Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Cool ball at the beach house

Peek a boo!

Finding a sand dollar for Mom

Beach weekend

We went to Monterey with Jaap this weekend. He has a friend with a beach house that we were able to use Saturday night. We had a great time and Hai truly enjoyed himself.

We only had one major fall off the high chair and one hive outbreak all weekend. I hope that's not a harbinger of what our San Diego vacation will be like - otherwise I better familiarize myself with the locations of urgent cares in the San Diego area. (no, we didn't need any urgent care this weekend, just some Benadryl...)

Hai played on the beach and in the sand, and found every toy in the beach house (and there were a few). I've included some video links.

Hope you all had a beachy weekend too!

Love all,

Melissa & Hai

Video of Hai and Jaap on the beach

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Hai has hives (say that 5 times fast!!)

It's a medical mystery...

For the last week or so, Hai has had a virus. It started with a "normal", yucky, stomach thing... and now it's gone to a break out of hives on his hands and feet every morning. it's only in the morning, and only on his hands and feet. Yes, I washed all the bedding (and in fact, I'm moving out the mattress we put in a week or so ago to see if that helps). And yes, it's getting better day by day... but it is certainly weird.

My theory is it's something in the bed, carpet, or something. The cleaning lady is coming today and will use my HEPA filtered vacuum on the whole place... Hopefully Hai's hives will go away soon and that tongue-twister will be a thing of the past!

Love all,

Melissa & Hai

Monday, July 14, 2008

In the pool

Hai eating french fries and burgers in Keith's backyard

Over the river and through the air to Grandma's house!


Last week we returned from 9 days with Grandma, Granddad and Uncle Keith. We had a great time and Hai enjoyed all the attention. He was great on the airplane, though he only slept 30min on the flight over. By the time we flew home, he slept half the flight - I assume because it was all old news by that point.

We went to the zoo in Albuquerque and Hai got to see his first elephants, giraffes, flamingos, zebras and more. He loved it. And we also went to the aquarium where we ate lunch next to the big tank and watched the turtle (one of Hai's favorite animals). And of course, we spent a lot of time in Granddad and Grandma's pool! Hai's getting more and more comfortable in the water (particularly if Mom's not in it with him so it seems)!

We had lots of great food in typical McVicker tradition on our vacation. Keith made us great green chile cheeseburgers one night and we got to see his new house (enough to make me really think about the cost of living in the Bay Area, let me tell you!). And Keith also smoked prime rib for the whole family for July 4th and set off fireworks for us. Finally, the day before we left Grandma had a little party for Hai where we got to see a lot of old friends, it was great.

We came back from vacation and I launched right back into work full tilt. It doesn't appear that the summer "slow down" is really happening this year. But we're already planning our next vacation to San Diego in August. We'll be even better prepared for that one, though we don't have the luxury of having Grandma set everything up for us before we arrive that time!

Here's some photos of our trip to Albuquerque.

Love all - Melissa & Hai