CoCo & BoBo Meet Again & Other Adventures

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It was another fun-packed weekend!  We went to Aunt Lang’s house and met Aunt Gi and CoCo (Aunt Gi’s daughter, also known as Chance).  I don’t quite know who CoCo is, but just as Aunt Gi said, I’ll be playing with CoCo at this time next year.

My friend, CoCo, already knows how to do so many cool things like using her pincer grip to grab things, running around Aunt Lang’s house like a speeding bullet, organizing Aunt Lang’s fruit basket, and using her sippy cup.  

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Some day, I hope to be just as accomplished.  See you soon, CoCo!

Mommy and Daddy also took my nanny to the Fairfax County Government Center to get the H1N1 vaccine.  Because I’m too young to be vaccinated (less than 6 months), my caretakers should all be vaccinated.  Mommy and Daddy both got theirs through Kaiser within the past month.  Since strollers weren’t allowed inside the Government Center, Daddy waited with me outside and took some shots of me.

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We had brunch at a place called Community Canteen at Reston Town Center.  The french toast looked more interesting than it tasted.

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The Christmas decorations were already up and I saw my first Christmas tree!

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Mommy has consulted with Aunt Gi and will let me know who Santa Claus really is from day one.  No fantasies.  No make-believe.  Just practical, honest-to-goodness truth.  Mommy and Daddy work hard to give me all the goodies in life and they will make sure I know who to thank.

Mommy’s C-Section

Mommy finally had enough guts to watch the video Daddy took of my delivery.  (Mommy should let the readers know that it is not normal to be allowed to videotape a c-section delivery.  Normally, ob/gyns would never allow it, but because the surgeons were Mommy’s friends and colleagues, they did not mind.)  The video was only about 10 minutes long from skin incision to my delivery.  Daddy was too enthralled with me when I was in the incubator that he took videos of me instead of Mommy’s doctors closing her uterus and her abdomen.  

It took almost  5 months for Mommy to get over the “post-trauma” and be objective enough to watch this video today.  Mommy shed some tears again when she heard me cry for the first time in the video.  Certain moments never seem to lose their emotional appeal. 

It’s strange for Mommy to see herself getting the same surgery she has done thousands of times.  She knew exactly what should happen and knew exactly what would be wrong (if something went wrong).  I was delivered in frank breech position.  For those of you who don’t know what this means, it means my legs were in piked position:

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My butt was delivered first, followed by my body all the way up to my arms.  Then each of my arms were delivered followed by my head in flexed position.  Mommy was able to see all these maneuvers in the video which gave an interesting perspective.

Someday, maybe when I am older, Mommy will let me watch the video.