I want to use this opportunity to say Happy Birthday to Emma, Kyla, Olivia, Alex, uncle Jack, and myself. Emma, Kyla, uncle Jack, and I were all born on November. Today, Olivia and Alex are both 10 months old, and Kyla is just one day young.

今天易峰和olivia都整整１０个月了。昨天看到Kyla,　好漂亮的小妮子。

Last Saturday, Alex paid a visit to his cousin, Emma. He picked up the flowers and balloon. Alex, we want you to remember how lucky we are living on the earth, love and beloved by our dear families and friends.. Don’t take any day for granted. Be happy and be healthy.

上个礼拜易峰去看了emma的墓地。他帮emma挑了花和生日气球。

“Emma, I love you.”

We enjoyed shopping at Trader Joes so much that we didn’t realize we lost Alex’s stroller until we walked out the store and were ready to walk to our car. A old lady in the store said to me that Alex reminds her grandson, another gorgeous baby.

我们去逛店，逛的高兴，竟然把易峰的小推车都忘了。

Grandma and Grandpa prepared a wonderful dinner for mum’s birthday. Alex looked so cute in Beaver’s clothes. It seems he is ready to work at workshop with Grandpa.

礼拜六的晚上，爷爷奶奶做了好多好吃的给妈妈庆生日。

“Grandpa, more work?”

The shirt’s kind of hard to read in these pictures, but it says “I do all my own stunts”. Here’s a better picture of it. Thanks, Auntie Alba and Uncle Brian!

一两个礼拜前，如果把易峰放在自己的小床上，他一般都是坐着，现在他只要逮着机会他就要站着了。 礼拜三奶奶带易峰的时候，易峰又学会爬楼梯了。小孩子长的真的是很快，一天一个样。很多好看的小衣服都穿不了了。

这礼拜易峰的睡觉明显好于以往任何时候，几个礼拜的睡觉纠正和喂饭时间调制终于有了很大成效。上礼拜一易峰竟然一口气睡了个整晚，早上起来的时候我还使劲地回想是不是这是真的。 易峰基本上还是每天2点钟左右要哼哼唧唧一会儿，抱抱他，或最多喂他2oz的奶他就乖乖的睡了。易峰一般早上6点钟左右就醒了，虽然我经常还困得迷迷糊糊，但还得和他一起起。ｄａｖｅ说要训练他自己知道爸爸妈妈要他７点钟起床，也就是说，当易峰６点钟开始叫爸爸妈妈的时候，不要理他，让他或再倒头睡觉或自己在床上玩，我总是觉得不太现实。可今天早晨７点钟我一睁眼听见易峰起来时，ｄａｖｅ告诉我易峰五点钟就醒了自己哼哼了一会，小哭了一会就又睡了。我不知道为什么我５点钟没听见，但这真是个好消息，我们理想的易峰作息时间是晚上７３０睡觉，早上７３０起。易峰晚上睡觉基本上非常准时。

Alex is pulling up immediately when we put him down near something. He’ll be walking in no time.

“站得高就是看得远，姥姥姥爷，看见我的下门牙了吗？　哈哈”

I wrote it down last week on our white board in kitchen to remind me to make something for Alex, finally, today I did it! I made chicken soup this morning when Alex was sleeping and Dave went to play racquetball. Then I used the chicken soup to cook rice. At night, I put vegetables, rice, and a very small piece of chicken in the blender to chop them finely. So Alex ate the first home made baby food today. YEAH!

总是想着给易峰做些吃的，商店里面买的又贵又不是很健康，但就是一个懒字了得！今天终于炖了鸡汤，煮了米饭，把菜花，胡萝卜，米饭，一小块儿鸡肉放在搅拌机里，给易峰做点好吃的。

Alex likes banana, oatmeal, especially plain yogurt, the kind has much less sugar. I fed him sweet potatoes last two days, but he didn’t like it as much as yogurt. Apparently, his appetite for bottles decreases. This morning he only accepted oatmeal, sweet potato, and banana as his breakfast.

易峰明显地不喜欢喝奶了。每次给他喂奶，都跟打仗似的。他喜欢香蕉，燕麦粥，尤其是酸奶。

Alex has mastered to stand up in the crib by himself. My prediction is he will talk around Christmas time. His 3rd tooth is coming down and bother him a lot. I happened to find from Dave’s baby book that Alex is taking the same teething sequence as his daddy.

易峰已经能自己扶着栏杆站在自己睡觉的小床里了。
Tomorrow is birthday of Emma, Alex’s cousin . And we will take Alex to see her. Alex always smiles to Emma’s pictures - I have used this technique to stop him crying successfully. How much I wish Emma and Alex would hold hands and play together. Happy Birthday, dear Emma. See you tomorrow.

