Adventures in parenting and in life!
Posted in family life, keilani and malia, potty training on Jul 7th, 2008
OK, I admit it… like many Americans these days in search of “better faster cheaper” I fell prey to a book (supported by Dr. Phil, though!) that proclaims to “Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day!”. Yes, my first name is Susan, spelled S-U-C-K-E-R.
Honestly, though, reading about this approach it [...]
Posted in keilani and malia on Jul 4th, 2008
So, like Spinal Tap, I must need to turn it up to ELEVEN posts to get to another page. And you thought this blog was just about my adventures in parenting!
Yesterday was a typical San Francisco summer day, freezing cold, foggy, and downright depressing. So what is a mommy to do with two [...]
Posted in keilani and malia on Jul 4th, 2008
I am now “Mommy”, and sometimes even “Mom”. I miss the days of “Mama”, and I’m not quite sure when “Mama” turned into “Mommy”! Keilani’s name has also evolved…. her best friend Sebastian (also 2) calls her “Lani”, and she calls herself “Kani” or more recently “Kei-nani”. She calls her sister [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jul 3rd, 2008
Today we had my 5-month-old’s 4-month checkup (don’t ask) and found out that she is one long lean baby! She is in the 90th percentile for her height for 5-month-olds, 25th percentile for weight, and 50th percentile for “head circumference”. We’ve never taken much stock in these “averages” or growth percentiles (and still [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jun 30th, 2008
This may not be very monumental for those of you without children, but to my husband and I this is a MAJOR achievement for our two-year-old! I cannot believe it is not listed on all of those “developmental milestone” charts! We have been waiting for MONTHS to hear anything in the affirmative from [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jun 16th, 2008
Yesterday (Father’s Day) we took the girls down to Happy Hollow, a fairytale land in San Jose. We started the day feeling a little bit gloomy and morose as it was so foggy and cold and depressing in SF, but once we decided to head out of the fog our day blossomed before us [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jun 16th, 2008
My almost 28-month-old daughter Keilani has a favorite song, “Rock-a-Kani” (sung to the old favorite “Rockabye Baby”) that she likes me to sing for her whenever she needs some comfort:
Rockabye Kani,
In the blue chair,
When the wind blows,
It messes up our hair,
When the wind stops,
We laugh and we sing,
And we go to the playground,
To swing on [...]
