Being a mom in China

HELLO everyone!  It has been a long time since we were putting things on here so thanks for your patience.  We have been a tad distracted with our new little bundle of joy, Benton who made his arrival on October 19^th (my due date) after 53 hours of labor… I don’t want to talk about it. 

Parenthood has been our biggest adventure to date and I am beginning to believe again that I will get a good night’s sleep one day!  I am not, however understanding how anyone in the whole world has a sibling. 

Doing this whole thing in China has made some things much easier and also made some things harder.  For instance, because we are able to have full time help that does the laundry, cooks, cleans and snuggles the babe whenever needed that pretty much makes a whole lot of things easier. One of the biggest things I think is harder is venturing out.  The smog is one problem, I may have a plan for a walk get completely messed up because I don’t want my baby breathing poison.  When we have good days though, I find I am scared to go out alone.  We have a carseat we can hook to the stroller.  But when I catch the cab and take the carseat off the stroller what do I do with the baby while I put the stroller in the trunk?  Seriously someone give me an answer.