Benj 25th Birthday

Benji turned 25 on April 12th, I know this post is a little late but since both of us are going to school full time and have one active baby. Blogs are just not the most important thing for us right now. We had a pretty good day, we worked out and relaxed and since it was our "cheat meal day" I cooked for him all day long whatever he wanted. I ended up making him homemade chicken pockets, with broiled asparagus, and strawberry ginger-ale. I went all out for his cake Benj is a big fan of red velvet, he has asked for it every year since we got married we even had it for our wedding cake. So I made him a two layer velvet cake. I was so happy he had a good day. I really do love this boy so much.

some new changes

This post is really just for me. I have wanted to make some big changes in my life. Spiritually and physically which I have started to do. Slowly, but surely. One thing has been that I want to make sure we do FHE, read scriptures and pray together every night as a family I'm sure that this isnt a big deal to most of you but we have been struggling with it for a while. I just want to become better. WE have consistantly been having FHE every week but praying is hard as well as reading scriptures but we are working on it. Another thing I have been working on is losing this extra baby fat that i have from my pregnancy. Being twenty pounds more than when I married Benj and had the baby has been kind of a big deal for me. I hate the way I look and feel. P.S I am still wearing pregnancy jeans because no other jean fits. All of my jeans are 1 and 2's and I just gained forty five pounds during my pregnancy. That's a lot. Anyways I have been working hard at eating right ( we started the ABS diet this week) and working out six days a week. Wis me luck. I know most of you look at this blog to see pictures of Ashy so here are a couple...

Words Cant describe how much i love this little boy.

Parenting is hard, So very hard. But so so so worth it. As i sit here and type this I am watching my little boy grow up before my eyes. Im listening to his little cooeing his big gummy smile and his legs and arms flailing in the air. he truly is the biggest blessing in my life. I honestly couldnt imagine my life without him. He continues to amaze me every single day and my love for him grows bigger and bigger. Cant get enough of him!

One Month Stats

We got this cute boys one month stats today. He is healthy and strong. We sure do love this little one!

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Weight: 9 lbs 2oz which puts him in the 25th percentile 

Height: 20 1/2 inches long, kind of a short kid hasn't grown length wise since we brought him home from the hospital but this puts him in the 15th percentile

 

Bath time

We are starting to get a better understanding of this whole parenting thing. Who knew it would be so hard, and time consuming, okay okay I knew it would be time consuming just not so hard. We have been good at getting a good bedtime routine going. It took us a while but it works and so we stick to it faithfully every night. We start with feeding him, then getting things ready for bath time while one of us burps him. When the bath is ready we bathe him lotion him down and put his pjs on. By the way he is really starting to love bath time. We then swaddle him tight in a swaddle blanket feed him some more so he sleeps longer (by the way he is sleeping four and a half hours a night before waking up to eat and we love it!!)  and rock him to sleep. Works every time and we love it. The only problem is that he hates his crib, bassinet, anything thats not snuggling up to one of us which sometimes makes for a really long night. So if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this problem we are about willing to try anything. But we sure love this little boy and cant believe how much he has grown.
Here are some pictures of bath time.

Meeting the Bryce Family

Asher got to meet his Ama, Agong, and  Geoma's  ( not the real way to spell it, but I don't know Taiwanese Ping ying yet and so I'm spelling it the way you would say it in English ) this last week. They were here for about a week, and we loved having them here. This is the first grand baby for the Bryce side of the family, my family's 17th grand baby. So he was pretty spoiled this last week. Benj and I didn't really get to hold him a whole lot while they were here because they we all in awe of how cute he is. ( i have to agree). I was a little sad about not holding him a whole lot this last week but also grateful for all of the help we received while they were here. I even got to sleep in the same bed as Benj for more than a couple of hours at a time. It was really fun to have Benj's family here we miss them already and love when they come to visit! Here is a couple of photos of them while they were here. We also blessed Asher this last weekend so there will be a post about his one month stats and blessing picture to come soon....hopefully!

 Asher often sleeps like this no matter how much we try and straighten his body out

Couldn't Ask for a Better Father for my Son!

Benj is such a good husband! He truly does awesome with Asher, and makes me fall in love with him every single day. He gets up in the middle of the night to change diapers, or bottle feed him ( we are forced to bottle feed because Im just not making enough milk to keep his little tummy full) just so I can get an extra hour of sleep. I think sometimes he doesnt realize that I catch him talking to him in English and Chinese, or kissing him, or snuggling him. But I love those moments where I catch him loving up on him. We even sometimes fight over who gets to hold him. He is so great and watching him be such a good father makes me fall in love with him more and more everyday! I sure do love my boys!!