Happy One Month Old! (17 years and 11 months to go till FREEDOM)

Taukeh Ian is finally one month old, and had his "celebration" last Friday. We have so far survived 4 weeks of ordeal being new parents, and I must give 99.9% of the credit to my beloved Pearl, who relentlessly woke up in the middle of the night to do all the feedings and diaper changing though she was extremely tired. Sometimes I wish I had breast milk too. Too bad mine are too hairy - potential hazard for baby choking with hair balls.
Anyway, sticking with the Malaysian Chinese tradition, we asked our confinement nanny to make the "ang keh nui", or the "red hard boiled egg" in Penang Hokkien. She said her red dye was imported from Taiwan, very expensive one. Surprisingly our Taiwanese friends were able to recognize the uniquely Taiwanese red dye!
Judge for yourself:
Is this any different from Malaysia or US red dye?
We wanted also to thank our Chinese neighbor who graciously gave us two boxes full of baby clothings (Ian can have different onezies to wear every single day!). Unfortunately they were out of town so we ended up sharing more "ang keh nui" and an Italian Yummy Cake with our Brazillian friend at his very Brazillian BBQ night (yummy, slurp...slurp...)
And we also bought a delicious cake from Sam's for the Mandarin fellowship, to thank all the uncles and aunties for their gifts and loves showered upon little Ian:
And I surprised the mum with this, celebrating her first month of tedious yet joyous motherhood:
That's right. The el cheapo $3.99 per two dozen carnation from Sam's!
So with the end of Ian's very first month on earth, the mama also celebrated the end of, according to her, the "horrijible" one month confinement period. Imagine not bathing or washing your hair for a month. Just like the series "Lost". Without the handsome actors and beautiful actress. To top it off, she had to eat dishes cooked with the famous "Rice Wine Water" which was really overpriced (stated specially for confinement period) and really watery. I think I can make it myself with a bottle of water + a few drops of alcohol.