first time swimmer

last weekend, we went to the suburb of nansha, 1.5 hours drive from guangzhou (or canton) cbd, to visit my dad for the mid-autumn festival.  and on sunday, grandpa drove us to this newly opened five-star hotel, where we dived in to this beautiful pool!

at just a bit over 18 months, alan went swimming for the first time in his life!  hooray!  he really enjoyed it!

look how happy alan is!

and what was dad pointing at with this funny face?

father & son

sleeping baby

a perfect view from behind

and i love every bit of it!  lol!

alan's new blocks

there has been some time since my last post - i had been too sick with my 1st trimester pregnancy to do anything other than vomiting and sleeping.  but i should record some progress of alan's growth and development as soon as i feel well enough.

so above is the block that alan built by himself a few weeks ago.  isn't that quite a step from his first block (see post here)?  i'm a proud mom!

here the smaller block is built by dad bryan.  em... i guess he has some catchup to do.  lol.

a few more milestones

it took 3 days to completely wean alan, and he slept through the night (from 10.30pm to 8am) on the 3rd night, and has been able to sleep through the whole night till 8 or 9 the next morning ever since;

a few more words added to his vocabulary: "lanyard", "作者" (pronounce "zuo zhe", meaning "author" or "writer" in mandarin), and i think there're more but i can't recall right now - will add to the list later.

unfortunately though, we have a fever today.  :.(  i'm not sure whether it's because of the weaning, or that he's growing a new teeth, or what else.

please get well, dear baby alan!

bald bald bald

we went to the hair salon yesterday, and have alan's head shaved!  how cute he looks!

it's a chinese tradition to shave newborn babies head several times - when they turned one month, one year, and any other time you want.  it is said that they will grow better hair after shavings.  true or not, i have no idea.

but alan no longer looks like a baby with a bald head.  he looks a toddler.

bryan missed alan's baby hair, though.  he kept going on and on about it last night.