Lily & Leo

Happy 8 months Lily!!!  It seems like these months are just going by faster and faster!  Lily weighs about 17.4 pounds and is about 26 inches tall.  She still sleeps very well at night and is currently wearing size 3 diapers.  Just 2 weeks ago we finally had to use our own diapers that we bought rather than using diapers from our baby shower!  We still have two packs of size 4 diapers from the baby shower, isn’t it amazing how many diapers we received?  We are so grateful, that saved us a lot of money!!  She has two bottom teeth that’s grown evenly now, and she has one top middle tooth that’s starting to grow now as well.  She likes to chew on her finger in the side of her mouth these days, and she’s starting to learn to want to be held by us.  Uh oh…haha.  She is slowly starting to crawl, still in the early beginning stages of crawling though.  She sits really well and likes stand while supported a lot as well.  She’s really active and bouncy, and loves to explore.

For these photos, I wanted to use cherry blossoms for Tết, and so my mother in law’s neighbor conveniently has a big cherry blossom tree and they offered her to have some branches for decoration for Tết!  So of course, she got some for me, and I’m so grateful!  They look so beautiful and way better than the fake ones I was originally going to use!  You can’t tell in this photo but you will in my Tết update post! Anyways, I went to Phuoc Loc Tho back in December to buy Lily an áo dài [it came with a khăn đóng (headgear) too!], and the smallest size they had were for 1 year olds.  It still looks great overall, and she’s so cute, my little Vietnamese công chúa(princess)!  She’s all ready for the new year, can’t wait to celebrate this weekend!

[UPDATE: We had a wonderful time celebrating Lily’s first Tết this year!  We went to Escondido Saturday morning to spend time with Khoa’s grandmother on his dad side, and then went to spend the rest of the evening and night with Khoa’s grandparents on his mom side in Fountain Valley.  It’s always wonderful to see all the family, and we get to share the love and light that Lily brings with everyone as well.  We went to Fontana Sunday morning and got to be with my family there and eat lots of yummy Tết food!  Lily got showered with so much love and lì xì!  She loves to examine the shiny pretty envelopes in her hand, flip it back and forth, and then chomp on it!!  hahaha!  She’s so cute when she does it and doesn’t even know what’s inside!  So cute!  I just love how easy going she is with everyone and everything, and I love the fact that I can dress her up and she’ll be just fine with it (for now…).  She also got featured on instagram and facebook on Babystylista’s page for her áo dài photo as a fashionista baby as well!  You can see her on their facebook page here!  I’m such a proud mama!!!!  For more photos from Lily’s first Tết, click here!]

 We took Lily to go play at the park for the first time last week and we found out that she likes the slides, but hates the swings.  She likes to look at all the new surroundings and take in her environment.  She is super curious and is constantly looking all around her at the bright new colors and objects.  Take a look at her going down the slide with daddy (sorry for the initial camera shakes)!!  She gets super excited at the end and wants to go again!

Also, look who has her very first passport, all ready to go to Canada to visit her aunty Jennifer and uncle Andy in April!  Is that not the cutest passport picture ever?  We were quite excited and surprised that we were able to get such a nice photo for her passport!