5 months on

At five months old, Abigail is more entertaining (and demanding) by the day.

She loves to roll onto her belly, and has been for some weeks now, but STILL hasn't managed to figure out how to roll back over! So we spend a lot of time flipping her back over when she gets fussy, only to have her immediately flip right back.

She laughs a lot and LOVES her collection of soft animals. 'jelly piggy' has to go to bed with her now, even though 'jelly cat' will always be the travel favourite. A new addition to the collection is 'roger' the alligator. Thanks Aunt Amy!

Jason's Photography

Here are a few photos of from Jason's photography work we thought you might enjoy.

At 2 months, just before her world tour...

But she wasn't always as cooperative as we'd like!

...and at 4.5 months

Abi's Rocking Crane-Horse

I had the find of the century a week or so ago. My friend and I were walking along the road when I saw a lady walk by with a cart piled high with wicker. On the back were hanging what looked like a rocking horse. So we ran down the street and waved her over (she was walking pulling a giant cart so it sounds more impressive than it was!).


After much negotiation (my mandarin numbers are getting much better and almost useful now), we walked away carrying a bamboo rocking horse.

On getting it home, Jason swears it looks a lot like a 'rocking crane' so it's now the horse-crane. Whatever...she's going to LOVE it!

Family Outing at Red Town

Last Sunday we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and had a family outing to 'Red Town'. It's actually an old steel factory complex that has been turned into a group of galleries, a new contemporary art museum, and the Shanghai Sculpture Park.

The Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum has just opened with a great exhibition. There's a nice collection including a few of the same artists we saw at the Saatchi Gallery in London and really liked.

Abi did great. It was he first outing with her newly oriented stroller (pushchair to you brits). She hated having to ride lying down so we set up her chair so she's sitting up and facing forward and she just loves it. Unfortunately so does everyone else so anytime we're out with her everyone and their brother are staring and talking to her. At least now we can hide her under a mosquito net which is definitely required at this point anyway. We even have one on her bed...but i'll have to post a pic of that later. For now, here are a few pictures from our day out.