Friday, December 17, 2010

7 months!!



Gideon is now 7 months old! I can't believe that 7 months have already flown by. Seems like it was just yesterday that we were bringing him home. Now, he's not only 7 months big, he's also just a big little fella (now 21.5 pounds!!). Gideon still loves to eat milk and sometimes, he loves his solids too. So far, he has tried plain rice cereal and rice cereal mixed with bananas, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, carrots, and prunes. Sometimes, he'll eat everything, but most of the time...there's more food on his bib than in his tummy.

This past month also featured some other new things: sleeping through the night (yay!!), first tooth (yay!!), first birthday party (for Gideon's little friend), new stroller, and starting to crawl! Who knows what the next month will bring.

Big accomplishments and new tricks:
**learned how to whine (still really cute though!)**
**sat in a child seat at a restaurant**
**eating solids regularly**
**first tooth (bottom front)**
**learning to crawl**
**tilts head to the side (really cute!)**
**chews his toes**
**burps on his own**
**babbles: ah-bah, o-boy, o-kay, ooooo, bah**















Wednesday, December 1, 2010

We are thankful



I am so thankful for so many things this year. We have been blessed with a beautiful sweet little boy, we are happy and healthy, and we have such wonderful family and friends who love and support us through everything. How can we not be super thankful?

This Thanksgiving, we decided to stay in San Francisco and have a first family Thanksgiving with Gideon. Since Gideon goes to bed pretty early (around 6 pm), we had a Thanksgiving lunch so that Gideon could "eat" with us. And, since this was our first carniverous Thanksgiving, we got quite ambitious and made our very first turkey!! Yes, it was a little much for just two people, but we had lots of fun cooking and Gideon got to try sweet potatoes for the first time...and he liked it!! All in all, it was a great Thanksgiving at the Wongs. :)



**Eugene stuffing the turkey first thing in the morning**
**Watching for Kermit in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade**
**Turkey's done!!**


**Gideon with the 12-pound turkey**
**Gideon with the Thanksgiving feast**
**Gideon's first taste of sweet potato**
**Gideon likes sweet potato!**