President's Day weekend

We actually had a very pleasant 3 day weekend here in the NW. It was sunny and mid 50's the whole week. We had a walk around Greenlake on Sunday. It's about 2.8 miles around and took 75 minutes. It was just wonderful to go outside and get some fresh air. Ivy stayed at home as she still has morning sickness. We think it might be the apple juice. She had it on Sunday and felt tired all day. Then had it again for breakfast today and threw up about half and hour later.


View of space needle in the background


Lazy ass dogs.


Black and white (Lily and Alex)


Duck convention

Where's my mommy!!

I had to take Rocky to the vet early in the morning. So I brought him with us on the way to work. This video is of him after we dropped off Ivy.

17 Weeks, 3 days

Just got our 4 month checkup today. Baby is doing well. Mom still has occassional morning sickness. However, she's stopped taking the nauseau medicine. We will find out next week if we're having a boy or girl. Woohoo. Then the difficult part of name picking will come into play.

FYI, did you all know that our chinese middle name, Hing, was appointed to us by Grandpa long time ago. And the future generation's middle name has been picked as well. For our children, their middle name is Fan.

I'm kinda torn between this because I don't particularly like it. Tseng Fan xxxx just doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Not to mention, are our children's children going to follow this tradition. Anyway, just thought I'd pass this bit of knowledge along.

13 Weeks, 1day

Wow, what a difference 2 weeks make. The baby is at the point where it will grow the fastest. During the ultrasound, we were able to see fingers and toes already. The US also showed the baby having hiccups. Every time it would hiccup, it caused the arms to come together. So it looked like our baby was clapping its hands. We have it all recorded on DVD, it's so cool.

I like how the bottomw pic looks like Beavis doing a head bang. I need teepee for my bung hole.

Ivy's doing much better. The naseau is not as bad now. But she still throws up every now and then. It's funny what she will crave. Tonight it's barbeque chicken wings, so I'm going to grill it for her in the rain. Gotta do what you gotta do.

Next ultrasound wont be for another 7 weeks. By that time we should know the sex of the baby.

Guess what???

I know they say we should wait at least 3 months before getting too excited. But it's close enough. Yes, we are going to be proud parents this summer. Estimated due date is July 21st. We still have a couple more months to go before we will know the sex of the baby.

Last week we went in for our first doctors appointment and was able to hear the baby's heart beat at 9 weeks. At this size, it's beating at 180 beats per minute. It'll slow down once the baby get's bigger. This past Wed we did our first ultrasound that you see here. Right now the baby is about the size of an apple. Believe it or not, it's moving around quite a bit.

Although we are ecstatic about the baby, it is taking it's toll on Ivy. Her morning sickness is pretty bad. She get's nauseous very easily and throws up frequently. Hopefully, this will all go away after the 3rd month.

Keep posted to my blog as I update the progress of my little mini me.

Comic relief

I was introduced to this guy Russell Peters from my coworker. Kinda weird Indian name I know, but he is funny as hell. If you haven't seen him, and you just need a break/laugh/relax, watch it and prepare to laugh your ass off. Haven't seen someone this funny is a long time.

Chevron

I went to the gas station to fill up before picking up Ivy from work. It's from a Chevron that I've filled up at a hundred times before. One mile down the road, my car starts to vibrate and I get this feeling that it's about to die on me. I'm at a stop light with no where to go and of course the car dies shortly after. I'm in my Toyota Sienna that is less than a year old, so I'm thinking what the fuck? Right away, I call the tow company to get me to a Toyota dealership. When I get there, I'm all yelling at them thinking they sold me a piece of shit. This is right at 5pm when the guys get off work, so he's only half listening to me which really pisses me off more. I've already had to take my car in before for a problem with the front grill, so I'm just letting this guy have it.

Next day, Toyota calls me back and says that I've either got water or diesel gas in my tank. I'm thinking, there's no way it's water and I sure as hell would know if I put diesel in my tank. The guys says that it'll cost me around $1200 to get everything fixed. I have no choice, so I tell him to go ahead and get it done.

At this point I'm thinking it's gotta be Chevron, they must've filled their supreme gas with diesel and fucked up my car. When I get there, I'm ready to go off like I did at Toyota, but once I got into my story, the manager says that they've had some complaints already and that they'd take care of everything. I'm thinking, Wow, not only did he admit they were wrong, but they're going to take care of everything. We exchanged contact info and by the time I got back to my office, the manager had already called Toyota to take care of everything. So what happened was that there was some water in the batch of gas that was delivered that got into Chevron's underground tanks. I guess it doensn't take much to fuck up your car and stall it. Everyone I've told the story to has told me to sue Chevron and get a piece of their pie. I'd love to do that, but they've already admited guilt and will take care of the problem. Do I still have a case at this point? Can I sue for suffering? I'll have to look into this a little more.

Side note #1: They gave me a Highlander for a loaner. Great car,rides well, awesome power, steering and brakes. Downside is that it chugs gas faster than a frat boy on spring break.

Side note #2: My technician's name at Toyota is JR. I called him a few times and always got his voicemail. Not sure if he did it as a joke (remember the Seinfield episode of Jimmy?), but he left his outgoing message in 3rd person. If you want a good laugh, call 425-455-9500 and press the service option and press#3 for JR.