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Teaching Elliot and watching him grow is such an amazing thing. He is. Peng and her beautiful girls. Veraday and Lil Noah. Yvonne and Lil Nat. Teaching Elliot and watching him grow is such an amazing thing. He is really a little boy now, with a mind of his own and with a (big) will of his own. On Thursday, I got a classic lesson on parenting him. Then immediately with no fuss at all, he went to pick up all the other diapers strewn around and obediently put them back where they belonged before coming back...
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: June 2013
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Thursday, June 13, 2013. Hello, second trimester! I am currently in my second trimester and am feeling the oh-so-goodness of it. It called for a celebration and, together with celebrating early Fathers' day, the Husband and I went for a long overdue dinner date two nights ago. Just this morning, I managed to have a baking session with the little ones (a first for Arielle! And we managed to churn out a batch of delish sticky chewy chocolate chips cookies! Oh, the best news of all? You see, my first two pr...
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: October 2013
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Monday, October 21, 2013. Getting Y to stand upright out from Anya. I have a little problem. A few months ago, I tried teaching Anya how to write her name. I thought, "hey, she is learning ABCs in school, she recognizes her own written name (and Arielle's, for that matter), we are always finding things to do in the afternoons anyway, why not? I tried showing her the difference, tried doing YMCA dance for better visualization, tried holding her hand and writing it with her but she would still get it wrong...
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: Parent-Child Quality Time with Kinderhands' Book Box!
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Monday, October 7, 2013. Parent-Child Quality Time with Kinderhands' Book Box! Last month, I had the privilege of receiving a book box from Kinderhands. To try out with Anya. Eh what box are we talking about here? Pretty cool idea, I thought! Now, how did we fare with the box? The theme of the box that we received was 'Stars'. Execution-wise, it all went quite well lest for a couple of hiccups. How does the lil' missy feel about the book box? Lastly, how does Mommy feel about the book box? Plus the proje...
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: March 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013. My conversational little woman. I love the surprises and amusements that I get on a daily basis just by holding conversations with Anya. Very often, I find myself marveling at what goes through her little head from the stuff she expresses to us verbally. Here is an anecdote of an exchange between Anya and I at the zoo a couple of weeks ago. Was explaining to her the differences in the appearance between a lion and a lioness. Oh Where is the baby? Anya and Arielles mom. Gonna do so...
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Tomorrow is Arielle's first birthday. Being the second child, you might think the significance of first birthday might fade a little. But no, not in this case. And for the birthday girl. We think it is quite a feat for her that she has come this far. Our darling little Arielle, Daddy and Mommy are so proud of you. For every child, it takes a degree of effort to cross milestones. With your heightened sensitivity, your intense disposition, you seem to require more crying...The g...
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: February 2013
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013. First of all, happy Lunar New Year! Us at our new humble abode on the first morning of CNY. Sorry I took a longer break from this space for longer than expected.I needed the rest. The whole house-moving-before-lunar-new-year project took a lot out of me. Post-CNY (okay, technically it's still CNY), I'm now doing a major reshuffling of the girls' routine while taking the rest of the stuff easy. Mommy (mama or ma-meh). Jiejie - meaning big sister (teh-teh). I still want to sleep!
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012. So, I thought I will change tack when it comes to filling up this space with their progress. I shall do a weekly (Hopefully.) photo blog. So instead of having a verbal diarhhea, I shall let photos do (most of) the talking. That should make updating easier right? And it shall be called, "WIP" - meaning, (our/my) week in photos. So, this is the first WIP entry. Here goes! Look what the postman brought us! One of our playground jaunts at noon time. My baby gone black and white.
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Parenting Anya & Arielle: November 2013
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Monday, November 4, 2013. Recipes: Savoury Pork Stew. In view of Joash's arrival, I anticipate that we will be going through a season of buzz and perhaps even mayhem as we resettle ourselves with a new baby. Hence, I've been psyched to check out one-dish meals that will work on days that may get a little wee too harassing for us to make proper full meals. Anya hates it. Too herby? The recipe you see below is an adaptation of what I took off here. Ground black pepper to taste. Granulated / powdered garlic...
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