snapshots [january 2013]

[thanks to steve chee & hannah smith for their photographic contributions to this month's snapshots]

[cedar james at two]

funny bedtime prayers:

cedar: thank you, jesus, for mama, papa, oma-dahhling, opa.

amanda: and what about our baby?

cedar: thank you jesus for breakfast.

[photos by steve chee]

• re-enacting every fall & bump for us. "cedar fall like that" & then staying in his landing position until we see it.
• loves holding baby ezra sparrow all by himself. "mama, let go, please!"
• loves coloring & wants everyone to draw airplanes for him
• learned how to jump & now does it all the time
• had an airplane cake for his birthday & got a mr. potato head from mama & papa
• refers to daniel's mom, always, as "oma-dahhhh-ling"
• says the word "please" for way longer than necessary, "cedar have ____ pleeeeeeeeease?"
• has memorized bob dylan's forever young & likes to sing it before bed [see video below!]
• still sweet, gentle & cute as can be, but now interspersed with toddler tantrums & stubbornness

she's a keeper [ezra at four months]

while we weren't looking someone sneakily replaced our sleepy newborn with a bright-eyed, chubby, crazy smiling four-month old.

ezra sparrow at four months is an absolute delight.  she fills her time cooing for hours (quite loudly, actually!) every morning & has officially grown up & out of all her newborn clothes.  she spends a lot time smiling (her baby-experienced oma says she may be the smiliest baby she's ever seen) & begins every crazy-eyed, happy smile with her mouth wide open, like she's trying to swallow the whole-wide beautiful world.

she adamantly refuses bottles & pacifiers, which means she can never be away from her mama too long, but she happily sucks on pinky fingers to help her fall asleep.  she still loves to be swaddled at night & shrieks like a little girl at the slightest appearance of a wet diaper.  

this month, we love her smiles, we love how content she is, & we love that she's ours for keeps.

dancing ezra [three months]

happy three months, our sweet, smiley, sleepy sparrow!

ezra sparrow & cedar james at three months

[see a resemblance?]

snapshots [november 2012]

& all your 2,000 parts

& all your 2,000 parts [part 2]

just shy of two [cedar james]

its official, we couldn't be any more enamored with this guy than we are right now.

some memories of cedar james, just shy of two years old:

• learning more words every day.  a snapshot of his brain learning two languages: "one more, tiet" (a combination of asking for more in english & khmer)
• calling the new baby "eh-ha spa-wow", & greeting her (even when she's sleeping) with an energetic "HELLO baby!"
• loves playing ball, watching seasame street videos online (especially featuring grover), putting tops on things & everything in their proper place 
• on his own (& despite lots of correction!) has taken to calling us "amanda" & "daniel" (see video below)
• really enjoys drinking mama's coffee, especially if there is whipped cream on it
• most commonly heard phrases: "cedar do it!", "pick you [me] up, please", "what's baby do'in?", "whaa happened?, "cedar brush teeth, too"
• favorite foods: rice, noodles, goldfish crackers & anything fishy tasting or shrimp flavored (basically all khmer food)
• making us smile: "mama, cedar open mouth like turtle!" (while opening his mouth super wide after watching a friend's turtle swimming)

cedar is pretty stubborn about not talking for the camera, but we managed to get him answering a few questions here.