UFO@7 months old

UFO turns seven months old this week.

Two words sum up his past month: “stand up”. Whenever UFO is awake in his crib, he will pull himself up and then using the frame as support, walk laps around the inner perimeter of the crib. A few weeks ago he was still struggling with the routine of pulling himself up, but today he does it with ease and speed.

And he enjoys it. No longer is his view of the world from the crib confined to the ceiling. (The crib is also surrounded by a layer of cushion that blocks his view of the surroundings when he is in a lying position. The cushion is there so he won’t bump his head into the bars.) Now that he can stand on his bed, he can see over the bed frame and look around whenever he wants. His crib is still next to our bed, so in the middle of the night we sometimes wake up finding him staring back at us. And if he sees us ignoring him too long – usually we do just that around 3 in the morning – he will start complaining.

UFO’s crawling has become faster and more stable. No longer does he need to scrape the floor with his face every step forward. His mobility is not without a price, however: it is harder for us to change diapers on him because he doesn’t want to stay still. 99% of the time he will turn over and start to crawl before I can finish applying Desitin diaper cream and seal up the plastic diaper. My wife has found an expensive solution to this problem: plastic diapers that look like pants.

Yonfan: Color Blossoms

I have heard of Yonfan the photographer, but I didn’t know he has been making art housey movies. His latest is called “Color Blossoms”.

An excerpt from IHT’s article on Yonfan:
“Hong Kong doesn’t want movies anymore,” he said, “people want DVDs. I belong to the big screen.” He paused, leaned back into a silk-covered cushion and put on his best Gloria Swanson gaze: “It is the movies that got smaller.”