Our New Changster

We are happy to announce Princess

Sydney Xin-Rong Chang (張忻融) to our family.

She is one loud, strong baby, arriving in at 7lbs 4oz, and 20 inches long. She probably would've come earlier (like around August 4th), but her mommy was too happy celebrating her own birthday and totally ignored the fact that her membrane had ruptured...oops! (I actually did call our on-call Dr. and left a message about my situation; she just never called me back.)
After 48 hours of irregular contractions and fluid leakage, mommy couldn't handle the contractions anymore. On August 6th at 4:30am, we finally decided to go to the hospital. Six hours later and after four big pushes, this little princess was born.

Her chinese name means joy and harmony. If you say it in mandarin, it sounds like 心融(熔)-- a melted heart. Daddy and mommy wishes she will always have a kind and sweet heart. We wish she can find joy and be Christ-like; hearts may be touched by her example.

Japan day1-3 : Sagamihara 相模原巿& Machida町田巿, Tokyo

We spend the first days with families in Sagamihara, Tokyo where David's brother lives. Aiko and Kevin drove 8 hours from Kyoto to spend 24 hrs with us, we are so happy to see them again!!! Can u imagine how's a house with 7 kids would be like??? If u think getting 1 kids to smile at the camera is hard, try 7 at the same time! Mark and Bev took us to a bazaar ( flea market) on base where I spotted a cute yakata and later realize it has some minor easy fixed tores, so I bargained it down to USD4 from USD15. I am pretty proud of myself because you can't really haggles in Japan.












We also visited the Cup Noodles Museum.I also got to make my own cup noodles!!!!!




My favorite- spicy seafood favor!!!!!












I asked them to make silly faces, they looks more like annoyed than silly :).




This ramen shop is so good!!!!




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Macau

We had some free nights to use at the Westin Hotel in Macau so we decided to take mom on an early birthday trip :). It was pretty tiring but very fun and fulfilling (i.e. for my stomach). Charlotte was ecstatic when butterflies landed on her fingers; she felt like was a real fairy :).
Special thanks to Melanie & Pan, Cherry & Jeff, and of course Amber. Pan, it really nice to meet you and thank you for taking us around!!! Also, please forgive my forgetfulness. I am totally blaming it on Lulu and crappy free wifi @ 新馬路 this time (you know what I mean :)). More pics are coming...

Location:Kwun Tsing Rd,,Hong Kong

Pre baby# 2 Asia Tour - Hong Kong

We wanted to go on another family trip before baby #2 Lulu (Charlotte picked this name) comes. We will be traveling to Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore for six weeks. Hong Kong is our first stop. Charlotte was only 2 years old when we came here last time. It's so funny to see her eat all my childhood favorite foods and she's lovin' it!!!! Cocktail buns, Yakult, and 大腳板雪條. Her favorites are 利賓納 & 紫菜. She asks for them everyday. We will be staying in HK for another week, and I still need to take XX to 許留山:).

It has been a year since my last post, and due to my swollen feet and huge belly (7 months prego), I have to stay home and rest a day or two. With my iPad andnothing else to do at my mom's house, I decided to give photo stream and blogger app another try. It's really easy to use; I only wish they had an iPad blogger app in addition to the iPhone app.