【1Y3M】Hot dog is great!

Ian always has good apetite. He eats everything. When he started solid food, he ate everything i gave him. He even ate just white rice along. Until we came back from Taiwan this February.

He became a picky eater. I had to find new food for him every day. Most of the time, he wouldn't eat anything I prepared for him. That really frustrated me. He can't eat what we ate. He didn't like what I gave him. Until one day, Pat gave him a bite when he was eating hot dogs. Since then, Ian had found his favorite food. He eats a whole corn dog at a time. Sometime one is not even enough. Anyway, I was just happy he found something to eat.

【Our Dinning table】Taiwanese Pork Chop, Seasoned Rice and pickles

I love to cook!! Yes, I only cook chinese food. Once in a while I will make some dishes that aren't chinese food. But we eat rice every day in Taiwan. So that's what I cook here,too.

When I was pregnantt with Ian, I had a hard time getting all the food that I craved. Because I only craved for chinese food. Actually, Taiwanese food. Obviously, I can't get them in El Paso. So the only way to get them was to make them myself. I got online to find all the receipts and tried to make them. And I did pretty good. Other than those ingredients that I can't get, I made almost everything I want.

Thanks for all the bloggers, I found lots and lots of receipts. And I became a decent cook. That explains why Pat gained 25 pounds within 4.5 years since we got married.

But there is one problem is----I don't really follow receipts. I cook by feel. Some friends ask for my receipt. And it took me long time to get it to them because I don't have a receipt. I don't know how to tell people how much seasoning I put in. Even when I follow somebody's receipt, I change the ingredients according to my flavor and feeling.

So if you really want my receipt, please be patient with me.And I will get it done in english someday.

【1Y3M】Face off !

Look, he can be all serious in one second.

And make a face in the next second!

Look my face off show!!!

Ian loves to make faces. He thinks it's really fun because of mummy's reaction.

Yes, I laugh out loud at him. He likes my laugh. It makes him laugh,too. So he keeps making faces to get all the smile and laugh from me. And I like it,too. Fortunately, I got the vivid pictures of the face off show!

Let's get some tan

Last month, we went to a playdate with some sisters from our ward. It's a playdate/farewell. There were 3 families moving away. So Erica held this party for them and the kids.

She had a swimming pool and bubble machine and food ready for all of us. She even prepared the bath towels and the swimmers for the ones who weren't prepared,like us.

Ian's kind of scare of the swimming pool. I tried to put him in. But he cried and screamed not to go in at the first beginning. It took me 3 times to put him in. But after that, he is as happy as a fish in the water. He had a loot of fun.

2 hours passed before I got him out for some lunch. We took the beach towel and put it on the lawn. And quickly, everyone joined us for the little picnic.

While we were eating lunch,of course, Ian was wondering around instead of sitting downn. Then he saw the slide. He didn't know how to get on the slide through the right way. So he just laid his stomach on the slide and ate his watermelon there. And tried to get some tan, I guess.(Hah, like he isn't tan enough!) It was the cuttiest thing i had ever seen!! I love these pictures. Thank Erica for inviting us to the party.

Playing with ball!

Playing with other kids

Watching bubbles!

Sweet mummys!

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