"I didn't know that....."

...the only two clothing styles for women these days is slut or Parisian bachelorette. (and I also didn't know that "bachelorette" isn't a real word according to my spell check!)

Anyways.

Usually when I go to the mall I am ALWAYS on the hunt for decent clothes to wear. Maybe because I'm a mother now or maybe because I'm OFFICIALLY over 30, but I think that the Kardashian's and Miley Cyrus should stop dictating the fashion trends. Don't you?

So I am forever looking for just nice, well made, work/hang out clothes that have decent coverage, aren't missing any pieces of fabric (since apparently "cut outs" are the trend now....) that won't disintegrate in the wash after 2 cycles and that doesn't make me look like I just came from my kid's PTA meeting where we discussed who would be baking the "brownies" for the next school bake sale. But as I was walking by store after store, as well as my go to department store I realized that all the clothes were made for women who should be strolling down a quaint cobblestone alley in France or drinking for free at "ladies night"  in da club~! I mean some of the dresses were so tight and short that even the mannequin's were embarrassed and looking paler than usual from the oxygen deprivation. And who really wants to wear a burgundy dress with blue ducks printed all over it or a gray sweater with a giant mustache on the front...

Do I?

Do you?

Does anyone?

I NEED ANSWERS PLEASE PEOPLE!!

I wish I could trade places with little asian baby so that I can dress like this:

or this... (and no you're not having a seizure right now..it's just some new moving picture format asian husband discovered. NO need to call 9...1.1.11..1..11..1..1.1...)

or even just be like this:

and everyone would just think I was impossibly adorable and would take endless photos of me to post on their blogs! 

So now I am proposing a new proposition where all human beings regardless of age, gender or actual maturity age level can just dress like toddlers wherever they go. 

...wait...is that already happening? Is that why we have so many Miley's, Gaga's and Kanye's out in the world? 

*siGh* 

-little asian girl

" AAAAANNNNDDDD we're BACK!"

so ok.

I thought I hadn't posted in like over a year. Every once in a while between 2 minute showers and potty training attempts, I would stop and think "Hey...I wonder what happened to my blog? I feel so bad that I haven't posted in like AGES. I think it's been at least a year......oh crap...I forgot to run the dryer."

..................but turns out it's only been 5 months.

I was feeling guilty and stuffing my face with cherry cupcakes for no reason! (well..not for NO reason, the cupcakes are DELICIOUS MAN!"

anyways, so since my last few posts in April about still nursing (YES I AM STILL NURSING MY NOW 2 YR OLD! DEAL WITH IT AND MOVE ON!) and how angelic she looks in that white dress, things are like the twilight zone in that everything is pretty much the same yet completely different.

Little asian baby turned 2 a few weeks ago, can speak in sentences, and has discovered that she can do things like drink from a cup and use a fork all by "herselpbf" (that's how she pronounces "herself") Not saying that she can do things "herselpbf" without a 12 man cleaning crew to sweep up after her, but at least she's exerting (some) (minor) (attempts) at independence.

ok so the black text above was my attempt to return to blogging....FOUR MONTHS AGO! as you can see I started to write, but probably just gave up in exhaustion because little asian baby crawled into my lap and wanted to nurse as i was typing..........oh wait...that's still what's happening NOW!!!!

Ok, back to black text, my aging, little asian girl eyes can't distinguish between pink and white well anymore.....

So like I mentioned above, life is like the twilight zone, in that things remain relatively the same but is completely different at the same time. Little asian baby is a full fledged human being now (not that she was some sort of alien monster hybrid or anything..............) And when I ask her questions like "Do you want chocolate muffin or apple pie for breakfast?" she can respond appropriately AND correctly by saying she wants "hashbrown instead." *siGh*

So it's gotten a lot easier and a lot harder at the same time.

I've learned that although toddlers become SIGNIFICANTLY more independent after turning 2 and things are MUCH MUCH easier because little asian baby can actually talk now. It's also more challenging and annoying BECAUSE they are more independent and can talk now.

