The last one for today...

Things I didn't mention yet...

Since about a week she became a real baby, not just the one that sleeps and eats. She is awake for several hours a day and now loves to take. Caroline has about 15 different sounds, some of them even sound Dutch so she is already a multi lingual baby ;) Also she loves to smile at her parents, it is just great to see your own baby smile at you every day.

Since her birth she doubled her weight in about two months and so now she is way over 6 kg. Last Tuesday when the nurse measured her she was 57 cm tall. Also she has more room for braincells as her head became bigger as well.

Fellow teachers had a baby over a year ago (their daughter knows how to say Caroline very well) and so she does not fit in their swing anymore therefor they gave it to Caroline and she loves it!

The other day we went for noodles as the weather was so beautiful and afterwards to the market. Now people in Chengdu put 7 layers on and this goes the same for babies. This is because they do not use any heater. In our place it is nice and warm and so Caroline only has two or three layers on. While we were walking people were saying that she must be cold while I was responding in my best Chinese that she is not. One woman even came under her shirt to check if she was warm enough... strange people!

Strong girl

Something that I never mentioned here... the second day in the hospital Caroline showed how stong she is. When the nurse put her on her belly and rubbed her back with baby oil she pushed herself up and moved her head from left to right (or right to left I forgot the details). Now this helped us over the last two months as we didn't have to be as careful with her neck.

Now why? I have an explanation for this! While she was still in the womb her mom was teaching the kids in school violin and almost all of them are beginners. I passed by from time to time and in the beginning of the school year it sounded terrible (the were wonderful at the Christmas performance!) and so guess who must have been shaking her had! That's right my lovely daughter.

And now since about a week she loves to stand up while daddy holds her, she keeps on pushing and pushing. Every day she stand a little longer and of course this is looking funny with her chubby cheeks.

She is also getting more control over her hands, she sucks her hand when she is hungry but she cannot get her thumb out of her fist so it is looking pretty funny. I will try to snap a picture of that as well, in the meanwhile you can enjoy her cute feet.

Immunization

Last Tuesday was a big day for Caroline, being 8 weeks old she needed her first shots.

We went to an internation doctor since my parents brought the shots back from Belgium. All went realy well, she first had a little check and the doctor said she is a very healtty baby. So after going through the whole talk of what might happen... two nurses gave two shot at the same time. Yes they even counted down!

Caroline cried for about five minutes and two tears rolled but she was doing fine for the rest of time. Of course we were worried for the next few days since there is a 50% chance that she becomes a little ill. But no way with a fat body like hers and good milk from mom, she did not show anything. In fact last night she slept the whole night in her own bed! Next week we will move her bed to her own room. She is becoming a big girl!