Days of Grace 10/11/2010 October 11, 2010

1. Went to the park with hubby and the kids this morning. It’s always nice to have an extra pair of hands to keep a look out on the kids.
2. The kids seem to enjoy themselves at the play date today. Annika had a lot of fun playing with Baby Sam. She’s the oldest in the group, so every other baby is called “baby”..
3. My little girl is growing up so fast. She’s currently the “police” of the house. If Carston climbs the side of the railing, she’ll tell me that it’s too dangerous for Carston and that I should take him down but she’ll do it anyway.

Days of Grace 10/10/2010 October 10, 2010

1. It’s 10102010!
2. Had a great weekend. Hubby was back on Saturday midnight. We had Dim Sum at Shanghai Restaurant for lunch and Taiwanese food that hubby brought from California for dinner. Yummy! Then we head to the library with the kids during the afternoon. Sunday was spent with church and dinner with friends. Glorious weekend!
3. Been having one of those Asian bread for breakfast. I even had half a moon cake (lotus paste with double yolk, my FAVORITE!) today.. thanks to hubby for bringing them from California.
4. We found out that just like his sister, Carston LOVES noodle. Practically competing with his sister for it.
5. Bought a cute swimming costume for Annika from Target.. couldn’t resist the sale.. I bought a size bigger since it’s going to be for the next Summer..

Days of Grace 10/08/2010 October 8, 2010

1. Good weather. Another day at the park!  Thanks to Carston, Annika is starting to be brave enough to go onto the slides.
2. The family picture that I ordered from Costco has arrived and it’s hung on top of the firewall. Despite the fact that I ordered the wrong picture, I have no regrets.

   

3. Annika insisted on looking at my wedding album today. She was busy flipping the pictures and describing to me what she saw..
   “Mommy kasih makan Yeye..” (Mommy feeding Yeye) – I was feeding my father-in-law the wedding cake..
   “Mommy, ie-ie cantik yah?” (Mommy, ieie looks pretty right?) – She saw my sister in bridesmaid dress  with make up..
   Loving every moment of it.
4. Carston is learning how to go down the stairs like the way we taught him. With him mastering it, we’ll soon be able to remove a few more baby gates around the house.. there’s way too many of them in my opinion..
5. I manage to sell one of the playpen that we had through craigslist. Wohooo! At least one less baby items in the house.
6. Hubby’s coming home tonight!

Days of Grace 10/07/2010 October 7, 2010

1. Thanks to the beautiful weather, I took the kids to play at the park. We met a couple who had two boys that are 14 months apart. Their children are older than mine and according to the mom, it gets easier when #2 can walk around and communicate. I sure hope she’s right.
2. The morning was rather chaotic. Carston’s night diaper was TOO full and all the inside gels of the diaper was practically in his jammies. I had to clean him up to get rid of the nasty gels. To make things worse, he had actually just pooped and in trying to clean him up, I dropped one of the poop on my carpet. Well, at least with all the chaos, we were still able to reach school on time.
3. Carston is still peeing at my prompt (other than this morning). So I hope this means that we are on the right track?
4. In trying to entertain the kids during dinner, I sang out “Liang ji lao hu…liang ji lao hu..” and Annika continued with “pao de kuai…”. This is a surprise to me because I don’t sing that song often but I guess she remembered it well from the TV series “Ni Hao Kai Lan”. Haha.
5. My food scale arrived today. Hopefully I can start my bread making adventure soon…

Days of Grace 10/06/2010 October 6, 2010

1. Another gorgeous weather. Took the kids to the park this morning and they had a blast. By the time we came back, I was so tired (had to push the two kids up the hill to come back) but Annika insisted that we play some bubbles. Took all my breaths and blew her the bubbles she wanted. Boy, what an exercise.
2. Since Annika has been a total failure in potty training, I decided that perhaps I should start early with Carston. Since yesterday, I’ve been training him to pee with the “ssssssshhhhh” sound and I THINK he seems to be getting it. Well, at least he was peeing the three times I tried it out on him. Good job my boy!
3. Annika’s current favorite song is “Jingle Bells”. She’s been singing the tune but the words are still kind of mixed up. Thanksgiving is not even here yet and I’m already sick of the Christmas song.. hehe..
4. Carston can be easily entertained at times. Today, he couldn’t stop laughing while opening and closing a Russian nesting doll that belongs to Annika.
   
