Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Baby Momma talks in her sleep

Cerise falls asleep as soon as she puts her head down. She is like a girl version of my cousin marcus when it comes to falling asleep. If I have to study late, she likes when I study in our bedroom because she doesn't like going to bed alone. So while I'm up late studying for midterms, finals, or CPA exams I'll hear her just start talking in her sleep. I usually just respond like what she's saying makes complete sense and then I type our conversations in a word document on my laptop. I ended up with like 7 of these word docs so I figured this would be a good place to organize them. These aren't supposed to be clever or funny, they're just things she has said in her sleep.





 “Exactly a dollar.”
12/27/09

“Thanks for letting us use your scripture stand.”
1/1/2010, 12:21am

“I liked that email.”
1/1/2010, 12:25am

“I don’t know how I’m going to get the mattress to go home.”
2/17/2010, 12:43am


Plane to Japan



“I’m just paranoid with all the alligators in my bed.”
3/9/2010, 2:12am

Cerise: Does it matter with the total number of outs and steals?
Lynn: Honey, are you dreaming about baseball?
Cerise: You’re the one who told me to make sure we are praying for baseball. Geez, your prayers are so freaking long.
10/22/2010, 2:08am (during baseball playoffs)

Train in Japan


Cerise: How much debt are you holding?
Lynn: What debt are you talking about?
Cerise: The wife of the president of the county.
10/23/2010, 12:51am

"That’s a really good option. It would be nice to have all those benches. There would be one for every freeway exit. You’d walk out your front door and be like, 'Oh, here it is.'” 
11/16/2010 11:16pm

I knew those pets were coming.
Who told you?
Natalie.
11/23/2010 (Natalie is cerise’s cousin)


Is there like some way that you can save a process, mark?
If at work if you could organize things into accounts because it would help save time.
Like if you could save it so like “this is what we did last time with our G7000!”
1/23/2011 (Mark is cerise's boss)

Bus in Korea. Not quite asleep.


C:  When we have the newborn and he gets his own advisers…(20 second pause)
L:  When is he getting the advisers?
C:  Well they had some old names, but it’s crazy
L:  Wait, who is getting the advisers?
C:  Just people who had old accounts
L:  So just the people with old accounts are getting advisers?
C:  Yeah, just the people who had accounts from 2005-2008.
L:  How much does it cost to get an adviser?
C:  I don’t know. I’m surprised they got advisers, it should have just come with their account.
L:  How long will they need advisors?
C:  They’re okay now. They’re just helping with the food. It’s okay.
L:  What kind of food are they helping out with?
C:  Normal food. You have to see if they have any extra food.
L:  Are the advisers like caterers?
C:  No. Essentially, the advisers are people who advise. Stop typing honey. Are you just writing what I’m saying?
2/20/2011 12:14am

Bus in Korea. Asleep.


"Then the good would be outweighed by the bad."
2/25/2011 12:57am 


"What’s that sound? It sounds like a T-shirt."
2/26/2011

This is similar to the kind of look she has when she says this stuff

Cerise:  At this time it was a german based insurance so it would make sense for him to be European based instead of asian.
Lynn:  so he’s German?
Cerise:  yep, except he’s Japanese
Lynn:  so what’s the deal with the insurance?
Cerise:  They don’t want to bill anything that’s like... uggh, what is wrong with you. You’re asking all these questions when you never cared before. Basically the lady couldn’t get the authorities to cover any of her expenses before, but now they’re willing to cover them until august.
Lynn:  So they’re covering her expenses until august?
Cerise:  Yeah.
Lynn:  What kind of expenses does she need covered?
Cerise:  I dunno, why? Why? (annoyed)
Lynn:  I was just wondering what kind of insurance she has.
Cerise:  The same as me.
Lynn:  I love you honey.
Cerise:  I love you too. You’re just asking so many hard questions.
2/18/2011  12:07am 



Sunday, May 29, 2011

Baby Pictures

We created a little human! We are really stoked to finally have him around. His name is Calvin Yoshikazu Markham.




Cerise was in labor for 15 hours in total. She was dilated to 10 cm's, but his head was 13.5 cm's. He came out RIGHT after the doctor performed the episiotomy. 




Labor and delivery went pretty well. The umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck twice, but the doctor took care of it very smoothly. I never had to worry about it because the problem was solved before I even had time to realize there was a problem.



Live birth. You can't unsee that.




Doesn't he kinda look like a quarter asian baby version of Russell Westbrook in this picture? Yeah? No? Okay.




He was waaaay bigger looking than we expected! I still can't believe our little monster could fit in cerise's stomach. So crazy. 8 pounds 6 ounces. 21 inches long.




I think this picture just about sums up the difference between motherhood and grandmotherhood.




Gramma Markham!




Greg vying for favorite uncle... since I can't be the favorite uncle to my own kid. We'll see how it goes.



 

One day after the miracle of birth. Total babe.




There is no such thing as privacy for moms in the hospital. One of the nurses was talking to Cerise before we left and she looked down and said, "You have OODLES of milk in there!"  She then squeezed Cerise until milk started coming out.




It feels sooooo natural having Calvin around. It's like there's another person joining the markham party.




First night home




Obaa-chan (Gramma Buck) came for almost a week and helped out with Calvin. She made some awesome meals and dominated the laundry and cleaning. 




Obaachan!



So stoked to finally have my little guy




Calvin likes lying on the bed between us and listening to us talk. Sometimes he will cry until we lay him down by us and then he will just relax.



Calvin's first gift from Uncle Sam. No, really, a gift from Cerise's younger brother Samuel on a mission in Japan.




This is when we came to the awesome realization that half of his crib can be used for baby stuff storage/changing station for a while.




When Cerise looks at Calvin after feeding him and says, "Do you want me to burp you or do you want daddy to burp you?" ... this is usually code for "Lynn, burp him." 










Grampa Markham








Feed, burp, change diaper, sleep, practice dribbling through his legs, repeat.



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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Pregnancy Pictures

Pregnancy hasn't been too bad. My energy has been great, no stretch marks, and I've only gained like ten pounds. Oh, for cerise? Yeah, she's ready to not feel fat all the time. I think she's a cute pregnant lady. Here are some pictures I have taken of her even though 40% of the time she says stuff like, "Hey, I feel fat. Stop taking pictures of me. HOW DO FAT PEOPLE DO THIS??"   (these pictures aren't necessarily in order chronologically)

pregnant cerise


pregnant cerise wearing my Dokdo t-shirt


pregnant cerise thinking about what to make for dinner: cereal or tortilla chips


pregnant cerise slightly annoyed (probably about me taking this picture)


pregnant cerise at the beach


pregnant cerise in a parking garage


pregnant cerise still in a parking garage

pregnant cerise in apartment parking lot


pregnant cerise in chik-fil-a parking lot


pregnant cerise holding a grocery bag


pregnant cerise not standing in a parking lot


pregnant cerise posing


pregnant cerise hit by surprisingly cold ocean water in Mexico


pregnant cerise holding her pregnant belly


pregnant cerise in a boat


pregnant cerise without a life jacket


pregnant cerise sitting on a colorful bench


pregnant cerise reading on the plane


pregnant cerise trying to cheer me up after the lakers' game 3 loss with some amazing japanese food made by koreans