More pictures

Pictures worth a thousand words...

I put Meghan in sit up position in the stroller two weeks ago, she seems so tiny and might need support. Now she's been sitting in the stroller going everywhere, wow!

My happy baby girl - ohh boy, don't I look like a boy?!

"naughty boy" - what did you find down there? What's so funny?!

Haha... I love laughing!


and laughing - mommy hate to throw away any sweet pictures of me!

Anything taste good! Looks like Meghan was smashed between Kaitlyn and me:

More mealtime fun!

Meghan now sit by herself really well. She falls occasionally because she would lean backwards suddenly. She hold things to play and transfer between hands. She can't pick up things exactly and racks or grabs it.

Got some videos to show she wants to walk and crawl now, even though she just learned roll. She rolls really fast to her left but not to the right.

I'm trying to figure out this thing - Meghan My girls... Are you pretending be shy?
This serious and curious look just like Kaitlyn when she was a baby!

Meghan loves Feizai - she wants to get down and be close to Feizai:

Hello Feizai!

Let me give you a kiss!

Good boy! Came back from a walk:

6month check up update

Meghan had her 6month check up last Thursday. She is as healthy as she can be: 75% (17lbs) on her weight, 90% on height, and 95% on head. One thing we all notice is she need physical therapy to correct her neck muscle (forgot what's the name called, will ask dr. again next week). It's not that obvious, but her head leans towards one side a little more. Will see what therapy says next week.

She is such a happy sweet baby, and sure her personality starts to build up more and more. We'll see how different she is from Kaitlyn. Let me catch up the pics for now:

Back in March at 5month - busy tasting feet and fingers the same time:

Some random pics from her playtime and bath time:


Busy eating Kaitlyn's homework - jealous she got a 100?

What's this? Another homework for me to eat? Does she look like mommy at all? Why everyone is saying she looks like daddy a lot?

Hey, I found my Halloween costume already, haha... So confused looking at herself in the mirror!

Mealtime - fun time! It's a show when Kaitlyn and Meghan eat together.

Can I taste it, please? - Meghan OK, just one lick! - Kaitlyn Camera, look at the camera! - Kaitlyn
Yeah, I'm ready to eat, (really meant to play...) Let's share - half and half! Good sister time! - Kaitlyn
I can't wait any longer... - Meghan Who is gonna eat first? We both want it! I want it! - Meghan
We were at the park Easter weekend:

With grandma -

It's me - the non-stop girl! With grandma again. What's so funny?
Kaitlyn being a nice big sissy! Meghan agrees too! Ohh, yeah mommy got a picture too! And we both looking at the same direction - but not the camera... I like this one - looks like Kaitlyn is telling Meghan a secret or kissing her.

Nursing strike... Miracle... stressful weeks!

I started the title but didn't have time to write anything, because I was too busy dealing with a very fussy baby, plus a very mind-challenged six-year old the same time!

I went to Circle of Mom asking for help, this is my message there, kind of described what happened at the beginning:

Since two nights ago, my 6month old daughter has been refusing to nurse. She will arch her back and scream when I put her to my breast. I walk her around and rock her while I try to feed her or I will wait until she is sleepy, but still unsuccessful. I thought she was teething since she bites/sucks fingers sometimes, but I don't see any tooth cutting out. (She already had two cutting out couple weeks ago). I doubt she has ear infection since looks normal and plays well. This is especially frustrating when she awakes in the middle of night or morning hungry but can't eat and we both loose a lot of sleep.

She does take bottle better twice yesterday and drank 15oz all day with some rice cereal and applesauce. I tried to pump but can barely pump anything out now, guess I'm too stressful. I'm afraid my milk supply will stop soon. One of my guess is she just learned to drink from bottle few days ago, and has been eating with spoon. So she is either too busy with learning all the new skills or confused.

I am stressed out and frustrated I'm thinking about weaning her to a bottle. Is this just a stage she is going through? What can I do to get her back to breastfeeding or at least eat at normal amount?

Well, miracle happened on the Good Friday. She slowly start taking milk again, but very cautiously. I just want to cry at the moment! For several weeks, the whole family was exhausted since she cried so much at night and woke up for 2-3hrs playing since 2:30am. Then the daytime struggle continued... she is as happy and sweet as she always is, just struggle with eating, reflux, tummy pain...

I checked with drs. She guess it's her reflux coming back again! It was painful for all of us. She is so painful, especially with the silent reflux when she laid down, that's what's keeping her up many times at night. The reflux and gas medication don't help that much either. She just have to outgrow it! So, I've been watching my diet, modify her feeding schedules, massage, medication, whatever it takes to get her feel better. Six-month sounds like a big transition period.


Today, three weeks later, she's doing much better. Back to eating milk again with some solids, but still have bad spitting up and reflux everyday! I'm already happy she only wakes up 2-3times at night and goes back to sleep soon! Thank goodness!

Meghan sure looks fine when she plays: