Sage's First Month - His Man Yue

Sage is excited today!

Sage is 1 month old!

In Taiwan, this is a big day, called: Man Yue (which means The Full Month). Basically a long time ago, if babies survived past the first month, they had a much higher chance to survive overall, so this was good news. Today, it is just a chance to say Happy 1 Month Day!

And, as a present, Sage got his National Health Care ID Card today!

Sage is raising his arm to complete the process of becoming part of Taiwan's Health Care network (he had to complete a written test as well - which he aced)

Here is Sage's Chinese name! Chi Hong Yi,

Since Jo's last name is Chi (which means 'pond') we wanted him to have a real "Chinese" name (not his Dad's). Hong means 'deep, wild water' and Yi means 'friendship and/or justice.'

Course Jo wants me to point out that just like in English, names don't really carry their meanings so clearly and we did not pick the name just for the meaning. Actually, since Jo's brother-in-law is a fortune teller, he offered to divine some good names for Sage (which is a custom here - you can not just pick a name you think is ok without first consulting a fortune teller - which we tried to do) and he gave us 8 names to choose from. We both agreed on this one after quickly looking at some of the others, so that was fairly easy. I am not Chinese, but even I can pick out bad sounding names and we both like this one.

So Let's wish Sage a Happy First Month!

'Come on Dad, you are embarrassing me!'