Category: Kids

Here’s Lia’s first experience with Broccoli…

I guess she liked it!

First of all, congratulations to Vivian and George for a beautiful wedding with many personalized touches this past Sunday! After the ceremony, we attended the reception.

Then there was the bouquet toss.  Stella was planning to bring Lia to the group, but she was very late in getting up to the group.  By the time she arrived at the back of the pack, the bouquet missile had already been launched into its trajectory and momentarily hit its target of Stella and Lia.  Lia’s head was covered in a layer of sparkles, and she immediately informed all wedding participants of her dismay at this unfolding of events, with a loud wail.

What an experience for a first wedding!

Here’s Lia’s first experience with solid food, the Rice Cereal!  Does she like it? Or does she not?

Lia has hit a new milestone! Unfortunately her first activity after achieving this milestone is not highly desirable…

It is interesting that the day after my video on Lia was posted, we were advised not to let the baby stand or use the exersaucer too early because it will cause Lia’s legs to become as curled as cupid’s bow.  Concerned about this dire warning, I put my research cap on and branched out to the world’s biggest knowledgebase, and what did I find?  It may be yet another folk lore.  Here’s one such example:

http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22108/52715-ten-terrible-parenting-tips–booze

Or this…

http://pregnancyandbaby.com/pregnancy/baby/What-causes-bowleggedness-4071.htm

Does it seem like a myth?  Or is there some basis for this?

Last week at our small group, it was mentioned babies can start bouncing by 4 months. Unfortunately we haven’t read anything about this, so Lia couldn’t put much weight on her legs. After small group I decided to add a little leg-building exercise to her routine, and after 3-4 days, here was the result…

Ba ba is the Taiwanese version of “Pa pa”.  Did Lia say it?

Lia is now 5 month old!  Now it’s a little odd that after spending 5 months with Lia, we haven’t been able to get her to laugh out loud. Now Carol, upon seeing Lia for the first time in 4 months, seems to yield better results…

And did she learn to say “Up” toward the end there?

The books say that by the fourth month, babies tend to stick everything they can grab in their mouth.  Lia is right on schedule…

And then it stays there…

A little funny to see her head tilt back and forth with a cloth dangling from her mouth, but at least she’s happy.  🙂

To impart aspirations of being a future worship leader, we started Lia early on Piano lessons…

Unfortunately she seemed to have other aspirations of her own…

We should probably stop having Lia watch TV with me…