So nice to have a big sissy!

Just when I sat down to write, Meghan cried. I went to calm her down. This girl sure can cry - once she opens her mouth to cry, she will make sure everyone can hear her from any corner in the house, no monitor needed! Well, since she likes music that much, she might as well try singing American Idol in the future?! Haha...

It's a wonderful thing to have a big sissy, a nice one! Why I say this? The younger one gets to preview everything before deciding what she wants to do. She gets to make mistakes with no excuse because she started younger. She gets to show mommy/daddy how smart she is by "stealing" big sissy's idea. She gets help from big sissy since she was born. She gets unconditional love from big sissy all the time...

So here are couple things happened this week to proof this:

Story one: At the playground - I got to try a big swing with my sissy, and I don't need to do any work. Lala..

Story Two: Um, yummy! How to get things I want:

First - you see my big smile? Am I sweet?! (click on the picture to see enlarged view)

Then - What is it? Does it taste good? Can I try some? please.....

Next: Look at my eyes... How could you say no? Last: Ahh, nice! I love you! I want more!!

Story three: At the gym - Meghan gets to watch Kaitlyn's gymnastics class tonight. She loves it! My mom just can't get her eyes off the girls on the floor!

Also to show mommy's double chin...

Sister talk

First day daddy is out of town, everything went well. Kaitlyn started missing her daddy already. I told her to write journal about what she missed daddy about. Sure FishWorld is on the list! She draw a card saying she missed daddy. Umm, that makes me a little jealous. What about if I leave for a few days? Will she be celebrating that mommy is gone so she would have more freedom to do whatever?!

It's so much funny to watch two girls talking to each other! Amazing and melts my heart! I always wonder how they get along with each other before Meghan was born. Now, when I see them getting closer everyday, I feel so relieved and so happy. There will be good sharing and rough conversations down the road, I'm sure...

What's new with Meghan? Everyday I noted something new with her, seriously! Like today she sucked her bubbles back while playing on her tummy. Guess won't be far from the day she eats real food :-)

What else?

1. Since she tries to sit up whenever possible, she gets frustrated if she can't . What she does is she will pull up her shirt in the front to try to lift herself up. So cute, guess she hasn't learned physics yet, doesn't know that even the strongest person in the world cannot lift himself up. Haha...

2. When playing on her tummy, she can use one arm to hold up and spare the other hand to reach things. Good try!

3. She likes sticking her whole hands into her mouth and licks fingers. Doesn't look like she likes sucking anything, not even a pacifier ( I tried... ), instead just licking things. Does it relate to the problem that she refuses bottles since 1 1/2 month? Spoiled baby!

4. Ohh, she bites me already! Although she did it before every now and then. But today, she bites hard and did it at least 4 times in a roll. Hey girl, don't do that if you still want mommy to feed you!

5. I can't really swaddle her tight anymore, she always finds her way to get her arms out. I often find her outside her blankets (even it's like three layers) in the morning.

6. And she grabs things so tight. She pulls my hair off, and pinch me so hard. Ur...

7. Not sure if she starts recognizing strangers already. When my friend Emma came visiting us over the weekend, she burst out crying/screaming when she hold her, twice! Maybe she was just hungry then...

This is gonna be a tough girl - strong-willed, persistent, active, and very focused when watching something for mins. (like things she finds out on the wall, on the floor, and any person talking).

What's new this week

What's new this week? Meghan is busy practicing her roll-over skill, eyes/hands coordination (grab and holding things). Of course sitting up, talking, and observing everything. So interesting to see her changes everyday. For a lot of her developments, once you miss it, it's gone. She learned it and will not go back again. It reminds me of many things about baby Kaitlyn. But the same time it makes me feel guilty theat I wasn't around Kaitlyn that much.

I feel so blessed to stay home taking care of her at this age. Of course we make less money now, but by making little arrangements, our lifestyle haven't really change much. I get to experience all the growth milestone of our little girl, plus participate more daily activities with Kaitlyn both at school and home. No money can make up for this! Things I do miss from working is me interact with outside world, have more free time doing things for "ME", feel free taking more vacations, and some worries of "IF". Anyway, enjoy while I can, life is never perfect. This balance point will be shifted between career and family from time to time.

Holding key set really well:
My favorite things to play - my fingers:

Here is just an example of babbling. She carries the "conversation" way better after feeding, on my lap. But its hard to catch it, because she's very sensitive to the camera. As soon as she notice the camera, she stops talking and smiling. I need to find sth. to disguise my camera.

