New Diet, Teething, and Packing

Emily just loved her real food this week: puffs, cheese, corn on the cob, macaroni and cheese, bread, grapes, banana, brocolli, etc. She also loved the frozen celery. These new food can keep her occupied for a long time. Puffs are the biggest hit that it quiets her down every time at church. We are so happy about this because we will have more food choices when we are on the road. It was so neat to watch her to pick up food with fingers and put them into her mouth. We can hear her biting on them!



We bought Emily a little basketball goal (for $5). See how excited she was:


Emily also had a few difficult times. For two nights, she was suddenly cranky and crying. I thought the terrible two must have come early. We started looking into how to react appropriately when she is unhappy and whether we should have some discipline strategy toward her. Two days later, she was back to normal again. She touched the top gum with her fingers all the time. So we thought maybe more teeth are coming out. Poor baby! The frozen celery and teething ring really helped a lot at times like this. But I don't like the fact that she has to hold the frozen things with her tiny hands - it's so hard on baby!

David took Justin to Bob Chishom's Step by Step study Tuesday night. Friday afternoon he took Emily to see Sue. Friday night we went to Brook and Ann's house for their reader Michael's birthday party. Saturday we went to Fred and Fang's house for the going-away party for Fang's parents. The food was the best food I've had in a long time. Cody recited an ancient Chinese poem "Zan Zi Jing" for us; Evan sang a Chinese song "Only Mom is the Best in the World". Their Chinese really amazed us. Hopefully Emily will absorb both languages too. Sunday we had Marv, David and Gayla over for lunch. It was a busy weekend.




We started packing for the China trip now. It seems like Emily's stuff will occupy the big suitcase. David and I will pack our stuff in the smaller suitcase. We may need a third one for the LST stuff.

Happy last days of August!

Here is a picture of Emily dancing with Mom:





And a video of Emily's first bite of the sweet potato puff. She struggled with it for a little while. But after that she was so proficient with her fingers.