Life Events & Growing Up

In the time it takes you to count to 10, more than 40 babies are born worldwide. Unfortunately, death is another life event people are confronted with daily too. Another death in our network of friends has caught our attention. Our sincere condolences go out to you, Rebecca ... having to cope with your uncle's loss. Try not to be sad about his passing, but try to reminisce on the good times. 

As we count our 54 days until our little baby girl's arrival I'm starting to think about the process of growing up. This might sound corny. But as you get older you slowly start to realize how tough it is being a parent. The more I think about myself becoming a parent, the more respect I have for my father. All those verbal and physical reprimands have indeed made me a better person. I think I can write a whole book about how spoiled this new generation is, how minimum their work ethic is nowadays. Let alone, the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what the youth already knows or believes, and new information or interpretation. In short, the young bloods nowadays just don't seem to understand. Claiming you're independent, yet at the same time living off of parents ... that's just not right. But hey ... maybe I'm just too old-fashioned. I wondered what happened to those days when I had to wake up at 3.30 am to prepare for my paper route, just to make some extra money being a 14 year old kid. How will we raise our little baby girl? Making sure she doesn't have anything to worry about or making her work for what her parents have set up for her? The latter to me still seems like the best option. All I can say is ... thanks Dad for raising me right. Those beatings were exactly what I deserved back then. So little Baby Huynh ... if you ever see or notice your parents reprimanding you for something you don't understand (yet), just keep in mind we're trying to prevent you from turning into this spoiled kid. 

At this moment, I can almost say we're one the biggest coconut butter cream consumers out there. Each day I'm trying to rub Anh's belly with that stuff to prevent her from having stretch marks. There a huge surface to cover each day. That stuff smells gooooooood, though :-) !!! Both mom and baby seem to enjoy the coconut butter cream massage al lot. Especially our little one, there seems to be a lot activity during these massages. 

About a week from now we're having another baby shower (thanks Tran & Marilyn for organizing this). That should be a lot of fun for Anh and myself. So for the ones that haven't been updated ... we have our registry with Babies R Us :-).