Category: Parenting
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I will not eat full-grain mustard again
Photo by Cynthia Blue We haven’t hit the sweet spot yet where Kai sleeps through a night. He made 5 hours for two nights this week, but we’re now resigned to them being flukes. Maybe he’s not eating enough and sleeping too much during the day, we’re not sure. And going on guestimates based on…
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Scary songs for children
We’re still learning how to put Kai to bed, or simply to calm him down. Talking and singing softly is one of the things we find works. We’ve been singing to Kai some of the songs we know from when we were kids. And yes, we already knew that ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’, ‘Baa Baa…
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Cyclops can now fight Godzirra!
“Ultraman + Mt. Fuji = JAPAN” – Photo by emrank I am not arroud to make fun of Japanese-accented English, so sitting through two hours with an embassy official who was helping us fill up deceptively difficult forms was quite a task yesterday afternoon. But it’s almost all done. Naomi’s and my marriage has been…
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This is the life
Kai has been going through a growth spurt, which is amazing given that he’s just come out of dengue and hospitalisation. He can’t fit into a lot of the baby clothes (that thankfully were hand me downs rather than bought) he was previously wearing, and he’s heavy enough to make my biceps ache after carrying…
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One mosquito bite
Last Wednesday night Naomi and Jessie the Confinement Nanny were wondering why Kai had started sporting a few freckles and moles on his face and body. We had no idea what was to follow. Thursday morning saw a few more spots on his face, some reddish, some brown, and there was a bruise on his…