Cantonese Yabbering…
Hong Kong has received an unbelievable luck of clean air last week – and it was really nice, to say the least. However, the weather has also soared to the 30s level and the summer has finally arrived!
Monkey Business Inc. has also started our board meeting on what needs to be done before the deadline (due date). The interviews and the research have begun for me and Ian respectively. Ian is responsible to find the “perfect” stroller (where he found a fabulous website: www.strollers.com). We need a light weight stroller but good enough to house our monkey from newborn to 2 years. As the search begins, we found there are lots of gadgety things that tag along with a stroller! We have yet to find the ONE, but surely deadline (oops, due date we mean) will give us people the kick to get it done!
I have also interviewed the first-month nanny this week. What the first-month nanny basically does is to cook (make really untasty chinese soups) and teach the new mom what to do w/ a little young thing in the first month. She (tends to be female) will leave after a month. Those chinese soups (Ian calls them “flavored water”) are supposed to have so much nutritious value that your body can recover faster and they help to “make” more milk for you. To me, any excuse to get help from an extra pair of hands and without my mom’s daily intervention will have me lining up!
The interviews went well and I learned quite a bit (to Ian, it was an hour of Cantonese Yabbering and girly giggling!). We’ll likely go for the first one; she has cared for mixed children before and didn’t seem too deterred when we told her that there is no rice-cooker in this house. The second one was quite a nightmare as the first answer she gave about breastfeeding was that I could not feed my child enough in the first 10 days and hence formula milk will be required! That was hardly my philosophy and it would seem odd to have someone force me to use formula milk. So much for that interview. The second lady was out the door in 15 minutes.
Really glad the nanny-search process is over – next in line will be the maid search! Until then, much love from Hong Kong at 18 weeks.
p.s. surely you’re wondering where is the bulging woman in the photos?! As you know, there is a SYSTEM for everything in this Lacy pad. We will have them done every four weeks. So look out for the widened nose (??) lady at 19 weeks.
