媽媽今晚回台灣了，心裏很是捨不得。但我猜爸爸和小妹在台灣也巴不得媽媽趕快回家吧！
這一個月多虧了有媽媽在身邊，好多事情不用操心，Arden 也幾乎都是媽在餵的。媽，您辛苦了！
自從大學離家之後，第一次有機會能在家長住是拜 Cisco 的 flexibility, 讓我在台灣遠距上班了一個多月；第二次是托 Anders 的褔，媽來美幫我坐月子住了一個多月；再來就是這次生 Arden，又讓媽辛苦了，但我也才又有這個褔氣能再把媽給請來一個月。下次就真不知是何時了！
真希望台灣跟美國能近一些……..
I stayed at San Ramon Regional Medical Center for 5 days for Arden’s birth. With the nanny’s and Mom’s help, we did not have to bring Anders to the hospital. However, I could not see him for many days either. Kinda missed him.
When I arrived home after being discharged from the hospital, he looked so big to me. His head felt like double the size of how it was when I left home and his leg was like a little piggy’s. Maybe I haven’t seen him for too long. And the most surprising thing is that he was able to say words with two syllables.
Thanks for Daddy’s training, his first two-syllable word was “愛你” (love you in Mandarin). He probably did not understand what that means, but it sounded great to me whenever he was asked to say “媽媽” “愛你” (Love you, Mommy).
And the following days, he made up something on his own – he was saying “都嗶都嗶” (Dobi dobi…) a lot. We finally figured out it was referring to “No” since whenever he did not like something or did not want to do something, he kept saying “都嗶都嗶”, waving his little hands and running away.
3 Weeks later from “愛你,” he now says “寶貝” (Babe), “Turtle,” “One,” “Two,” “O-BA-MA” (though he only said this one time) and so many more words. He changes so much everyday and it is really fun to see him running around and popping out unexpected words and actions. I guess this is the most enjoyable time before the terrible two hits.
It was a little bit dark but the voice was clear.
I have been seriously falling behind on posting all of our photos. Late last year, we wanted to make a trip to Taiwan to visit family before Arden arrived. Both Christine and I think that traveling internationally with two young kids in 2009 would be unlikely, so we made an effort to get out one last time.
Christine’s mom helped out by taking care of Anders for a week. This freed up our time to visit our good friends Andy and Tim who had both left for Asia from the SF Bay Area. Andy was so accomodating in figuring out our hotel, itinerary, AND feed our ramen fetish with his top ramen picks from his own ramen otaku adventures.
Both Christine and I had a great time in stomach and soul. I fell in love with the orderly nature of Japanese culture. We both want to visit Japan again more thoroughly in the future.
We were curious as to what how Anders would react when he meets his little sister, so we watched closely:
First Meeting
Anders approaches cautiously, and carefully touches Arden’s hands and body.
Second Meeting
The newness has worn off, and he pats Arden a little too casually.
Third Meeting
Anders rambunctiously runs into room with toy in hand. Uses the toy to almost bash Arden. We send him out of the room!
