Life is beautiful stage two

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Successful color sorting activity

Friday, February 1, 2013

Gratitude

Having two is definitely Harder than one especially when you have added hormonal issues. Hence the need to be grateful. Some sweet moments this week. Liana responds very well to smiles now. Kiera loves her five little monkeys jumping on the bed book so much that she hugs it when she goes to bed. Fried raviolis are pretty delicious. My husband is amazing and is getting buff which is a nice bonus. Liana took a breast milk bottle today and drank it super fast!! Kiera did fabulous at her model/ company photoshoot today. So proud of how well she can follow instructions. Kiera can play herself without me a lot longer than before. Kiera is starting to become interested in the potty again. Getting food poisoning helped loose some pds. Having a bad foot means husband helps me more. Many great things this week. All about perspective right? ;).

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Dec/ Jan

These past two months flew by! We had my WHOLE family in town! It was amazing. It was fun to be in one house together again plus the extra few in my family. I think I have finally achieved my goal of overcoming their fears of L.A to LOVING IT! There were even hints of possible retirement at this location ;). I couldn't agree more, my love for this place grows every week. There is just something about that ocean ;) Kiera embraced in all of the attention! I miss her calling their names every morning. We did so many fun things as a family. We even took a two day trip to Palm Springs. Even if all of the activities were fun my favorite thing simply is just walking with my family, snuggling in the girls room for a chit chat session, teasing the brothers about girls, prayer/ family gatherings right before bed and battling my siblings in determination to win our newest board game. Also I really really loved being able to see them love my children and admire them the way I do.

So how is it with two?

I am still in awe that I am a MOTHER of two. I still haven't gotten over the fact that I am married. I am just so grateful that I am at this stage and have the blessing of them. They have changed my life and have added purpose to a different degree. Kiera has adapted well to her little sister but is jealous at times and I have to work hard at giving her individual attention. Which Liana has made it easy to do since she is such a good baby! I was nervous that she would be hard since Kiera was easy! But I guess Heavenly Father wants to encourage me to have more ;). haha Liana is growing fast! At her 5 week check up she was already 10 pds. She can focus her eyes on me now and has started to smile! Which just melts my heart. Kiera attempts to make her smile too. Kiera is such a mommy at heart too. When Liana cries she tries to comfort her I even heard her tell her not to worry since mommy is coming. She has started to last 6 hours without a feeding at night which is nice :D. I hope this pattern continues to 8. What has made the biggest difference to this adjustment is of course my amazing husband who has been helping out a lot. It's so sweet watching him get up in the middle of the night if Kiera has a nightmare or something odd. It's also incredibly helpful when he takes the kids in the morning if they wake up before 8! There are diff moments when I am just too tired to handle them. Usually at 5pm when both are crying at the same time. I have realized that breathing helps and letting one cry for a while is really no big deal. Oh how I love our growing family :D

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Liana Chen ( lee-ah-na)

Jonathan's story of the delivery :

So to keep everybody in the loop. She was born around 9:19 AM this morning. She was 7 lbs 4 ounces. and 19 inches tall. I will post up pictures later today.

Chelsea was feeling contractions around 10:00 PM last night and then we went into the hospital around 1:00 AM.We were lucky that we could get the attention really quickly as we are one of the only deliveries this morning. When we were admitted we were already 5 CM dilated. Chelsea progressed pretty quickly and then slowed down. They had to give her some pitocin in order to get her contractions and other stuff going more consistently and at the same level. The doctor came and did a regular checkup on her thinking that she wasn't close. After Chelsea described her pushing feelings and checking that she was dilated to 10 CM they started the delivery processes. Pushing lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes, maybe quicker. It was noticeably faster than Kiera's delivery.

The baby was delivered very smoothly and peacefully. She did not scream or cry very much and she was a happy baby from the get go. Hopefully that stays like that through her whole life. We will send out more information later and maybe any details I left out. We are very excited for all of you guys to see her. When Kiera first saw her, she was kind of scared and didn't know how to react. She just stared and touched her hands slightly. She was also very happy that Liana gave her a small gift. We'll give you more updates as time goes. if you have any questions please ask away just incase we forget something.

p.s.- Thanks Reuben for watching Kiera and taking Casey to the airport.

Update from Chelsea :

We are doing well and are loving sleepy new born Liana. She is so easy so far! Very easy going and doesn't mind not being held all the time and falls asleep on her own and does not have awake time at night! But it's only first week! So who knows I am sure it will change soon. I just feel so blessed of the gift we have been given. Having a second child has made me realize that you just increase your capacity to love. I love my hubby even more after watching him step up and take care of Kiera. I love Kiera even more after watching her love Liana and giving me time with her. She really seems so much older now! I now also have a new love for this brand new angel. Liana is so sweet and I just stay up at night sometimes just to watch her. Having a new born at Christmas gives this whole season a new meaning. Really the best Christmas gift ever. I also feel so humbled being on the receiving end of so much support and love. From my family from afar and close by. From friends all over.

Love you guys!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Oh the little joys in life

We celebrated Jonathan’s bday last week and had so much fun. He turned 28! We are getting old ;) . On the actual day I made him a card that he could open a section every couple of hours to receive a little surprise and a note :D. I enjoyed writing it. There is something about writing your feelings about your husband down that is different than just telling him in person. I am again reminded to what a wonderful man I married. We celebrated by going out to eat with his family at one of our favorite restaurants. Lucilles southern bbq. It was yummy! The real big outing was the next day. Since Jonathan’s family has lots of bdays in Oct. We all celebrated by going to the magic castle. It’s a neat place up in Hollywood. Reminded me a lot of hogwarts but much smaller of course. A place where magicians can learn how to perform magic! You can only go to this place if a member of the magic castle invites you. We had dinner followed by a tour around the castle. Where magicians perform magic shows at different parts of the castle. The magic was really mind blowing. Us human beings are just so talented ;).

Besides this neat event we have had our normal wonderful routine and Kiera is just getting so big. For the first time ever in her life she said goodbye to me and did not cry when her babysitter came! She has been so much better at saying bye. We are proud of her being more independent but will miss her clinginess too I’m sure. She has really been picking up more and more chinese words. Which is neat to see. She is also getting good at saying her please and thank yous without me prompting her. She is having a hard time with thinking everything is hers though. Sharing is not as easy as before ;) but she’ll just have to learn. Another exciting thing is that I have discovered the container store and will not divulge how much I have spent. BUT my car looks so much better with these amazing hooks for my bag and a trash bag. Our kitchen is starting to become more organized too and so is my bathroom counter! Oh the little joys in life :D.

Another huge plus this weekend is that we had my dad over! He transited in L.A so we were able to see him for a little bit. Kiera just loved grandpa and grandpa was nice to play with her even after a very very long flight!