Wednesday 30 January 2008

A Letter from my dad!


It's about a month since I saw you and that's a long time and it's still about two weeks more until I will see you again. You are still in Beijing and I'm in Norway.
This is a time you are developing quickly and I guess I will see a big difference.
In fact you changed a lot only during the two weeks we were together in Beijing during Christmas.
Suddenly it was so much easier to have contact with you and you responded by smiling and laughing and trying to talk to us.
You started to use your hands trying to catch things and also you tried to put your fingers in your mouth, not always successfull but you improved all the time.
Your sleeping habits also changed a little and you slept much longer during night, normally only waking up one time for drinking milk and also sleeping longer in the morning.

Your mother tells me that you now are very clever using your hands catching things and that you easily can hold your toys.
A completely new thing you have started to do after I left is that you are using your voice much, much more and very strongly as well. And that you have a strong voice I can confirm because a few times when I have talked with your mother on the phone, I could hear you even you were not on the same floor.
I miss you very much and I'm really looking forward to seeing you again. There is one thing though that I wonder; will you recognise me? I've been with you every day for nearly three months; carrying you, changing your dipers etc and now it will be a break of one and a half month...will you remember? I'm not sure because you are still only a little baby, but I hope so.
On the other hand you have learned to know your Grandparents very well who have helped your mother looking after you during this period of time.
Your mother have sent a lot of nice pictures of you and I'm happy for that. A few times I've also seen you "live" through the computer...it was nice to see you and I noticed that you had changed a bit, your expression...and your hair starting to be more visible. It was strange though to see you, knowing you were so far away...I wanted to lift you out of the computer but unfortunately that's not possible. I have to wait a few weeks more to hold you and carry you around.

Tuesday 29 January 2008

I've got Books!!




My mother was to Beijing's biggest bookstore the other day and bought me some nice books, interesting...

Saturday 12 January 2008

More pics from the bathtub







Bathing


My parents bought a kind of inflateable bathring. At first I didn't understand what was going on when they tried to put this thing around my neck, but anyway I didn't cry...I trust them almost whatever they do to me....

I really like bathing and now even more than before because of this big bathtub and with this thing around my neck I'm floating with only my head above the water and it feels nice to have the whole body in the nice warm water, I also immediately found out that I could swim with my legs and arms and I could move from one end of the bathtub to the other in a few seconds.

My 3 months Birthday




My Birthday was celebrated at a big Shanxi restaurant (my mother's home Province) in Beijing together with my Grandparents. The restaurant is quite special and nicely decorated. It was some traditional food and something special that they eat when babies are this age...it looked like some kind of cakes. If you want to know how the taste was, you have to ask my dad.



Gifts


When I came to China I got a special gift. It's a tradition in my Chinese family...a silver necklace goes from mother to oldest daughter in family. Since my mother is the oldest and only girl she got it for her baby and that's me.The day before I left Norway I also got another silver gift; a silver bracelet with the inscription of my name and birthday from one of my dad's aunts.