Nov 23, 2008

抓週



奕凱滿週歲囉!時間過的好快喔!我真不敢相信凱凱已經一歲了。

奕凱和媽咪很高興能在台灣和我們親愛的家人渡過這個重要的節日,雖然對爸比有點抱歉。

我們幫奕凱訂了一個Doraemon的蛋糕,因為那是小藍先生最愛的日本卡通人物。我們和先家人一起吃晚餐,之後便舉行抓週。我們參考多方的意見,便決定了放置以下的物品給凱凱抓週:

球(運動員),錢(有錢人),化妝品(化妝師),鍋鏟(廚師),剪刀(時裝設計師),印章(官員),針線(裁縫),計算機(生意人),尺(建築師),滑鼠(資訊設計),筆(作家或記者),樂器(音樂家),書(學者,會讀書),手機(通訊),鞋(愛旅行的人)。

我讓奕凱抓了5樣,依序如下:
滑鼠,計算機,剪刀,印章,手機。

哈哈,我早該知道奕凱是他爸爸的兒子,果然就像小藍先生一樣,凱凱第一樣拿的就是滑鼠!
跟第二樣他抓的東西加起來解讀的話,奕凱將來會開一家資訊公司啦!哈哈哈!我們到時再看看是不是如此吧!


和家人一起吃飯,有阿姨,舅舅,和表弟表妹們


奕凱的Doraemon蛋糕(只是不是藍色的,有點怪)


奕凱和阿公阿媽,媽咪和舅舅


看看奕凱的表情!他在吹蠟燭喔!


凱凱抓週的物品


凱凱和媽咪切蛋糕


凱凱吃第一口蛋糕


凱凱和舅舅


凱凱開心的抓著他的滑鼠

Nov 18, 2008

Ian's first birthday

Ian is one-year-old. I can't believe that!

Ian spent his first birthday with all my families in Taiwan. We had a wonderful time together. We bought a Doraemon(a Japanese animation character) cake for Ian which is Pat's favorite character. We had dinner at our house and then hold the important traditional ceremony--Zhua Zhou.

Zhua Zhou is a very traditional ceremony we hold when your baby is one year old. It is a custom of telling a child's future by placing various emblems before him and letting him choose one on his one year birthday. These are the things I placed before Ian:

1. ball(represents an athlete)
2. money (means will be rich)
3. cosmetics (represents a stylist)
4. spatula (represents a cook)
5. scissor (represents a fashion designer)
6. seal (represents a politician)
7. needle and thread (represents a taylor)
8. calculator (represents a businessman)
9. architectual ruler (represents an architect)
10. mouse (represents an IT person)
11. pen (represents a journalist or writer)
12. musical instrument (represents a musician)
13. book (represents a scholar)
14. cellphone (represents communication technician)
15. shoes (represents a traveller)

Other than tradition, I let Ian choose 5 of them. They are:
1st--- MOUSE
2nd--calculator
3rd--scissor
4th--seal
5th-cellphone

I should know what will be his first choice. MOUSE! Of course. Just like his daddy!!

I guess Ian is going to be a businessman in IT field.HAHA. Let's see if his future job will relate to these 5 emblems he choose. There are some of the pictures.



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Nov 12, 2008

The first family pictures!


We finally had our first family pictures 8 months after Ian was born.

The reason for not having our family picture is we can't find anyone who is a good photographer to do that for us. It takes a lot of time and effort to take a nice and satisfying picture.

When I was getting ready to go back to Taiwan, I really want to bring our family picture for my parents. Once I was chatting with Jerry--my co-worker, he told me he can do that for me for free and he is a good photographer. And he is. These are some of our favorites.











Ian's new toys



Ian got a new toys the first day when he got back to Taiwan. One is a a little car that his cousin-Oscar-let him borrow. The other is a walker that Ian's grandma borrowed from other friend.


Talking about the little car from Oscar, he didn't even know Ian borrowed fromow him. We have to take it to the our car secrely without him knowing.


When mom came to pick us up from the airport, we were exhausted and tired. And it's also Ian's feeding time. So we decided to go to my aunt's house. We were excited to see Ian's cousin--Oscar.


Oscar is very shy. He can't even talk to Ian. Poor Ian so wanted to play with his cousin!


Oscar has lots of toys. 90% are cars. While we were talking, Ian saw a toy car on the side. He tried to crawl over there and started to play with it. So my aunt said:


" Bring that car home for Ian. Oscar is not playing with that any more.But don't take the car in front of him. He won't allow anybody to touch his car. So get it to you car now."


When Oscar came, my cousin told me something. She told Oscar:

"Hey, your american cousin is here to play with you."


Oscar said in a worried way:

" mom, will he touch my cars?"


Oh..... my gosh. Cars are really his most important thing. So we got his toy car home. YA!


