"Can you say 'Mama'? Ma-ma..."

I can't help smiling from ear to ear watching Marybeth playfully encourage our baby Maeva to imitate her words in the best way she can after she finished bathing our baby this afternoon.

The way Marybeth tries to connect with Maeva is the most precious and realest thing in this world to me. How Maeva just looks at her mama–with those little giggles she constantly makes– while barely understanding what her mama saying only fills my heart with warm feelings and stirs my soul with peace.

Being a father truly humbles me because I have now realized how blessed I am for many things around me that I wish I will never miss. The interaction between them, a mother and a daughter, makes me feel like I just want to be there, wherever they are. Because being able to capture such a beautiful moment of them with my own eyes is what I have been looking for in this life.

Introducing what kind of world that our children will enter since they are still in the womb is the most sincere job that us parents could ever do for them. And I can't wait for the time when our baby Maeva get a little bigger, enough to let her make a first step outside with her own barefoot as she learn the diversity of nature and how wonderful it is just to be there.

In a world full of lies and uncertainty, he came across as a man of profound and unfathomable personage. His mind is a maze of darkness and chaos, as sharp as a razor. His compassion and vulnerability creates a contradiction between how he appear and how he embrace his true essence—such a fascinating complexity of a character one can learn. His presence commands respect and admiration, his capability of both great tenderness and fierce determination makes him inspiring to many, yet he is still not without his flaws. His depth in understanding others sometimes leads him to danger, blinds him to overlook his own need, the kind of double-edged sword of humane traits that could cut him deep and never heal. For his empathy often leaves him exposed to the very fragility he seeks to shield from others. Through all challenges and discovery, he remains stand out as an unbreakable flesh of a body, a rushing beat of a heart that enlivens every dying hopes, a quiet observer that brings the intensity of a thousand storms.

My beautiful magnolia.

I will definitely come and get that.

My wife is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life. Look at all the flaws she doesn't have.

Despite everything, the sound Marybeth makes when she's happy is still the sound I love the most.