My Smiling Children

Lookie! I actually got BOTH my children smiling at the same time, at the camera, and the picture is not out of focus for once! Yeah!

Huirou at Play

Most of my time during the weekends are spent playing with the children, especially Huirou.

She loves to play pretend, such as serving us food and drinks or imitating what we do such as brushing our hair or putting on earrings (fashioned out of rubber-bands) such as this:

Other times she would spent some time on the pc going through kneebouncers.com:

I have a belief that toddlers grows on sunshine and thrive on wind, and hence a portion of our day is spent outside even if it’s just the car-porch:

What about rainy days? or super hot days that is the norm nowadays, you ask? We either hang out in the malls or “camp-out” in our air-conditioned bedroom:

Zhixin @ 6 months old

Growth, Food Intake and General Well Being

• Zhixin now consumes 80 ml (almost 3 oz) of ebm 6 times a day at the baby sitter’s house. At other times we still nurse on demand.
• At 6 months old, he has already started with a little bit of porridge and got some tastes of some oranges.
• Most nights, he goes to bed at 8.30-ish pm and wakes up at 7 am or so, only waking once around midnight for a light nursing session.

Physical Development and Communications

• Zhixin’s aim is very good now. He can grab toys and hold on to them for quite some time.
• If he is particularly interested in something, he turns it over and over, chewing on every single corner to try to discover the object.
• He also aims for the food in our bowls when we are eating and holding him at the same time.
• He is now steady enough that we can prop him up in a high chair to sit with us during mealtimes.
• He also likes to sit upright now. Sometimes, he even attempts to sit up in his car seat, instead of reclining.

Character and Temperament

• He is the child who sleeps well, eats well, watches tv and entertains himself. The kind of babies that parents imagine them to be. His tantrums are shortlived, normally only due to tiredness or hunger. Both are easily attended to.

His hair is longer, his torso has also grown. He laughs much louder now and is as demanding as ever, especially with his milk. He coos and gurgles and love to look at bright, colourful objects. I can’t wait for him to grow up yet at the same time I want to cherish him like this forever.

Huirou @ 2 years 4 months old

I’ve always wanted to blog more often, and note down all the little things that the children do. I always put it off (as you may have noticed) and then as time go by I forget all the little details. Regardless, I’ll try to do my best. (as in, I’ll still blog but I also want to spend time with them without having to tell myself:oh! I need to blog about this-or-that)

What about Huirou? How’s she doing now?

She’s rather small physically, weighing only about 10 kg.

 

Speaking in sentences:

She speaks in complete sentences most of the time now. Sometimes, when we don’t understand her, she shakes her head and is obviously disappointed, but often she will repeat and repeat until somebody understands her.

Her: [Where’s the] simenser leh?

Me: 什么来的 [What’s that]?

Her: Neh.. simenser! 转转转[turn turn turn] simenser?

After a while, I figure out she was trying to say “cement mixer” which I had earlier pointed out to her.

 

Planning our outings:

Some weekends, we like to have breakfast at Macdonald’s, after which we usually go to the supermarket for some groceries.

Her: 等一下，吃完Macdonald's, 我们去Jusco。

Me: Ok. 我们去Jusco做什么？

Her：去打螃蟹，吃ai-cream。 自己走呵！

[In awhile after we finish our Macdonald’s, we’re going to Jusco]

[What are doing in Jusco?]

[Hit some crabs, eat ice cream. [I’ll]walk on my own.]

 

Hitting crabs is a game we play at the arcade shop. We all chip in to help her using our hands. Zhixin contributes to the fun by laughing loudly whenever we try to hit the poor crabs.

She likes Hubs to hold her whenever we are out because she gets a better view, so I have to constantly remind her that she has to walk some of the time.

Hello to you in Preston!

WE ARE NOT IN PRESTON. DO NOT GET EXCITED.

Sorry to those confused...

But for that one visitor from Preston(you know who you are), I miss you dearly.

I should have a number of posts up soon. Keep checking.