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she got me wrapped around her lil finger…

January 29, 2008~ Etc.

So we just got our new camera and we’ve been in LOVE with it! Pictures are worth a thousand words and even though we’re not pro’s yet, we can definetly tell a difference in picture quality! These are some pictures that we took recently of Adalie being a good little princess!
After MANY MANY MANY sleepless nights (Sarah more than me, but I was affected too!) we decided to try to let her “cry it out.” She LOVES to be held and usually falls asleep everynight laying on my chest. I don’t know how that would be comfortable as it’s hard as a rock???…but she sleeps a lot longer sleeping on my chest than by herself. As SOON as I put her down, she’s up within an hour if that. She seems especially good at waking up 1, 2, 3, and even 4 times a night on Saturday night when she KNOWS we have church at 9am Sunday. So after repeated attempts and various “sleeping techniques/tips/routines” that we’ve tried, we tried the infamous yet excruciatiating “cry it out” method. So at 10:14pm I layed her down when she was semi asleep. I went downstairs and Sarah and I used our quiet voices to talk. She would wimper her cute “do you hear me” wimper and then suck her fist again. Her cries got progressivly louder and despite all attempts to ignore it, it tore my heart up to hear her cry. At 10:55, I couldn’t take it anymore and went and picked her up and held her close to me…she cried even louder as I picked her up as if to say “I can’t believe you just left me there this WHOLE time!!!” She calmed down and was out within 5 minutes and slept on my chest the whole night…shesh, I’m weak sauce! I wish she’d sleep like she does in the pictures!!!
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I’m So Glad When Daddy Comes Home…

January 23, 2008~ Etc.

 

I’m so glad when daddy comes home,
Glad as I can be;
Clap my hands and shout for joy,
Then climb upon his knee,
Put my arms around his neck,
Hug him tight like this,
Pat his cheeks, then give him what?
A great big kiss…
…man I hate working!
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Just about the cutest video EVER!!!

January 18, 2008~ Etc.

Okay…so even though the commentary isn’t the best, her smile and first giggle and first laugh is probably one of the CUTEST things caught on my camera to date! Yeah I love my girls! Boop…

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BFF…Boop Friends Forever

January 15, 2008~ Etc.

BFF…Hmmm those 3 letters denote serious commitment. I’ve know Brennen Lopaka Chosei Owan for almost a good 20 years of my life and after watching this AMAZING clip from Superbad (which I haven’t seen, except for trailers, but this clip is HILLARIOUS.) I decided to do some investigation to see if B was BFF, Best Friends Forever material, or as we now call it Boop Friends Forever! So what entitles somone to be BFF status you may ask???
Best = Of the highest quality, excellence, or standing; in or to the highest degree; most fully
Friends = A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts; One who supports and sympathizes with
Forever = Continually; incessantly; always; without ever ending; eternally
So basically somone who is a high quality grade A eternal support system.
Boop means = To poke something cute in the nose.
Which now implies BFF means: Quality Grade A Eternally Cute Nose. So indeed…B does fit the BFF protocal: nice physique, eternal companion…I mean friend, and very cute nose. From barefoot elementry school, to riding on the bus everyday to thee prestigous private school of Kamehameha, down to the book studying years of college rooming together, over to the SYL days of the MTC and off to the FOB lands of Asia on our missions, back to our wives homefront of Utah and onto checkmark gym rats, through the fat and the skinny, B’s been there for me. In the best of times and the worst. I’ve laughed so hard with him, I about pee’d my tight pants and I’ve cried rivers of tears upon his broad shoulders. We own a plethora of the same clothes (and even cordinate on certain occasions without any prior pre-meditated planning), if I go to a good restraunt and tell him to order something there, he ends up LOVING it just as much as I do. If he watches a movie and raves about it, I know I’ll like it just as much (he’s the one that showed me this clip!) There is no secrets between us and basically, it’s a good thing that we’re both boys, otherwise as much as we love and adore our wives- Sarah and Amy would have some SERIOUS competition!!! Lets just hope Paka and Adalie have the same chemistry as their fathers… 😉
So since I’m declaring this Boop Friends Forever Day, go get your BFF, take em’ to the rooftops, boop em’ on the nose, and let EVERYONE know just how much you love em!!! Cause in the end…what would the world be without a lil Boop?
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Curse of the Chang….

January 14, 2008~ Etc.

This is one of my FAVORITEST pictures of Adi. She’s getting so big and I can’t believe how much she’s growing each day. I weighed her on the scale last nite and she was 12.1 lbs (she was 5 lbs 13 oz. when we took her home from the hospital.) We went shopping for new clothes for her on Saturday. Sarah always gets mad at me when we go shopping because I always get WAY excited about buying new clothes for her, but as soon as I see how much baby clothes are, even on sale, when they just wear them for a couple months tops…I freak out and get all grumpy. Besides that I never know what size to get her. I try to get her bigger sizes, so she can wear them longer, but then their just not as cute when their baggy you know? I need INSTANT gratification. I love to shop, but I guess the true Chinese Chang in my has come out and its hard for me to spend money on clothes that she wears for not even a couple of months. Typical in-store convo from me and Sarah:

Sarah: “Oh this is CUTE!”
Jay monotone: “How much is it?”
Sarah: “It’s on sale for $8, normal price is $16.50”
Jay being Chang: “$8??? Ugg, what size is it? A sale is not always a sale Sarah!”
Sarah: “6-12 months”
Jay rationalizing: “She’s not even 3 months yet!”
Sarah: “But she’ll be able to wear it longer…”
Jay grumpy: “Whatever…get whatever you want…”

But I will say that my wife does pick the cutest clothes for Adi and I always feel bad for how hard of a time I give her. And then to top it off, she always goes and takes all these cute pics and I can’t help but always want my daughter to look like a Baby GAP model! Curse of the Chang…what is this daddy to do???

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Hello! My name is Sarah and I am so happy to have you here! Here you'll find DIY sewing, DIY home building & decor, honest and vulnerable posts of motherhood and snippets of my family. We are building our dream house and will update you regularly on our whole process from start to finish and I am also starting a mother-daughter sewing series. So I hope you stay awhile!

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