Category: Parenting
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Sunday raclette
Thanks to our Double-Barrelled-Race Swiss-Vietnamese friend, we had raclette last night and stank up the house full of grilled bacon ham and cheese. Mac the Dog went berserk as well. It is all the more amazing we had friends over for dinner because the inevitable has finally happened – we took delivery of Kai’s plastic…
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In the blink of an eye
Kai turned 8 months old on Friday, and he’s developed new skills including a superhuman ability – teleportation. You put him on the playmat and turn away for just a second to do something in the kitchen, and when you turn around he’s at the other end of the room. We are now trying to…
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Kai’s menu
This is Kai determined not to open his mouth to eat any more carrots. In over a month of eating solids, he’s developed a preference for green stuff and for pumpkin. His favourite food is mashed peas, followed by mashed avocado. He really really really dislikes papaya, which is the only thing that’s made him…
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Kai’s first Halloween
I’ve never celebrated Halloween till now, and because of that, we went completely overboard with the decorations for our apartment – we spent most of the week cutting out construction paper from templates we obtained either online or from the venerable Martha Stewart. Most of the enthusiasm, planning and execution was supplied by Naomi, while…
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Green zen baby
Baby Kai loves greenery. He loves to stare at trees and the rustling of leaves seems to lull him into a trance-like state. So it’s a good thing that we’ve got trees right outside the dining room window, and we took these pictures when we had lunch recently at District 10, and you’ll see how…