5. Two more days till hubby comes back. Wohooo! I can’t wait.

Days of Grace 10/05/2010 October 5, 2010

I read a blog that always say the days of grace everything and I really like it. Such a positive thinking and somehow, reading the blog always made me feel good. I look forward to reading her blog EVERY day. I thought that perhaps I should join her.

1. B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L weather. It’s amazing. I took the kids to the park today. It’s the first time going there without hubby since Carston is mobile. A little more difficult now that he wants to walk around but still manageable. They had so much fun. It’s funny to see how the girl pretended to fall when she saw the boy fell. I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the two getting icky about their hands touching the grass. My two little city kids.
2. During our regular reading time, the girl decided that she wants to read the book by herself. She was reading quietly to herself until she started saying, “.. made water, made fish, made turtle, made boy and girl..” It’s the book about how God made the earth and everything around it. I couldn’t believe that she actually remembered the story.
3. The boy is letting me have some sleep last night, which is something that he doesn’t do often. Yes, at the age of one, he’s still not sleeping through the night.

Hmm… this is harder than I thought.. hopefully I’ll learn to appreciate little stuff more …

Ten of Tuesdays September 28, 2010

1. After 2 months of being back in US, Annika is starting to get used to my home cooked meals again. She was pampered with outside food and my mom’s cooking while she was in Indo that she didn’t want to eat my cooking at all when we were back. I understand that my cooking probably doesn’t taste that great but well, she’ll have to get used to it and I’m glad she’s back to “normal” now.

2. The two kids are starting to enjoy school. Annika went to school with a smile today and Carston actually was playing with his teacher when I picked him up today.

3. Carston is starting to walk more these days. He falls a lot but he never gives up.

4. Just yesterday, he fell while walking and bumped his head on the drawer. Left a cut on his forehead. Thank goodness it’s not a deep cut.

5. Carston is starting to respond to Annika better. He likes to follow wherever his sister goes. Yesterday he saw his sister cried and he actually tried to “sayang” her.

6. Annika too, is starting to love her brother more. I was telling her about the bump that Carston had and she insisted to “sayang” him.

I just love seeing their interaction with each other ..

7. I’ve stopped using CD for the past few months. I’m hoping to get back to it sometime soon.

8. I’m starting to potty train Annika but so far, it has been a failure. I seriously am not sure when this girl will be potty trained.

9. I’ll be going back to Indo for a week Feb of next year for a friend’s wedding. The kids and hubby will not be tagging along, so we are still looking for an arrangement on how to handle this.

10. I’m so glad that hubby’s in town this week. Enjoying every moment of it.

Garage Sale September 18, 2010

Today, our complex had our twice-a-year garage sale.

The first one that we attended was before summer. Hubby and I were quite inexperience. We ended up just getting some toys for the kids from the neighbor.

This time, I decided to be more prepared. I bugged hubby to leave home much earlier and had some rough idea which area in the complex we would be heading.

The result… A BIG SUCCESS! We had a lot of fun (or at least I did!).

Some of our loot includes flower arrangements.. several picture frames for the guest room, Annika’s room and Carston’s room.. a table lamp for Carston..

then there was a pair of kid’s chair for the two.. and the best loot of all is the new bar stools that we got from the neighbor a few houses away for $25!! Two for $25.. who can beat such a price! Apparently she bought it and assembled one of them .. didn’t think that it suited their bar area and decided not to assemble the other one..

I’ve already assembled the other one and boy, they look good!

I LOVE GARAGE SALE!! I know Annika loves it too because she was practically glued to her new chair today!

Wordless Wednesday September 15, 2010