Happy Halloween!

This is the first appearance of Jordan's alter ego: Assistant Professor Chaos!

Motherhood

Apparently this is all I've got. ;)

Jordan's cultural heritage

Jordan got his chance to taste of dim sum today, but wasn't quite ready for the number 19 (char siu bao).

Then we bought Jory this tank top/smock/apron/uniform at the GW. Anyone who can tell me what "wheter makind, or a country, or an indiual, wirhout onthuataem, ... bye any one of th..." means, wins a prize. Wooya.

Just so we're clear, I only spent 2 bucks on this. And he's going to wear it.

Jordan's first Halloween party!

I tried to dress him up as an actual mummy, but only got as far as wrapping the top of his head with toilet paper before Jordan started to get fussy. Plus Tiffany was pretty sure that TPing him would set off some alarms at Social Services.

Three generations of the Huang family

That's great-uncle KY on the right.

I also got this photo in the email of another baby that was even chubbier than Jory is currently. Apparently this kid grew up to be quite dashing...

Jordan gets a new car to drive mommy around in

JAx is getting so big that we had to get an SUV just to fit him in, as you can see. We haggled with an Algerian fellow and ended up with a Mazda CX-7. He was very helpful, except when he was setting up my iPhone to sync over Bluetooth, I thought he asked me to say someone's name to call but in fact he was asking me to name my iPhone for the car's memory. So... now when I get in, the car says "Hello, Tiffany Vora." Ah well.

Jory's first trip to the tacqueria el grullense!

How do I feel?

Tell me how do I feel?


Worried? Tired? Hungry?

Concerned that my mommy disagrees with my propaganda?

And seriously, what's with these bluish eyes??

Jordan weighs in

A few bits of news: first, Jordan received his first piece of mail and is now officially "on the grid".

Second, he's been at home on a heavy regimen of eating and sleeping, and the result has been what the nurse somewhat vaguely termed a "3 to 5-day growth spurt" that led to him gaining 5oz over the last 2 days. He's now at 5lb 6oz, putting him at 21 oz of weight gain over the last 12 days, and he's increased in length by 2.5 inches.

I've been keeping track of all his weighings, and I felt like we had enough data to do some estimation. As you can see, there is a reasonable linear fit that can be extrapolated to his weights at the end of year 1 (18 kg = 39 lbs), year 2 (34 kg = 75 lbs), and a health 165 kg (363 lbs) by the time he turns 10.

Fig. 1: Biophysical model of Jory's weight as a function of time.

Our three children!

He's no good to me dead

This onesie was honoring Jason Wingreen, the voice of Boba Fett.

The Jury's Still Out on Scientists

Hello world! My name is Jordan Alexander Huang, and I arrived on September 30, 2011 at 5:37am (four and a half weeks early!) As you can see, I'm very excited to be here!

My parents will be using this blog to keep you up-to-date with my current status, at least until I've gotten old enough to type. If you're interested in seeing more photos of me, they'll be using this forum to share them. Please sign up to follow my blog! (click this link for instructions) Disclaimer: they are experiencing a few technical difficulties with my upbringing...

Looking forward to meeting all of you in person!