Fei, today you're one and half years old! That's a major achievement, you're really becoming a toddler now and leaving the baby days behind.

Today the weather was far from perfect which destroyed most of the plans we had for the day. We thought of taking a ferry from Rapperswil to Zürich, eating in some nice restaurant and finding a beautiful spot to give you a gift! Instead we ended up getting wet in the rain, eating in McDonald's and taking a hot bath back home...

You're quite a late walker. Even though you started walking while holding hands already 4-5 months ago, you only recently started to walk on your own. Your mom has been quite worried about it, but I've tried to tell her you're just doing it on your own pace and there's nothing to worry about. You're clearly really smart, and have an extremely strong will (kind of like your mom) so you just like to do things your way.

Your absolute favorite of all things in the world is cars. It doesn't matter what type - cars, trucks, buses, trains or even motorcycles are all very exciting! There's a little mix-up due to your multilingual background, as you seem to think everything that moves is a car. In Chinese language that is pretty much true - all vehicles on wheels are called cars, from cars to bikes.

You have a plenty of small toy cars already and you really love playing with them. Often one of the cars comes to my office for a cruise, going through all the corners, shelves, closets and chairs... only to be later followed by another car. And all new cars obviously need to take the tour around the house right away!

Already couple months ago you started to love cars so much that you needed to hold one in your hand everywhere. Even in the trolley, or when taking a nap! When we're walking somewhere and you see a train, or a bigger car, in the distance, you start shoutig "car, car, car" and pointing towards it full of excitement!

Another thing you love almost as much is music. This may be because your mom has been watching some musicals and listening to a lot of piano music, but music really seems to be close to your heart. You calm down and focus when you hear good music and you often like to sing along. Even my singing gets your approval, which is quite something!

Your mom actually wanted to give you a piano for 1.5 year birthday but we couldn't get the right type in time. Perhaps that's for the best, as she's already having second thoughts about the model and will likely end up choosing something else... we mostly just need to find out what is the best digital piano out there and where to get it from!

Some of the other things you like these days include playing with small stones (in fact just last month you ate one of those and made mom really worried), playing peek-a-boo and catch-up with daddy and eating potato and edamame! Unfortunately you're not one of those kids who are picky about what they put in their mouth. You're quite picky with the actual food, but other things are quite ok! In fact, you don't eat as much as you should as you're above the average height but below the weight for your age group. The doctor said you're doing fine though.

There's so many more things to write about... We also recently got a new 24-70 mm 1:2.8 lens for our camera, so there will be new photos of you coming up. Unfortunately I've been a little too busy lately so there's something like 50 gigabytes of unsorted photos to go through...