As for the walker, we got that for Ian so we don't have to hold him all the times when we were home. When we first got hoome, Ian had terrible jetleg. So he cried a lot, and wanted me to hold him the whole day. you know, Ian is a big boy. So i can't hold him for too long. And I also didn't want him to have this bad habbit---like people to hold him all the times. And the walker is my life saver.


At the beginning, Ian didn't know how to use the walker. But now, he is very good at it. He will spin and turn and walk at the same time. He can also "drive" it very fast. he is so fast that runs over our feet every day!
凱凱剛回到台灣,就有了2個新玩具。一個是表哥Oscar借給他的車車,一個是阿媽借來給凱凱的學步車。話說表哥借給他的車車,還是趁Oscar表哥沒看見時偷偷放到車子裏的呢!表哥一點都不知情。
回國的第一天,媽媽到機場來接我們,因為凱凱要喝ㄋㄟㄋㄟ的時間到了,所以我們索性就到新竹大姨家休息一下,也讓大姨和表妹及奕凱的表哥Oscar看看他。
想不到,表哥非常的害羞,連臉都沒抬起來看看凱凱,害得凱凱超想跟表哥玩的,卻沒有機會。
凱凱的Oscar表哥沒來到之前,大姨在跟我們講到他有多愛車車,家裏一大堆他的車車,那時,眼尖的凱凱看到旁邊有一輛Oscar表哥的大車車,便迫不及待的想爬上去玩(那時只有久個多月),於是大姨丈便說要我們把那輛大車車帶回去給凱凱玩,反正Oscar表哥已經不玩了,可是,不能在表哥面前把他的車車拿走,不然他會抓狂的。
後來表妹小韻告訴我,她跟Oscar說:" 你的外國表弟來囉!要來跟你玩喔!"
Oscar的回答超妙的!他說:
" 媽!那表弟會拿我的車車嗎?"一臉擔憂的呢!真是笑壞一堆人囉!
所以我們只好偷偷的在Oscar表哥來到之前,趕快把車車放到阿媽的車裏。就這樣不知不覺的把Oscar表哥的車車帶走啦!YA!
還有他的學步車也是借來的。因為家裏空間小,剛回來時,奕凱因為時差的問題,很愛哭,也愛黏我。但是他很重,所以我沒辦法一直抱著他,再說,我們本來就不常抱凱凱,所以不希望他養成習慣,因此,讓他在學步車上自己玩。
剛剛開始用學步車時,凱凱不太會,所以,速度不快,也常常被卡住,但是過了幾星期後,他完全掌握到訣竅了。哇!現在速度飛快,轉過來旋過去的,咻一下的就到了你眼前,我們就打趣的說那台學步車是他的賓士,開來開去的,我們還要小心被輾過腳呢!


Nov 9, 2008

分享我如何紀錄奕凱一天作息的紀錄表喔!推薦給媽媽們!


回台灣前,奕凱其實已經被我訓練的很有"規矩",他固定4小時吃一次食物泥或是ㄋㄟㄋㄟ,不吃零食,進食都坐在他的座位上吃,睡覺時也不需人哄,時間到了,把他放進他房間的小床,跟他說:
" 凱凱,睡覺時間到了喔!好好睡喔!掰掰 " 他就會自己睡了,也不需要人哄。

但是,回台後,所有的規矩皆被阿媽拋到腦後。

首先,不坐車座椅。剛回台的前2天,因為不方便的關係,有時去比較近的地方,我就抱著奕凱坐在前座,沒有將他放在車座椅上,結果,才2-3次,後來每次要讓他坐車座椅時,奕凱就狂哭,還狂掙扎不要坐,調了好幾天才又讓他願意去坐車座椅呢!這是一壞。

二壞是--因為媽媽家沒有高腳椅,所以奕凱吃飯時就坐在他的學步車上,也因此讓他跑來跑去的,沒有固定在一個地方吃飯。

三壞---吃零食。剛回台灣時,媽媽說奕凱怎麼這麼瘦,說我不會養啦!所以媽媽就狂喂奕凱,布丁啦,豆花啦,蛋糕啦,餅乾啦,豆漿啦,米漿啦,樣樣來,也因此,奕凱在5天內胖了1公斤多!嚇死人了喲!

