This is Bonnie’s extended family in Hong Kong.  Posting here to share photos with Bonnie’s Sisters…

Rebecca’s wedding in December:

June’s Wedding in May:

Congratulations to both couples and Uncle and Auntie Lam !

     Logan is more talkative these days, at least at home with us.  He is able to say 3 to 4 words sentences sometimes, like “mommy, don’t go away”, “Logan is eating”, or telling me about the TV show Kai-lan, “Hoho hurts Rintoo”.  He can be such a story teller too when he tries to tell me, with prompting from daddy, what happened at school or on the drive home.  He can be very dramatic with his expression and hand gestures while he talks.  

     Logan is also more aware of our conversations as he will repeat the words that he wants to say.  When Scottie hurt himself two days ago after a fight, Stuart and I were talking about it while Logan was playing.  Logan suddenly went over to Scottie to look at his owie.  So we started telling Logan what happened and what Scottie should, and should not, do again.  Logan then proceeded to tell Scottie repeatedly “Be careful” and “Don’t go outside”.  The cute thing was that as he told Scottie not to go outside, he went around Scottie and blocked the front door with his arms wide open.  Wish I could have taken a picture or video of that.

     Logan can understand the concept of counting without knowing all the numbers yet.   So far, he can count up to two for sure, and make up the other numbers.  The other day he was counting his trains and said “one, two, one, two, one, two….”, then another time counting the rain drops he drew “one, two, four, three, five, eight, nine, ten”.

For more than a week now that Connor often cries after feeding during the day, mostly in the afternoons and evenings.  He would start crying angrily right after feeding.  It would take several minutes to calm him down.  The doctor suggested that it may be reflux making him uncomfortable and suggested trying burping him every few minutes and keeping him upright for longer after feeding. The next step would be to try medication like ranitidine.  Connor actually feeds quite fast these days (5-10 minutes sometimes) and if I try to interrupt his feeding to burp him, he would get very angry as well.  I am not totally convinced if the reflux is the reason for the crying, I wonder if Connor is just upset for other reasons, like drinking too fast, not laying down comfortably, too noisy environment or I am not paying full attention to him while he is feeding.  Maybe he is just a grumpy baby.  Hopefully this phase will pass soon. 

On the positive note, Connor is sleeping through the night (until 5am) since he turned two months.  This is a lot sooner than Logan did.