Category: Kids
Ashland is *not* helping me unravel the scarf I crochet sometime ago and winding it back into a ball along with one extra strand of very thin yarn. I decided to take apart this finished project because I liked the yarn better than the item I made with it…and thought it deserved another try.
I unravel my projects often — during the design process and even then I’m “done” with it. It doesn’t bother me to unravel because number of hours I’m entertained per material cost is more important to me than cranking out lots of finished products 
I’ve gotten some questions regarding baby No.3 from friends and I thought I’d just answer them here for my own record and to help you procrastinate if you have a moment to spare!
Q: How are you feeling?
A: I’m feeling Ok. I felt impossibly tired during the first trimester, and queasy a lot of the time (nothing horrible like the nausea I had with immi). Generally I feel pretty good during the day, and worse in the evening. But these symptoms have gotten much much better over past few weeks. Aside from these, I get heartburn, back pain, occasional migraine, cramps (which I’m told is normal for subsequent pregnancies, I had it with Ashland and I’m starting to get it now), dizziness, and sense of confusion (like the ones you might get when you take cold medicine). Todd claims that I have mood swings (I have no idea what he’s talking about 
). I try not to complain about pregnancy symptoms at loud because I know that there are many people who suffer from actual illness or would give anything to have a chance to experience pregnancy — it just feels ungrateful for me to complain about something perfectly heathy.
Q: Any cravings?
A: I seem to develop aversion to food more than cravings during pregnancies. I haven’t been able to drink that much coffee/tea (which is really sad!) — it just doesn’t sound all that appetizing to me now. I don’t want much ice cream either. I also don’t want mushrooms or sun-dried tomatoes or cheese that’s not melted. I don’t really have any specific cravings, although Chicken Tikka Masala sounded like a good idea a few times when nothing else seemed appetizing.
Q: What do you think about age differences between Immi & Ashland (about 2.5 years apart) and Ashland & baby No.3 (will be about 16 months apart) who will be closer together in age?
A: Of course we are happy for exactly the way it turned out, but we had meant to have Immi and No.2 closer together in age — it just didn’t work out that way for various reasons. Immi loves Ashland but she treats him like a “baby” which is what she thinks he is. Immi likes to help me take care of Ashland, but she isn’t interested in actually playing with him. Ashland on the other hand really wants to play with immi but she is really too independent at this point. We are hoping that having a younger sibling (closer to his age) will get him the playmate he wants.
Q: How many kids will you have?
A: I’ve heard people say that you will know when your family is complete. I guess I can go along with this saying. When we were having Ashland, we though we might be done with 2 (after all, 2 is a really practical number of kids) but somehow it didn’t really seem right (for one, practicality doesn’t exactly sum up our personalities!). We are quite sure that 3 sounds like a good number though. Anyway, we had imagined that we’d have two girls (it’s not that we wished for two girls, we just assumed that’s what we were getting) but we ended up with a girl and a boy…so what the heck, we need a tie breaker don’t you think?
Q: There’s population problem in the world already, why have more kids at all?
A: When I was a teenager, I actually thought that when it came time for me to have kids, I’d definitely consider adoption. But you know, I think that I was naive. Most practically, in today’s world, adoption is actually a really difficult process (both time & cost). I also think that going through pregnancy and birthing is one of the most beautiful experience in life. Todd and I agree that while we loved our wedding, Immi’s birthday was definitely more special in many ways. And lastly, I believe that our world is in very sad state right now (environmentally, economically, spiritually) and we need new kind of leaders. It’s not my aspiration to raise politicians at all, but I hope that our kids — who were very much wanted from the moment of conception, and are loved exactly for what they are and what they aren’t — will grow up to be creative persons who will have positive impact in our world.
What can I say, we are doing our part in Keeping Porland Weird, and even better…making it weirder by +1!
And since that was lot of text, here’s a photo of very happy Immi & Ashland.
I had a date with Immi hanging out on Hawthorne Blvd. Immi seems to enjoy outings with just the two of us, and I enjoy it too since she is actually fun to shop with. This is a little nook we found at the back of House Vintage. The old TV is still [sort of] working!
Immi seemed a little tired so instead of walking around much, we sat down for a frozen yogurt. We found a self serve yogurt bar called Swirl where you can build your own with which ever yogurt and toppings (you pay by the oz at the counter). Check out our creation it has: plain frozen yogurt, mochi, lychee, condensed milk, mini M&Ms and sprinkles. It’s totally weird but that’s because immi and I were going to share it.
I came across the term “photo taking moms” and honestly I was a bit offended, admittedly because I’m one of them. But then, I decided I might as well wear the badge proudly My favorite moments to capture on camera is when Immi (a rare moment these days!) or Ashland is sleeping in day light. They always look so peaceful and there’s lots of light and they aren’t moving, so it’s an easy photographic opportunity.
Another favorite moment is kids & cats. Oskar who is in real life a really chubby cat, I think is quite photogenic And I just think that cross-specie friendship between Ashland and Oskar is so sweet. Needless to say, this is more difficult to capture on camera since there are TWO moving subjects, and there isn’t always good lighting.
I made paella *inspired* seafood & saffron rice thing as a side dish for dinner today. Immi of course won’t eat it until I sprinkled kastuobushi and soy sauce on it. [Just so I'm not misleading: dinner I make — if I make it at all — don't always have "side dish"]
Immi’s been a picky eater lately. I can get her to eat some of the veggies by sprinkling soy sauce on it. But not every veggies.
I’m not sure why she loves soy sauce so much.
She has a unique way of eating cucumber rolls — sit the sushi in the soy sauce and wait few minutes to let saturate (she only gets low sodium soy, I even diluted it water sometimes). She has an amazing patience for this especially considering she is not even three.
Immi loves ketchup too. She won’t eat anything with it, however. She just wants to eat it with a spoon.
Do let me know, if you think of a way for me to get Immi to eat variety of food!
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