More photos of Kai in Chinese outfit

The photos were from Kai’s first professional photo shooting.

We didn’t plan to have an album of Kai made by a photo studio, but to have his hair shaved. In China people shave their babies at one month (some places at 100th day) and using the collected hair to make Chinese writing brushes.

We didn’t intend to follow the tradition, but we did feel it necessary to have Kai’s hair shaved, so we went to a special shop. The lady in the shop shaved Kai’s hair very carefully and Kai looked brilliant with bald head. What shall we do with the shaved hair? Throw it away? No, it was Kai’s first hair, as precious as his first smile. The idea of making a Chinese writing brush became attractive to us, as it would be a nice way to keep Kai’s hair. We thought Kai would be impressed to see the souvenir from his first hair cut when he is old enough.

the writing brush

Kai in bald head

Before we went out of the shop, the lady gave us a voucher of two free professional baby photos. Well, two professional photos for free, why not? So we went to the photo studio nearby. The sales lady in the photo studio showed us several kinds of album, and tried to persuade us to have one album done. The album making sounded expensive to us, so we refused the album and only wished to get our two free photos. The photo shooting began. Three staffs of the studio worked together, one was taking photos, another was holding Kai if needed, and the third was playing rattles above the photographer’s head to draw Kai’s attention. Kai was really relaxed in front of the camera and was wriggling, smiling, playing all the time, as if he was at home. The photos were so nice that we changed our mind and decided to have one album done.

The whole thing sounded like a trap, but, as we are happy with the result, we didn't really mind it.

The blog is resuming

After such a huge break, I, Kai's mum, finally resume Kai's blog. A lot of things happened during the break, e.g. we lost our camera in HongKong, so we can't show the photo of Kai on top of a big luggage mountain when we came to China; Kai had a month of mixed feed in his fourth month, and I had to give up breastfeeding completely from the fifth month when I began medical treatment; Kai can roll over very easily onto his belly and has fun reaching his toys; Kai has slept through since 4 days ago. Kai is a big boy now, pretty fat. It's accurate to say he is fat, when you look at his arms and legs, his belly and neck full of folds. It’s nice to reunite with Jonathan. Three of us, is a complete family. Kai also enjoys the time with Dad a lot. He enjoys playing with Dad on the bed, taking bath and splashing his chuby legs into the water and laughing a lot when Jonathan tickles him. Kai is so different from 2 months ago when we were in the UK: He is such a happy and lively boy.