四壞---進食時間不固定。反正媽媽就是想喂奕凱的時候就喂,所以有時候1,2個小時吃一次,有時3-4個小時吃一次,時間都亂了。

說到這個,我強烈建議媽媽們要作紀錄。將baby一天的作息紀錄下來。我從奕凱一出生到我回台灣的前一天都有紀錄。跟大家分享我的紀錄表。

Mon Tue WedThu Fri Sat. Sun
日期
起床時間
進食時間
牛奶容量
食物種類


午睡時間
(開始和結束
的時間)


便便次數
新的食物
和反應
食物泥的
次數和種類
上床時間
睡著時間
備註

1. 起床時間:
要知道起床時間才知道他晚上睡覺睡了多久,還有他多久要睡午覺。奕凱非常規律,不是起床時間規律,而是他起床到午睡之間的時間很規律。他在7個月前都是起來2-2.5小時就要去午睡了。早上起床的時間到是不固定,但是沒關係,就讓他睡飽後在來進行一天的活動。

2. 進食時間,牛奶容量,食物種類:
這樣可以知道寶寶的進食時間,還有喝多少,你才不會想喂就喂,或是baby哭鬧就喂,這樣會累死媽媽。你也會知道baby進食的次數和量是否正常,知道他今天吃了哪些食物,才不會重複的吃同一樣食物泥而沒有變化。

3. 午睡時間:
要紀錄開始和結束的時間,可以知道baby的午睡次數和長短是否正常,也就知道在他午睡的時候,你可以做做哪些家事或是你想做的事,而不受到干擾。或是進行到一半,就被baby的哭聲cut掉,無法完成家事。

4. 便便次數:
一天有幾次便便,是正常的還是拉肚子,可以幫助你了解應該要給他什麼食物,還有對新的食物的反應,喜歡,討厭,或是過敏。

5. 新的食物和反應:
在開始吃食物泥之後,每樣新的食材,要讓baby連續吃3-5天,才能看到baby對這食材是否會過敏。還有是喜歡或是討厭。還有吃了什麼食材會拉肚子,什麼食材會便秘都要紀錄,所以當baby有這些反應時,你才知道要用相反的食材給他吃就能解決問題了。

6. 食物泥的次數和種類:
開始吃食物泥之後,我從一開始的天一餐到一天兩餐,奕凱吃的食物泥內容,我都會紀錄下來。因為大部分的時候都是一餐的食物泥中有2-3種不同種類的食材和在一起,所以要避免重複,免的他吃膩。

7. 上床時間和睡著時間:
我盡量讓奕凱在固定的時間上床睡覺,可是不是每天都可以做到了,有時一星期好幾天都在外面,晚回家,所以要紀錄,上床時間和睡著時間,看看他花了多久才睡著,還有到隔天早上睡了多久。因為後來看看紀錄表後發現,奕凱要是越晚睡,就越早起床,然後隔天的情緒就會不太好。所以這很重要。

8. 備註:
我會在備註欄寫很多東西。像是他午睡的情形,要午睡時是否哭鬧,睡醒時是否開心,因為奕凱如果睡醒時沒有哭哭,就代表他睡的很好很飽,那我接下來的2小時也就會很容易了,反之,日子就難過了。還有上床睡覺時也一樣,偶爾他上床前會狂哭著不要上床,要哄個半個小時到一個小時才睡,有時半夜驚醒狂哭。也紀錄他當天的情緒,還有紀錄睡前儀式的情況。因為有時太累沒做,或是只做半套,他的反應如何?生病了,有什麼症狀,連續幾天。發燒了,紀錄每次量的體溫,還有吃藥的時間。便秘或是拉肚子的情形,持續幾天,吃了藥或是食物之後有沒有改善。喜歡和討厭的食物...等等,反正就紀錄一些對你來說可以了解寶寶的事情,幫助你更清楚的了解你的寶貝的成長狀況。

我是一個喜歡什麼事都很規律的人,但是想小孩又不是在當兵一樣都要一板一眼的照時間表來,這個紀錄表是來幫助我當奕凱有異常現象出現時,我會去翻翻看,看看是不是有同樣的情況發生過,還有我用什麼方式解決的。也讓我了解他的生長情形。我推薦媽媽們也可以這麼做喲,真的很有幫助!

至於奕凱的壞規矩,只好等到回美後,再行調整囉!

Nov 8, 2008

雨刷---怕怕喲!

奕凱是個很膽小的人,他很容易被嚇到。

我們常常被嚇到他的東西覺得啼笑皆非,因為不知道為何他會被嚇到。最近一件嚇到他的是----車車的雨刷!

有一次我們全家和大姨家,四姨出去吃飯,坐進表妹的車,我抱著凱凱做前座,車子啟動後,奕凱卻開始不安的扭動,最後竟然哭了起來,並且一直想向後爬去。我幾度哄他不停之後,開始找尋讓他可能失常的原因,最後看到他偷看了下移動中的雨刷之後,又想逃跑的樣子才確定----移動的雨刷就是罪魁禍首!他真的很害怕很驚恐喔,在他眼中,不知道那是什麼樣可怕的大怪物呢!不過,這件是卻讓我們啼笑皆非,總算看到奕凱膽小的一面。