I have to apologize to Tom and his fans (i.e. grandparents, aunts and uncles and loving ones) for not updating this website for so long. A lot of things have happened during the last four months. 

First, we took Tom to China for the first time. It was a very good trip. First of all, Tom behaved very well on the flight both ways. Then he got along will all of our families and was very friendly to everyone he met. (Was it because they were all Chinese?)  Of course, needless to say, all of us ate a lot of good food, met family and old friends, and bought some nice stuff.

In Shantou, Thomas met Zike and his classmates. Zike was such a nice big brother to him. Unfortunately it was too short and Zike did not have much time to spend with Thomas because he had to go to classes everyday.

At Chengdu, Tom spent most of his time with his cousin Andy (Dou Dou) and even thought he fought with each other from time to time, the soon learned how to get along. And amazingly, Andy started to take care of Tom, what a wonderful kid.

Thomas plays tennis -

baseball -

Tom's daycare experience. 

As new parents, Jessie and I (and certainly all grandparents) keep checking Thomas against all important milestones for babies. Tom is pretty normal on basically every measurement, but there is one thing that we, or maybe just myself, knew from the beginning that Tom would not be quite "normal" - he would not start to talk as other kids typically do.  Why? It is because his dad did not.

Christmas eve @ Vera and Avery's