my times with Mamie and papou Jacques

sleeping after my daily walk...

Jacque surveilling Mingming in sleep ...

a new routine

Ming Ming in her high chair, dinning with everyone...

very dexterous in picking up finger food now...

playing with mamiecath...

Since last thursday, I leave with Antoine at 7am to study at a downtown cafe, while Ming Ming stays with Cathy and Jacque for the whole morning. At noon we come back for lunch, then I would try to put Ming Ming to nap, and then it is 1 hour driving lesson with Jacque. The new schedule also means a lot of work for Cathy, eps in the morning. She has to take care of Ming Ming as well as prepare lunch. And for me, it is great to have a parent at home, so that I can be less a parent myself and shift some of my responsibility on the grandparents. =)

peaceful Sunday

finally, a Sunday without anything to do with air trafic...

big eyes...

pretending to be timid...

farewell the tropic, back to the cold!

Merci a Maryse et Noel pour cette combination!! C'est encore trop large et Ming Ming est un peu perdu dedan, mais elle est tres comfortable et ca nous permet de faire sortir Ming Ming meme quand il fait froid.

beautiful sunset...

retrouver papa / I love my dad!

The trip back across Pacific was long, more than 24h from my mum's home in HK to ours in Charlottesville. As we traveled during the day this time, Ming Ming slept less in the 16-hour-long flight. Luckily grandma had prepared a lot of food for her, during the trip our main entertainment was eating.

Ming Ming is quite an experienced traveler now, when we arrived in Washington DC, she has already taken off and landed in a plane for 9 times all together. Compared with the first flight that we have taken together, she surely has grown. On this last trip coming back home, it is the first time that I can have my meals properly. I just have to put Ming Ming in her bassinet with some pillow behind her (she was not able to sit up yet when we first traveled to France), and give her a small piece of bread or some rice from time to time, then mother and daughter can enjoy a very nice meal together.

The transfer in Newark was awful. We waited for a long time to pass the immigration, and then we still need to reclaim our baggage, pass the custom, take a train, change terminals, pass the security, look for our gate. Ming Ming was so tired that she finally lost her patience. On our way to the gate, her cry rang in the airport, everyone turned their heads to look at us, but I could not stop to console her. -- No more transfer in Newark in the future!

Antoine was anxious before we arrived. He was not sure how Ming Ming would react when she first saw him. Would she recognize him? reject him? But Ming Ming surely is the sweetest little thing, she extended her hand to Antoine when she first saw him when we got off the plane, and from there, none (seriously, not even me) was able to tear her from her dad. Each time when Antoine tried to give her to me or Cathy, she would cry out of anxiety, worrying that her dad would abandon her for another month. It was like that for at least two days, Ming Ming would cry when Antoine left home to go to work. It must be very bitter sweet for Antoine.

While I marvelled at how much babies, though lacking in means of communication, understand the situation, Cathy, one of the most empathetic person that I know, felt for Ming Ming's suffering and anxiety brought by such comprehension.

Celebrating 8th month !

明明慶祝8個月生日﹗

Mum's kissing and blessing!

Happy Birthday... Yah Yah !

Special Guest : Carmen!

The beautiful Hung Hung as photographer!

At 8th month, she looks like Antoine !

Happy Birthday Yah Yah...

Visiting HKUST

Say cheers.....!!!!

Ming Ming's different expressions in 30 seconds...

We are singing in the rain... singing in the rain...

Hi Hi, everybody, I am in front of Dad's former dormitry in UST...

More photos

Ming Ming's colourful World !

Kung He Fat Choy with Aunt Selina

Miroir Magique !

Ming Ming loves looking at her reflection on the mirror... whenever she's in a bad mood, the magical mirror works perfectly in making her smile. The first time I (selina) took her little hand to touch the surface of her own reflection, she was scared. I asked Isha if Ming Ming knows well that it was her own image, Isha has no idea.

But Ming Ming is scared.

Isha told me that she used to tease Ming Ming to make her withdraw her hand when her fingers almost reach the mirror. Wow...

Now, she feels good with it, even kisses her own image... like the way she kisses her caretakers -- forehead to forehead! So sweet!

Ming Ming Learns to Rock

I am not a boy!

Ming Ming and Ball Ball

Tom le Goff

C'est Tom le Hongkongais qui nous faire visiter Hong Kong...

at Hong Kong park with Vivian's sons - Noah and Momo

Momo is two months older than Ming Ming, both of them love picking up leaves and put them in their months, had a great time together.

Biscuits

Funny Face

playground again