I know I have been promising this for a while. I really can't procrastinate anymore can I since I am checking into the hospital tomorrow morning!
Isaac has been doing great at preschool. He cried may be 2-3 times and that was it. After that, when we drop him off, he would be like "see ya". He gets so excited the mornings he is going to school. He runs around in the house and last week when he was all ready to go and daddy was still standing there, he started pushing daddy to the door! :) I almost regret signing up for the 2-days a week class. I am hoping there will somehow be an opening for the 3-days a week class next fall for him (its currently full)! I am still thinking its probably better for him not to go 5-days a week so he does get some break from the germs. He actually didn't get sick since starting preschool until he caught a cold very recently. He seems to be on the mend now.
Isaac is still quite speech delayed although he seems to understand us quite a bit when he wants to pay attention. He used to say more words but these days, he will only say "car" and "go". His two favorite things I guess. "Go" to him means going out and going to do something. He is an action packed boy and does not like to sit still!
We have also been struggling with eating issues. He started regressing a bit with his eating probably due to oral aversion/sensitivity and we started mouth-desensitizing therapy with him. It has helped a bit but its still a struggle. Its very strange though as he just LOVES white rice. He will eat all the white rice we give him but unfortunately, that is just not enough calories to fatten up our boy and definitely not enough nutrients. So we keep trying.
Isaac in general is so good natured. His high pain tolerance is a bit scary though as he will run and not pay attention to where he is going and fall or bang into things all the time. He will cry for a little and stop very quickly once we pick him up and comfort him. The only time he cries a lot is when we go to the doctor. He is just terrified of doctors and nurses now and will cry his heart out from the beginning to the end when we are at the doctor's office despite the fact that he didn't get any shots. We are wondering how we are going to deal with a full term baby with a full set of lungs because we have been so spoiled by Isaac who really doesn't cry and when he does, he is still pretty soft. And he cannot scream!
Isaac is also very determined, perhaps to the point of being stubborn. But we figured that's how he survived being born at 23 weeks and 6 months in
NICU so its hard to fault him in a way. :)
One interesting thing is Isaac is very easily moved by music. He LOVES happy music (like VeggieTale Songs). But sometimes we play Praise Baby DVDs and if the tune is a bit sad or melancholy, he will start crying. Real crying with real tears. I wonder if any of you out there have toddlers who react the same way to music?
Anyway, I am going to post a few pictures and try to get some sleep. We are checking into the hospital in the morning (for some reason, they want me to spend all day there) and then the C-section is scheduled on Thursday morning. Hopefully,
Jong will be the one updating everyone on Thursday!
We dressed Isaac up in his Korean outfit for international day at his preschool in mid March.
At home before going to school:
At school:
Isaac went to the
Ueno Zoo this morning (with his daddy and grandparents (my parents are here visiting)). This was his first ever visit to the zoo.
He apparently LOVED feeding the goats at the petting zoo!
Take care and God bless,
Sonia
I weighed Abigail tonight. She now weighs a whopping 3.75 kg (8 lbs 4 ounces) and she is only about 3.5 weeks old - plus she did lose a bit more than 10% of her birth weight in the hospital. Bear in mind she is a 100% breastfed baby right now - although she is getting quite a bit of her breast milk in bottles still so she is able to eat more and faster than breastfeeding directly from me. Basically she has been a little miss piggy since she came home. Anyway, I put her in the outfit I had intended to be her homecoming outfit but it was way too big when we were discharged. Now it fits quite nicely on her. Check out her double chin.
Isaac gets his picture taken too. Isaac had his 2 year actual age check up last Friday. He actually got onto the growth charts for his height and head circumference based on his ACTUAL age this time. Apparently, he grew almost 4 inches in 6 months. No wonder why he is getting into more and more trouble each day (as he is able to reach a lot more things) and his clothes don't fit anymore. However, he is still not on the chart for his weight. 
Isaac seems to be adjusting better to Abigail as time goes by. He still isn't saying much at all these days - he is still only really saying "car" and "go" (though he signs a lot more than actually speaking). But once in a while, we can hear him say "Abi" or "Abi - gail".
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