Day 24 april 14 - happy 30 days baby!

Can't believe it's already been 30 days since our baby girl was born. Today we had a little 30 day celebration with family. Cake, red eggs and you fan. Yum yum.

Day 23 april 13

We are kind of just eating balanced meals now. Doesn't seem anything related to zuo yuezi so much.

Breakfast - Korean pancake, tangelo, grapes

Lunch - fried rice, fish, zucchini

Dinner - Fried rice, tofu and pork, Swiss chard, soup with beef and yamaimo

Day 19 apr 9

Breakfast - barley oatmeal

Lunch - dumplings

Dinner -

Day 18

Breakfast - Chinese French toast

Lunch -

Dinner -

Photo shoot - Melody is 25 days old! Apr 9

We had baby's first photo shoot today. The photographer requested that we turn the heat to 80'degrees in our home so that we could shoot the baby au naturale. Hearing the clucks and mutterings of disapproval are nothing new - Alice never finishes her food, fails to drink The Tea, doesn't eat on time and always has bizarre requests for the baby (don't wipe her face it gives her pimples). But this time the combined heat and duration were getting to the nanny. Usually photos take 30 minutes! In her 22 years as a nanny, she had never seen a photographer shoot for so long, in so many positions, using so many props. But in the end she was sure that these pictures would turn out beautiful, and she would like one for her collection of children she's helped rear.

I have to hand it to the photographer, there were baskets and blankets, backdrops and pillows, all schlepped from the car to the baby's room (now semi pro studio). but she was good with the baby. Holding a naked newborn she got peed on and pooed on several times and endured it all with a good attitude all the while saying "this always happens". Even the nanny warmed up to her because she was taiwanese and spoke to the nanny in Chinese.

Baby melody is probably tired from her photo shoot but no less so than her parents. Can't wait to see the pics.

Day 17

Breakfast - oatmeal, strawberry, oranges

Lunch - fried eggs, dried bean curd and pork, sautéed bean sprouts

Snack - Macarons from buttercup la

Dinner

Day 16

Breakfast - oatmeal and sfogliatelle (from al gelato)

Lunch - seaweed soup, noodles

dish soap

the nanny uses an entire bottle of dish soap per week. she's now on the third.

Along with boxes of tissues and butt paste and Saran wrap and paper towels.

Alice asked her to make less rice and she responded everyone eats rice!, rice is cheap. Fruitless attempt.

Day 15

Breakfast - sesame ball and avocado

Lunch - chicken soup, dumplings, fried taro ball with vegetables and crispy taro chip outside

Dinner - some leftovers, chicken tomato carrot soup; egg and tomato and green onion; tofu stuffed with ground meat

Day 14

Breakfast - papaya, avocado, red bean soup

Lunch - chicken noodle soup with vegetables, Indonesian style egg roll not fried

Dinner - black chicken soup with some black herb, lotus root and chicken and carrot, chicken wings, leftover Mabo tofu and seaweed

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