Guess who's birthday it is today?

Happy Chinese New Year!

Thank you for the lai see, Mommy & Daddy! Love, Val

Day-Care for Val

Working full-time and taking care of Valerie full-time without day-care/nanny, We are going to enroll her in a part-time day- care later this year. The quality of care at the day-care is not as good as mom and dad's. We don't mind taking care her ourselves, but she needs social interaction. We can also have more time for ourselves to unwind. I'm also thinking switching back to day-time if day-care works out for us.

Booster Seat

Valerie is going to be 11 months old next week, and she's getting too big for the car seat. I tried looking for a booster forward facing car seat at Babies”R”Us online, because it has a wide selection. I want to look for a safe and comfortable booster seat for Valerie but all of the booster seats that listed on Baby R US online are ugly and the designs are not my taste. I'll stop by the store soon, maybe they have one that I like.

Valerie speaks!

For the longest time, Valerie has been saying na-na, but we couldn't figure out if she was trying to say ma-ma or da-da. For a lot of parents, it's a contest to see whether their babies can say ma-ma or da-da first, but for us, when the moment finally arrived, it didn't matter at all. We were just happy to be lucky enough to capture it on video (thanks to Sherry's quick thinking and acting!)

Baby Food

We started feeding Valerie baby food, it's usually recommended to star at 6 month. Val is little over 5 month and we think she's ready for solid food. It is very messy in the beginning but today she doing a lot better. she can swallow faster now. We started out with banana, but she didn't like it, then we switched to sweet potatoe. she likes the sweet potatoes and keep arching her head for more food. she can finish the whole jar every feeding. we only feeding her the baby food once a day. It's a lot of fun to watch a baby learn to eat. Val enjoys her baby food and we recorded it.

The Cage

The cage, or you can call it a playpen, is up and ready. Even though Valerie can't crawl yet, I'm already concerned that when she becomes mobile, she may wind up hurting herself somewhere in the house. Now I have a place to put her where she can play safely, which also means more time for me to sleep. Am I a great parent or what :-)

Daredevil Valerie

This happened a couple weeks ago on my watch and baby Valerie sure gave me quite a scare! I woke up in the middle of the night and left her sleeping on the mattress and when I came back an hour later, I found her lying on the floor face down! Thank goodness she was sleeping soundly and wasn't seriously hurt because the mattress was only less than a foot off the ground. I know she turns sideways at times from kicking her legs while crying constantly but I didn't hear her cry at all when I was in the other bedroom. I have to say that I've been really dumbfounded by how she was able to pull off this stunt.

The pic below is a recreation of an actual event using a fictional character:

It's a girl

Our bundle of joy has finally arrived

Introducing:

Valerie Lai-Yook Y.
February 21, 2006
4:57 PM
6 lb 6 oz
19 Inches

Proud parents - Cecil & Sherry

Pics will be posted soon!