Gong Xi Fa Cai!

This is baby Valerie's first Chinese New Year. Look at my baby all dressed in red. We went over to grandma's place early in the morning for the CNY gathering and stayed around till evening. Nothing exciting happened, except just sat around watching TV, eating yummy food whole day and receiving lots of angpows (on behalf of Valerie of course :P ).

Oh yeah, this was also a stressful day because for the first time, baby Valerie refused to feed from her Avent bottle. No idea why, she just moved the bottle teat left and right without really sucking in and then chewed on it and fell asleep. In the end, poor mommy has to breastfeed her instead. I had planned to start bottle training her daytime as a transition to going back to work. Looked like the plan failed miserably. In the end, only Ivan's 2nd sis aka 'Lai Ku' managed to feed her.

At night, we lit the 'Guo Min Deng' up to the sky which was pretty fun. I really admired the Chinese who created this more than 2000 years ago. A simple theory, by lighting the candle, it produces enough hot air to push the paper lantern up. (Sorry if this doesn't make sense, I scored a C in Physics :P ) Apparently it was not easy to set this up. We needed 2 persons to hold the balloon parallel on both sides and a third person to light the candle. And we had to be really sure there was enough hot air before gently releasing it up to the air. Failing to do any of this and the paper lantern will fail to launch.

More CNY pics for the occassion... Mommy and baby ang ang...


Note: After a week of battle getting Valerie to take her bottle (we did the "if she's hungry enough, she will eat" theory, means starving her on a few occassions), we found out the root of the problem. It was because the flow was too slow for her! LOL! Silly mommy, never thought of upgrading her bottle teats when she's already 2 months plus, still using a newborn teat. Sorry baby, for starving you the whole week and labelling you as a 'chou' baby...