March was a great month for our little Hannah.. She gratually turned into a little person, a fun little person. Being able to see better she started discovering the world around her.
All she wants to do now all the time is look, look, look (what else do you expect of the daughter of a photographer! :-) ). And once she was able to see things she started smiling, too..
I will never forget the first time she smiled - not at me - at the ayi!! Thought that was a bit unfair: After all it is Paul and I who put the effort into her upbringing and than one day the ayi arrives on a thrusday, is saying something sounding funny in mandarin and Hannah give her the brightest grin..
But our little girl made up for it only a few hours later and melted my heart with her first real smile to me. Since then she is just one big sunshine (at least in the mornings, starting at 5am..)
she has also started to "talk". She likes chatting to us. We have very important conversations such as "grr grr grr, mhh mhh..nge nge na..... jaja jaja grrr grrr..".
She also seems to have some imaginary friends she likes communicating with. And they also really make her laugh. Sometimes the aircondition above her changing table seems to be her best friend in the world..
Overall she is developing beautifully. At her 2 month check in March she weighed in at already 5,05kg and had grown 5cm to 58cm. She is very strong, can hold her head up by herself and even gives the impression when laying on her tummy that she has an idea about crawling.
She has also become used to travelling in taxis with us.. and since she uses a dummy she doesn´t mind even the craziest taxi driver.
So funny: I ordered a cab the other day.. when the driver saw me coming out with the maxi cosy he opened the boot (=trunk for my american friends :-) ready to this black box in there (he did not see the baby inside from the distance)..
You have to understand: Not many people transport their kids this safe here. And I must admit we sometimes travel with Hannah "Shanghai style", too.. wrap her in a blanked and cuddle her in our arms..
aehm.. yes, Paul is responisble for developing car safety...:-)
only 2,5 months ago.. can you believe it??
There are still a few things she needs to get used to.
Her hammock for example.. she really isn´t sure about the whole rocking idea...
or taking a bath.. we spent a ridiculous amount of money on this "tummy tub" (15EUR in Germany, 40 EUR in Shanghai..)
It is really nothing else than a slightly different shaped plastic bucket
The concept of "makes your baby feeling safe and reminds them of being back in the womb"..
does not really work for little Hannah...
But the best thing about March was that Hannah got to meet her Granny and Grandad Lincoln
who came over all the way from England to welcome her
Granny invented the "bouncy" game.. good exercise for toning your biceps!
Hannah loves it!! every time you bounce her on her legs and then stop,
she does a real fun whoola whoop with her belly
Can you imagine how bored Hannah was after 10 days dual entertainment and than being
stuck with me alone during the day again??.. :-)..
Good that we now have a Baby Gym.. she loves it:
finally a place for an afternoon snooze
(before I always had to carry her in the sling)
But the (almost) best thing about Doug and Sheila visiting was that after 2 months Paul and I got to enjoy our first meal out since Hannah was born.. And there would have been no better place to go to than back to Jean Georges on the BUND where we went
already last year
Unfortuntately we managed to go the one night in Shanghai where the lights of the skyline were switched off for World earth day (all major cities in the world switch of their lights as symbol for energy saving)
But who cares.. the food was still unbelievable and wearing my super high heels
I felt like a normal human beeing again :-)
Thanks Doug and Sheila for coming all this way!
You were a wonderful help to us!
