Quick SF trip

Agnish had a quick work trip to SF and Luca and I tagged along...

Luca wanted to meet his new girlfriend Mika...

Hang with the Redwood Shores boyz 

and most importantly, snuggle up with Papu Kaku!

Luca at the Little Gym

Here's a video that Joanne took of Luca "working out" at the Little Gym:

Videos by Joanne

Here are some videos that Joanne took of her adventures with Luca!

Helping Around the House

It turns out kids cost a &*!@ of money...so we're glad that Luca has recognized that he needs to help around the house and do his share...

Helping Daddy cook some Chinese food...

Helping Mommy take in the garbage cans...

We'll get him started on some light housework next month.

 

17 Month update-"More"

Agnish reminded me of a few things we wanted to add for this month...
1. This month Luca has shown his love of drumming and turning other objects into drums (e.g., beds, chairs, his car seat, balls, cheese curl canister).
2. Luca has also embraced the word "MORE"--sometimes very cute (says "more" when we are kissing him) and sometimes very bossy (last night he forced Agnish to chase him around the house for hours, and every time Agnish wanted to rest, Luca would yell "More!").

17 month update

This will be a short one as I can't think of anything to say.
Locomotion: Nothing new here, as Luca continues to run around like a monkey.
Eating: We're so happy to report that A LOT of improvement has occurred this month--Luca has not vomited in almost a month--hooray! He is eating less, but enjoying mealtime more. On Mother's Day, he ate an entire slice of Pepperoni Pizza, what a great gift. Our feeding specialist Jane is helping us to realize how much Luca loves spicy food: favorites are pizza, Aloo Bhajia (a spicy Indian potato snack), cheese and ham.
Talking: Recently, Luca has been very cute with making "non-word" sounds. For example, he will say "Aaahh!" after drinking water or in other funny situations (like if his sleeve is caught on his arm, if I release it, he will say, Ah! in relief). He also likes so say "whoops" when something falls and "bonk" when things bang and WOW when something is cool to him. He also likes to make the sounds of a monkey ("oooo ooo ooo"), snake ("Sssss") and Lion ("roar" but very softly) and car ("Boo boo").
Schedules: We've been a bit off schedule these past few weeks with traveling. Somehow the sneaky monkey has gotten us into a routine where he sleeps from about 8:30 pm to 6:30 am. not sure how he lost the last hour of sleep, I think it is the light, but hopefully he'll sleep more soon.
I guess that's it for now! I'll try to post funny stories later, but can't really think of anything right now...he continues to delight us!

First Haircut Video

Video as promised in the last post...

Luca's First Haircut from Agnish Chakravarti on Vimeo.

The dirty deed has been done.

Anyone who has spoken to me in the last few months knows that I have been agonizing over (and putting off) Luca's first haircut.  We love his flowing long locks, but Agnish made one too many comments about our son looking like Frasier, and his hair was really starting to bother him. So we finally pulled the trigger last weekend and got him his first haircut at Kids Club in U Village, where apparently every Seattle parent is required by law to take their child.

Here are the before shots--here's the true Frasier head:

And some pretty darn long bangs in the front:

During, Luca was not at all bothered and liked to drive the car:

After, he wasn't sure what the big deal was (why was mommy acting so hysterical?)

Seems to feel that he has been tricked out of something:

The comparison after shot:

Even though his haircut has made him lose some of his baby-ness (he looks about 4 inches taller and 10 months older), he is still quite handsome, wouldn't you agree?

And, because we are obsessive parents, we documented the whole thing on video tape, which I will post later tonight.

Visit with Cole and Kaia

Here's how I pictured the weekend with 3 little ones. Aren't they so cute?

Here's how the weekend actually looked, most of the time:

Three kids with oral fixations:

Breakfast at Chinooks

...and at Specialties.

Does it mean something that I realized we have no pictures with the parents of these kids? We'll have to fix that at our next visit--We miss you guys already!

Trip to the beach with Zachary

A few weeks ago, we got to hang out at Golden Gardens with Zachary.  Luca loves hanging out with big boys.

Here's Zach with his daddy. On his own blog, his mom captioned this photo "not need diaper at beach."  so true, so true.