Definitely a Girl

I thought being on maternity leave would give me more time to blog.  But I have been busy with cooking for people and making Mui-mui's scrapbook.  Mui is now 15 mons old.  She actually understands alot of thing in Cantonese.  Things that she understands are sit, eat it, don't eat it, kiss, where is your shoes? and give me the book. She can climb up and slide down the baby slide in our house.  She is still very attach to me.  When I am at home with her, she always wants to be by my side.  And sometimes that's not enough, I have to hold her.  She is us curious, friendly, outgoing, and a joy to have.  Whenever, I take her to the park she would just walk up to a stranger and talk to her.  She would even want them to hold her.  Hmmmmm....not sure if she thinks everyone is her care giver. 

She is definitely a girl.  She loves shoes; her shoes and  other people's shoes.  We let her wear the pink soft Robeez shoes (see pix - she is ready to go out) inside the house to give her more traction.  I would take them off when I put her to nap.  As soon as she wakes up, she points to them and wants me to put them back on.  Or when I change her diaper and take off her shoes, she would want them back on immediately.  When I hold  my keys and purse, she knows we are going to go out.  So she would find her outside shoes and head to our laundry room, sit down on the floor and raise her leg so I can help her with her shoes. 

Praise the Lord that we found a nanny to come to our house and care of Mui when I go back to work.  She goes to our church and also takes care of our friends' mom.  I just hope she will be good and can take good care of Mui and the boys.  I am a little nervous about how it will be since we don't know her that well.

Eating got better

Thanks everyone for asking and for your prayers and concerns.  Karissa is eating better.  I realized that we have communication issues.  She wants something, but we didn't know she was trying to tell us something by closing her mouth.  We thought she didn't want to eat or not hungry.  She is moody and has be to  in the right mood to eat.  Turns out that she does want to eat.  She mainly wants to eat what we eat.  The problem with that was that she didn't know how to chew.  So I had to keep feeding her baby food and porridge.  She was sick of those things.  Now that she can chew, she is eating a wider variety of food.  I have been making her chicken noodle soup and pasta. 

I am now taking my maternity leave and staying at home with Karissa until the end of May.  I thought I will have alot of free time not working.  If you know me, you'll know that I am not the kind of person that sits around.  I fill up my time home with activities that I normally can't do because I am at work, like visiting friends and cooking for them.  I enjoy spending time with Karissa, but have been busy with errands, cooking daily, any my research paper and final.  One main goal for my time at home is to make a scrapbook for Karissa documenting how God brought her to us.  I really hope I can get this done, it's such a big project.