We did the 9-month follow up check up before we went to for cruise. Alex’s weight drops from 90% to 50%. My mom still asks me every week if I feed Alex egg yolk, which is very traditional baby food in China for body development. I tried, but Alex doesn’t like it. Dr. Grayson said we can feed anything soft to Alex now. On the cruise, every morning I fed Alex plain yogurt,which has less sugar, and oatmeal. Alex liked them. But I am puzzled by “not cow milk yet, but yogurt” instruction from doctors. Isn’t yogurt made from milk?

大夫说但凡是软的东西，都可以喂易峰了。终于我们可以和易峰一起吃些东西了。已经喂的东西有：饺子，米饭，香蕉，酸奶，燕麦片粥，红薯，柿子，桃子，梨。 易峰总是很好奇我嘴巴里的吃的，就是同样的东西，他也觉得大人嘴巴里面嚼的东西好。
I had been worried if Alex would never crawl before he walks. He was super cute when he creep like a wounded solider, but I love to see the real crawl. On the cruise, I remember it was the last night on the boat, when we put Alex on the floor to take pictures, he suddenly crawled to us. A real crawl! I believe my parents want to see this very badly. I should have done more video conference with my parents.

易峰终于会爬了！庆祝一下。有一天我刚进托儿所的门，他就兴奋的使劲从屋子的另一端一口气爬过来，有人表扬他爬的快，好像真的不慢呢。
Here comes the 9-month checkup report.

1. Weight:21 lbs 12 oz — 50% （体重：21磅12盎司）
2. Height: 29 inches — 75% （身高： 29英寸）
3: Head: 18.75 inches –95% （头围： 18.75英寸）
Have you noticed we have a big head baby? Dave said today when he dropped Alex at SEA, Alex cried when Dave left. I miss him very much and already cannot wait to pick him up at 5.  6 hours left.

We got back from the cruise Friday morning and dropped Alex off at daycare so we could get ready for Halloween. We had a bunch of cleaning to do, jack o’ lanterns to carve, and dinner to make before we had friends and Alex’s grandpa over for a Halloween party.

礼拜五我们在自己家有个party,所以早上回来，第一件事就是把易峰送到托儿所。奶奶给易峰买的豆荚服太小了，易峰又热又穿不进去，我们就赶快照几张照片罢了。

Grandma got Alex a very cute pea costume for Halloween. Unfortunately by the time October 31 rolled around Alex was already too big for it! We got him mostly into it for a photo op, but the costume was also pretty heavy and hot and with the hot weather we’ve been having around here Alex got overheated pretty quickly, so it didn’t stay on long.

为了照照片，请小猴子帮忙，易峰不客气地上去就是一口。

No matter how hot you are, a little Curious George kiss always makes things better.

我刻的南瓜。刻南瓜真是很有趣，我从来没有这样喜欢过这个节日。

Here’s Michelle’s jack o’ lantern–it’s Alex! Can you recognize him? I especially like the butt.

易峰坐在南瓜上！

Alex had a lot of fun with everyone on Halloween. He liked looking at the trick-or-treaters. I tried to teach him how to give out candy to them but he ended up being fascinated by the shiny wrappers and keeping it for himself. Luckily, candy with the wrapper still on doesn’t taste good, so he didn’t ruin his dinner.

Alex stayed up late on Halloween with his guests and his candies but he eventually went to sleep. Here he is the next day, hanging out on the pumpkin Michelle carved.

The family unit went on a cruise to Cabo San Lucas last week. None of us had ever been on a cruise before. I’d personally heard lots of negative things about cruises for about the first thirty years of my life and had this vision of wall-to-wall people, long lines for carb-loaded cheap food, and shuffleboard on the lido deck with a bunch of midwesterners. But the last couple of years, almost everyone that’s told us they went on a cruise said they had a great experience, so we decided to give it a try.

在兴奋并混杂着几分紧张中，我们一家三口礼拜一中午出发，开始了一个礼拜的游船旅游。我的计划就是吃了睡，睡了吃，长个５磅回来，结果本着这个原则，第一天晚上我就吃了三次晚餐，哈哈。我们很担心Ａｌｅｘ是否适应船上的环境，加之他可能有点感冒，我们直到出发前４个小时还都不是十分确定是不是能去。结果礼拜一大早带他去看了大夫，得到大夫的许可之后我们全家心情大好。易峰一点都没有因为新环境而拘束，他在我们的房间里的大床高兴的滚来滚去，船上提供了小床给他，第一天晚上撞了好几回头，大哭，之后就突然就好了，他晚上醒了之后，睡眼蒙胧地看看我们，就又倒头大睡了，真是可爱至极。几天下来，因为可爱的易峰，人们对我们都好得不行。

Here are mommy and Alex on the gangway to the boat.

