New toy!

The Nanny told me Nathan has been enjoying toys like crib mobiles toys so we bought him one and he enjoys it! He was trying to figure out what that big thing was but the same day in the afternoon he learned how to play with it! 

This is how it looks like from Nathan's angle.

早安，來杯寶寶提提神! Good morning! Care for a cup of baby?

I saw people doing this so I made my own cup of baby! 

Sunny day

We decided to take Nathan to the park on a sunny Sunday.

 And family time

Childhood memory = Baby Nathan?

The below picture is one of the most popular snacks when I was a kid. The cartoon boy on the box was famous.

Doesn't Nathan look just like the cartoon boy with the bangs? His cheeks are so chubby that they hang down a bit.

This was when I took him home from the Nanny's yesterday and this naughty boy was pulling my shirt. Maybe he wanted me to rock with him just like what his outfit said?

Useful things

This blanket that grandma's friend made for Nathan is very useful after I get him from the Nannys and need a place to put him down right away. He plays and sleep on it a couple of times a day. :)

Busy but happy

I have been busy since I went back to work. I had four classes before Nathan came, now two of them are graduating so I only have two classes. I'm still busy! I have to prepare lessons, make tests, and find time to pump my milk during breaks.

Leaving him for work every morning is hard, but going to the Nanny's to pick him up always makes me excited.  He is truly the best gift.

 

Bath time!

Baby Nathan grows so fast so he looks different everyday. We can literally "see" the difference!

We are always saying "He is heavier than yesterday", "He is taller today" and "His face looks different"!

Today, you'll get to see us givig Nathan a bath!
And Nathan taking a bath at the postpartum care center. He was only 20 days old then.
I miss him so much at work everyday. He is just so precious!

2 months + 8 days

Nathan is getting bigger! See how his hair looks now and one month ago? It looks shorter because his head is bigger now.  Although he is bigger, people on the street are still commenting on how small he is and they are always telling me I shouldn't take such a small baby out when I carry him back home from the Nanny's. 

My wrists has been hurting since we got home. Here in Taiwan we call it "Mama hands".  According to Wikipedia, it is stenosing tenosynovitis, a painful condition caused by the inflammation (tenosynovitis) and progressive restriction of the superficial and deep flexors fibrous tendon sheath adjacent to A1 pulley at a metacarpal head.  My wrists hurt the most when I wake up in the morning so I avoid holding Nathan then just to be careful. Jonathan doesn't seem to have "mama hands" though. I wonder if dads get "papa hands". 

Here comes Baby Beatles. 

It's fake bangs. :D 

Hope to blog more this week if not too busy. Ciao! 

Happy Mother's Day!

每天，我都想念我的母親。每日每夜，特別是我當了媽媽之後。
如果媽媽能參加我的婚禮，看到有一個這麼愛我的男人照顧我，看到我也變成媽媽...會是多麼好的事。
我媽真美，美到我都慚愧了。

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers!

Not just on Mother's Day, Jonathan and I miss our moms every single day.


See how gorgeous my mom was? I couldn't even be compared with her even though I'm her daughter.
How I wish she could see me getting married and becoming a mother.

Mom and little Peixin on Moon Festival

江江的媽媽也好美哦! 但小江江的表情...看到什麼不乾淨的嗎?



Happy Mother's Day to myself!

Don't worry. He just got a vaccine so that's a cotton ball on his thigh. 

Spending the day with Jonathan and my little Seidman!

Baby bear 1 month + 29 days

I bought two vest blankets for Nathan because one time I left the room to wash to bottles then came back and found the blanket covering his entire face. My heart almost stopped beating the moment I walked into the room. With this blanket we can be sure the blanket covers his chest and it doesn't come off because of his kicking or moving. 

故事開始 Our lives changed forever since...

2012年的7月某一晚，覺得身體怪怪的，該來的也沒來就驗了一下，這到底是有沒有懷孕呀? 第二條線那麼淡，淡到幾乎看不到。記得當晚頭很暈，像喝醉，就跟江江說:「我好累哦，我要睡了!」就倒頭就睡。

Sixth sense told me "you might be pregnant"...but the second line was so light I could hardly  see it. 

第二天一早覺得昨晚的頭暈不尋常，女人的第六感很強的! 再驗了一次，好深的第二條線呀! 懷孕了嗎? 懷孕了吧! 走進房裡給江江看，江江剛睡醒，沒什麼興奮。好像只說了句:「真的?」哼!電影果然是電影。現實生活中，男人根本不會興奮得跑起老婆浪漫的旋轉說:「我要當爸爸了!我要當爸爸了!」

Next day, the second line was very obvious. And in two hours we were leaving for Greece!!

驗到這深深的第二條線是要去希臘的早上，要出門搭飛機了。我完完全全沒想到可不可以坐飛機耶，懷孕又不是生病，沒什麼不行吧!

Nathan went to Greece with us!

回來後馬上到婦產科，也就是這時開始吐了...

When Nathan was just a little black dot 

大約7週

Nathan got bigger! 

And bigger

三個月，可以分享好消息啦~ 話說我肚子真的大得很早又很快!

12 weeks. Ready to announce the news!

才四、五個月肚子就這麼大。那時候上課上到一半都要跑出去吐



大約14週，寶寶的腳，好可愛呀!

Nathan's feet

寶寶的手，好像在說「嗨~」

Nathan waving "hi"

大約5個月，好清楚的人形! 太不可思議了!!!!!!天啊!!!有個人住在我肚子裡耶!!!

About 20 weeks

寶寶美麗的脊椎。要檢查頸部透明帶，胎兒必須是躺著的姿勢，但是寶寶一直翻滾，就是不平躺，在診所花了快四個小時才照到…

Nathan's beautiful spin

開始吸手指了

Sucking thumb

吐得很厲害，還是要裝沒事

Pretending to be a pretty pregnant woman while feeling very sick

肚子痛隨便找了間診所去，想不到醫生給我們看了寶寶的臉!! 而且這間隨便找的診所還是很多明星都會去的超有名診所。

大約30週

About 30 weeks

 肚子尖吧! 很多路人都好像跟我很熟說:「肚子好尖哦，是男生吼?」

Many people on the street commented on my pointy belly "Your belly is so big and pointy, must be a boy!!"



33週了，辛苦指數有增無減，還是要裝沒事的來一張美照。才33週大家就以為我要生了 = =
 33weeks, everybody thought I was going to have the baby soon. I was HUGE.

生產前兩天，已經胖18公斤啦!

 Two days before labor. Gained 40 pounds

寶寶出生了!

Nathan arrived. 2995 grams.

懷孕到生產對我而言，非常艱辛。有人說生完才是痛苦的開始，不不不，懷孕的辛苦和生產的痛對我來說是最痛苦的(有看過我的生產文就知道我的生產不容易呀!)

但是我一點都不後悔這整個過程。我愛我的男人，我愛我的小孩。我愛我們的家呀! :)

I will never forget how painful the labor process was and how the c-section became a horror movie . I will always remember how sad it was when I couldn't hear my baby's first crying, how he looked, how he felt, and the fact I couldn't hold him right away.  However, I don't regret at all I took a risk to do natural birth when doctors told me it could affect my aneurysm. I tried and the most important thing is my Nathan is a healthy baby. :)