mommy hacks...

...well, truth be told, this one came from daddy. taco is one wiggly babe and hates getting dressed. presnap the legs of the sleeper before you put him in and that only leaves 4 snaps to wrestle with.

... stage 3 baby foods are bizarro to me. they're lasagna or thanksgiving dinner pureed and bottled together. taco seems just as happy w/ today's offering of ground beef and lentils. no cuisinart needed and both were the right consistency for his 9 mth old maw.

...some things ARE cheaper at whole foods. more on that later.

toaster tongs and lemon squeezers...

... daycare dilemmas. we found out our daycare's lease is up in may and we're trying not to panic. hopefully i don't have to go back to fulltime just to keep him there. or even worse, that the center loses their lease. when we were looking for daycare, we never bothered to look at the potential redevelopment value of the property. ugh.

...20th percentile. that's where taco came in on the growth charts. a web search of "filipino growth charts" came up nil but there were charts for chinese, thai and vietnamese babes. taco came in between 60 and 80th percentile on those charts. its all relative.

... daddy types had this to share. personalized baby announcements from a rice company where they put your newborns photo on a bag of rice that matches your babe's birth weight. jala1 and i are hoping this catches on in the US. that babe kind of looks like taco.




...almost forgot to mention a couple of my '07 highlights. i never knew we needed these until we had them.

taco and lizzie

365 days ago part 2

...365 days ago taco's aunt nik bequeathed his name to him. it was a very good year. we're hoping '08 is just as fun.