Getting on the boat was a pain. There were two giant cruise ships at the terminal, and they’d both arrived late, so there were really long slow-moving lines of traffic on Harbor Drive and of people at the terminal itself. We probably blew two hours in the heat just getting our bags checked and our identification processed, and they had a hell of a time figuring out how to handle Michelle’s visa on top of that. Poor Alex was in a fuzzy sleep suit and he was really hot. He did a great job being patient while we got everything taken care of.

易峰虽然没有游泳，但在游泳池边惬意地小资着…

Alex didn’t end up doing any swimming–the water was a little cold for him–but he hung out by the pool and looked cool a lot. Here he is, just kicking it. He’s holding a cold drink in the hand you can’t see.

礼拜三我们到了墨西哥的一个小地方，很热，易峰和dave都大汗淋漓的，（这一点易峰很象dave，怕热）。一个墨西哥人帮我们拍了一张合影。

We only had eight hours at Cabo, and we waited a bit to catch the tender into shore. We hit the beach at about noon, and it was really hot–made the San Diego terminal heat seem like a pleasant day. I heard someone say it was 92 or so, and there wasn’t much of a cooling breeze. Here’s the family unit unfortunately shaded on the marina.

我和易峰在一个能和海豚游泳的馆子里，那里面有空调，dave买了瓶无糖可乐，味道和美国的不一样，但和中国的建怡很象。

There’s this outfit in the marina that will let you swim in a tank with their trained dolphins. We didn’t actually do it–if I remember correctly the price was totally ridiculous–but their lobby/gift shop/observation area was mercifully air conditioned, so we stopped in. Here are Michelle and Alex by a non-dolphin-holding body of water in the gift shop.

这张照片是我们在整个旅途中照的最好的一张。 是很无意的一个抓拍，易峰是在扯拽那个帽子，但效果很好。

Cabo Dolphins did have top-quality themed merchandise! Alex was a real fan of this hat. We were thisclose to getting it for him, but it was a little large for him. He’s outgrown so many hats in his short life that he was very enthusiastic about the sizing on this one, as you can see.

喜欢这张的背景－我们在那走的时候没觉那么美，可能是热的。

Here are Michelle and Alex back at the marina. I was surprised to see how small Cabo was–there really wasn’t much going on inland after you got past the buildings immediately around the water. You can sort of make out the extent of Cabo in the background of this picture, and doing so will keep you from noticing that Alex has apparently passed out from the heat.

We only stayed in Cabo for about an hour before we had to head back to the boat. Alex sweats like his dad. We were both drenched.

易峰在船上睡的出乎意料的好。看，他和他最喜欢的小猴子在一起睡着了。那个小猴子是我们三个礼拜前买到，他一下子就特别的喜欢，每次看到这个小猴子就笑，然后抓过来就咬。易峰好像上牙床也有牙在长出来了。

After all the boarding and unboarding on the Cabo run it was time for some napping. We got Alex a Curious George stuffed monkey from Kohl’s a couple of weeks ago and he’s best buds with George now. They take naps together a lot.

Alex really slept well on the cruise, especially with it being a strange environment and all. He did better and better as the cruise went on. I think he liked the gentle rolling of the ship like I did.

易峰像不像个大孩子？

“You got a cute comment for this picture, Pops? Go ahead and make one. I dare you. My lungs are Godlike. I will shriek like there’s no tomorrow. You don’t want a piece of me. Think it over.”

易峰特别喜欢抓我的红色头套。

Michelle took a towel folding class on Thursday, where they taught cruisers how to roll towels into several cute animal shapes. Alex and I missed most of the class as we were walking around the atrium because he was a little resistant to sitting quietly just then, so here Alex is trying to use his mind reading skills to get the towel rolling patterns from Mom.

如果下次我们还去坐游船去玩的话，我还会倾向于在万圣节的时候去，船上的小孩子们可高兴了，我都被他们渲染得很激动。

Thursday night was Halloween on the ship–we celebrated it a day early because we were landing Friday morning. The crew did a pretty amazing job putting up a bunch of Halloween-themed displays and scheduling special events. I really wanted to catch the midnight screening of Ghostbusters in the lounge, but oddly enough having a baby in tow really eats into one’s nightlife availability.

Here are Alex and Michelle in front of a very scary Halloween display.

Here are Alex and Dad in front of the casino, which had been taken over by a frightful inflatable skeleton driving a carriage. As you can see, part of my hair has already been scared straight up.

We landed Friday and got off the boat much more quickly than we got on, and that was that. Michelle had heard rumors about people gaining 27 pounds on a cruise, but even though we both ate way too much we only gained a pound each, which was nice. Overall, it was something we’d definitely like to try again.

准备了半天，我们还是忘了带奶瓶的刷子。下次一定要记住！