Author: Doris

Well. As we all know, Edda is almost 18 months old and not yet walking. She is the speed demon crawler, but no independent steps – almost no interest in walking. She has inherited the flared out feet – a la her mother and will most likely walk like a duck. I’m a little bit concerned, not like OMG concerned, just a little corner of my brain knows that she’s a bit behind other kids in the walking department. Anyways, I’m happy to report that just in the past few days, she’s been making a lot of progress and seems to really enjoy standing up, clutching a couch. In the morning, when she wakes up, I bring her to our bedroom and then I collapse into our bed hoping to sleep another 15 minutes. She spends the whole time cruising around our bed clutching our bedspread and standing. Woo hoo!

After story time, Vince, Edda and I went to some mall on the island looking for yarn. Vince wants to learn how to knit. Well, we didn’t find the yarn store, but we found a sushi place that has the plates of sushi rolling by on a conveyer belt.

Went to the Botanical Gardens for a storytime today. We didn’t get very far into the gardens, we made it only to the storytime pavilion and then to the cafe as it was rather hot. The orchids were lovely as is Edda in front of them. Vince was a little nervous at first, but eventually moved up to the front row to participate in some of the games, Simon Says and I Spy.

Our friend Shelia in Austin has been working non-stop during the past few days helping some of the displaced people of New Orleans who have reached all the way to the middle of Texas. She has been working her tail off trying to get money, supplies, donations to the people who need them and also working the phones getting families reunited. Bless her heart!

Finished this book by John Irving a few days ago and while I am a fan of Mr. Irving’s this was not his best at-bat. I’d go with Son of the Circus anyday, now that was a good book.

Tonight we had spare ribs with orange/maple sauce. I thought it wasn’t worth the effort, which actually wasn’t that much, it just involved marinating the meat in the morning, then starting the cooking 2 hours before you want to eat and finally preparing the glaze. Jeremy thought it was OK though.

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Thank yous go out to my parents for the thoughtful birthday present(s), it will go towards a nice dinner night out on Wed at the Jade Garden. Yummy! Also thank you to Katherine for Animal Baby and the Big Backyard. Edda is still mainly into eating them, but Vince was very excited to see them in the mail. We also got a 2nd package from Paragon with the same ice cream bowls and the book (which Vince loves and we use everyday, by the way). Hmmm.
Oh yes, and by the way, if you are totally nuts and want to see a billion pictures of us just click on the caption of the picture, I think it will take you to all the pictures I’ve ever taken, starting from a month or two ago.

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Sunday night again, the weekend passes so quickly here in Singapore. I know that it’s Labor Day weekend, the traditional weekend for the Lee family reunion, but I guess it isn’t happening this weekend, so here’s a SHOUT OUT to all those Lees out there, don’t work too hard. Today, I actually spent quite a bit of time away from Jeremy and the kids, grocery shopping, walking around the library looking for knitting needles, walking the dog, etc. Jeremy cooked for me and the kids all day today. Spaghetti for lunch and eggs and noodles for dinner. We were suppose to go see a free concert at the racetrack today, but by 7pm we are gearing down and getting ready for bed.

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Look who is happy in the pool. OK, I’m still trying out this flickr posting and camera thing. But don’t my sweeties look so cute and happy? I really miss posting pictures to my blog. What’s a blog without pictures, really?

Ouch! Edda is a champion biter. Nothing can deter her, I’ve tried talking to her sternly “NO!”, pinching her chin as she bites so she feels a little pain as she bites my flesh and all sorts of defensive moves. Jeremy managed to get bitten by Jaws yesterday and this is what it looked like today.

Well, here I am making a fool out of myself by jumping into the pool at our condo complex. Vince had been asking for so long to go to the pool this morning, but we were having a slow, lazy Sunday morning and didn’t get around to it until he starting really whining about it. Anyways, we took the new snazzy camera with us and took some action shots and here is one of them.