culmination??

posted by jenny

margot had a preschool culmination ceremony wednesday, which
is kind of like a graduation, but you know, not.

TheKids

at a certain point, she saw me and wouldn't sit in the front unless i sat with her.

TheKids

lola got a certificate for being such an involved part of the preschool. she volunteers
there once a week.

Certified

eloise and margot weren't huge fans of the ceremony, but they were fans
of the food.

Eloise&Margot

hazel and bill came to help us celebrate. thanks for being such a big
part of our family!

Culmination

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week of insanity

posted by jenny

omg. i cannot believe the insanity of last week. i'm still recovering…

sunday was easter and i didn't take any pictures because i'm an
asshole. we went to vonny + mario's to eat and have an easter egg
hunt. martin had been training margot all week as last year she
only got the one egg and was happy with that. this, apparently, was
not acceptable to my dear husband.

i do have pictures of  special eggs martin's grandmother's caretaker
MADE for margot. she takes care of her everyday for a few hours and
they are so in love with each other.

Eggs

NanaMargot

monday we went to westminster to have vietnamese food
and meet up with my UC Riverside friend christine, her husband
brian and their 6 month old rea (pronounced ray).

also there was my UCLA friend who you see here often, karen and oooju.

my first time in westminster did not disappoint!

ChristineIggy

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DadsAndGirls

BrianReaOooju

tuesday we visited another UC Riverside friend and former
roommate johanna, her husband brad (another UCR friend), and
their kids, annika and nico. hazel and lucas joined in the fun too as
brad and hazel have an old scrabble rivalry.

we went to the long beach aquarium. margot loves it there and if it
was closer, we might have considered getting an annual pass.

being with brad and johanna makes me feel like a fucking midget.

AquariumGroup

annika loved margot so much that she decided she wants a baby sister.

AnnikaMargot

LucasMargot

HazelIggy

FeedingLorikeet

on our way home, this is the best shot i could get while driving.

AquariumAftermath

wednesday martin and i went to the accountant's office, but
margot went to bob baker marionettes with lola! their first outing alone
together besides church.

her cousin's aj, lea, kaitlyn and emma came along too.

LolaMargot

MarionetteGroup

Marionette

TheGirls

margot got really scared during the show, but really, who can

blame her. it's dark and there are some scary looking puppets.

that night we hung out with regulars bill and jessica as well as
comic nerds derek kirk kim and jason shiga.

JasonDerekIggy

jessica decided to finally touch baby uggo. it's no secret
that margot is still her favorite. iggy will forever have issues
with this. thanks jessica!

JessicaIggy

bill made us steaks the size of my head.

MargotSteak

thursday lucas, hazel, margot, iggy and i went to the LA zoo.
hazel and i usually don't see each other that often, so to see her twice
in one week is awesome!

lucas loves iggy so much that he always says he wants to take
him home.

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friday we were supposed to have a playdate with grace and
christian, but we were so exhausted from the week that we stayed
home and took long naps instead.

saturday was john's opening at GR2. first we ran into mason
at curry house.

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then to the show…

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where we also saw ina and mars, a fellow koripino/filirean baby.

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whew, i'm exhausted just writing about it. i'm living up this maternity
leave to the fullest…

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flood of christian (and jewish) h20

Posted by Jenny

a while back, we went to the noah's ark exhibit at the skirball center
with hazel, lucas, heseon, dylan and some of lucas' other playmates.

LucasChasesMargot

dylan+margot

it was a really cool place, full of animals made out of found objects,
and activities. all margot wanted to do was suck her thumb.

Thumbsucker

there's one room where it's basically like a jungle gym. you first have to
climb up this crazy rope ladder to the second floor and then crawl through
holes that are way too small for adults.

SmallHole

at one point heseon said it was like we were survivors of a plane crash
as we formed a parent line and passed the babies down toward the exit.

heseon+dylan

 

lucas+heseon

i'd highly suggest any parent with a child that is at least crawling to go
check it out!! fun for adults and children (but mostly children).

mirror

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Oktoberfest 2008

oktoberfest with hazel, robert, lucas, helen (hazel's sister) and
michael (hazel's brother-not pictured)

oktoberfest

lucas

OKTOBERFEST_2008

jen_margot

i've also uploaded some videos but won't post them.

hazel risked the wrath of robert and bought margot lucas' favorite book
of all time. she must really love margot.

