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Jason and I are such bad examples as parents.  I swear, we are like the poster child of how NOT to be parents. Case in point: About 2 weeks ago, we went to Ikea to pick up some stuff and to have meatballs for dinner.  E has been getting around a lot of the barriers we set up and her toys are just scattered everywhere (they still are) in the living room.  We thought we could kill 2 birds with one stone if we found something that can hold her toys and at the same time be used as a blockade. That’s where the IkeaRead More →

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I know I don’t have many people read my blog other than my family (hi, mom, dad, meems, Nicole and auntie Mary) and a few friends (hi Jen and Angel!) but I figure there’s no harm in sharing this with you. Growing up, my dad has always taught us to be generous and to help those less fortunate than us.  It’s one of those lessons that’s stuck with me all my life and probably why I have no problem with donating to charity even when I’m tight on cash myself. No, I’m not going to talk about helping Haiti by donating to all the reliefRead More →

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2010… Another decade has passed us by once more.  So far, January has been quite busy for all of us. Jason’s working on middle shift which means he sleeps in an hour or two and gets to come home for dinner and quality time with me and E. With E being so mobile these days, it’s more fun for Jason to interact with her. Ellie’s been quite active this month.  She’s heading towards toddler-hood and at quite a fast pace too.  Over the holiday season, she went from a baby that did a slow, jerky crawling movement to one that constantly needs to be chased. Read More →

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Sigh… This year, my resolution was to update more often. A month later, I only have 1 post up and it’s the end of January already. Can we all say slacker? Truthfully, I think I just have too much on my plate. I stupidly picked up several personal projects that require more time than I was ready for. I’ve also been trying to figure out how to turn this blog into a multi-blog since I feel like some things don’t quite fit into the main blog. Brain…too…tired… For now, I will just say that I’m busy with stuff. I’ll put up a summary of JanuaryRead More →

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This year, I “got” Jason the special lightning edition of the PS3 slim as well as Final Fantasy 13.  We actually had to preorder the PS3 because it’s a limited edition.  Both items were officially released today and so we went to pick it up after Jason got off work. We did the preorder at Sakuraya in Shinjuku.  Let’s just say that they must’ve invested a lot in advertisement for this much anticipated game. Ads with Lightning from FF13 posted on every column in front of the subway exit. This is what the storefront looked outside… These tv screens were playing the pv of theRead More →

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Guess who’s 9 months today? No, not me….though there are times I wish I was. Ellie’s 9 months today!  Hooray!  That means that in 3 more months, she will be hitting a big milestone by turning 1! So at 9 months, what kind of madness is she up to these days?  Well…. – She can definitely crawl and quite fast especially when she realizes that I will be walking to a different part of the room.  She can sure chase you down! – She’s got her 2 bottom teeth!  You can see it in the picture above.  I think the top ones are coming soon. Read More →

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I joined this class called “Journal your Christmas” a few weeks back. It’s essentially a scrapbooking/journaling project that documents the month of December and the first 6 days of January. I’ve been gathering materials and waiting and getting excited for this day to come for a while. So finally, December 1st has arrived! For my first page, I made a declaration of my intent for this project. I really wanted to make this book and see it through because it is E’s first Christmas and I want to record it all. I’m hoping that it’s going to be a fun month despite her current mood.Read More →

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These past 2 weeks have been rough for us.  A lot of that revolved around E and her current temperament. First, we’ve been working on sleep training her.  It’s been hard since she’s use to sleeping in our bed with us most of the night and moving her to her crib has not been an easy one.  She also does not self-soothe well.  E is use to sucking to sleep and not with a pacifier.  Well, I am her pacifier which does not work for me since I technically don’t get any sleep when she is sucking on me. We’ve tried pretty much all theRead More →