By accident, I found out she really likes books. Whenever I hold a book in front of her (when she is not tired or hungry), she gets excited and starting reading, talking a lot. I have no desire to teach her read at this age at all, just fun to watch her reacting.

Right around 3 month, Meghan started sitting up by herself a lot more. Here are two clips taken right around the holiday.

First one was taken a week before 3month - my car seat baby. Since she won't fall asleep by herself in the crib, we walk her to sleep in car seat a lot during the first three month. Better than holding her to sleep.

Another one was taken a week after 3month. Excuse the mess on my bed...

Here is another clip I took during X'mas time, I got to show it. Kaitlyn has been such a great mommy's helper/big sissy. She wanted to push the stroller so Meghan won't cry. One time, she rock her to sleep! Half way in the video, I can hear Kaitlyn asking how much money does she get for pushing stroller? "Better be more than $1", as she said - that's a lot of money for her already! Haha... Funny - smart girl thinking about personal finance already! Haha...

I want it but my hands don't listen!

See how determining Meghan is when she wants to get something! So funny!

And towards the end, you can hear Kaitlyn saying "tug-of-war". Does it mean conflict started early already? I'm so happy to see Kaitlyn's kindness and patient to her baby sister.



See if the video works.

Afraid of blogging again!

After almost a year of not blogging, I'm a little nervous to re-blog again. Why? Don't know where to start, don't know if I will stop again, feel guilty I missing a lot or even more... (Well not that much since I did write things down on paper notebook after Meghan was born). The longer I don't write, the more I'm afraid to write again. Well, it's better to start tonight then just thinking but not doing anything at all!

So this past week was fun and busy. Kaitlyn had an early piano class on Friday, since she had a b-day party on Saturday. We drove 30mins in rain for a 30mins class dragging everyone in the car... Then, Saturday was grandma's b-day, Meghan's 100day celebration, then Sunday was Kaitlyn's half-birthday. We didn't really do anything big to celebrate, let's assume Cody's b-day party is also for us, since we all had fun together.

Here are some cool pics of Kaitlyn before going into the laser room. I was surprised to know she won the first place. We missed it because we had to take Meghan to restroom for diaper change - good timing, she was screaming after pooped while we watching. I don't know how Kaitlyn did it, she doesn't either. I believe she runs fast, but she had never played this before, she is not the one that's like shooting or chasing after others, she is not that active in public either... maybe she is calm and good at aiming others while hiding herself.

Let me see what else happen to Kaitlyn this month so far:

1. She sent out her first artwork to publisher - National Geography Kids. We're not aiming for publishing (but sure hope so), but to practice and have fun. We were reading NGKids the other day, and she saw the magazine ask kids to draw a picture of "what do pets do when they're home alone". Kaitlyn loves dogs and cats, she was all excited to draw it. Well, I decided not to put any pics for this since it had too much personal information. I have to say I really like her drawing. Not matter she gets selected or not, I'm so proud she is interested and willing to try.

2. First day back to school, was cold!

3. Making recycle paper by herself.

4. She loves playing with Meghan. Her favorite sayings for now are 1) "Hello, chubby chubby cheeks!" when she sees her; 2) "It's ok, little buddy!" when she sees Meghan crying. It's so cute to hear her saying that.

As far as Meghan, sure time flies by quickly. She is 100days old now! (Doesn't mean much here, but big deal in China) Ever since she turned 3month old, she seems having major development everyday. She is very alert to surroundings now, she loves Kaitlyn's voice/action. She babbles more and drooling more, she tries hard to sit up, she enjoys going out and so busy observing everything. She loves smiling, but the same time, her temper grows bigger as well. It's so funny to see her gets mad within a second and scream loud. Ohh, she also giggle a lot. Sometimes one giggle a time, sometime one after another. It cracks me up!

A funny pic of Meghan - sure enjoys her ride, with fingers all sucking in her mouth singing for herself, and one foot high up on the cup holder...

She is very attracted to TV and computer screens - we put her in front of BabyEistein for the first time, sure another fan is here on daddy's day off: (I promise I won't let her watch much TV!)

More pics of threesome playing together:

Kaitlyn wants to put Meghan's hands on her tummy, I was afraid Meghan may hurt Kaitlyn. Funny to see Meghan's face - sees like she is saying "I don't' want to, she asks me to... "

"Am I cute?!" So comfortable sitting on top of daddy's belly.

Busy looking at everything at the grocery store with grandma.

Three women in the house: