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We had a busy week sightseeing with Grandma Yuyu.  She’s back to the US tomorrow, but at least she got to see loads of Manila! Adam showed Grandma his favourite museum- the Mind Museum.  dinosaurs, talking robots, huge planets hanging from the ceiling, there is just so much to love about this place! Go ahead,Continue reading “Sight Seeing With Grandma”

Adam got us all invited to his friend Devon’s first birthday party this weekend.  Devon’s mom is from Brooklyn and his dad is Filipino and they live in our apartment building.  As a side note, our apartment building where the embassy put us is really, really nice.  So the people that live here are on the fancyContinue reading “Happy First Birthday Devon!”

Adam woke up this morning at 7:15 and when Randy brought him to our bed for some morning snuggles he gave me no less than ten kisses. It’s like he knew it was mothers day.  For mothers day, Randy and Adam took me and Grandma Yuyu to our favourite restaurant in Manila for brunch, Wildflour.  Wildflour makes meContinue reading “Thank goodness for Moms and Wildflour”

Whenever I bring dessert to someones house I have a go to decadent cake- Barefoot Contessa’s Coconut cake.  This cake is delicious.  With five sticks of butter and a pound of cream cheese this is definitely a once in a while, for a special occasion cake.  But boy is it worth it!!!  I made this toContinue reading “Coconut Deliciousness”

Adam has been so enthralled with pushing his own stroller, I guess I shouldn’t have been shocked when we headed to Toys R’ Us with Grandma Yuyu and all Adam wanted to do was play with this purple doll stroller.  I tried to explain that this stroller was for dolls and not for 17 monthContinue reading “My Little Purple Stroller”

I recently saw this shoe rack for 55 bucks at the monthly bazaar.  Once I moved the baskets of mangos and saw that it was made by hand and in great condition,  I was sold.   There are so many great well priced hand made wooden pieces of furniture here.  I see some fun purchases in ourContinue reading “Market finds”

Grandma Yuyu arrived to Manila on Wednesday!  She’s been soaking up Adam time for the past couple of days and this Saturday we decided to get out of Manila and show Grandma something more.  It was our first time driving outside of Manila.  We probably should have done a little research instead of just getting inContinue reading “Batangas”

 

How the mind of a 17 month old works. Are you watching, I’m going to wait here until you watch because I want you to see this. Ok, now that you’re watching I’m going to look as cute as possible.  Then I’m going to show you how good of a listener I am andContinue reading “The most enticing cabinet”

Randy had an all day scuba class so it was just me and Adam this Saturday! What did we do you ask?     Well I’m glad you asked.  We read.        We made a yummy coconut cake, And some spinach pies, And eggplant parm! *we had friends over for dinner, we didn’t eatContinue reading “A perfect rainy Saturday”