Progress Update

This week is Mamu's first week of being a housewife and she just cannot get used to the fact that she has no emails to check, no conference calls to get on and no meetings to attend. She is still constantly thumbing her blackberry but most of the time, she is just putting schedules on her empty calendar because she is not used to seeing empty spots (she cannot live without a schedule). Poor Dadu already got yelled at multiple times because Mamu is not used having no plans or structure to her life. Well, at least today went just as perfectly as she would have planned. We got to the airport three hours early, had a nice lunch (and even some time to sip wine), got upgraded to business class (and left Chamu behind in the economy class with our helper -- yes, I know I am going to hear an earful of complaints about how it is possible that parents can leave their baby with the helper in the econ class but we redeemed econ miles tickets and were upgraded involuntarily), and got a table at Dingtaifeng without even having to wait!
Chamu will be celebrating his first birthday next week. Lately, he has started to show a very keen interest in walking. He also started to show a distaste in eating his food but he will never say no whenever we feed him "adult food". He even licked his finger twice when he accidentally got some bitter mustard on it. Today he had yogurt, grilled cod, xiaolungbao, and Shanghai beancurd. Dadu even fed him some vanilla ice cream! But he is really a good behaving kid (as long as we keep his mouth full).