Snapshot of Angela's life at Houston 休士頓生活剪影

Little Angela has been at the U.S. more than a month and she seems adapted easily to new environment. Angela is curious and eager to explore new things no matter where she is. Here are some pictures and videos taken during her stay at Houston, which give a snapshot of her life abroad.

First time to play on a slide at park.

First time to help mop the floor in the kitchen area.

First time to use a computer.

First time to crawling up stairs by herself

Baby leash 孩童背鏈

Ever since Angela started to walk, Mommy has thought to use a baby leash on her for her safety, especially in crowded places. While Angela is still learning walking, she loves to walk freely without holding Daddy's or Mommy's hand. Sometimes, she doesn't like to stay in a stroller and tries to unbuckle herself and to climb out. If Mommy just let her walk, she will take off and get into what she's not supposed to. As such, Mommy and Daddy bought two cute baby leashes for Angela to prevent her from being a free-wandering child.

Angela's Christmas gifts 耶誕禮物

It was Angela's second Christmas. Angela went to church service with Mommy and Daddy to celebrate the holiday and thank the Lord for keeping the family peaceful and blessed thoroughout the year.



This Christmas, little Angela got various gifts from Mommy, Dadday, grand uncle and grand aunt and Daddy's classmate. Here are the gifts she got.




Lovely Clothing and a Disney DVD from grand uncle, Kuan, and grand aunt, Ching.




Elmo's music book and bath book from Mommy









Blocks from Daddy

Arctic tale from Willy & Christina

Trip to southern California 南加州之旅

One of the most exciting events during Angela's stay at the U.S. was trip to California where the family visit San Diego Zoo, Legoland, Disneyland Park, CA, Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, and Grand Uncle's family.

Here are some pictures taken during the trip.

1. San Deigo Zoo

















2. Legoland










3.Disneyland Park










4. Aquarium

Western Caribbean Cruise 第一次搭遊輪

Angela went to a 5-day western Caribbean cruise with Carnival Ecstasy. It's a new experience for Angela as well as Daddy and Mommy.

Ecstasy is a big ship with lots of facility, entertainment and great food. On the top of the ship, there are swimming pool and waterworks.

Look! Angela held by Daddy and Mommy had a lot fun of kicking and splashing water in the whirlpool.

When the cruise stopped by Progreso, Yukatan and Cozumel, the family joined shore excursion for sightseeing and visited Mayan cultural heritage.

The family also went shopping and had a great time walking along the Caribbean beach.

Angela's one-year old check up

Angela went to see Dr. Wei for her one-year old check up on Dec. 7. As usual, the nurse measured Angela's length (30 1/8 inches / 76.5 cm), weight(17lbs 11.5oz/8.04kg) and head circumference (17.5 inches/ 44.5cm), which are in the 75 percentile, 10 percentile and 30 percentile in the growth chart, respectively. While Mommy is concerned about Angela's low weight, Dr. Wei said that he is quite satisfied with Angela's overall growth and development. He thinks Angela is healthy and normal and there is no need to worry about her weight as long as Angela keeps eating and keeps active. Meanwhile, Dr. Wei suggested Mommy wean off nighttime feeding and help Angela sleep through the night from now on. It is not only good to establish Angela's sleeping habit but also prevents her from dental cavities.


At the end, Angela was given three shots, the MMR against mumps, the vaccine against the flu, and the vaccine against the swine flu (H1N1). From the video, you can hear that Angela was crying aloud when the nurse gave her shots. Poor sweetie.

Tirp to San Antonio, TX

This past weekend Daddy drove Angela and Mommy to San Antonio for a 3-day trip. Angela joined a cruise with entertaing narrowtive of the history of San Antonio river, visited convention center, playing in the Hemisfair park and along the riverwalk.

Apart from downtown sightseeing, Angela stoped by Seaworld where she encountered many lovely sea animals and saw Shamu and Sea lion shows, penguin and alcids. In Seaworld, Angela also went to the SeaStar theater to see 4D movie: "The Polar Express", the Seaworld special movie during this Christmas season. Though little Angela might not know them at all, she still quite enjoyed seeing the crowd and exploring different things.