Kai turns seven months old

Pappy & Me!


A visit from Granny & Grandpa!


Why does Daddy keep putting things on my head? It's not cute and it's not funny. Okay, maybe it is cute. It's still not funny.


I'm not sure if I'm too wild about my new swing. I sure do like my bear, though - thanks Liz, Matt, Maggie & Sarah!


Just hangin' around with Mommy (notice that Mommy's eyes look just like mine in this picture!):


I love bathtime... especially playing with the Flashy Quackers, which light up!


Aunt Jan stopped by to visit me!


Mom and Dad are trying to get me started on "solid" foods... Is this what they had in mind?


My Pals, Mason & Kaleb!

Word: Cute - Pronunciation: \ˈkyüt\ - Definition: "Kai"

Here are few recent photos of Kai.

We bought Kai a new hat for winter, given the fact that we had snow showers last week - the hat has a little bear face on it, but you can't see it very well. You will notice he is hanging out in his new walker - unfortunately, he isn't very mobile because his legs are too short!


Here's Kai with his "I love daddy" bear - not only does he love daddy, but he's pretty fond of his bear, too....


Not sure what Kai is up to here...he's too young to have a monkey on his back!


Kai's Aunt Patty and Cousin Saige came to visit him last week - here is a picture with Saige (Shelby, are you jealous???)



And finally, this is one of my favorite shots of Kai to date:

Kai's First Halloween

I may be too young to go out trick-or-treating, but I still make a cute little pumpkin!


Please, Mom, give me some candy!


No? Okay, I guess I'll just have to help myself, wrapper and all! Who needs teeth?


Recently my new friends the McConnell Family came by to visit me!


I'm starting to learn about vegetables... my first taste of squash!

Le Kai

I'm not sure what happened...

All we did was show Kai some Nineteenth Century Impressionist French Paintings and the next thing we knew he starting wearing a beret everywhere and insisting on having his bottle prepared exclusively with Perrier:


Maybe we should have just stuck with Pooh theme in the nursery instead of Monet...

Random Pictures

Before we go to pictures, first, a news flash - Kai's first tooth broke through today!!!

Moving on....since we didn't do a great job of keeping our blog up to date while in Taiwan, we thought we would share a few random photos:

The day we picked up Kai, Kent practiced changing diapers on a stuffed toy...here's an action shot -


Here is the finished product - not bad! Since this was taken, Kent has had lots of practice doing the real thing!


Kai in his new stroller. We had quite an experience trying to purchase a stroller from sales people that did not speak English. Kent did a great job of pantomiming the pushing of the stroller to get his point across. The effort to buy the stroller was worth it - Kai loved it and it gave us a chance to do things like eat out without having him on our lap.


"SuperKai" at the Dumpling House on our last night in Taiwan. Kai is able to transform himself from a drooling baby into a superhero with cape and all, able to leap Taipei 101 in a single bound! The Gladney Agency hosted a dinner for the four families adopting that week in Taiwan. This was without a doubt my favorite meal all week. Thanks, Gonghzan!

And now, onto one of my less favorite meals...the taste was ok, but the whole prawns freaked me out...of course, this was better than the soup we had in the town of Jiufen. The soup had fish and pork meatballs....I tried to give some of the broth to Kai and he was having none of it!


We went to a tea museum our last day in Taiwan. Here is a picture of Kai, flirting with the woman at the tea house.


Mommy and Kai at Yehliu Park


Another cute picture while riding in Mr. Yeh's "magic bus"


A final picture of Kai and Daddy, home at last!!

Home at Last!

The traveling is over! Yeah!!! We do really miss Taipei; it was such a wonderful visit - but it was time to come home.

Kai did so well on the flights, it was unbelievable. Really. Granted, it is no picnic changing a diaper in an airplane bathroom ;) but apart from that minor inconvenience, the trips were not at all bad.

Kai is SUCH a trooper! He either slept or was happy. Said the woman sitting in front of us during the flight home from San Francisco to us when we landed: "I didn't even realize there was a baby behind me!"

The weather may have been cold, but the welcome sure was warm!

Granny (Kent's Mom) meeting Kai for the first time:


Grandpa (Kent's Dad) with Kai:


What a great surprise... Aunts Shar and Kim met us at the airport!!


A long day for Kai... asleep before we even left the airport:


And a warm welcome from LaoLao (aka Gammy - Kim's Mom) at the house!


So comfortable in Aunt Billie's arms...


However -- Kai says... okay, Mom & Dad - let me get this straight?!?!?!

Taipei Forecast:
Here:


You better buy me some warm jammies!

Catching Up...

Sorry it's been a few days since we've given an update... this little guy keeps us very busy :)

It is time for a short nap now and unfortunately there is not enough time now to write about our trip so far, but I wanted to post a few photos from the past two days...

Nappytime in the crib:


Kai looks so cute in his little ball cap:


Cruising around in the stroller - he likes to ride in it, which is great:


Mom and Kai in front of Taipei 101:


Here we visited a Buddhist Temple in Keelung:


Kim and Kai with our new friend Gongzhan from the Gladney Adoption Agency, who has been so helpful to us:


Daddy and Kai playing together in the hotel room:


Time to snuggle after bathtime!


Mommy and Kai, so happy together: