Rolling over both ways... spells trouble

Evan mastered rolling over both ways. He kept rolling away when we put him on flat surface. It is cute to watch the little 肥豬guy rolling all over our bed, but then he rolls so fast that within 5 second, he could roll off our bed or the playmat. We now have to watch him like a hawk.

This guy's curiosity makes him want to explore everywhere, touch everything, and put everything in his mouth all the time! Even when I nurse him, he would swing his arms around to see what he can touch; it could be my hair or a string on my shirt. 好好奇, 好八卦。

He started sticking his toe in his mouth!

He saw the gap on his crib tonight. So he purposely tried to stick his leg out. He looked like he was trying to get out of jail. :)

"Oh no! I am stuck!"
Alright, enough excitement for today. Going to take a bath and then sleep. Good night!

I haven't figured out how to best use iphone to upload photos on blogger. (I don't know how to format the size of the photos and add captions.) Hope I can find out how to do that soon.

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Chinese New Year Evan

This past week has been a super busy week. Attended a wedding last night (can't believe Evan would have attended 5 weddings before he turns 6-month-old.), went to dim sum with our relatives, hot pot with at my parents', and spent a lot of time tidying up our home. I organized all, and I mean all, shelves and closets, cleaned all surface area in every single room, and packed up all small items. Ka made several trips moving our stuff up to our parents'. Consider how little stuff we have and how much I love cleaning, I still didn't enjoy the process that much. The end result, however, is wonderful. It feels so nice to have created a clutter-free living space.

Good thing Evan slept for 10-hrs straight again this weekend. At least I had some good rest the past two nights. I really wish he can stay this way. But I am truly convinced that babies, just like adults, don't necessary do the same thing everyday.

Anyway, let me put up some Chinese New Year photos and go to zzz.

Chinese outfit. The hat is way too big even for this 大頭仔 (big head). Thanks Peggy and Vikki for helping me pick the outfit!

I like the gold suit on him. It makes him look like a little king (正一皇帝仔). 邊到有皇帝唔著襪唔著鞋架?

"修身. 齊家. 治國. 平天下."

"媽咪, 呢句說話點解呀. (我五個月人仔咱.)""噢.要平天下要先修身..."

E: "我知喇, 媽咪每晚食少杯雪糕, 我就修身啦!"
媽咪: "..."

同場加影. 送給祝我年生貴子的朋友. 豬仔十兄弟. :)

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Exciting weekend

Over the weekend, we went to see a house, went with our parents to inspect the house again, attended two weddings, celebrated our friend's birthday, put in an offer for a home... all within 36 hours! We surely made good use of the last two days of the year of Rabbit. I have some photos to post, but should make use of my time to do some cleaning up of our home. :) Will post those later.

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我的星期五

前晚呀仔差唔多一個鐘起一次身, 仲勁過初出世時, 呀媽真係得番四份一條人命; 尋晚1:10am先訓, 1:30am起身, 2:30am又起身, 之後5am都醒過, 不過自己哭两哭訓返, 起碼訓到今朝十點, 叫做好少少.

慣左豬仔呢两日早起身, 所以我今日豬仔未醒, 我都已經起左身. 搞左一陣電話, 豬仔醒左, 煎年糕做早餐, 餵奶, 自己沖涼.

老公開左隻Roomba吸塵, 返工; 我就一邊跟豬仔玩, 一邊做家務. 見個地實在太污糟, 拖下個地; 見煎年糕隻鍋未洗, 洗埋d碗; 見張床單成三個禮拜無洗, 洗床單... 做做下豬仔扭計, 又要跟佢玩下, 抱下佢, 'tum'佢訓覺. 總之無停過. 煎咗年糕都係有時間食咗三片.

之後跟Dor 食lunch. 有人跟呀仔玩, 起碼可以用少d精神. (真係要萬二分感謝呀Dor, 又帶lunch俾我食, 又幫我'tum'到Evan勁開心. Dor: 你第日生個女喇. 生女我會叫Evan以身相許.)

