Lizzy is four

Yep, my little girl is four. To all who have little babies: you've all heard it before but I'll say it again - time goes too fast!!! Hold your little ones as much as you can, for they will turn four someday. Thank you to everyone who celebrated Lizzy's birthday with us, she is very blessed to have that opportunity. Thank you for those who weren't there but remembered her and sent gifts. And thank you to wei-ying ayi for taking pictures, if you want to see more pictures of her birthday party, I have uploaded them to my yahoo photos, you can view them at

new.photos.yahoo.com/cindybrandt33

We're back to Tianjin!!

We're back! It's really good to be home. Our trip was fairly uneventful. One incident worth mentioning: because Hayden ran out of soy formula, we've had to switch him to regular formula in Taiwan the last few days - it's caused some diarrhea. Well, mommy should have been thinking of this and prepared an extra outfit for him for the trip. You can see where this story is going. Here he is playing at the airport playground and by that cute expression you couldn't tell he's done a big explosion in his diaper:



Luckily, Mommy had ah-ma to help out, she went off to clean out the shirt that had been big time soiled, while Daddy ran off to buy a shirt for him,


Apparently, Hong Kong airport don't sell apparel for babies, all we could find was a size S at the Disney store - still a few sizes too big for Hay

Good bye and Happy Chinese New Year

This is a goodbye post for the next three weeks! We're going back to Taiwan for Chinese New Years. Lizzy has been counting the days!! I'll post back with all our pictures from the trip and also Lizzy's 4 year old birthday party!!

10 months!

By the way, today Hayden is 10 months old. Good job little Hay!

When you have a big sister

As a helpless baby with a three year old sister, sometimes it can be rough; she puts stickers on your face...



she puts burpcloths over your head...



And sometimes, she'll even dress you up with her dress up clothes!



Okay, so she had some help from Mommy with that one...



"My son is going to hate me, isn't he?"

Lizzy's owie

"Look Daddy look, look what I can do" she says as she bounces on a big blue ball, PLOP, face plant into our marble floor. Here she is (notice Hayden getting into the action):



Look at that giant tear



When she cries, her long eyelashes get wet and just look soooo long - check 'em out



Can you see that bump on her forehead?

Like Daddy

Hayden is a very big boy. Lizzy was a very chubby baby, but Hayden is just rock solid...and tall. These last few days have been hard because he came down with a fever and an ear infection. He's been miserable. I took him to the doctors yesterday and he got weighed and measured. His height is 95th percentile, and weight is 85. So all around big boy - look how tall he is: