Requests for my mother.

Mom,

When did Donald and I start walking? Vince started walking before his first birthday and Edda is now almost 18 months and hasn’t started walking yet, which is pretty late. But she has the characteristic Lee duck feet which Vince doesn’t have, so if you guy can remember, that would be a nice reference.

Also, I would like the recipe for making dumplings when you have the time.

Thanks for calling.

Yes, it’s our anniversary tomorrow. We celebrated today by making a nice chicken dinner with rock-shrimp sauce. Jeremy took a picture of the dinner, it was so impressive. Vince is getting to be handier around the kitchen. We let him pour ingredients and wash the vegetables, basically anything that doesn’t involve a sharp knife or an open flame. We had an amazing day, woke up early and went to Pasir Ris park all the way on the other side of the island. We took the subway and it took us 24 stops. We thought it might be a nice place to take Ruby and it is a very nice place for doggies, but it does take a while to get there and without a car it’s hard to imagine Ruby getting there. Vince got to play in the sand and in the water at the beach. Edda enjoyed her swing time at the park’s swing set. They have nice bike paths and a bike rental place with tandems and kiddie bikes, but it looks to be strictly BYOH (bring your own helmet). Then we took a taxi to the Takashimaya, the primo shopping stop for Jeremy and perhaps for the rest of Singapore as well. There sure are a lot of white people shopping there. There’s the Bulgari, the Tiffany’s, Cartier, etc, etc, etc. It’s pretty hilarious to see all these Asian people all done up with the fancy hair that’s so light, it’s almost blonde and wearing blue eyeshadow. We bought chopsticks, rice bowls and a spatula to flip our pancakes. Then we took a bus home, this was Vince’s call, I think Jeremy and I would have preferred a taxi, but V-man was keen on the bus. Vince really wanted to sit in the way back of the bus and was pretty determined to squirrel through people’s legs to get to the back, but it was standing room only and no way were we getting anywhere past the 3rd row of seats.

Now another work week, Vince is growing fast, eating a lot.

Residence day.

It is residence day at the Warren Condo Complex. There has been syncronized swimming performances, guess the guppies, cotton candy, popcorn, carnival games. All fun under the hot, hot sun. We spent about 15 minutes are the festivities and then decided to bail because it was so incredibly hot. Instead, we went to Cold Storage grocery store and stocked up. I’m getting all antsy just cooking meat with garlic and onions, so I bought ingredients for 4 dishes from the only cooking magazine I have, Gourmet. We’ll see if I have enough energy to see it through.

Vince and Edda just put Jeremy down for a nap. Jeremy had a pretty busy and productive week at work.

Settling in Denver

Well, we gradually are settling in Denver. We found a nice economical community pool and swam twice a week. During the weekend, we are seldom in our efficient studio. We traveled a lot to see different places. Next weekend, a long weekend, we are planning to visit several National Park in Utah.

Well, this is golden time for us. Together almost every minute 🙂 and we really enjoy it.

Eat me!

Vince and Edda are eating! Finally!

Vince:

Bowl of Cereal

Granola Bar

Apple

Hot Dog

peanuts

3 carrots

orange

bowl of noodles

2 things of yogurt

peanut butter and Jelly sandwich

rice

3 glasses of milk

Edda:

Bowl of oatmeal

1 whole avacado

1 whole hot dog

a tub cottage cheese

apple

grapes

some orange slices

2 eggs

some of Vince’s noodles.

Porky the rabbit.

Today we spent the morning at one of our neighbor’s apt. There are 3 other apartments on our floor and I’m getting to know all the neighbors. Today we went to Ann’s house. She is a housewife and her kids are grown up and married. She has a cute rabbit named Porky. Edda and Vince loved playing with Porky. Ann is also a good cook. I’m glad to have her as a reference, some of the recipes here I don’t understand the ingredients, but she’ll tell me what to look for at the supermarket.