豬仔訓afternoon nap. Nap nap 下俾樓下大貨車響按嚇醒. Tum定d佢再跟佢玩換片同餵奶.

差唔多八點老公返. 問佢佢先話十點打hockey. 咁咪要九點半出門口! 好彩我無等佢返來已經開始bake pizza. 一邊食pizza一邊寫wedding cards (無再handmade cards 喇, 你估我好得閒呀), 一邊tum 豬仔.

幫完豬仔沖涼, 餵奶. 點知唔瞓. 陪玩到十二點先瞓. 之後拿拿臨揀聴日著嘅衫, 聽曰用嘅嘢, pack diaper bag, pack食奶用品... 豬仔十二點半可能發惡夢嚇醒, tum 返佢訓... 我本來已經好zzz, 不過要熨大少套衫. 之後見開左個iron board, 又擔心老公夜返無時間熨, 熨埋老公件衫. 熨衫唔係我強行, 熨左大半個鐘 (老公回家一句: 我本來聽日早d起身熨... 唉, 呢d咪叫死蠢囉.). 想訓, 發覺張被未入被袋, 枕頭未有枕頭袋. 搞掂好已經两點幾.

老公逢星期五晚打hockey. 我就要一個人搞掂呀仔. 當大部分人都TGIF時, 我就唔係太期望星期五跟週末來臨. 好像今日咁, 好堅既一日. 原來做呀媽真係有超常人既energy. 呢個weekend兩個weddings, 一個birthday lunch, 聴朝仲約咗人. 好忙!

"媽咪, 你咁辛苦, 等我kiss返你啦." <3

咁就3:44am. 晚安.

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Shopping Therapy 1: My new toy

Got myself a new toy today. I was going to wait till I return to work, but after this whole week of sleepless nights dealing with Evan and his fussiness last week, I have decided to treat myself better. Finally I am no longer using a dumb phone. :)

I joked that I will take shopping therapy whenever I have a rough time with Evan. Wakakaka, I will probably be broke by the time he turns one!

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Dear Evan...I hope you will sleep better tonight.

To my dearest dearest Evan baby:

I hope you will sleep better tonight. You've been waking up at 2am and then at 7am the last several nights already. Your last night of waking up at 1am, 2:00am, 3:00am, 5:30am, 7am, and then at 10am was not fun at all ...


(And while I typed this sentence, our little Evan boy woke up from his sleep again. :(

Were you having nightmares? Were you hungry? Were you bothered by something in the environment? Or did I do something wrong, such as the nursing you to sleep at night so that you lost your ability to sooth yourself back to sleep? Or were you just going through another development phase?

It puzzles me how you suddenly went from sleeping 10 hours at night, to waking up every 2 hours. Though you can go back to sleep after nursing or with a pacifier, or both. It still can take up to 30min sometimes to get you back to sleep.

The worst is that you haven't been able to enter deep sleep during the day as well! Just like today, we startled you during every single one of your naps.

(Hmm.. Evan just woke up crying loudly again. :( )

Though you slept at 9:40pm tonight, we startled you at 10:50pm. And after returning to sleep at 11:30pm, you woke up again just now! (Just before midnight)

I hope you won't be waking up every hour tonight. It is not fun for mommy and daddy to hear you cry as if you were really bothered by something at night, and it must not be fun for you not to get a good night sleep as well.

Love,
Mommy

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Evan in a hat + Exploring with diapers + Vaughn Mills

A good weekend, but also a tired weekend. Evan woke up at 2:30am and then at 7:30am the past 2 nights! I want him to go back to sleeping for 10 hours again! Zzz.Zzz.Zzz...

