Monthly Archives: September 2013

To prepare for Randy’s birthday we had to make sure we had lots of yummy treats.  My sister had made s’more cookies last week and since Randy loves s’mores I decided it was the perfect thing to make for Saturday morning while we opened up presents. Adam got right to work helping me.  I love baking withContinue reading “S'more please”

We got Adam this adorable felt alphabet.  It has animals for every letter and it folds up into a little suitcase.  Adam LOVES it!  He loves talking about the animals and finding them.  He saw the ostrich and ran and got his zoo book to show me how there’s an ostrich in there too! IContinue reading “Me and my Briefcase”

Today I am already 17 weeks pregnant.  I have no idea where the past 17 weeks have gone.  In three weeks I’ll already be halfway there to getting to meet the little person that is currently growing in my belly.  I am going to try to remember to take some pictures and write down whatContinue reading “Week 17”

Many of you may wonder what I do to amuse myself on those long rainy hours, days, weeks that hits Manila sometimes.   Well I’m glad you asked.  There’s a lot of amusing myself really. I have to be pretty resourceful.     Luckily I have friends to pass the time with.      Continue reading “Rain Rain Go Away”

The embassy had a bake sale today to help the local embassies employees that lost their homes and belongings in the recent typhoon.  Such a worthy cause I decided I had to pull out the big guns.  Of course our building decided to try and thwart my every move – first by turning off allContinue reading “Bake Sale Brownies”

Adam adds new words to his repertoire daily these days.  Here are a few new ones while snacking on a cup of ice at the coffee shop.  Why ice you ask,  that’s a good question.  Guess we’ll have to wait until he can reply to discuss his ice obsession.  

We’re always looking for fun toddler friendly stuff to do around Manila, especially now that Grandma’s gone and we’re looking for something to fill the hours. So my friend Allison told me about this awesome bird feeding that they have every morning near our house.  I was picturing a yard full of doves with maybeContinue reading “For the birds”

I have some big news to share  🙂  Lets see if you can guess.  Here’s your first clue.     How about now?     What about now?   Ok I’ll tell you.  I’m going to be a big brother. And I’m pretty excited about it! March 2014 🙂                Continue reading “Guess what?”

Grandma arrived just an hour after Randy left so I had little time to miss him.  The best part about having two different people to see Singapore with was by the second time I could streamline our sightseeing and see all the parts that were the best and skip some of the rest.  Also with RandyContinue reading “Singapore with Grandma Gretch”

The Botanical Gardens in Singapore. This deserves an entire post by itself. I went twice and I could go every day. It’s called Gardens but it’s really a beautiful large park, with different gardens inside, like the Orchard Garden. It was such a beautiful park and on my first step inside made me miss RegentContinue reading “Gardens and more”