Especially since little asian baby narrates her life 24/7 and says bratty things like "Be quai-wat mom" (that means "be quiet mom" fyi.) But I guess as a parent all those annoying, exhausting, makes you want to stab yourself with the straw of your child's sippy cup...moments are all worth it (I was actually going to write "forgotten" but who am I kidding, I don't forget those annoying, exhausting, wannaa stab yourself times times..do you?) anyways, all those bad times are trumped a million times over by the moments when little asian baby wants to "squish" my face while giving me vice grip like hugs and puts my bra on her head and laughs hysterically.

SO hopefully I will have a little bit more time to blog now since I can say stuff like "BABY! MAMMA IS WORKING NOW SO YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR ME TO HELP YOU MAKE FRUIT SALAD IN YOUR KITCHEN!" and asian baby actually understands and says "ok mamma boo boo princess maam".

yes...she actually says "mamma boo boo princess maam"

-little asian girl (FINALLY) back
....although it took me more than 4 months to write this ONE post.

BACK WITH MOLD!

So lately I have been having thoughts about picking up blogging again. I realized that I had neglected my legions of fans and haven't brightened your day with stories of poop shaped like deities or annoying 22 yr olds who seemed to have left the bottom halves of their shirts in the dryer.

I actually had many witty and comical stories in mind since funny and unbelievable things happen every day with a toddler who now says things like "baby gwumpy" and "no, I don't like that." (yes..it's lovely...)

However, today as I was about to make a smoothie for little asian baby's dinner (of course after she rejected the first 5 choices I gave her) I opened the yoplait kids yogurt container that I had just bought 4 days ago to find.....

this.

So I had to restart blogging about mold in yogurt, rather than little asian baby's latest antics.

As you can see there is an unsightly, fuzzy, green, growth on the top of the yogurt. As I mentioned, I just bought this container of yogurt this past Sunday. The "best by" date is actually OCTOBER 5, 2013. Yes that's right people...OCTOBER! (today is sept. 18th for those of you who are calendarly challenged. yeah that's right, I just made that word up.) Imagine, if I had not opened this container until then, how much more grisly and gag inducing would the mold have been!

I promptly took a picture of the mold, the packaging, and wrote an email to the company with the picture attached. I also plan to call them tomorrow during "normal business hours" because this is just plain NASTY!

So, although I feel like my comeback to blogging is more like Lindsay Lohan's attempts at a comeback (half-assed and containing some sort of bacterial growth). At least I'm doing the public a favor by coming back with a PSA.

IF YOU HAVE RECENTLY BOUGHT YOPLAIT KIDS YOGURT THE STRAWBERRY FLAVORED ONE WITH DORA THE EXPLORER...YOU MAY WANT TO THROW IT OUT.

I think I deserve a medal or something....

-little asain girl
BACK WITH MOLD!

Our Perfect Little Princess!

This past weekend as I was going through little asian baby's clothes, clearing out winter clothes, clothes that have gotten too small and what not. I came upon her "special occasion" dresses, and instead of putting them away never to be seen again, I decided I could put her in one just for a regular Saturday. Who says you can't dress like a fairy princess on the weekends right? Anyways, here are some pictures of our perfect little princess!

Enjoying a fruit snack~

"Hey..what's that on TV?"

Perfect.

-little asian girl

"AWESHOME!!"

I have a confession to make.

Something that I'm not TOTALLY embarrassed to admit, but I'm sure some eyebrows will be raised.

It's something I just don't have the strength or will power to quit.

...

.......

Hello, my name is little asian girl and I..... I still breastfeed my toddler!

OK THERE I SAID IT!!

I STILL BREASTFEED MY TODDLER!!!!!

.......

don't judge.

Ok Ok, so yes little asian baby is now 20 months old. Yes Yes she has all her teeth and is completely capable of eating solid food. And YES she is also capable of knowing and understanding that mama's joo joo's are for getting milk and not just there for show. However, as I have mentioned above, I just don't have the physical strength or will power to wean her. For those of you who've never nursed before, weaning a baby from breastfeeding is not as simple as just turning off the valves and locking up for the night. Babies who have to start weaning (especially if they are not little infants anymore) become UNBELIEVABLY clingy, they're sleep schedules get disturbed, they get cranky, irritable, and I'm sure that they start to harbor some deep emotional resentment toward their mothers. So I'm just not going to do it, until little asian baby does it herself. And although a friend of mine did recently tell me that she thinks babies who "self wean" is just a myth.....I'm still holding out hope.

