All good things must come to an end...

S's parents have been here all week, which could explain why there haven't been any updates since last week. Also, G's schedule has been changing, well, a lot of things have been changing. For a few weeks now, she's cut down her night time sleeping to 11-12 hours, which is fine with us, but I just have to be more disciplined about waking up earlier to do all the things I want to do before she wakes up. Lately, she has also become more fussy when away from mommy, this week, she began waking up at 6am, and yesterday afternoon started a runny nose that by the middle of the night, we realized was probably a cold. Today I found out that one of the babies in the church nursery (this was only her second time there, the first time was the week before where she was in for about 10-15 minutes only because of nursing and nap time) was sick. Live and learn, I guess - now we will ask if any of the babies are sick before leaving her there. So aside from her current cold, we don't know if she is 1) teething, 2) having a growth spurt, 3) developing separation anxiety, 4) adjusting to Wai Po and Wai Gong (grandparents) living with her this week.

Here are two of the pics we submitted to the Gap photo contest... the other two we picked were the one with the ball and the one from Gap that they took.
Here she is hard at work. We love this toy because it helps keep her occupied when in her high chair and the suctions on it are GREAT! She can grab the wires and pull herself, high chair included, towards the table. So far she only spins the beads, she hasn't gotten the concept of sliding the wooden beads along the wire yet, but we're confident she'll figure it out soon. Seems a lot of our pictures these days are of her eating. Maybe because they are so funny. I think this was zucchini.

E took this picture one early morning, it's my new desktop picture.

First Outside Photo Shoot

Since E's hobby is photography, we do our own photoshoots and haven't done any professional ones yet. My philosophy is that most of the people working at those kiddie photo places in the mall or department stores probably have no training in photography or creative arts, all they do is point and shoot with nice backgrounds and props, but limited time. On the other hand, G is familiar with us, familiar with our house/setting, we know how to make her laugh better than anyone else, and we have time on our hands to capture just that perfect look or moment. And we also would like to think we have a good eye as well.

But Gap is apparently having a casting call for new baby/kid models, so we decided to try out luck since everyone tells us how cute she is (and we think she's the cutest baby ever). Here are two of the four photos they took last Friday (notice that her head is cropped off, yet another data point supporting my theory that these guys aren't even photographers anyways):

Here are some other photos we dug up that we are considering using. We welcome your opinions so please vote for your favorite pic by leaving a comment.

We will also try to do another photoshoot with her to get some more pics to choose from, so stay tuned.