Cadi & Cody 2011 - First batch

See, that didn't take long at all, only two weeks after my last posting. Now, what about the next update? The answer is "I don't know". I have processed everything I have and I probably won't have new photos to add for a while.

I can't think of anything new to add so I'll jump straight to my favorite photos.




Cody, what's up with the girly hand gesture? And Cadi, please give the pacifier back to your brother.


Look at what Cody's wearing in many of his photos and you should notice the many girlish clothing that he wears. Ya, the "advantage" of being the second child and having an older sister who's not much older than you.




Look at the TV screen and see if you can tell what was on. Super Bowl XLV, Packers vs. Steelers. Cadi's first Super Bowl experience.


No little toilets. This is the REAL potty training.






Joy bought these clothing for Cadi but unfortunately they were too small for her. We had to give them away but since they looked so cute on Cadi, I had to take photos.


Never before had I found the purplish tint work well with a photo. This is a first.

2010 Cadi and Cody last batch

Three months have past since my last photo posting. It's probably the longest time that I've not posted anything. But you know, having a baby who does not have a regular sleep pattern and who drinks slowly will take a lot of time away from you. (Yes, Cody, I'm talking about you.) The good news is that Cody FINALLY started to sleep through the night after 4 months and his drinking speed has improved a little.

After some complaining from Joy, I've finally finished processing the last batch of 2010 Cadi's and Cody's photos. And while I'm at it, I've also started on the 2011 photos. So the next update should be much quicker than 3 months. =D

Cadi has picked up a couple more words now but they are still all single syllable words that are pronounced twice. My mom also started to potty train Cadi and had seen a couple of successes. A photo of Cadi sitting on a toilet is coming up in the 2011 album. :)


Cadi likes to take her shoes and socks off whenever she gets a chance. We eventually replaced the ones in this photo with ones that she can't take off easily. Her hands gesture here means "No more shoes and socks" and you can see she's happy without them. :)


I'm sure most children like to explore. This is part of what Cadi does when there's no one watching her.


Stool from Ikea. She pulls them out whenever she's brushing her teeth. She has 6 of them as of now.


One can never be too young to start racking leaves.




The first of a couple BIG snow blizzard that we received in NY in 2010. Joy and I couldn't get to work that day and right after our failed attempt of trying to go to work, I took Cadi out for her first snow experience. In this photo, Cadi almost fell because of the strong wind blowing against her.


She didn't know what 'snow' was at first but she grew to love it after a while. She loved it so much that when I wanted to bring her back into the house, she started to scream.


Cadi and Cody's Christmas presents, Crocs shoes, from their aunty, Camy. Pink is for her and yellow is for him. Cadi should be able to wear hers within a year? Based on the size of the yellow ones, we don't know when will Cody be able to. They are BIG. -_-

There aren't that many photos of Cody at this time and still won't until Cody can start moving on his own because that's when the fun starts. One running and one crawling around the house? I can't wait.

Finally, some Cody photos

It's been a little over two months since Cody was born, thanks to this 4 day holiday weekend, I finally have a chance to put some photos of Cody (and Cadi of course) up.

Some updates.
Cadi is starting to speak better now. She very occasionally is able to imitate the words we say and she seems to "sing" sometimes now.
Cadi loves:
* To go up to our house's second floor.
* To wear only a single adult's slipper and walk around the house.
* Her grandma and grandpa and brother.
* To eat (still).

She does not love:
* To wash her hair.
* To change diaper.
* To be alone.


Cody is quite different from Cadi in terms of feeding, sleep and awake schedule. Cadi was very regular since the start, not so with Cody. As a result, Joy and I have been sleep deprived for quite a while now. One new thing about taking care of Cody is that one has to be careful changing his diapers or shower him as there is a chance that you'll be attacked with shooting pee.
Cody loves:
* Staying awake and not let his parents rest.
* Falling asleep several times before finishing drinking his milk.
* Move his arms and legs.

Cody does not love:
* Can't think of any right now.


Cadi has always liked her little brother since he came home from the hospital. This is the first day that Cadi saw Cody.


Cadi finishing her shower waiting to get clothed.


Joy's mom came her for a week and brought Cadi two pairs of the walking shoes. This is first time Cadi trying it on.


I LOVE Cadi's look in this photo.




Joy and Cody is inside the room with the closed door. Cadi really wanted to go see Cody (I think) and had to resort to checking what's going on inside by peeking through the gap under the door.


You can see how much Cadi loves her brother here.


A rare look from Cody that was a signature of Cadi.

nyyad.info

In 2004, I created the nyyad.info website for, well, the BLIA New York young adult division group.  :)  Since my "retirement" from the youth group from around two years ago, the site has largely gone unmaintained and is really showing it's age.   Today, Nov 3, 2010, it has finally reached it's end of life.

The nyyad.info site was created before the blogging platforms become really popular.  After my youth group "retirement", I've already thought about create a blogger.com site to replace what I created.  My thought was that using a free and updated solution that's maintained by Google would at least keep the site alive even when no one continues to maintain the site, pay the web hosting and domain name, etc. 

A couple of months ago, I saw that my web hosting contract is going to end in November, 2010, knowing that I'm not going to renew my contract, I decided to create a demo nyyad.info site using a readily available blogging platform and let the current NY YAD members know about it as an option when my web hosting contract ends.  Rather than using blogger.com for my demo site, I decided to use WordPress, which is a much more powerful blogging platform than blogger.com.  Combined with free hosting, which I believe is enough for NYYAD's website, we'll have a low cost solution going forward.

With the nyyad.info reaching it's last day, now what?  Well, the current NYYAD members decided to get the nyyad.org domain name (which I think should have been the site's domain name from the start but I was young and didn't know.  =P) and use WordPress to replace the original site.

nyyad.org

Sep. 19, 2010

Since I took some belly photos of Joy when she was carrying Cadi, I've been wanting to take more belly photos of Joy this time as well.

On Sunday, Sep. 19, just a couple of days before Cody's due date, I finally picked up the camera and took some photos. Joy wanted to have photos of Cadi with her belly this time but due to Cadi's age, it was impossible to instruct her to sit still. So no photos of Cadi playing with the belly. :(

Only two photos made it to the albums, Cadi's presence has something to do with this too. :)

Larger (top) this time. Compared to the first one (bottom).



The next morning, after waking up and preparing to go to work, Joy said she thinks her water broke. So rather than going to work, I took her to the hospital. Eleven hours later, Cody was born. Talk about great timing, huh?

Cadi and Cody

Cody, Cadi's little brother came out recently. It's a good thing that Cadi seems to like her little brother...so far.
People say that the first child gets lots of photos and any subsequent one gets less and less. It might be true for us too but only because with two babies, there won't be as much free time as before to take photos.

To celebrate the birth of Cody, I'm posting a photo here to compare the look of Cadi and Cody when they were just born.

From top to bottom. Cadi, when she was born. Cody, when he was born. Cadi shows her affection toward her favorite new "toy".

What can you do with a toilet paper roll?

This is something I would have loved to do when I was little.

They look great when given the right light treatment.

Miniature Art on Toilet Paper Rolls by Anastasia Elias