The Baker Family: 04/12

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Lilly at 1 month and 2 days....

So I'm 2 days late...it happens! Lilly is growing like a weed lately and getting nice and chubby too. Her arm and leg rolls have come in, she's out of newborn and into her 0-3 month onesies and she must be about 8 lbs by now. And her eyes are still blue too! Her hair has also grown quite a bit for one month and it sticks up now like Abby's used to. And oddly enough, her hair is curly when it's wet!

Abby's 3rd Birthday Party

We had a fun family birthday party for Abby once again this year. Last year we just returned from Taiwan and I didn't have time to plan a BIG party and this year, Lilly was only 3 weeks old so again, we didn't have time to invite all of her school friends. Luckily, family parties are the best and Abby had a blast so all in all, the party was another success!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Ode to Lilly

This post will be dedicated exclusively to Lilly pictures. She's sleeping in most of the pictures but then again, she IS a newborn. :) Enjoy!

Tong Ma Ma holding Lilly. She held me and Ruby when we were baby's too. :)

You can actually see her red-ish colored eye brows in this picture.

Abby never fell asleep in this but Lilly seems to like it.

Close up of my little baby.

Look at how little she looks on Bryce! We love our little peanut!

We'll admit it, Bryce and I spoil our girls and we love for them to fall asleep on us. It's a bad habit to form but it's worth the warm fuzzy feeling you get from bonding/canoodling. :)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Yep, it's happened....

...I had a second baby and I fell behind on blogging. A slew of new things have been going on in the Baker Family since my last post so I'm just going to cut to the chase and post pictures.

Our 7 year anniversary snuck up on us this year (my birthday, the birth of Lilly, then BAM - we both knew April 2nd had some significance!). So Bryce prepared one of my favorite meals. What you don't see is the prime NY strip, grilled garlic ciabatta and a bottle of our favorite wine, Turley. It was delicious and Abby loved it all too!

Abby loving up on Lilly. She is always wanting to help out and gets upset when we don't let her. We are in the beginning stages of watching them interact and it's pretty fascinating already.

I can either call this picture "Nostril Shot" since you can see clear up both my girl's noses or I can call it "Happy Daddy" since he's got his 2 girls in his arms and he's CLEARLY got this dad thing down with my hospital grade breast pump and hospital jug-O-water in the background.

A close up of Mei Mei at 1 week old.

Bryce and Abby dying Easter eggs!

Us trying to get a normal smile out of Abby. We take what we can get! :P

Ta-da! 16 marbled Easter eggs!

I took so many pictures of Abby like this in my lap so I had to do the same for Lilly.

Abby hunting for Easter eggs at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She had sooo much fun!

Can't hunt for Easter eggs without some bunny ears!

Our sad attempt at getting an Easter picture with both girls in their bunny ears. Hopefully Grandma got a better picture!

This is what an almost 3 year old looks like after crashing hard from a jelly bean and chocolate induced sugar rush. Nothing could have woken this girl up.

Lilly is so little! She's 2.5 weeks old here and snug as a bug in a rug lying on her daddy. :)

Can't take a picture of the little one without including the big one! :)

Look at my strong lemon squeezer go! She was helping me make homemade lemonade from the lemon's from my mom's backyard. Those lemons are AWESOME! I got a whole cup of juice from just 2 lemons!!

Profile shot of Lilly. She definitely looks more like Bryce. And people always tell me Abby looks like me so I guess we got one of each. :)

This was awesome. One night Abby MIRACULOUSLY fell asleep on the couch at 7:30 PM (3 hours earlier than usual) and Lilly was asleep too. Bryce and I couldn't get over how quiet the house was...

I took this picture after we gave Lilly a bath. I was trying to capture the color of her hair. It's definitely darker than Abby's but it's not black. It's some sort of hybrid medium/dark brown. Her eyes are still blue gray as of today too. I can't leave without posting her 2 week stats from a week ago.

19.5" tall (21%)

7 lbs 7 oz (24%)

34 cm head circumference (10%)

Lilly's birth height was recorded at 19.5" but she was actually only 18.75". It took Lilly 2 weeks to get close to Abby's birth size. Only Abby had a MUCH bigger head. Lilly's our little peanut!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Life as a family of four

I have fallen in love all over again with our newest little baby girl. I'm absolutely over the moon for Lilly. She's only 5 days old and she couldn't be sweeter, cuter or happier. On the rare occasion that she cries, it's just a sweet, dainty, gentle cry. She left the hospital at 6 lb 2 oz and has already gained 10 oz as of today. On our last day at the hospital, we were told she was borderline jaundice and to take her to see her pediatrician the next morning. Since then, we went to the doctor again today and she's all better now! Her skin has gotten a lot less splotchy and less yellow. I still can't believe we had such a tiny baby. Abby was never this little. And it turns out, Lilly is NOT 19.5" long, she's only 18.75". That sounds more like it. They really measure at random in the hospitals. In hindsight, I really picked the wrong xiao ming (nickname) for Abby...oh well. :)

So Bryce and I originally thought Lilly looked like a little Abby but even in the last few days, we realized how wrong we are. I mean, they definitely have similarities and look unmistakably like sisters but that's about it. Whenever people meet Ruby and me and find out we're twins, and after they get over the initial shock of how different we look, we just explain that everything about me that looks like our dad, Ruby looks like our mom and vice versa. And now I can say the same for my 2 girls. Abby has my Asian face with her Daddy's white skin and body structure whereas Lilly has Bryce's face with my Asian skin (hence the borderline jaundice) and my body structure. She definitely has my fingers and toes which I get from my dad. I know Lilly's going to change a lot in the next few months so we're really looking forward to watching her change and grow!

Now onto the pictures. Abby LOVES to hold, kiss and feed her mei mei. She's been such a great little helper. Of course, she's had her jealous moments but that's to be expected and it's not nearly as bad as I had anticipated. Here are a few pictures from the last 5 days.