It’s funny how fast he’s growing.  I know, it’s only been a month but it seems like he’s changing so fast!  He can smile on purpose now, he’s a master kicker and of course, he’s got lungs on him that let the screaming go on for days.  He looks around a lot more nowadays and still has the explosive concussive blast that lets us know it’s time to change his diaper.  

Jen has started a blog for him, detailing some random events in the Life of Kai.  Check it out!

There is a new addition to the youngest Pong family!  Kai Choi Pong was born on Friday, April 17th at 8:44am after a 12-hour labor.  He was delivered into this world at French Medical Hospital in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Jen’s water broke around 8:30PM on Thursday, April 16th and after a quick call to the doctor we headed down to the hospital.  Jen’s contractions had just started to kick in once we got to French and we had no idea what was in store for us!  Jen decided to go au-natural and went through the entire labor unmedicated – truly crazy, she is amazing!

What was in store for us after 12 hours of extremely painful labor was a healthy 7lb. 15 oz. baby boy!  He’s been such an amazing thing to come into our lives, although not without his share of keeping us up at all hours of the night!  Now, our entire lives are dedicated to his safety and well-being. 

Yay for baby Kai!

Jen and I took a trip out to Shell Creek Rd. a few weeks ago to see nothing really blooming yet.  I went out there today and was greeted with fields of yellow.  I was hoping for a bit more variety, but it could just be that i’m still a bit early.  At any rate, its hard to trek out here very often since it takes 45 minutes or so driving relatively fast and its not on the way to anywhere at all.

Regardless, I still had a fun time taking some pics in the area.  There were a couple of lupins that I didn’t find very impressive, as well as some other randomly dispersed flowers, but not anything that really struck my fancy.  Still, fields full of yellow flowers is nothing to be sad about.

I hope other people have more luck when they travel out to there.

Took a trip to the Leaning Pine Arboretum on Cal Poly’s campus.  Its out by the sheep.  It was really nice, even though I went mid-day some of the pics turned out not half bad.  This would be a great place to visit for anyone who enjoys flowers/plants and there were tons of birds there, if not visible at least audible.  It sounds like a jungle!

From the Leaning Pine website:

Collections are arranged primarily by nativity and feature a 

diverse array of trees, shrubs, and other landscape plants 

appropriate for California's Central Coast area. The gardens 

display hundreds of unique and intriguing plants primarily 

from the world's five mediterranean climate regions: Australia, 

California, Chile, the Mediterranean basin, and South Africa. 

The arboretum also has a New Zealand garden, a Dwarf and Unusual 

Conifer garden, a Formal garden, and displays of cycads, palms, 

and numerous succulents.

I’d definitely take a trip out there (sunset-ish would work best) and at least explore the gardens, its completely worth it.

Never taken photos with a group of people before – it was a fun experience.  I will admit that I got easily distracted and talked more than shot, but it was a lot of fun.  Its amazing how completely different everyone was, and we all got along perfectly fine.

I was heading out to lunch, passing through the Mission San Luis Obispo walkway and I saw this chunk of cement that someone had scrawled RIP on and propped up against the wall.  Thought about it the whole time I was eating lunch and decided to snap a pic of it on the way back to work.  

They had rope up surrounding the grass so I had to lean in sideways and try and focus without toppling forward, sort of annoying but it worked out ok.

Jen and I went out by the golf course and took some pics – trees with shade are a definite plus!  The preggo belly is definitely getting to be large – growing a little Pongie looks like hard work!

There was a single flash camera left  on full power, about 45 degrees.

Mom and Dad came down to visit this weekend, and they brought/cooked a TON of food!  Yay!  Nothing like comfort food to help you along while your wife is pregnant… that doesn’t sound right.

Jen wanted a pic of us before the baby came since we most likely won’t have a chance to see my parents until after little Pongie is born.

You can see from the shadows, flashes were camera left and camera right, about 30 degrees (i think) from us.

That’s right!  Jen and I picked up a new TV last night.  Now… to figure out if we can mount it above the fireplace or not.  I’m pretty sure it will be fine right there. 

The 27″ CRT television that  Jen got me 9 or so years ago has served us well, but I think its about time for it to leave. 

Teletubbies are just going to look SOOOO awesome on this!  I wonder if they have Teletubbies on Blu-Ray…