1-14-2012; We have been enjoying some relatively mild weather this winter. Finally the temperature was in the minus-teens yesterday. We had to bring Evan out. I was worried the little guy would be cold, so we put on a hat for him.
His annoyed look plus his big head does not go at all with this cute newborn hat. 下次都係唔好咁懶, 求其攞頂帽就算. 要襯得好少少先得. He looks too funny. :P
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1-15-2012: Diaper baby 我有好多好多片!

Evan is a big boy now. He is wearing size 3 diapers. 我大個仔喇. 要著三號片.

咦~~ d片有無著過架. 擺o係我個頭到都得既.

So what does Evan do with his diaper (and almost everything else)? First he studies it by looking at it. 呢塊就係包住我屁股既片喇.
He then explores with his hands. 原來可以打開既...And then he would put it in his mouth. Yum yum. 幾好食.
Mommy and Evan
Big fat thighs 肥髀

Went to Vaughn Mills to buy a new top for Ka for Chinese new year. I kept saying we will only look for adult clothes, but ended up spending more time at baby Mexx and Toys R Us. I was nervous about shopping at Vaughn Mills since it is always so busy. But it wasn't too bad. What I liked the most is the family washroom and nursing room. Men can go in to help change diapers while there is an additional section for mommies to nurse their little ones. It makes life so much easier that Ka can be there to help.

Daddy helping to burp the little one 林大爺和林大少

What's Evan so mesmerized by?

Definitely something very interesting...

Ah! It's this ceiling fan! Guess it spins around, just like his mobile. :)

Ok... really need to sleep. Crossing my fingers that Evan won't wake up until tomorrow morning.

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Toonie or Loonie?

Had dinner with EasTa last night. Time always goes by so quickly when chatting with them. At the end of dinner, Evan was given a choice to choose between the Toonie ($2 silver colour coin on the left), or Loonie ($1 gold colour coin on the right). See which one he chose.

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Our first family trip: Niagara Falls 玩樂篇

We went to Niagara Falls for the weekend. Overall, it was a pleasant trip. The weather was surprisingly nice. Evan cooperated for the most part, he slept through the drive and slept through our meals, and woke up when we got to the attractions for photos. Packing for a baby requires so much more than packing for just us. I can't imagine what it will be like packing for a longer trip.

今個trip relax一下之餘另一個目的是試帶豬仔到其他地方過一晚夜. 真係大陣仗. 一晚overnight trip都要寫 "Packing List". 我自己就只帶了一件衫, passport, 和toiletry items. BB就一篋野: 衫五套, 巾仔四條, 外套一厚一薄, 襪子, 片差不多二十條, 藥膏, wipes, 床單, 玩具, 奶樽, 奶嘴, 洗潔精, breast pump, baby tylenol, 再加carrier. 不過唔好以為我誇張地overpack, 我們結果除了一套衣服, 所有野都用過. (還要忘記帶沖涼毛巾.) 有BB之後去旅行真係無咁自由.

"今期豬仔流浪記旅遊特輯介紹的是Niagara Falls Clifton Hill."

"Introducing to you Niagara Falls Clifton Hill"

Canadian Midway 媽咪嗲地拍拖時好鐘意去架. 媽咪成日都玩到唔捨得走. 裡面有好多遊戲機, 玩完可以換玩具架.
"Canadian Midway is one of mommy and daddy's favourite spot to go in the area.""至於我後面呢個圓錄錄既東東係唔係好大好靓呢."
"And behind me is a big ferris wheel!"

"呢個摩天輪叫Sky Wheel, 2006年建成. Skywheel令到成個Clifton Hill都摩登左好多."
"It's called Skywheel."

"Clifton Hill 真係一家大細都口岩玩."
"Clifton Hill is perfect for everyone, old and young."附近有Skylon Tower可以從高處望個falls.
"導演, 拍完未呀. 好眼訓呀."
"Are we done yet? I am getting sleepy."

Niagara Falls聖誕節還有Disney的燈飾.
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." ~Walt Disney
等我訓多d, 發多d好夢先.

