適應－寶寶小日記：つれづれなるままに．．．

The weather in TW is now suddenly shifted to Autumn... Ah, what a nice breeze... The stinging cruel sunray that used to burns my skin is now softened to much softer baby orange that gently warms my body. And, the dryer-wind is now a cool soft veil to my skin... Sitting on this wooden floor facing my laptop and typing my long forgotten blog entry, I just cannot believe how fast time passes by, and how crazy these past 6 months have been to us...

I meant to write an entry at least 3 months ago when Racchan passed 3-mo-old landmark. I meant to, believe me. But, I just didn't have enough time sitting, typing and finish typing what I have started... Yeah, so, I meant to write, but never had a chance till now. And, my dear only-Chinese speaking friends, please forgive me for typing it all in English because I really have limited time in between my little prince's nap and although not perfect I do type English faster than Chinese... (And, I hope you understand my appology in English...) My appology...

It was about two months prior to our return to Taiwan that we started to travel to Paris (if you see my husband's entry, you will know) to join our dear friends' honeymoon. (Yeah, the more, the merrier, you know.) Then, since that trip was a great success and we had too much fun to stop there. So, we decided to have ANOTHER Paris trip on our own, and this time without our friends' help. Well, it was great, but then more hectic as you can imagine. So, that was about the last two months in NL. Besides that, on every single weekend, we went out to collect goods that we wanted to bring back to TW. Every weekend, we had a mission, a mission to complete our European dream. That was tough, I have to say, yeah, physically and financially. (haha)

Then, here comes the moving part. Packing, packing, packing... Imagine a demanding 4 months old baby lying on his playgym and always seeking your attention. Even going to the restroom or eating lunch are like sneaking into a house with well trained German Shephard guirding at the gate kinda hard, don't even think about packing the stuff and carry it out in the house! So, I couldn't pack in the day time when Racchan is awake and watching me. So, I had to wait. I had to wait until this guirdian fell deeply asleep at night time. I had to check. I had to hold my breath and wait a minute or two. Ok, he's asleep. Time to pack! So, we packed and packed as if we were holding the time-bomb! Tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack.... The clock went around and around, and before we knew, it was 3 o'clock... My husband and and me were deadly tired by that time as if the toys with the dead battery. Sometimes, he fell asleep on the sofa. It is like waking a bronz stature if you are to wake him up in this condition. I tried once. Never work. I tried twice. Still sneezing. I tried third times. He's.... never mind. I gave up and went to take a shower. It's hard to say if I took an early shower or a late one. Anyway, I took a shower. Then, when I came out from the nice warm sprinkling of water, refreshed and ready to sleep, my dear exhausted husband is still in his nice warm mother-womb dream land. I stood right by his side and watched him. "......ok, let's try it again." I gently padded him. Once, twice, .... Ok, not strong enough. I shaked him. Once, twice,.... Oh, he opened his eyes. .... and closed them again. To get him to take a shower after he's like this, it can take as long as 30 min or even longer to accomplish my mission. But, anyway, to shorten the process, yeah, he finally took a shower. And, this was how tings were for the last whole month till we were back. We were still packing on the previous day of our departure. And, we didn't sleep for the whole 2 days till we finally managed to catch up 2 hrs sleep before our departure to the airport... God, only you could give us such a superman and superwoman kinda strength and power... Thank You!

So, we were safely back to TW after a long long journey. Racchan was great. He didn't cry, scream or any of this kind that babies were expected to do during the flight. Instead, he smiled, laughed and was so friendly to all strangers who looked at him. The only thing he didn't do well was sleeping. Nope. He decided to be awake the whole time to enjoy his first flight to Taiwan till 3 hrs before the landing that he finally got tired enough to take 3-hr-nap. But, thanks to his wonderful social skills, the passengers were so nice to us and loved him. They talked him and played with him. And, thanks to that, we also have to talk with the passengers to answer their curious questions about this little social butterfly. Much better than the blaming eyes of the passengers to the crying babies and their parents, though. Racchan, you did great and daddy and mommy are so proud of you, truly!

