Unconsciously, Ma Yunwen, a former national player of the Chinese women's volleyball team, has been leaving Shanghai for a whole year, and the experience of becoming a new mother has made her quite emotional.
Ma Yunwen left Shanghai on June 1, 2019, for Amsterdam, when she told her good friends that she would have a child and would return soon. According to the plan at that time, at most half a year, when Rett finished his work in the Olympic qualification tournament, the three of them returned to Shanghai together.
"Who knows this walk, I don't know when I can return, we are all going to hit soy sauce!" Ma Yunwen, who is still trapped in the United States, said.
Ten-month-old Everly, who develops faster than a normal child, stood up on the couch for the first time last week, startling Ma Yunwen. She was taller than her little brother, who was more than a year old in a relative's family, and she had big hands and strength. "That day her dad asked her: Where is Pappi's nose? She reached out and grabbed it, pinching Rett's nose red. Ma Yunwen said.
It took the two of them twenty days to train Everly to sleep alone, and now she could really sleep on her own. "I put her on the little bed and said, 'Sleep, good night, Mommy loves you,' and she lay down and went to sleep. In the evening she had dinner with us, I saw that the time was almost up, when it was time to go to bed, we were going to take a bath and go to bed, she knew that she was not playing, waiting for me to carry her to complete the pre-bed ritual: bathing, playing with water for a while, singing, drinking milk, chatting for a while..." Ma Yunwen couldn't help but sigh: My daughter is so well-behaved!
Rett's love for his daughter also made Ma Yunwen sigh, calling him a "twenty-four filial father". Everly has had the skills to climb, rett has been on her knees like her, using both hands and feet, either chasing her daughter in the back or leading the crawl in front and letting her daughter chase him. "This method really drives Everly to play, she often giggles and chases her father in the back, and if she is chased by her father, she will climb faster than usual." Ma Yunwen said. In recent days, when it comes to teaching children to know things at home, Rett says a lot of things every day for her to point to.
Recently, Everly has been pointing at things all the time, and as soon as she points, her parents immediately enter the "repeating machine" mode. "The difference is that my repeating machine specializes in Chinese, and My father speaks his English in a round way." Ma Yunwen said. It seems that Everly will definitely be proficient in both languages from an early age.