Maltby & Mini Cooper

Saturday, September 29, 2007 - The Hunt family fly solo again for the first time in over a month. That's right, we are currently without any house guests. It actually felt a little weird at first. The night my dad went home, I actually forgot he had gone at one point & started to look for him for a second.
Dad was here for a month. He arrived with Mom, but she left after 10 days. He stayed to help us with some home projects. We had bamboo floors put in, and it's awesome. Vincent can really be free to crawl all over the place now. He also built us a small addition off our backdoor. We call it the "cat house." It's basically a storage space & where the litter box now lives.
Yesterday was also my first Saturday of not working, since I stopped working. After having Vincent, I went back to work for one day a week back in the spring. It was pretty good, but we were finding that we weren't getting much family time, with just the one weekend day together. So, for now, I'm 100% stay-at-home again.
To kick off our family time together, we rented a Mini Cooper from Flexcar for a few hours. Yeah, pretty cool, huh? We walked down to the Flexcar "pod" on Broadway with Vincent in the stroller. Turns out, it was a convertible. But, the weather sucked, so we didn't put the top down. Since it was a convertible, I don't think it had a trunk. We barely fit the stroller, car seat & all three of us in there. We drove back home, dropped off the stroller & were on our way to...The Eastside. We just wanted to go for a little drive.
We drove up to a small town near Snohomish called Maltby & had brunch at the Maltby Cafe. I guess it's in the basement of the old schoolhouse gymnasium. It was packed in there. The portions were huge. That plastic container David is carrying was their cinnamon roll. Yes, just one roll. We're actually still eating it. From Maltby, we drove down the 203, or was it the 202? Maybe we drove on both...Well, it took us through Duvall, then Carnation, and to Fall City, where we began to make our way back towards Seattle. It rained while we were out, but it was still nice to get out for a little drive.
As fun as the Mini Cooper was for a few hours, I don't think it's the right, um, fit for us (not that we were in the market for one). So cute, so sleek, so small.

New Floors

Yay! We have new floors in our house! Vincent is so happy to have lots of room to roam & practice his motor skills. Boy, does he have a motor on him, too!

We Have A Crawler!

Well, okay, Vincent has been crawling for several weeks now, but I haven't been the best at keeping the blog updated...

Life has been pretty busy at the Hunt House. We've had several visitors and some home improvements. But, it's all coming to a close soon.

Two of the recent visitors have been Vincent's A-ma & A-Gong, also known as my mom & dad. My mom has been wanting to go to Victoria, B.C. since I moved to Seattle 5 years ago. So, we decided that we'd take a family trip there. David found Swans Suite Hotel, near Chinatown. We scored a two level, two bedroom suite. Downstairs is the kitchen, bathroom, & livng/dining area. Upstairs are the two bedrooms. It was perfect! David and I were able to get out for mini dates after Vincent went to bed each night.

Now, here you go, a little video of Vincent crawling around in the hotel living room.

Back To The Pool

The boys are back at the 1st Street Fitness Pool, after being away for 4 weeks! Yikes! Vincent has missed out on a lot. He and his dad didn't know some of the songs. But, he did just as well as all the other babies, and really enjoyed being in the pool. His grandpa got to come along this time to watch & help out.

Asian Baby Taste Buds

Hey Sunshine! We took Vincent out to South 47 Farm about a month ago. I don't have any recent photos yet, so you'll just have to deal with this one.

It looks like Vincent has his first teeth! The first to come in was his lower middle left tooth, shortly followed by the one to its right. I was in denial for the first couple of days, since they're not that far out, then David slapped some sense in me.

We had our first double carseats experience today. Kari, Sasha, Vincent and I all went down to Ikea and The Great Wall Mall. I think it's Renton. Both babies basically were NOT happy from the 405 freeway until we got out of the car.

We ate dim sum at the Imperial Palace, where Vincent got to enjoy radish cake & bbq pork bun. The ladies at the restaurant all loved Sasha, and humored me by acting half interested in Vincent. We survived Ikea, and Kari showed me a new route home.

Along with some dim sum, Vincent ate Asian pear (from his A-ma's backyard), banana, and green beans with pork chop. He is also getting better with feeding himself Cheerios. Ooh, and we shared two lychees! Yum. Way to show that Asian pride, Kiddo! (Yesterday, I let him taste my glass noodles with Chinese sausage & shitake mushrooms.)

August 10

Today, Vincent started his day with whole grain cereal. For his second meal, he had some yogurt. Lastly, for dinner, Vincent had green beans. For snacks, there was some Cheerios, chunks of peach, and some cheddar cheese crackers. And, of course, breastmilk all day as desired.

Vincent ♥ Shasha

Well, I didn't quite get to taking the picture fast enough, so this one here doesn't really do what actually happened justice.

Three moms, a dad, and lovely Julia took an infant CPR class today at our house. Somewhere between lessons on CPR and choking, Vincent & Sasha got very close & seemed to be kissing! Both babies turned their heads to each other and leaned in with mouths open & touching. It was actually really cute. I rushed to get the camera, but had a fake baby in my arms (couldn't just throw that baby down), and just wasn't quick enough. By the time I got the camera, it was more like Vincent trying to eat Sasha's face. I have video footage, but I'm not advanced enough to post a video.

For those of you interested, the CPR class was really great. I highly recommend it. After it was over, our instructor, Jennifer, even walked out to our cars & inspected our carseats & their installation.

As for Vincent's eating these days, he is doing very well. I think I'm going to try and food blog his eating on a regular basis. It's better than charts, graphs, etc. (which we aren't doing), and it may be nice for me to look back on one day. Today, he ate a little yogurt in the morning, and at lunch time, he had a small amount of green beans with a pinch of grated parmesan cheese. Yes, there is still breast milk between all this as well.