Bath Time

Last week, while they were vsiting, Lisa Yee-yee decided to give little Victoria her bath. As we were filling the tub with warm water and rubber duckies, Natalie wandered in and wanted to bathe, too. So we threw them in together.

Also, watch Video 165 of Natalie doing her thing (turning around, saying hi and bye, and chit-chatting) and hanging with Victoria and Gong-gong. You can see she loves it when I turn the screen around so she can see herself. She waves and says "Hi" to herself.

Victoria and Natalie taking a bath together. They've both grown so much, soon they both won't fit any more.


Victoria's starting to get a little grumpy. She doesn't like sharing a bath!


Mommy, save me! Victoria says. Natalie wonders what's going on? Did I do something? Is it my drool?


Lisa Yee-yee finishes the bath and rescues Victoria out of the bath.

Wrapped in a warm towel and in her mom's arms, Victoria is content again.

Tong Family Dinner at Cafe Too

Last week, we went to Cafe Too dinner buffet at the Shangri-La hotel for a Tong family meal. It was deeelicious and fun hanging and chatting with family. All the kiddies went, too. Natalie had fun with her cousins Vanessa, Victoria and Nicholas.

Rare family photo of our little Wang family.


Porpor and Gonggong with all their grand-children Victoria, Vanessa, Natalie, and Nicholas.


Porpor with her new three girls (Victoria, Vanessa and Natalie) instead of her old three girls (Lisa, Tracy and Carol).


Vanessa LOVED the chocolate fountain.


Meanwhile, Natalie LOVES her little cousin Victoria. She yells "Beh-beh! Beh-beh!" and can't get enough of her.


Natalie stares in fascination at Victoria. Victoria tries to look around Natalie's big head.

Day at the Park

On Friday, Natalie visited the park at Caine and Seymour Road with her friends Max, Stella, and Becky. After a brief warm-up period, she took off to frolick with her friends on the play equipment.

Natalie is amazed at all there is to play with. She stands at the edge, watching Stella climbing the slide and wonders, where to start first?


How about the slide?


Natalie likes the slide, but she much prefers climbing up than going down.


Natalie smiling while peeking out at auntie Katie.


Natalie's little friend Stella on the slide.


Natalie curiously watching some of the other kids play.


Very bravely, Natalie can climb the stairs all by herself!


She carefully climbs one step at a time, always holding onto the railing. She's a careful and cautious baby. (I don't mind!)


She made it!


Later, I give Natalie some raisin bread to snack on. She wanders around, checking things out while she munches away.

Natalie meets a very cute and chubby 3-month old baby and waves "Hi" to her.

She also generously offers her bread to the baby.

Family time with the Tongs

With the birth of baby cousin Nicholas, it's been really great to have family (Grandma and Grandpa Tong) visiting us in Hong Kong. Natalie has had a chance to spend more time with family and has become really good at pointing out who's who in the family. Natalie also loves her baby cousins Victoria and Nicholas and gets super excited when she sees them. She points and yells "Beh-bee! Beh-bee!". She is also still an avid admirer of her older cousin Vanessa who can do so many wonderful things Natalie is still learning to do like sing songs and talk in full sentences.

Natalie and Victoria hanging out with Por-por and Gong-gong.


Por-por with Vanessa, Natalie, and Victoria.

The cousins sitting close. We really hope they'll play and fight and be good friends as they grow up together!

During meal times, the kids eat first (we feed them). Then, our helper will look after the kids while the adults eat. The only way for her to watch all 4 kiddies is by turning on the television for 10 minutes. The three oldest instantly become TV zomies and Suparti is free to carry and rock the littlest Nicholas.

Three cousins in a row: Small, medium, big. Here Natalie is wearing her alternate Hallowe'en costume (a school girl). That didn't work out when her stockings decided not to fit her any more.

Natalie gives little Victoria a reassuring pat.

Baby Hallowe'en Party!

Today we had our Apr-Jun Mommies' Group baby Hallowe'en party. It was so much fun! Parents and babies all had a great time. This year, the party was held at Dakota Prime, a new steak restaurant and there was lots of yummy food, including truffle mac-n'-cheese which Natalie loved (she ate TWO servings!). Natalie dressed up as one of her favourite animals... a duck!

See Video 163 and Video 164 of Natalie waddling around in her costume. It was super cute :)

Here is Natalie the duck.


Look at the bum!


The duck munching on a lady finger biscuit.


The duck admiring herself in the mirror and drinking diluted fresh mango juice.


Other animals and costumes present included this cute (home-made!) snail. Here is Holly the snail and her daddy, Alastair.

Here is hula-girl Stella with her mommy Katie.

It was such a fun party, even Madonna Moorea showed up with her grandma Linda. There was also a little vampire Jamie who really bites!

Here is Natalie trying to steal food from her friend the skeleton, Becky.

Clara the pirate has to hold tight to her little pumpkin bag. Natalie kept trying to steal the gold coins and toys from it. Of course, she also put them back.

Here is cutie Pia the pumpkin munching on a toy.

Here is Max the Amish boy sitting with his daddy Dave.

Here is Summer the mummy. She has scary spiders and rats attached to her costume. Good thing they were stuck on the back where she couldn't see them.

Here is a cute devil Nivana trying to shake hands with her friend Pia.

A little later, we had some cross-breeds. Here is Clara the pirate with a duck head.

The other babies LOVED Natalie's costume. Some of them who saw her opened their mouths in amazement and they all wanted to touch her. Here, Becky the skeleton is giving the duck a big hug.

For more photos, see our "TheWangGang" flickr account here.

Even sadder...

Why is Natalie so sad? Even with all the other major stuff going on in her life (teething, allergies, medicine, etc...), we found that with all the teeth Natalie has, her poor little thumb is growing a big, rough callous and it is often red and painful looking from all the vigorous thumb-sucking she does. So we bought Bite-X, a really bitter solution to rub on her thumb. Whenever Natalie pops her thumb into her mouth, she'll immediately pop it back out and scream and cry and then spit a big, bitter puddle on the floor, poor girl.

But she's a fast learner and hardly sucks her thumb any more (unless she's half asleep and forgets) and as an alternative, we've introduced the pacifier to her. It's been a couple of days and so far so good! We hope she'll soon forget about her thumb and only use pacifier from now on.

Here is the callous growing on Natalie's right thumb.

Here it is again from another angle. It's a rough bump and sometimes a little red, too.

This is the Bite-X solution we've been coating her thumb with over the past few days.

And this what Natalie thinks about all this.

A fruit-full belly

Today, Natalie had a belly full of fruit... and it's not from eating it! She asked Lisa Yee-yee to help stuff her shirt full of plastic toy fruit and walked around with a bulging shirt for a while. When we tried to take the fruit out, she shook her head and said "No no" and pushed our hands away. For some reason, she really liked having all the plastic fruit in her shirt. Kids are strange and funny. See Video 162 of Natalie and her big fruit belly.

Natalie ambling around with toy fruit in her shirt.


Natalie waves "Hi" to the camera.