The Zhao Family

Guess what Mr. Clayton is doing? just be very imaginative and you're probably right.


If you didn't get the first photo, try this one...maybe this photos will help you a little better. (Hint: He's only trying to help)

Yeah and kudos to mom that she have survived the first month of Cayleigh's life. Though Abbey's done it for both boys, somehow this one month that Abbey stayed home seemed a lot longer than previously. As most of you may or may not know, by tradition and custom, the mom and baby stays home for the first month so both can recover and get adapted to each other in the comfort and safety of their own home. Many older generation folks insist that the mom and baby stay home and not shower, bath, eat certain foods, and do certain things. Though the intentions are good but modern day advancements have made such things irrelavant however because we still know many older generation folks, Abbey was a good soldier and stayed home for one whole month. As for not showering or other things, "what happens in the house, stays in the house". And a very big thank you to Abbey's parents staying with us for 3 whole months in our house to help out despite what some may think otherwise.

So finally the month is over! what do we normally do? -of course celebrate! Just like both of our two boys, we invite family and go out to feast ! I posted lots of photos on picasaweb. Some photos you may or may not understand what is going on, others you may think its cool, but mostly just enjoy the photos. (Hopefully this would make up for all the posts we've skimmed out on the last several weeks).

BTW- did I mention we got our house back? just the way we like it?-messy, disorganized, littered with toys all over the floor, civil, liberated, private, nuclear, and most importantly just the five of us!! (just a smal fyi-nothing to celebrate about)

Click here to see the pictures
or go to
http://picasaweb.google.com/dazhao/20090221CayleighSOneMonthCelebration#




The boys are so willing to take this photo.


Dont' you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?


Doesn't she want to make you smile?


Your heart melt yet?


Come over and be like mom, just hold her..hehehe


This is one of the things we do after she's one month old, her older brother is supposed to carry her around in this red 'pouch' and show her off to everybody.


Both take turns showing their sister around.


Also the baby is supposed to get a 'haircut'/'shave head' after the first month as well.


You'll see more photos of Mister 'Pimp" showing off his video game talent to all his 'friends' and of course which happens to be all girls from the link above. If this keeps on going, I'll be broke by the time he reaches 7!

Last night around 10PM Abbey was feeling a little tired and wanted to take a half hour nap before the night shift. She goes to her bedroom and left me with Cayleigh. And of course mom fed her well before nap so next thing you know it..Cayleigh goes and does a #2, a really really long and excessive one. We normally wait because she has more in stored. Ten minutes has passed and part 2 of #2 has arrived and Cayleigh can't wait anymore so she starts screaming at the top of her lungs as she normally does. To prevent her from screaming and mom not hearing her, I gave her a pacifier. I placed her on the crib and start changing her which calmed her down b/c she likes being clean and dry. After cleaning her she is all calm and content. Then not a moment too soon she screamed at the top of her lungs again. I tried to feed her, cuddle her, walk her, put her in the crib and etc: nothing worked. Afte several minutes it was too late, she has already woken up mom. By then I was exhausted and crashed into bed myself. It took Abbey no time to figure out the problem. Cayleigh wanted her pacifier and I was not successful at finding it for because apparently when I changed her, I wrapped the pacifier inside her clothes so it was poking Cayleigh the whole time.

So there you so, the success of me chaning my daughter in no time to come to find out that I left an important item inside her. Don't ever let me be a surgeon. ;)

Yeah we've made it through three weeks and so far so good. Mama's doing good and have just enough sleep taking care of Cayleigh. The grands are doing an excellent job of feeding their daughter and the rest of the family. The boys are active as ever and love their sister a lot. Baba is getting poked every where in the middle of the night to keep up with mama.

For all you folks looking for some photos of the 3 of them together, good luck. However here are some individuals that actually turn out OK. Enjoy.

It has been a while since I write a post on this blog. Da does a great job writing posts and taking wondeful professional pictures. He has been really busy with the boys these days when I focused on feeding and taking care of Cayleigh.

I just want to thank Heavenly Father for such a miracle in my life again. I love to have a girl in our family and HE has made it happen. My pregnancy with Cayleigh is harder than my first two and it had been hard for me physically (alot of throw up and lying on the bed).

We dreamed about how she looked, how heavy she would be, how much hair. But later in the pregnancy, we found out I have alot of fluid, which might bring complications to the pregnancy. As the time went by, my level of fluid was "way higher" than normal and she was breech until 38wks, which was shown in 3 ulrasounds.

I prayed so hard, not about how she looks, not about her weight, but to have a healthy baby and a normal (no complication) labor. I did all kind of exercises, use frozen peas, music, lying on iron broad, on my knees, anything you can name hoping she would move her head down.

Miracle happened, she turned her head down the week I had to induce. My water broke in the hospital and after 3+ hours, she came out 7lb 8oz just like her brothers. Dr. Laurin described my water broke like a stream. The vaccum sucked more than 1/2 gallon fluid from my bed.

Cayleigh is healthy, with alot of black hair, with dimples. We can't ask for more. I am truly grateful for what Heavenly Father gives us. He entrusted us with another child of God. We will do our best to raise her in the Gospel.

Cayleigh is 2 weeks old today, sorry the pics are not the best quality. But as for now, enjoy the pics.