Kai is very vulnerable to mosquito bites, because mosquitoes like young babies, and also because he is in a tropical area of a huge country, and also because he is English. It was Jonathan's conclusion that Chinese mosquitoes like English food, as he himself has suffered from it for a long time. The worst scenario for Kai was that he woke up in the morning with 3 mosquito bites, two around his ears and one on his head. The one on his head was so big that we suspected that Kai got it from hitting something. But recently Kai seems better with mosquito bites. Has Kai developed immunity to mosquitoes or mosquitoes have grown tired of Kai? Anyway the bites don't seem to bother him, he doesn't scratch them, and he has had all his immunisations.
He is a tough boy, as many people said.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
What Kai likes and dislikes about food
He likes: steamed pumpkins, steamed carrots, dumplings, fried young luffa, rice soup, sesame paste, fish
He dislikes: any baby jar food and instant baby rice
He is not sure about (that means sometimes he likes it, sometimes not): mandarin
Hmm, Kai's got healthy taste, like his mum, dad and grandparents.
He dislikes: any baby jar food and instant baby rice
He is not sure about (that means sometimes he likes it, sometimes not): mandarin
Hmm, Kai's got healthy taste, like his mum, dad and grandparents.
Kai has got one tooth
We knew that before the tooth even came out. We noticed it because he bit off one big piece of banana when we fed him, and when we touched his lower tooth bed, we could feel a little hard tooth. Several days later, the tooth came out completely and became more obvious. Kai didn't even have any teething pain to have his first tooth.
With the tooth Kai can eat harder things, but banana is still his favorite. Now we don’t need a spoon to cut off banana and feed him, he can bite the banana himself. He is a little banana monster - He can eat two bananas each day and finish a whole banana at one time. He chews the banana very skillfully, and after finishing eating one piece, he opens his mouth waiting for another feed.
(I will upload some photos later)
With the tooth Kai can eat harder things, but banana is still his favorite. Now we don’t need a spoon to cut off banana and feed him, he can bite the banana himself. He is a little banana monster - He can eat two bananas each day and finish a whole banana at one time. He chews the banana very skillfully, and after finishing eating one piece, he opens his mouth waiting for another feed.
(I will upload some photos later)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Kai is safe from the tainted infant formula scandal in China
It was a shocking news for the world, and for everyone around me. We couldn’t believe that such things could ever happen. How can the offenders ever think of making money by causing suffering of small babies?!
When it comes to the government, my reaction is that such things should not happen in the first place. Especially the action of covering up the issue till the Olympics was over, I feel, it’s typical for Chinese government. Who cares how many medals China has won? In comparision to thousand babies’ life and health, the glory is nothing. I really feel shamed for the government. However, the recall of tainted milk powder, the punishment to related officials, is proper, but it comes to late. The government is doing better than we thought, but still not enough. I hope, through the lessen of this scandal, the government should really do decent work to improve the people’s life.
We feel lucky that Kai wasn’t affected. We have been using imported milk powder on the Chinese market, as many other families who are a bit better off than some. When the day comes, when all the people in China, no matter poor or rich, feel safe about what they are eating, we should say we learned today’s lesson well.
When it comes to the government, my reaction is that such things should not happen in the first place. Especially the action of covering up the issue till the Olympics was over, I feel, it’s typical for Chinese government. Who cares how many medals China has won? In comparision to thousand babies’ life and health, the glory is nothing. I really feel shamed for the government. However, the recall of tainted milk powder, the punishment to related officials, is proper, but it comes to late. The government is doing better than we thought, but still not enough. I hope, through the lessen of this scandal, the government should really do decent work to improve the people’s life.
We feel lucky that Kai wasn’t affected. We have been using imported milk powder on the Chinese market, as many other families who are a bit better off than some. When the day comes, when all the people in China, no matter poor or rich, feel safe about what they are eating, we should say we learned today’s lesson well.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Kai looks a little mean
This photo stood out immediatly from loads of photos of Kai being lovely and innocent. What was he thinking?
Kai, the little swimmer
Kai likes water. Every time when we bath him, he splashes water with his two little palms excitedly. We thought he would definitely like swimming. We had wanted to take him to the lovely open swimming pool within our estate for a long time, but only really did so after Jonathan brought back some swimming nappies from the UK.
The first time when we went to the pool, it rained a little bit and wasn’t very warm. The weather on that day wasn’t normal for Guangzhou’s boiling August. We hadn’t got any swimming aid for Kai, and Jonathan insisted Kai swimming without any aid. So Jonathan and I took turns to hold Kai's arms playing in the water. Kai didn’t seem to enjoy it, just kicked his legs in the water clenching his toothless mouth. He was trying to get used to the feeling of being partly weightless in the water, we think. After about ten minutes, his lips became a bit dark, we knew, he was cold and took him out of the pool.
The second time in the pool was on a warm evening. Jonathan wasn’t at home. My dad and I took him to the pool. He had his inflatable swimming neck ring. The ring wasn’t easy to use. Kai’s neck was a little smaller than the ring hole, so I had to keep adjusting the ring, so no water would go into Kai’s mouth. This time, Kai seemed to be much more relaxed than the first time. He used backstroke with me holding his back. He enjoyed floating on the water and peddled the water happily. Kai had instinct of protecting himself by holding the ring tightly. He did well and even sometimes I could release my hand from his back for a short time. He was happily swimming and cooed out of joy. Some people were attracted by Kai’s swimming and watched him curiously - In China the people don’t normally let small babies swimming in the pool.
From then on, we take Kai to swim more often. When we put on his swimming nappy, and take him out of the home, he realizes that he is going swimming and becomes really cheerful swinging his arms and legs and can’t wait to go into the pool again!
P.S. an interesting article about baby swimming in China
The first time when we went to the pool, it rained a little bit and wasn’t very warm. The weather on that day wasn’t normal for Guangzhou’s boiling August. We hadn’t got any swimming aid for Kai, and Jonathan insisted Kai swimming without any aid. So Jonathan and I took turns to hold Kai's arms playing in the water. Kai didn’t seem to enjoy it, just kicked his legs in the water clenching his toothless mouth. He was trying to get used to the feeling of being partly weightless in the water, we think. After about ten minutes, his lips became a bit dark, we knew, he was cold and took him out of the pool.
The second time in the pool was on a warm evening. Jonathan wasn’t at home. My dad and I took him to the pool. He had his inflatable swimming neck ring. The ring wasn’t easy to use. Kai’s neck was a little smaller than the ring hole, so I had to keep adjusting the ring, so no water would go into Kai’s mouth. This time, Kai seemed to be much more relaxed than the first time. He used backstroke with me holding his back. He enjoyed floating on the water and peddled the water happily. Kai had instinct of protecting himself by holding the ring tightly. He did well and even sometimes I could release my hand from his back for a short time. He was happily swimming and cooed out of joy. Some people were attracted by Kai’s swimming and watched him curiously - In China the people don’t normally let small babies swimming in the pool.
From then on, we take Kai to swim more often. When we put on his swimming nappy, and take him out of the home, he realizes that he is going swimming and becomes really cheerful swinging his arms and legs and can’t wait to go into the pool again!
P.S. an interesting article about baby swimming in China
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