Our Little Vegetarian

Blake has been eating solid food for a while now. He took to it like a pro!! For a few months it looked like he might turn into a sweet potato. Next, he couldn't get enough of green peas. Most recently it was those little oranges that he loved!

Blake was eating every fruit and vegetable we did plus lots of cereals, and as you can see from the pictures, he is thriving. So Scott and I made the decision to hold off giving him meat. We eat meat, lots of it, so it wasn't a save the animals kind of thing. We just don't know what is being fed to the animals here in China or what conditions they are being raised in, so we thought we would wait until we got home to Canada to introduce meat.

Then last week I called home during the day and spoke to Ling Ling and she mentioned how much Blake was enjoying his dumplings, his pork and shrimp dumplings!! Apparently our little porker can eat up to 7 at a time!

Scott and I had a little laugh about it. The best laid plans of mice and men.....

I had such a clear picture of what I would and could do during pregnancy, child birth and then child rearing. And my plans have gone awry time after time. The good news is I'm getting better at rolling with the punches, going with the flow, and any other cliche you might care to insert here. If Blake is happy and healthy then everything is great.

Here he is, our little vegetarian, hoeing into some delicious pork jiao zi. YUM!

Not So Sunny Sanya

For our winter holiday Blake, Scott and I traveled to Sanya on Hainan Island in Southern China.
We chose Sanya because it was warm, close and due to Blake's passport/citizenship problems we couldn't leave the country.
It was warm, but not sunny, which is good when you consider Scott and Blake's tendency to sizzle in the sun. We stayed pretty close to home, only leaving the resort twice.
We played in the pool, at the man made baby beach, in the kids room and in our gigantic outdoor bathtub.
It's probably not somewhere we'll go back to, but it was lovely to get away. Here are some pics from our week.