Although tired and longing to sleep, we finally managed to come back home. Racchan didn't have jet-lag. He went right into sleep after we came back home. But, since the heat was great, he had hard time for a month or so until lately when the weather is finally somewhat bearable. He also developed some skin problems right after coming back to TW, which a nice doctor cured him in just two days with the proper ornament. (This is Taiwan! Everything is so convenient and so quickly taken care of! We are really back!) And, thanks to my mother-in-law taking such a good care of my diet, my breastfeeding is ever smoother and never suffered from shortage of milk. Racchan is growing so well, too. He's now almost 9kg and already passed 70cm. So many of his clothes are now too small for him and we had to buy many new outfits for him. He is much more vocal, active and smily. He smiles to literally everyone who look at him. He loves it when people hold him, yep, no matter who. He can roll over like a rolling stone on the hill. He can grab a wooden chair and move it, too. He can crowl now (although still not a very beautiful crowl), changing his direction and crowl there, too. He also can recognize me and my husband very clearly. When I leave from his sight, his face immediately frowns and his cry will burst into the whole building to let everybody know that his mommy leaves him and goes into washroom. I'm glad that the sound-proof is well-done in this house so that our naighbor will not jumping into the house everytime he cries.

But, to give him a credit, his pretty well as long as he's fed, changed and had enough sleep. When the weather is nice and cool, he takes a very long nap, too, like now he's already slept 3 hrs!!! (Praise the Lord~~~~~!!!!) So, it seems to me that I can finish my entry today. Just a few days ago, I guess he was scared or something by the doctor's nose suction machine ('cuz he caught a cold), or whatever reason it might have been, he had very hard time falling asleep during the night. He screamed, cried, kicked and punched. We tried to comfort him and calm him down, but never worked. It might have been a night-scare or something, but it was weird. We were totally lost what to do, and my husband was so devastated and asked around about the remedies. It lasted for two days. And, during these two days, we had sleepless nights. Both my husband and I were deadly tired and walking zonbees that had been dead twice or something so didn't even have energy to scare people... So, some caring friends recommended some "cultural remedies" for crying babies or babies who were thought to be in some kind of shock. But, honestly speaking, although very thankful about their care and love for Racchan and us, I wasn't very comfortable about trying those remedies. So, I prayed. I prayed that God will calm him down and give him peace and help him sleep well so that people will not worry about him and we don't have to try the remedies. (But, I truly thanked their hearts for us. This is no doubt.) That night, Racchan fell alseep by 10:30pm very peacefully and slept till 4am without waking up. Not even once. Then, the next day, he slept also before 10:30pm, and waking up around 00:00am, drank some milk, fell asleep around 1am, and slept till 6am. without waking up during the night. And, now he's calmly taking a nice morning nap in an autumn breeze.

I still have so much to type about us and him regarding these past 6 months, but in a short line of words, I'm so thankful about everything that God has done for us. The people whom he sent to take care of us. The things that He provided for our needs. But, most of all, His existance in our lives makes everything so perfect. He is a blessing to us. Our life in Taiwan has just started. We will go through many things here on this land. Good things as well as some challenges. (I wouldn't say bad things because we cannot tell if it is good or bad till the very ending of the world.) We will grow as a family, as a husband, as a wife, as a son and daughter to our parents, etc. etc. We play many roles in our lives. And, as we live our lives in this world, we learn to play these roles with heart. We grow. We learn. And, we learn to love those people whom God brought to our lives. Sometimes it is hard. And, sometimes it is easy. But, surely, it's not impossible with God in our lives. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to Racchan's growth, and I'm also very excited to grow as a family. Life is wonderful, I have to say, if God is in the center of it all... Racchan, you are now on your mother-land. This is where you are to grow, learn and live till you decide to move on when you grow up. Mommy just pray that you will seek God in your life and that He will protect you, guide you and take you to a wonderful place where He is showing you His wonderful work... Seek and you will find, ok, my lovely baby... You will always be daddy and mommy's treasure.

*Playing on bed, his "little island"