This week’s photo-fest of Fin’s first year comes largely from a party we threw for him at Sunset Rec, an outdoor pool and BBQ park on campus. The party was a bit late for the traditional one-month party in Chinese tradition, but given the copious warnings about whopping cough last year, we decided to wait […]
To justify spending $$$ on a couple of second-hand bikes, we’ve been using them at the weekends instead of our usual long walks to the parks, farmers markets and ramenland1. For no other reason than to use the bikes last weekend, we helmeted up and rode the too-short mile to Sawtelle Blvd for some Beard […]
Easter dinner, a photo by framboise on Flickr. Via Flickr: Spring clean of patio (strip of concrete by door, really) meant we could finally drag our dining table out of its cramped corner and have friends over for dinner. Roasted chicken and grapes by P. my contribution: chilling wine and scrubbing our so-called patio. And […]
We have something of a love-hate relationship with our waffle maker. Back in the day of believing that Krups doesn’t make crap, we bought an electric waffle maker. All attempts at waffle-making with the included recipe and several epicurious versions resulted in things which resembled waffles, but were nothing like. Examples: Too dry. Tasted like […]
It’s been over a year since Finlaggan added some spice to our lives. Too much spice to do much other than upload occasional photos to Flickr. And since I’m work-avoiding, I’ll start an irregular series of posts of old photos that we dumped unceremoniously on Flickr1. First up, Finlaggan’s first vacation! To San Diego! Just […]
In keeping with our resolution no. 1, we had our third monthly party of 2012: a spring-time picnic. There’s a nice park on Pico and Virginia Ave in Santa Monica1 with two, yes two, playgrounds: one for toddlers and one for older, more agile/boisterous kids. And we like going on a Saturday morning when there’s […]
Finlaggan is one1! On the first anniversary of his birth2, we had some train cake and lots of singing of Happy Birthday over Skype with first his GrandDad in Scotland, then PoPo and GongGong in Singapore. Kid’s growing up thinking his grandparents live in the laptop. To celebrate, we had a big bash with beach […]
crankasaurus, originally uploaded by framboise. Via Flickr: apparently, he was happily shaking his sippy cup rhythmically mere seconds before this shot. popping round the corner to grab the camera to record said rhythm-making was construed as heartless abandonment, and Mr F made his displeasure very clear indeed. boy is just like his mama (opinion of […]
Day 50, originally uploaded by framboise. This time last year, P and I were scrambling to get his poster made for a conference in San Diego. We piled Fin and all his baggage into the car and drove down for a long weekend. Since I was back at work by then, Fin and P came […]
There are no doubt written and unwritten rules about hogging playground equipment1. But sometimes, I don’t give a hoot and hog2 the slide anyway because this is my view from the bottom: 1 Sometimes, I think parenthood is like a bloody high school clique and that the uninitiated are left out in the cold, far […]
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