Wo zuole yuezi!

Happy 1 Month Hadassah!

In China, a baby is supposed to stay inside the house until she is 100 days old (called "man yue"), and the mom, for 30 days (called "zuo yuezi," literally: "sit for a month"). My month is up! (Though I have to admit we were out on day 5 with a hospital visit, and I can't say I sat still since then :)

after bath time

1st trip to the doctor

Dr. Xu, an excellent pediatrician

This was the reason for the hospital visit: the familiar Billy Light. All 3 kids have had jaundice and this is part of the cure. Hadassah 'wore' this light for three days straight. Today at her one month check up she is still looking a bit jaundice (yellow), but it's clearing up

lots of visitors
(thanks to our sweet friends for all the yummy food and great gifts)!

Hadassah wearing her pretty dress from Hong Kong from Brian & Cheryl

We (Lily) tried (to feed Hadassah) a bottle last week, but I think she was a little over stimulated with Lily screaming in excitement and Caedmon trying to jump on her. We'll try again tomorrow.

I was trying to take a serious picture and Lils kept making these hillarious faces! What a goose!

"Uh oh! Caught! Maybe they won't notice!"

dressing up already

Josh went on a 6 day trip and his sister visited for 9 days to help out. We had a great time together, but it went too fast. The first night here was like Christmas in July! Sarah had barely any room in her two huge suitcases for her own things!

Thank you Mimi & Papa & family & friends for all the fun gifts!! What a treat!!
(a cute outfit from auntie Nat)
along with trend-setting sun glasses

here's baby again

beautiful outfits from dad when he returnedWe were happy to spend a whole day with our friends Abby & Hudson!

getting so big

4 days of VBS this week- with an OLYMPICS theme- the kids love it

We are borrowing our friends' car while they are in the States for 6 months.
Today was our first day to drive. We were pretty excited so we drove for about 3 hours and found a beautiful reservoir with huge mountains surrounding it. Too bad it was all marked off with tape because of the olympic triathalon coming up.

This was a different spot (2nd best) we ran around on for a while.

(I already have at least 20 pictures just like this only in different locations. What a little helper!)