Kian's First Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! Here is a picture of Kian before his food coma (Does tryptophan transfer to breastmilk?)! Poor little guy is suffering from his first cold, but he managed to smile a little bit for mama holding the camera. Next year he'll get to truly enjoy Grandpa Matt's delicious brownsugar-walnut yams (perhaps without the walnuts). Thanks Auntie Teresa and Uncle Devin for the cute bib!

Photos Taken During the Past Week

Kian wears his "Going Places" onesie from his friends on the east coast, the Apfaltrer twins. The only thing is that he is seated here in a swing and isn't really "going places" -- just back and forth!


Kian takes a nap every couple of hours during the day. Eating often and observing his surroundings while being carried around is exhausting, apparently!

Kian loves giving his dad smiles. Here we are resting on a bench during a walk at the beautiful Lincoln Park in West Seattle on a sunny autumn day.

All weekend, we celebrated Althea's achievement of becoming a National Board Certified Teacher! In the picture above, we are celebrating at the home of good friends, and in the picture below we drank more champagne the following night, but this time with family at our own home. Cheers!

3 Months Old!

Kian is 3 months old today! We had an early morning photo shoot with his bear and Boppy so that you can see how much he's growth since last month. He's wearing just a onesie so that you can even check out the difference in plumpness of his arms and legs! Check out his 2-Month-Old blog entry to compare. Notice that his 1-month-old photo shows that Kian is barely bigger than this teddy bear!

He now weighs a whopping 15 lb., 6 oz.! How has he grown in other ways during the past month? Kian is smiling, cooing, and babbling so much more now and lets us know what he wants in his own way. He gives one or two loud calls/squawks when he wants to be picked up, and when we're carrying him around, he'll kick his legs when he's tired of us standing in the same place. "Move on and show me more!" Kian is just beginning to grab things that we put in front of them, but he doesn't hold on for long. A soft panda rattle, for instance, is brought towards his mouth and then falls to the side after a few attempts to gnaw on its ear or nose. He is now an expert at sucking his left thumb, which seems to help him fall asleep. Within the past month, Kian has shown interest in listening to us read him stories and actually focuses on the pictures on the page now. Some of his favorite books are "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?" and "Haiku Baby".

I finally took the time to figure out how to post a video to this blog, but it ended up being sideways, without sound, and accompanied by the message"currently unavailable at this time" upon pressing 'play'! Guess I have more to learn! I will try again later to post the video taken today of Kian studying the socks on his feet for the first time. For now, here the still image of the scene:

Happy Halloween!

Kian didn't have a great time getting into this jack-o-lantern costume, but he stopped fussing for a few minutes so that we could snap this shot!

Happy Halloween from the Chow/Liddell Household!

Getting in the Halloween Spirit

Kian dressed up in his bat t-shirt (one of many cute hand-me-downs from his cousins) so that he could get in the halloween spirit for a couple of pumpkin carving parties this past weekend.

Pictured here from oldest to youngest babies are: Lilly, Kian, Elliot, and twins Ella & Nate (with mommies Chris, Althea, Megan and Karin). The four on the right were born within 16 days of each other!

We never did get Kian into that jack-o-lantern costume that he's sitting on. But hopefully we will on Halloween night when we dress him up to give out candy to neighborhood trick-or-treaters.

Tummy Time

This photo of Kian on his "Boppy 'Entertain Me' Playgym" (thanks Leanne & David!) was taken a couple weeks ago on October 14th.

2 Month Well-Baby Visit

At Kian's 2-month "well-baby doctor's appointment" today, we found out that my estimation/ prediction of his weight (14 lb., 3 oz.) was pretty much accurate! His current weight is 14 lb., 2.5 oz., which puts him in the 93rd percentile!! He is in the 60th% for height at 23 1/4 inches, and 40th% for head circumference. Kian received a few immunization shots, which was no fun at all. Here he is in his baby papasan chair, cashed out from the good cry. Hopefully that infant Tylenol is kicking in.

Yesterday was a happier day. Here are photos from brunch at AmaAma and trying out the new "Babyhawk" carrier....

More photos from Oct. 10th, when he turned 2 months old....