October Update

chloe looks so uncomfortable it is funny!

she is now able to stand up and even walk while holding on to some support.  she not only says "mama", "baba", but also "gege" (brother) now!  and she even waves "good-bye" occasionally.

alan put on chloe's top here and finding it funny, so he started dancing in front of a big mirror!

sit up

at 7.5 months, chloe is able to sit up by herself.  she can even pull herself into a standing position by pulling and holding on to... well... my cloth or my bra... lol

here she's chewing bryan's eye cream.

poor alan, poor chloe

alan had a slight fever at 37.9C degree on monday morning.  i took him to see the doctor but it didn't help.  his temperature kept rising.  we went to the hospital every day, and had three transfusions on wednesday, thursday and friday.

we had his finger pricked on thursday, and white blood cell count was normal.  so the doctor said it wasn't a virus.

on friday night, when his temperature went as high as 39.6c degree, the doctor made him had a chest scan and suspected it was a pneumonia because the image of some parts of the lung was a bit blurry.  bryan took alan to another hospital the next morning and had his blood drawn for tests.  initial test of white blood cell count was normal but they needed to grow the specimen to confirm if there's any other bacteria.  i'm going to pick up the result tomorrow afternoon.

his temperature had come down and back to a normal range (albeit slightly higher at the lower 37c range) since saturday afternoon, and appetite improved, too.  he barely ate anything during the last few days.

chloe has been coughing, too, and had a temperature of 38.5c on thursday night.  i took her to see a doctor on friday morning, who prescribed some anti-virus and antibiotics.  she didn't like taking medicine and threw up quite a few times, but she seems to be fine now.  still a bit of cough, but temperate is normal and her appetite seems to be fine.

here i want to thank the people from the "angels in my studio" facebook group.  i wrote a brief post about my children being sick and asked if they would advice how to call upon a healing angel.  we received beautiful beautiful support there.  so a huge thank you to everyone who offer their support, prayer, advice etc...

baby chloe in bath

baby chloe in bath, having a bit of fun...

chloe's 5 months milestones

• chloe is able to army crawl at 5 months
• chloe is able to roll to her back and back to her tummy at 5 months
• chloe is able to say "mom mom" at 5 months
• and she smiles a LOT

chloe's new hair style

it's getting so hot and chloe's long hair was making her very uncomfortable, so i shaved her head yesterday.  does she look more like a boy like this?  em... i think she still looks very much a little girl.

she sleeps much better during the day after the hair cut.  i probably should have cut it earlier, but her hair was so beautiful!  i saved her hair in a red pocket.

tummy time for chloe

at 3.5 months, chloe is already able to roll on to her tummy.  here's chloe watching one of jane davenport's  videos on iPad.

since she learnt to roll on to her tummy yesterday, it's been the first thing she does when she wakes up every time today.  but as she's unable to roll back, she cries in frustration when she's tired.  so funny!

all babies

this is alan of less than 2 months all wrapped up.

the other night, at 2 years of age, he asked to be wrapped as a baby again.

look how much bigger he was than his 2 months old sister!

chloe is now 3 months old and is a sweet smily baby!

wish us luck

alan's and my chinese visas will expire on 21st march, which is next wednesday.  i'll have to go to hong kong to renew my visa and the fastest processing time is 1 day.  but little chloe is still waiting for her passport.  And once we have our passport, we'll have to go to the exit and entry administration of guangdong to apply for an exit permit before i can take chloe with me to hong kong.  

if we can't get these done in time, chloe will have to stay with dad for 2 days and 1 night.  i'll squeeze some breast milk and store them in bottles, but that's still going to be pretty tough for the little baby girl...  wish wish we can get the passport and permit done in time.

one-month-old chloe & two-year-old alan

here're a few pictures of baby chloe being one month old, taken just a few days ago.

she has beautiful big eyes, doesn't she?

have i mentioned before that she had both of her eyes wide open when she was born?  and that she came out with just one push (although the whole birth thing took 10+ hours)?

i still find it strange that my second labor took so long.  it was supposed to be very quick, wasn't it?  but i  started having contraction at about 4 or 5am and chloe was born just before 8pm.

alan loves his "mei mei".  he kisses her and hugs her everyday.  but he's also jealous, which creates some behavioral problems - he's being quite rebellious sometimes in school, and at home, he cries a lot more.  poor thing says "没有妈妈” （no more mama) when he cries...  when i'm holding chloe, alan sometimes would come asking me to hold him instead, and would cry his heart out when i tell him later.

but he's learning to be a good big brother, learning to share, not just material things, but mum's and dad's love as well.  i'm sure he'll grow up a better person from this experience.

her name is chloe

we named her "chloe", and according to wikipedia:

"Chloe (also Chloë, Cloe, Chlöe, Chloé, Clowy, Kloe, Khloe, Khloë, Khloé, Kloé or Kloë) is a first or given name for girls, especially popular in England. The name comes from the Greek χλόη(khlóē), meaning "young green shoot" and is one of the many names of the Greek goddess Demeter.^[1] The name appears once in the Bible, in 1 Corinthians 1:11 in the context of "the house of Chloe". The French equivalent is spelled Chloé."


Demeter is the goddess of harvest, and according to wikipedia again: "Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, thesacred law, and the cycle of life and death."

A New Baby is Born

i started feeling some contractions at about 5am 17th January 2012, and we went to the hospital at 7.30am.  baby girl didn't want to come out until just before 8pm.  so although it was my 2nd time giving birth, it wasn't as fast as i expected.

baby girl weighted 3.1kg, 49cm and head measured 33cm.  she came out very clean, with eyes wide open and looking very calm.

this blog has to have a new name now!