Happy Father's Day!

Chickpea's One Month Report Card

Chickpea just had his one month checkup Monday of last week, exactly one month from his date of birth. Although healthy and measuring proportionally, Chickpea seems to measure much smaller than we expected. Apparently, the male growth chart is different from the female growth chart, and unlike his older sister who constantly measured in the top percentiles in the female charts especially in height in the infant stage, Chickpea weighed in at 8lb 5oz (10-25 percentile) and measured 21" in height (25 percentile) compared to other infants in the male growth chart. Looking back, it appears that Sweetpea actually weighed more than Chickpea at one month... But to be fair, her appointments were always a week later and he was also born a week earlier, so that may make some difference. Regardless, Chickpea is growing well and is on track with his developmental progress.

Happy Birthday to Our Little Sweetpea!

Sweetpea turns two today. Because she likes animals, we celebrated by throwing her a farm party. They say first birthdays are more for the parents having survived the first year with their little one. This year is especially different since Sweetpea is more aware of everything and can understand so much more, including the concept of birthdays. She was actually pretty excited about her birthday and had been singing one of her favorite songs "happy birthday" constantly whenever she saw something that reminded her of birthdays (cake, balloons, candles, bday hat, etc.); she also enjoys "reading" her one year birthday luau photobook we created. "Happy Bir-day dear Calolyn, happy bird-ay to you. yay!"