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| Tired Dad |
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| Uncle DJ |
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| Great Uncle Bob |
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Aunty Lex
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| Aunty Betsy |
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| Where I spend my days...on the couch. |
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| Uncle Mark |
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| Odavia meets Lance |
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| The Ehmann Family |
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| The wedding we missed last weekend |
All agree that Lancito is exceptional. He's already holding his head up, he tracks with his eyes, he latched right on to the breast and he has great taste in music. Our first week home has been filled with visitors. Yolanda and Daniel came over on Sunday morning and saved us. They held LJ, made us breakfast and hung out. It was just what we needed. We've pretty much had a steady stream of guests since then. There isn't all that much to do, he's either sleeping or eating, but everyone seems to enjoy themselves.
Grandma and Grandpa are AMAZING! They shop, cook, clean up and wait on sore mama every day. We look forward to day break when we can pass Little Lance off and take showers and breath a bit. Grandma and Lolo (grandpa in Tagalog) have found that Lance loves being sung to. His favorite song so far is "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" and he is partial to other gospel songs. We spend a lot of time singing, sometimes we're lucky enough to be accompanied by Drew on the guitar or Yuki on the piano.
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| Dan and Yolanda save us. |
I'm in charge of food in--constant breast feeding--so it seems fair that Leighton is in charge of food out--he has quickly become a champion diaper changer. There has only been one pee spraying and there was one late night incident featuring a backwards diaper versus one of Lance's powerful poop discharges--the poop won.
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| Anniversary Dinner |
Grandma and Grandpa celebrated 37 years being married on June 15th. Karl celebrated his 34th bithday on June 16th. Leighton and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on June 20th. Susie made delicious meals for each event.
LJ got his first dinner party on June 25th thanks to Dan and Yolanda. They made an amazing and HUGE paella for a small crowd of 15 Hillegass House Homies. Lance got passed around and was sufficiently cute to get everyone gushing. Apparently we wiped him out too because he slept wonderfully that night.
In sadder news, my grandma, Barbara Lance Batten died Monday morning. She was an extremely smart woman, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in the 40s, a time when most women were not going to university. She also raised four boys (all over 10 pounds at birth, I might add) from the stories I've heard, her life was not easy. She died quickly and left us with a beautiful birth, a boy to carry on the Lance family name.
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| Tupac onesie from Neha |
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| Aunty Cha practices having 2 babies! |
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| Lance-a-little and Lance-a-lot |
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| Mark, Miguel and Yolanda admire Lance |
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| Michelle comes to visit |
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| Grandma sings him to sleep |
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| LJ Fan club |
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I'm in charge of food in--constant breast feeding--so it seems fair that Leighton is in charge of food out--he has quickly become a champion diaper changer. There has only been one pee spraying and there was one late night incident featuring a backwards diaper versus one of Lance's powerful poop discharges--the poop won. 
We are actually descended from Ilocanos and not Tagalog. Its normally assumed that its just the national language but it also represents the ethnic group as well as their respective dialect.
ReplyDeleteSo for Grandma in Ilocano its:
Apong Baket (the 'e' is like silent so its pronounced like bacut)
and grandpa:
Apong Lakay
:) however we do have cousins in Manila that dont speak ilocano and only tagalog... and of course only mommy and daddy speak anything on this end... LOL
for Leighton:
marag sakan ni auntie Anita. Aginana kan patenayon a ragsak. :_(