Today we went to get Jeremy’s new glasses. They are black-rimmed and got a negative response from Ms. Liu when she saw them. We also bought some Xmas decoration supplies. I’m sewing stocking together.

So Vince is living a different life at the nanny’s. He’s able to hold a bottle of formula himself and down about 8 ounces. Crazy.. He’s *never* had more than half an ounce at home. Jeremy came home early. We got Vince’s vaccination, some pillows, got some eyeglasses for Jeremy and got my eyes checked. No glasses for me!

I had lunch at the realtor’s today. My appetite is not so good these days and with nursing, I’m steadily still losing weight, I can’t believe how much Helen and Ms. Liu eat and still weigh 45 kilos. Crazy. This evening we went to the bun place and had a good time. They taught us how to wrap our own buns (ha ha). It’s so hard to make them pretty, they invited us to wrap dumplings with them any day at about 3 pm. Jeremy is so sweet and funny, his Chinese is really improving.


Yesterday we went to the new mall in town, Warner Village. It was pretty snazzy. I thought we’d be there early to get a parking space, but it turned out we had to climb to the top of an 8-story garage before we found space. We melted a pipe in our apartment because I had the water temperature turned up too high. They are going to fix it tomorrow.



Today Jeremy came home from work a bit early and we had a fun night out on the town with our friends. We all went to a Japanese Seafood restaurant in Nan Liao. It is bery close to the harbor, where the fishing boats land, and facing he street are big tanks and trays of ice, from which you pick your dinner. The party included Liu Shao Jie, her husband Lin Shen Sen, their daughter Leah, their business partner Ju Shen Sen, Our mutual friend Helen, Jeremy’s colleague Man Fai, and the three of us. We had deep fried squid and deep fried oysters, stir fried clams, a big fish that was made into sashimi and soup (one half each), shrimp, shark skin, asparagus, and noodles. All of the food was really delicious, and the company was a lot of fun. It was a taxing week, and it was really wonderful to unwind with our friends, and to not think about events at the office at all. One major source of entertainment was Vince’s eating. He ate a huge quantity of fried noodles. He has figured out how to suck them up, so we can just grab a few noodles with the chop sticks, put one end in his mouth, and he just sucks them right up. He must have had three small bowls full.