Cadi turning 1....month old. =D

Cadi turned 1 month old yesterday and this officially ends Joy's 1 month postnatal home imprisonment as well and today she went out for the first time since she came back from the hospital. She feels good now. :)

Before Joy's mom left, we celebrated Cadi turning 1 month old by buying her a cake (even though she can't have any) and have her change into a couple of new outfits. Those photos will come later. Today, I'm posting photos of Cadi being 2~3 weeks old. Oh, and we went to see the pediatrician today. Cadi went from 6 lb a month ago to 9 lb 3 oz and no more jauntis. We did our job in the past month. =D


Cadi is a pretty strong baby I think. Her kicks are especially powerful. Doesn't she look like she's doing boxing here?


The "What da heck are you doing" stare.


Cadi, the mummy. Wrapping her tightly worked wonders when we wanted her to go to sleep but I get the feeling that she's beginning to not like this.



Joy's mom and cousin, Maggie. Don't know where Maggie learned to do the thing on her head (she said it appears in Korean dramas). We think it's so cute that we want to put the same thing on Cadi. Cadi's head is a bit small but the towel thing still looks cute on her.

More of Cadi

Some of my favorite.

Cadi coming out

After 9 months, Cadi finally decided to come out. Here's how it happened.

While I was working, Joy called to tell me she thinks her water broke. When Joy called the doctor, the doctor told her to stay put since her contraction wasn't that regular yet but when Joy called her cousin, her cousin told her to go to the hospital right away. Thanks to her friend, Emily Tsai, Joy was able to get to the hospital much sooner than had she waited for me to get back home from work.

When I arrived the hospital, Joy was lying in bed and in pain due to the contraction. Since we hadn't finalized on the baby's name yet, we started discussing and "Cadi" is what we decided to go with of course. :)

After an hour or so, a doctor from the hospital decided to give Joy epidural to relieve her pain.


After the epidural is given, Joy was able to rest for a bit without pain.


And even smile for me. Oh, btw, the hospital doctor took 3 tries to succesfully insert the IV needle into Joy's arm. Poor Joy.

Joy's doctor finally came to the hospital at around 9pm or 10pm.  And about an hour later, he said it's time to go into labor but there was a problem.  Because of the epidural, Joy has lost the sensation to push the baby out too.  Joy's doctor stopped the epidural but it took around two hours for the anesthesia to fully lose it's effect and so the first two hours of Joy in labor moved the baby very little.  When the epidural fully faded, that was when Joy felt the painfulest pain that she has ever felt but it was only because of that pain, Joy was able to push Cadi out into this world.  And here are Cadi and her mom.

Joy, the mommy to be

So we think the baby is nearly here and we hurried to get some photos taken this past Saturday of the pregnant Joy before it's too late.

Shooting location: Our home
Time of the day: Late afternoon

Since there are only 7 (6 really) photos and I like all of them, I won't put them here.  Just click on the blog title to view all.

A note on the above photo.  Joy likes the colored one better but I wanted the entire 6 photos to be 2 colored so to satisfy us both, there is both a b&w and a colored version of it.  :)

On a side note, before I started shooting, I tested out the lighting on myself (while Joy was taking a nap) and created my first ever self-portrait.  It's nothing special but it's a first.  I now have a "face" photo for my Facebook.  =D

Evan's now 3 years old

But I bet if you asks him how old he is now, he would still say "Two".  :)

For Evan's bday party, Lin Lin, Jannelle, Jennifer (Lin's sister-in-law), Fanny, and David bought him this toy or should I say the "toys" that consists of many types of sports equipments.


First up, a football.  Look at Evan, he's a natural at playing football.


Then, basketball.  Already dunking at 3 years old?  Amazing.


Hockey.  I'm sure Evan won't disappoint Erik in hockey either with that stance.


It was a group effort to put this frame together.  It probably tied or beat the record for the number of people taken to open the battery compartment of that thermometer at our home a while ago.  :)  The set also contained soccer and baseball.  It really was quite a complete set.


When it started to rain, Evan went inside the house to watch some TV.  On the left side is his treasure box.  Containing his collection of Geotrax cars, which he got more of at his party.


Another new toy, bubble maker.


Evan wasn't the only person who liked the bubble maker.  Brandon and Frank liked it too.


When the 'adults' started playing dodge ball, Evan became extremely useful for David...as a human shield.  :)






You know, I've never seen actual trick candles on a cake before but I did on that day.  They were FUN, FUN, FUN.  Especially when the kid has no idea what is going on.  LOL.  Whoever put them there, THANK YOU!


After Evan threw up and changed clothes, this is what he showed every body.

Buddha's Birthday Festival

I was at the Buddha's Birthday Festival around two weeks ago. Here are some fun and cute face photos.

For photos related to the event, go check out photos that I posted at NY YAD website.


Must be tasty.


Cute Angie.


Cute Joy. Hahaha~


Michee and Jasmine.


I felt intimidated by Nixon's stare.


This serie is very cute so I decided to put the 4 photos together. Love the expression on the kid. Amy isn't too bad either.

Get-together @ JC Home

We just finished moving not too long ago and Joy thought that it would be nice to invite some YAD people to our home to warm the house a bit. People started to arrive in the afternoon and we started to prepare for lunch but I started to take photos late as I was helping with the preparation as well.


Here's Michee celebrating...something, maybe Lin and Jannelle's arrival (but only Lin showed up).


Whatever it was, it sure was funny. :)


One of the 2 or 3 weird cheeses that Jean brought. My first cheese tasting. I remember 1 was tasty and 1 was not. :)


When it came dinner time, we had spring rolls, curry and some left over from lunch. People seemed to have a lot fun making their own spring rolls.


One thing that our kitchen lacked (and still lacks) are tables and chairs but I think this actually looks more like a gathering. :)


Since Joy is having a baby, people took this chance to bring some gifts for the baby. This 'device' in the photo is to be placed on the person's lap when feeding the baby but it also looks like an over-sized travel pillow, you know, the ones that people bring onto the planes.






How many people does it take to open up the battery compartment on a digital thermometer??? Too many. It took more than 4 people to finally open it. Bravo to Fanny for overcoming this arduous task. Haha~

Thanks again to everyone who came to the gathering, our home temperature reached the highest that we've seen since we moved back. You guys REALLY warmed up our home. LOL.