Year of the Tiger

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone.

Cadi received her first Chinese New Year red bags yesterday from uncles and aunties.
I don't have photos of Cadi chewing on the "delicious" and colorful red bags (perhaps I should take some), but I do have a photo of her chewing on an equally delicious crib frame. =D

Cadi - 7 Months

It's snow day in new york. Public schools are closed. Too bad Cadi does not go to schools yet, otherwise, I'm sure she'll be very happy.

Cadi is almost 8 months old now. We discovered yesterday that she knows how to roll over now. Since it's only Cadi's first day doing that, it was actually quite funny to see her facing up (we usually put her facing down) after we leave and come back to her room.


This is what I call "greed".


Just woke up, not sure what is going on.


Not sure if you can tell, but Cadi has the giraffe's entire head in her mouth.


Cadi watching TV with Joy.
Cadi watching her mom eat, begging for some. Mommy refuses to give any.
Cadi acting on her own.

First big 2009 NY snow day

In the spirit of NY's first 2009 big snowy day, here's a photo of a house and tree lit up by the reflected street light. :)

Cadi (6 months)

Took Cadi to her 6 months checkup recently and she cried the heck out of her life the moment that she enters the elevator. Hilarious. She cried so hard that she didn't even seem to feel the two needles that went into her.

Being six months old, Cadi can sort of sit on her own, not very steady yet but she can hold her position for a while.


Smiling and starting to lose her sitting position.


Cadi's first Christmas present from her aunty. Will probably open it on Christmas day. Thanks so much, aunty Annie.


Acting cool and all that wearing a new jacket.

Wishing every one happy holidays.

Two random photos

Cadi (more of 5 months)

Cadi turned 6 months old.  So I'm posting some more recent smiling photos of her but before we do that, we shall see a photo of Cadi crying out loud.


Cadi is quite afraid of strangers (not good) unlike Sydney (on the right, a friend's baby of similar age), who's quite calm. The story is that Cadi didn't start crying until she saw Sydney's dad.


But this and the other smiling photos at my web site are proofs that Cadi does smile a lot when she sees familiar faces.


Cadi does break dancing. Maybe she'll be on "So You Think You Can Dance" in the future.


Finding a way to watch the TV behind her. Quite impressive.


A sequence of Cadi picking up her pacifier and losing it. She recently began picking up her pacifier and stuff it in her mouth, sometimes the right way, sometimes not. :)


Took Cadi out for a walk for the first time. Took her to Waldbaums first (cried) and then to a little park. This photo is me showing Cadi her dad is STRONG. (No, it was really tiring having extra 20 pounds on me).

Cadi (4~5 months)

Cadi is starting to become a fun "toy". Started to smile, making funny sounds and does funny moves. Unfortunately, photography is a still form and it can't really capture motion and certainly can't capture sounds. Even though we bought a camcorder (by Joy's order), I'm not really into videography. Maybe when I get the new generation of DSLR that has the video capture ability. :)




Cadi started to smile a while ago but it has been hard to capture it as every time she sees the camera, she just stops smiling and looks at it dumbfoundedly. LOL. So I'm happy to finally have a good smile photo.


She also started to grab things a while ago. It's a bit hard to tell in this photo but there's my hair in Cadi's hand and she's really pulling it HARD.


Fingers in the mouth, part of growing up for most (if not all) babies. Any thing that goes near her mouth, she'll start licking. Very funny. :)


Started feeding rice cereal and oatmeal to Cadi. This is the look every single time after feeding.


I title this one "無動於衷" (translates to "unmoved"?).


Love Cadi's "shocking" expression here. :)