Also, as I have mentioned before a GAZILLION times, little asian baby is a SUPREMELY picky eater, and lately won't touch anything unless it's french fries or pizza. Yeah, yeah, people have already told me to starve her so that she'll eat, but the first/last time I did that she ate nothing but 3 strawberries the whole day and by the end of the day was a COMPLETE monster because she was hungry. (I wasn't home all day because of work, so it wasn't like I stood by watching her starve, and asian husband tried to feed her CONSTANTLY through out the entire time I was gone but little asian baby refused any and all offerings....so no need to alert CPS.) Anyway, when I came home that day from work, she LUNGED at me and nearly ripped my shirt off and COMPLETELY emptied both sides and then said "AHHH" after she was done.

it was cute.

So anyway, I decided I won't be able to wean her for a while..but whatever. I've accepted it. You should too. Now I'm sure you're wondering what the title of this post has to do with all this nonsense I blabbed on about, but I'll tell you now.

Yesterday when little asian baby woke up from her nap, I asked her if she wanted to be nursed.

"Do you want some joo joo?" said I.

"AWESHOME!" said little asian baby (she meant "awesome" for those perplexed individuals)

and it was. aweshome.

-little asian girl

What a difference a year makes!

A few months ago I posted a post about the cousin's christmas picture and how from year to year things change so rapidly. So now that little asian baby's second Easter holiday has passed, it reminded me again that little asian baby is growing and changing so so quickly. Last year when she was still just 8 months old Easter was like this:

All we could do really was to just dress her up in a cute dress and take her to church. I mean she couldn't walk or talk and was still taking 3 naps a day! (ahh..the good ol days)

Now THIS Easter little asian baby got to go to not ONE, but TWO Easter egg hunts, and at each hunt I was rapidly "redistributing" the eggs from her basket back onto the grass so that she could keep on "hunting" for eggs. Also, since little asian baby's language skills are more advanced and rapidly developing, she recognized  what was going on and ran around saying "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" Here are some pictures from both events. (and yes, the second egg hunt was in front of grandma's house..but she didn't mind. And I definitely didn't miss the crowds, screaming children, overly "enthusiastic" parents, or big kids almost trampling my little baby to death to get to the "EGG!")

"EGG!"

"EGG!"
(and mommy's looming shadow)

little asian baby guarding her "EGG!"

"EGG!"

"EGG!"
(Grandma and Auntie S in the background)

"EGGS!!!!!"

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday!

-little asian girl

"AARRRGGGHH......this is really H-E-A-VV-Y..."

"AARRGGGHH....this tree is S-T-U-C-K...."

"This is better!"

-little asian girl

Daddy and Baby's DAY OF FUN!

So since I started my new job at the local church, every Sunday I have to go to "work". And since I can't take little asian baby with me, I leave her home with asian husband. Now, I am one of those SUPER lucky ladies who has a WONDERFUL & AMAZINGLY HELPFUL husband who is also a GREAT & AMAZING dad. (Can you tell asian husband reads my blog? heee heee.) Anyways, so every Sunday little asian baby and asian daddy have their DAY OF FUN! I call it the DAY OF FUN, because they really get to do some fun things. Where as with mommy, little asian baby only goes to boring places like the mall or target and a park or two every week...with daddy she gets to go to zoos, museums, regional parks and the like! Here are some pictures of the adventures they've had so far!

Posing like a model at the California Science Center

GIANT lego tower also at California Science Center

Discovery Center in Santa Ana

" WHAT A GIANT TREE!!" Irvine Regional Park

Santa Ana Zoo

Daddy and Baby's DAY OF FUN!

What a lucky (and happy!) baby!

-little asian girl