I’m Not Ready For This

This week Emily started on her baby food: sweet peas. She liked it as much as her mommy and daddy did. On the first bite, she was kind of avoiding the spoon- not sure what’s in it; on the second bite, she leaned forward; on the third bite, she reached out for the bowl! By the end of the feeding, she opened her mouth wide and swallowed the peas like a pro! Here is a picture of her third bite ...

She also started to splash the water in the bath tub so we moved her from the kitchen sink to the big bath tub.


Emily licks on everything. In the restaurant, she licks on the menu (Yuck!); at home, she licks on the toys; if there's nothing else, she licks on her feet. She is so fascinated by any hanging strings (including my hair). She tries to catch them with both hands whenever she sees them.

We went to two birthday parties this week. One in Papadaux for Jeff Nolan and one in Papasido for Nikki. It was the first time for some of our friends at Jeff’s party to meet Emily. Lea cried when she first saw Emily. At Nikki’s party, Emily got to spend some time with Charlie, Ethan and Cole. We had great time at both places.

Dad stopped by Friday night on his way back home from Amy’s place. We had birthday cake for him and enjoyed breakfast with him Saturday morning. After that we met with Leslie and Johnny for lunch talking about the possibility of doing Let’s Start Talking in China this October. We’ve been planning it since early last year. Although it may still be difficult to do that with Emily. But we will not be able to find a convenient time in the near future. David is really motivated to study Chinese now. In his own words, he’s got 150 days to polish up his Chinese! We didn't have any plan for Saturday afternoon. So I tried a new recipe for making the sweet and sour pork ribs. After much boiling, frying, coating, the dish was ready by the dinner time. I couldn't wait to dig my chopsticks in the ribs. But for the first bite, I almost spit it out - it was way too salty! The recipe didn't call any salt. I remembered putting four table spoons of sugar in it though. Where did the salty flavor come from? "Did you put the salt in instead of the sugar?" David asked. Guess what? That must be what happened. I was trying to put Emily to bed in the middle of cooking. My brain was not working! Here is a picture of me washing off the salty coating and trying to modify it to another dish ...

Sunday Gayla invited us to her house for lunch. Emily found a baby that she loves there. Gayla was so kind to let her to take the baby home. Here is her first baby...

Sunday afternoon, I was busy in the kitchen. David came over and said, “Our Emily is a little girl now … Look at her, she is sitting there playing on her own – I’m not ready for this!” Yep, she’s growing up! I was in the mourning mood when I put away the onesies, dresses, hats that are too small for her. I was sad every time when I saw the bassinet and the bouncer at Babyrus - we sold them a couple of months ago. Six months flew by and she gains more and more independency each day. We are NOT ready for this!

Below is a past video of her rolling over from tummy to the back