Goodnight-moon

we had to leave a little early because margot was soooo tired, way
too much stuff to look at.

trumpet

and too much to do.

you can tell the progression of the day by her hair. she started off with
2 pigtails. then suffered a beating from lucas which brought her down to
one, and then she was punchy from being exhausted and pulled that out.
she eventually passed out in the car on the ride home.

oktoberfest_aftermath

and then martin baked me cookies.

cookies

best day EVER!

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busy weekend, 1 outfit

i'm SO tired from this weekend!

saturday was lunch at delicieuse with gregory, emily, heseon,
john, dylan, hazel and lucas. phew.

E+G+babes

had the most delicious goat cheese sandwich and ice cream, and
margot had her first taste of a non-pureed food, broccoli.
*photos courtesy of gregory

she looks like she doesn't like it, but i swear, she kept eating it!

hung out at dylan's for a while.

then it was off to manhattan beach where margot felt sand and
salt water for the first time. not so into it.

WTF

beach_babe

but she enjoyed hanging out on the sand with finger lickin' dylan.

finger_sucker

*photos courtesy of emily

alright!

mansei!

don't worry, she has plenty of sunblock on and it's the 4 o'clock sun. plus
she wasn't in the sun for long.
more pics here and here.

on sunday was kiki's birthday party

kiki

lucia, angelyn and margot had a load of fun playing at the water tables.

angelyn_lucia

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all this and she still only napped for 20 minutes.

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as you can see, we took a matching top and bottom set (from kumquat
of course) and was able to  make it last 2 days, wearing bottoms on saturday
and top on sunday. well aren't we clever?

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baba lucas

hazel+robert bought a place in rolling hills estates (oh-la-la). we went
to go visit and since they have a kid, thought we'd bring ours as well.

Lucas_Margot2

there's a lot of strange things going on in this picture. i.e. why
does margot only have one sock?

Lucas_Margot

then the kims (hazel's parents) came over to bring us prosciutto sandwiches from paris
in las vegas and to finally meet margot. she has a little bit of stranger anxiety
these days but she finally warmed up.

John_Margot

Carol_Margot

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playdate

hazel, karen and i got together with the kids and had a
playdate. i've known hazel since the third grade when she
was the most popular girl in school and i was the biggest
nerd. she'd write me notes to tell me to stop hanging out
with her since i was bringing her popularity down.

i met karen at ucla in the mid 1990s when i accosted her
on the bus because she reminded me of the ally sheedy
character in breakfast club and i wanted to be her friend.

fast forward 10 years later and we're still friends and now
we all have kids within 13 months of each other.

playdate

it's hard getting babies to take pictures together.

2dudes_n_1girl

margot_n_oooju

lucas_n_margot

CoorsLight

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luckiest girl x 2

hazel + margot

this is my BFF in the whole wide world, hazel. margot is
only a few days old in this picture! as many of you know,
i'll be returning to work on monday (sigh).

hazel was there to help me give birth to margot and took/
takes my 5 phone calls a day to answer any and all questions
about eveything.

now she's offered to come help martin his first week alone
with margot. she's even willing to miss lucas' beloved music
class! also, she said if margot still won't take the bottle,
she'd feed from her tap! if that's not love i don't know what is.

margot and i are very lucky to have her in our life.

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doula

i've asked hazel to be there during labor and delivery, which i believe is
a great relief to martin. he's been bugging me about it for a long time, but
with lucas and all, i thought it would be just too difficult. but after taking
these classes it became apparent to me that i would indeed benefit from
having another female that i'm comfortable with be with me. i was considering
a doula, but asked hazel on the off chance that she'd be interested. and
she is! yay.

i thought just me and martin could handle it, but i worry about martin getting
tired and needing a break and i worry that i'll just be mean to him because
he'll have no idea what to do to help me. and it's been shown that women who
labor with their partners and another female are much happier with their
experience. so there you go…

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