I’ve been wanting and wanting to post this since forever :)
July 9th was Zhixin’s 1st birthday and we had a low key celebration at home.
As soon as he saw the cake, he was reaching for it. This is the first and the BEST picture I got. He really wanted to eat his cake.
OK. After a while I got another picture, see how he really wanted to eat his cake?
If the picture wasn’t hard enough, we have Huirou being jealous : How come I don’t get to take a picture with the cake? So, we obliged.
We have a hungry toddler at home who loves her food. Here are some of her favorites:
Huirou especially like the Great Grains with the dates. When we got the ones without any raisins or dates, we throw in a bunch of our own sweets such as raisins, bananas or even some strawberries.
Another good standby for us is fruit preserved spread onto sandwich bread. Right now, we have the black cherry from St Dalfour in the fridge.
2 slices of cheese, sometimes shared with Zhixin.
This is supposed to be Zhixin’s Baby Bites Rice Rusk, but she likes them very much too.
Others are fruits, cookies and of course the occasionally chocolates and sweets. We don’t have too many “baby” food around the house other than the Baby Bites; whenever I buy them, Huirou doesn’t like them instead she will seek out what is in our bowls or what I cook for Zhixin.
I guess that’s a good thing.
She loves to hold him but as you may notice in this picture, he doesn’t like to be held, especially in her not-so-gentle hold
Often people will ask me about how the children are when they are together…
Both of them are the best of friends, being together 24 hours a day. There are many times that Huirou can figure out what Zhixin wants before we do. She’s the one who discovered that he likes to hold on to a handkerchief when he’s falling asleep.
But there are also frequent fights for toys and attention. Sometimes Huirou will even push or shove Zhixin, which is not allowed in our house. Zhixin will “fight back” by yelling or crying. The house is chaotic when I scold the children too.
Sometimes, it is possible to share. And that is how we normally eat: sharing an orange 4 ways, picking on raisins from the same container, or taking baths while we sing nursery rhymes.
At the end of the day, when they drift off to sleep, and I gaze upon their angelic faces, I feel that I am indeed blessed.
This is what we do when both children wants a ride on the tricycle. Don’t ask me what we will do when the baby becomes a toddler and wants to pedal too. We’ll think of something then. :)
