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Highlights of 2009 Jake’s birth Jake’s first swim Jake’s first smile Jake’s first laugh Jake sitting up Jake’s first plane ride to Guangzhou Valentine’s Day at Bacaro Family coming to see us in Shanghai Getting VPN to work in China Watching Zombieland Listening to Boduf Songs Setting up school Moodle site Lowlights of 2009 Execution [...]

What choices do we have for sharing videos with friends and family in other countries given that Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo Video and Blip TV have stopped working? I’ve been using Vimeo recently. It has a basic free service that lets you upload upto 500 mb of videos each week. All video hosting sites display uploaded [...]

Our six week old son Jake has a Chinese mother and a British father. This presents us with both amazing opportunities and challenges. Textbook parenting differs between China and Europe. According to Chinese custom, postpartum women should observe bed rest for a month after the baby is born (yuezi). The child should not go outside [...]

Below are two videos of Jake, which I shot and edited in recent days. Jake Crosses The Bridge from Matt Seigal on Vimeo. The most recent was shot yesterday.It’s the Chinese tradition to mark a month of a baby’s life by crossing a bridge. In this case we crossed Nanpu Bridge and two at Century [...]

Jake is 22 days old and getting bigger and stronger every day. Here are some things we’ve noticed about him. He is utterly fearless. Jenny says he feeds like a wolf. He only cries when he is hungry. He is not too bothered by heat or a soiled nappy. He is strong.He is already starting [...]

Here are a few pictures of Jake that I took in the week, having just added them to a picasa album. Jenny and Jake came home from hospital yesterday. Jake can’t get enough milk whether it’s from his mum or a bottle of formula concoction. It’s really nice having my family home. I normally get [...]

The first video was taken yesterday and the second was shot today. Notice how Jake is struggling to open his eyes. Don’t worry. It’s only sleepyness. He’s doing really well. He’s drinking lots of milk, sleeps like his grandpa and is getting ready to suckle from his mum. Jenny has also had a good day. [...]

This week our baby will be born, but we don’t know when. We’re in countdown and standby mode. Here’s an update. Jenny should have given birth our baby boy Jake on Friday. She is going to hospital for a checkup tomorrow and we are hoping that she will go into a natural labour before the [...]

Yesterday we hired a live in nanny to look after our baby for the first two months after he is born in May. It may be serendipitous or I may just have my Shanghai expat baby story radar turned on these days, because we came across a story that City Weekend ran at the end [...]

It’s been a while since my last post. Here is a brief list of things that have happened to us over the last month. We enjoyed Chinese New Year in Lingang in Nanhui Pudong Jenny found out that our baby is a boy and we’re going to name him Jake. Jenny is now 6 months [...]