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Monday, July 6, 2015

Summer Travels

Esme and I are taking off for a two week trip to Washington and Oregon tomorrow so I figured I better update the blog now.  Esme's racking up the frequent flyer miles because she just spent last weekend in California for Allen's grandma's funeral :(  It was nice to hear her come home and talk about his side of the family since she doesn't see them as often or know them all as well.

While Allen and Esme were away last weekend I had a nice time bonding with Chan.  My big task was a little bit of sleep training.  He's never been the best sleeper and to his defense, we haven't let him work it out too much cause we never want him to wake up his sister.  He's finally sleeping through the night on his own but the latest issue is that he's waking up super early!  Like 5:15am!  Yikes!  So we re-started our "time to wake up" stuffed animal alarm clock that glows at the specific time you want your child to wake up.  And in the 3 mornings that we were alone he seemed to figure it out!  He's now sleeping in till at least 6, if not close to 7am!  Bedtime is around 7pm so he's finally getting the sleep he needs.  I also noticed he's finally getting his 2 year molars so he probably needs the extra sleep.  We're still waiting for his growth spurt since he didn't change in height in the past 6 months.
Mommy and son bonding time.

We celebrated Mahina's 2nd birthday at Spencer's Beach park while Mimi was gone.

Apparently Chan likes to "fix" cars at the sitter.  Notice he put the car up on the block.

Chan was so excited to see and play with Mimi once she came back!

Happy 4th of July everyone!