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Goodbye Santa Monica hello house..

How we loved living here for the past year.. It is a great place to live.
We saw the ocean nearly day, we walked all over town, enjoyed the cool weather, the amazing farmer's market, 3rd street promenade just a walk away and even saw a few celebrities. I didn't even tell anyone about some of these sitings.. Let's see I saw Ron Howard jogging right past us, Elijah Woods several times at Whole Foods and he checked out behind us (just as good looking in person!) I saw Kady Lang at the Farmer's market, also saw CJ from Top Chef there a couple times. Wes saw a couple other celebrity Chef's there but I can't remember their names. Also the old guy (sorry don't know his name) from CSI lives in our building and we rode the elevator with him a few times..That is fun. But the best is seeing the ocean everyday. We will miss it Ahh...
if only we had a several million we could buy a house here.

Things I won't miss:
Having neighbors above us and to every side
the noise!
having no space
everyone having nannies (I am hoping this isn't as prevalent where we are moving.)
sleeping on a mattress on the floor so Kai can have his own bedroom (we only have one)
Having to get the cart in the garage to take the groceries from the garage to the elevator and back again with baby in toe.
Having to get all prepared- baby in stroller or carrier and take the elevator down just to let the down out to pee
Having to go down the hall to do the laundry
Paying rent
never staying in one place or being able to decorate(I wonder what it will feel like to have some roots)
There being no where for guests to park
We are excited!

Yay! We have a house.

A day late in closing but everything worked out! Now I just have to figure out how to get everything packed without Kai getting into trouble!
Here are some recent pictures of us enjoying the park overlooking the big blue ocean before we move away!
 I started a blog for just pictures of Kai. I want to put pictures on it starting from birth and catch up to the present. I am not sure when I will get time among the millions of other things I want to do (like making prints on time for a show and making a page of photos for every month of Kai's first year on this digital scrapbook site http://www.howfasttheygrow.com/ ) Hopefully soon. I only got to his first day of birth! Here it is anyways

oops I had a bad link at first, here it is:
http://kaibodhi.blogspot.com/

Potty all the time..

After a mom who uses cloth diapers for her baby told me how she does "elimination communication" and puts her baby on the potty to poo, I decided to get a potty and try it with Kai. Guess what? It works so easily.
I don't don't really know his cues. I just put him on there after he eats breaksfast, lunch and dinner and like magic if he has to poo he does within a couple minutes. It's great! So much less messy then cleaning up diapers.
After we move I have been thinking about switching to cloth diapers. I think he likes it better that way also.

So here is Kai and the "magic" potty (magic because how he poos when we put him on it) As for the title of this post, that is pretty funny. I was singing that song to Kai when I put him on the potty and Wes asked me if I was singing an Eddie Murphy song. I had no idea but he looked it up on you tube. I guess  was! Oh man. I thought I woman sang that song...

Kai doesn't always read books or magazines when on the potty I just thought those were funny, especially the star one

Life with Bodhi baby

Ok I think I am just going to re-name my blog life with Kai. Might as well, I only put pictures of him on it. It's not that we don't do anything not related to Kai or have any other news. but I just feel like relatives and friends check the blog to see pictures of the cutie pie. So I put them up. To be honest this little cutie does dominate as our photos taken..
We went to the doctor yesterday. He hasn't gained much at all in the past few months. I thought he was weighing 20 lbs but yesterday it said 19lbs. He has grown taller though 30". So he is at the 93% for height.

On another note, I got mastitis. Me who never ever get sick.It wasn't fun, fever, achy all over. I am feeling better already though and my fever went away the second day. I think it is just from continued lack of sleep. I won't go into details about the sleep, except to say we will call this the year without sleep.
It is getting better though, I think Kai's 8th tooth was still bothering him a little and he was having a lot of separation anxiety. So we are just trying to be consistent. Here is the little cutie:

Big smile..

Kai is so funny doing the scrunchy nose smile but even more exaggerated, all the time now..
Look how good Sasha is, poor doggy. A dog is much better and more entertaining than any toy, that is for sure. Sasha has been so itchy for months. Always biting her paws. They are bright and raw..yesterday when we were walking another woman was saying her dog had the same problem and she ran into two other people with the same thing. There must be something in Santa Monica that hurts dogs paws or something..Hopefully when we move in a few weeks they will finally get better.