Ontario Niagara Parks. Lights Up Your Life.

我非常鐘意豬仔著呢件jacket. 攬住佢好似攬住隻bear咁.
I love this jacket. It feels like hugging a teddy bear when holding him.
Thanks Joanne and Eric for the Jacket!

媽咪仔 and 我最鐘意的豬仔.
Me and my dear baby.

豬仔扮熊 at the falls. 瀑布變左彩虹色. :)
Falls turned rainbow colour. Pretty. :)

嗲地鐘意呢張相既燈光.
Ka likes the lighting from this photo.

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小朋友與小烏龜

從前有一個小朋友, 佢八八卦卦咁两頭望.

佢成日都好好奇四周發生既事.
正當佢tummy time都要食手指時...

呢個時候, 有隻小烏龜經過.

小朋友扮師獅子去嚇小烏龜: "Rarrrrrr!!!!!"

"其實我嚇下你唶. 我好善良架."同場加映: Teletubby Evan. :) 呢個大頭仔, 成日著衫都卡住個頭.

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Evan at 4-month + Misc Photos from January

有時都好懶唔想寫blog, 因為寫blog就等於少左休息時間, 不過又好鐘意之後讀返.
Evan has grown and developed so many new skills the past month.

From our doctor's appointment 3 weeks ago:
Weight and head size are still 90-97%-tile. Height is at 75%. At least he is growing at a steady (instead of an increasing) rate this month.

New developments:
- Started reaching out to grab things. 初初完全伸都唔肯伸手. 無端端有己一手攞起眼前東西. 最鐘意我個眼鏡和頭髮, 又會搞我件衫, 自己條布布. 依家如果佢對眼前既野有興趣, 佢都會拿起來看看.
- Rolled over from back to front. Rolled non-stop once we put him on flat sturdy surface. 佢好像以為 roll-over 就可以得到自己想要既野.
- Love studying his hands with fond interest. 成日噘起個嘴, 皺起眉去研究自己對手.
- Found his feet and kept looking at them 開始自己掂到自己隻腳.
- Strong feet and neck muscles. Can support himself up with our help easily. Can sit on his own for a short period of time.
- Learned to sleep on his own. All depends on when we put him to bed. He can't go to sleep if there are lots of stimulation around.
- 同佢玩會笑到哈哈聲.
- Started drooling.
- 非常豬事八掛. 食奶換片時超級唔專心. 耳朵好靈敏. 一有聲, 佢就會四圍揾聲音來源.
- 開始有preference有要求, 學識扭計.
- Love it when I read books to him.


Took lots more photos after the new year since Evan was back to his happier self again.

12-30-2011: 肉團團. Chubby baby enjoying his bath.
It is a struggle to bath Evan these days since he wouldn't stop moving.
而家幫佢沖涼好似鬥豬牛咁. 唔係大力踢水, 就係扭腰翻身, 伸腳, 擺手入口(連埋皂水一起)食, "sir" 低個頭去飲水.. 要不斷抱返佢坐正.
"I can touch my foot!'
"摸下我隻肥豬腳先!"

1-3-2012: Evan's looks like this lately when he smiles at people whom he likes. 好作狀.

Tai-chi baby. 豬仔太極拳.真係好鬼鐘意BB既睡姿. 訓到成個指揮家咁. 好搞笑.
BeethoEvan.
個個都話小Evan成日鄒眉, 似好憤怒, 似常在思考.
正如Dor姐姐講: 我大聲唔等於我粗魯. 我鄒眉唔等於我 憤怒.
People say I look mad because I frown... Just because I frown, doesn't mean I am mad.

1-4-2012: Interesting facial expression

"各位鄉親父老, 叔伯兄弟. 小弟獻醜喇."表演變臉! 請看哈哈笑鏡.

Evan seems to have learned to smile at my camera.

Happy baby = happy mommy. :)

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