had a nice quiet weekend that gave a sense of “normalcy” that we feel like we’ve been missing for a while. hannah was in need of some new shoes, so we went shopping… and ended up getting a little something for all the girls. =) we’ve done minimal clothing shopping for any of us while...
Category Archives: life
grown up | jiaxing photographer
somewhere along the way, in between moving around and having a second baby, my first baby seems to have transformed into a grown up little girl without warning me. we were on our way out the door one day and i glanced at her and thought she looked so grown up and wondered when did...
moving on | jiaxing china photographer
hello? anybody still checking this blog? sorry for the loooong silence. amongst other things, we’ve had our hands full packing and unpacking… (and trying not to lose kaylah among the boxes) and now we’ve moved to our new home in jiaxing – arriving here *exactly* a year from the date we arrived in ningbo. that...
mid-autumn festival | ningbo photographer
today is the mid-autumn festival, also called moon festival, or 中秋節 (zhongqiu jie) for you Chinese readers. it’s another big holiday in this part of the world. a couple things you should do today to celebrate: 1) eat mooncake for several weeks now, the supermarkets have been filled with tons of varying gift boxes containing...
60
today is China’s National Day, marking the 60th anniversary of the PRC. there have been a lot more flags waving around and decorations leading up to this (we saw a big topiary “60″ carving). it’s been raining all day, so our view of any festivities or celebrations basically looked like this: watching the parade in...
hands and feet
more sibling love =) the hands i caught while they were napping last week. they both fell asleep around the same time, and hannah just draped her arm over kaylah. it was very sweet. and i can never get enough of little feet. though hannah’s little feet now seem gigantic to me after having kaylah....
the before
just to show how terribly behind i am on sorting and processing pictures, i just came upon these images a few days ago. but i like them, so i will post them anyways. it was a month before my due date… and now my girl is well being past one month old! i love the...
the first (confinement) month
well, we have officially made it through the first month of kaylah’s life. while we chose to go western-style for prenatal and delivery care… the postpartum period was all chinese-style. That means the first month after delivery is 坐月子 “zuo yuezi”. Literally translated, it means sitting the first month, others have translated it as the...
giving birth in China
it’s been just about a month now since giving birth to our second baby, and i am slowly emerging from the fog of having a newborn. some people can’t believe we delivered a baby in china – though i imagine it’s not *that* uncommon of an occurrence here. =) but for those of you who...
just a couple for now…
hard to believe my baby is almost 2 weeks old already. time is going by fast. we’ll be leaving shanghai in a few days and head back to our home in ningbo. things just keep changing… so in the midst of everything, still trying to capture a few moments.