Chamu in the Big Apple

Dadu escorted Mamu and Chamu to New York City for the third time just two days before the Valentine's Day. After a week in sunny Southern California, it was a shocking sight when we landed the airport that was fully covered in white. It was cold, icy and snow and sleet kept falling.

Dadu was leaving the day after to Panama so he was terribly worried about how imbalanced Mamu was going to survive in this kind of weather. Mamu had fallen on her butt four weeks ago in SF and caused a perpetual back pain since (and she was 10 lbs lighter). Luckily, snow turned into rain the next day and rain turned into sunshine the day after.

Chamu has been growing nicely. He is now almost 28 weeks big. Mamu has gained more than 30 lbs even though Chamu is probably only slightly over two lbs in weight. With the dry and sunny weather in NYC at least Mamu will have courage and motivation to walk around without Dadu on her side. Dadu left on Wednesday to return to Panama to attend his cousin's wedding so it is a big test for Mamu and Chamu since three of them have not been apart since little Chamu was conceived.

Luckily, Mamu is preoccupied with conference calls and meetings (Chamu's only fetal education thus far) and only has to suffer loneliness at night.

Tonight, Friday night, she is stuck on a tourist cruise dinner around the Hudson River with her colleagues. Even though the music is loud and she is with another 100 tourists, she and Chamu still miss Dadu tremendously... Big Apple is really not that fun when you are missing your other half...