it was a girls only party, so i wasn’t invited.  pshaw.  i didn’t want to go anyway.

that means that daddy and i were free to have a boys night out!  it was our very first time going out by ourselves, so it was an exciting experience for us.  out of all of us, i think mommy was the most nervous about how the evening would go.  but i took care of daddy and we were just fine by ourselves.

i took daddy out to do some very manly things.  we scoffed at mommy’s arugula salad — daddy and i had pizza and soda and watched my uncles skate around in circles and hit each other with big sticks.  grrrrrah!  they called it roller hockey, but i call it fun fun fun!  i can’t wait til i get bigger so i can play too 😀

recently, my hands have gotten to be really tasty.  i love sucking on my fists.  yummy!  but as hard as i try, i can’t get my entire fist into my mouth.

but today i made an amazing discovery.  i have a thumb!  it is the perfect size for my little mouth — it’s like a built-in pacifier.  and it’s even better than a pacifier because it’s deeelicious!

yes, much to mommy and daddy’s dismay, i am a thumb sucker.  they remove my thumb from my mouth whenever they can, but they’re not always fast enough.

sooo tasty!

auntie helen is turning 90 and there was a big party thrown in her honor.  i figured i should look nice for this special occasion, so i went shopping to get a new pair of black cords and a red sweater.  i knew auntie would like my outfit because red is good luck in the chinese culture.

i was treated like a v.i.p. when i arrived at the party.  there was a nametag and table assignment waiting for me, and i even got my very own seat and place setting.  babies never get their own seats — i felt like a grown up!

and i must say, i looked quite dapper in my new outfit, even though i’m going bald.  i am pretty self-conscious about my hair loss, but mommy assures me that it will grow back.