...this spanking oversized watch from TW Steel.
I have a long list of wishes but this one tops it all. Will post my other wishlist in a separate entry. hehehehe
6 1/2 to be more precise. Some of her milestones include: her first tooth already came out, another one on its way. She can already sit on her own, and she's already starting to crawl. She's also starting to communicate, she repeats ma-ma-ma, ba-ba-ba when she's upset or frustrated.
Last Saturday, though, we had to bring her to her pedia's clinic as she had cough and colds, again. But before leaving, I had to take photos of her as she was in the mood. Apologies for the blurry photos. I'm still getting used to the new lens.
Having fun with her little friend cum snack (yes, she munches on it when she feels like it.) hahaha
Her pretty bow. I want to have one myself. lol
Talking to Daddy.
Peek-a-boo with Daddy.
Crawling her way to the camera.I'm just so happy that despite being sick she's still up and about. She plays and moves a lot so we don't get to worry so much.
Last Friday's date is one of those dates that won't happen again in another 100years. It's also a special day because number 1 is a significant number in numerology. I only knew that when I realized there were so many events going on that day. And traffic was horrendous.
We didn't join any of those events in celebration of 11-11-11. But we did celebrate a dear friend's birthday over dinner at Yakimix
Anna celebrated her 33rd birthday on November 9. We weren't there to celebrate it with her so the Husbo decided to treat her for a nice dinner.
Anna is a good friend. I have quite a number of good friends but Anna is one of those that's so easy to talk to and so easy to find. I'm happy when I'm with her, all because she has that positive and bubbly aura that grows in you when she's around. She's one friend who's not hard to ask help from. She's helped me out in a lot of things, even with how to raise Kara. She's my go-to girl. And she has never failed me. So, thank you Anna. She doesn't read my blog but I still want to thank her.
Just a few weeks ago, a colleague posted photos from her trip to India. They were very interesting and majestic, as I had expected.
Then, earlier, I read from TheBagHag about this website. It's a blog of photos taken all over Paris---of people, places and just about anything seen in Paris. It got me more excited about our trip and I promise to make tons and tons of pictures of this once-in-a-lifetime trip.
The Flashmob. The photographer chanced upon the flashmob one day and they were dancing to BEP's I got a feeling. It must be really amazing watching them. Hope that when we're there, we'd see them perform too.
This is Cafe Bonaparte at Saint Germain. One of the things Husbo and I want to do is hangout in a cafe, al fresco, and watch people walk by. It'll be interesting how french people conduct themselves.
There are so much interesting photos in the website. And starting today, I'll visit the site everyday to get tips and to be inspired more.
My first time at Shabu-Shabu was with college friends. That was a few years back. I didn't enjoy it. My tastebuds didn't get the taste or flavor of it. So I never dared to go back.
More than a month ago, Rhea treated the HBs for dinner at the same restaurant. This time around I liked it.
Then today, we had lunch at the same restaurant with the same group of college friends I was with during my first time, and I loved it. I had a lot that my tummy feels hard as rock right now. I can still imagine the taste of the soup, the flavorful chicken and squid balls. I wanna go back.
Others think that Shabu-shabu is all about dumping all ingredients in one go. But there's a proper way to do it. Here goes:
1. Choose the items in your shabu-shabu platter - beef, chicken or seafood. Vegetable is a staple for every platter you order. The vegetable platter contains fresh homemade noodles, the fat and thin of noodles, vermicelli and egg noodle, Taiwan and Baguio petchay, beancurd, yam, black mushrooms and carrots.
2. Boil the soup at 150 degrees. When the soup starts boiling, it's time for the cooking to begin.
3. While waiting for this, you can start preparing your sauce. They will provide you with chopped onions, garlic, chili, spices and egg. What I do, I dump all the spices on the barbeque sauce, half of the chopped onions and garlic. I don't use the chili. The other half of the garlic and onion goes to the soup. To make the sauce thicker, I put the egg yolk in it, and the eggwhite on the soup.
4. Once the soup starts boiling, you may now start putting vegetables that takes a while to cook like corn and yam, and then the noodles. Next put in the meat, seafood. Vermicelli noodles, leafy vegetables, carrots, beancurd, meatballs should not be left boiling for more than 30 seconds.
5. You may put some of your sauce on the soup to add flavor.
6. Remember, eating and cooking may be done simultaneously. If you put the veggies last and the meat is not yet done, you may start with the veggies and so on.
And this is the happy bunch after a hearty meal at Healthy Shabu-Shabu.
Healthy Shabu-Shabu has branches in Podium, Bonifacio High Street, ATC, and SM North Edsa.
I'm not a resourceful person. If I could have it easier then I would. I'm also not a fan of Ebay nor Sulit.com.ph. So when were looking for Kara's costume, I only looked around Toy Kingdom and Facebook. That's it. But as we were nearing Halloween and we haven't found any costume for Kara, I had to drag myself to research for online sellers of anything she can wear.
Luckily, I was able to find one and a cute one at that! That same day, we bought Kara's costume. She was a bumblebee. The photos below were shots taken at her first trick or treat experience in Rustan's.
Me and my cute little bee
We tried to make her sit beside the bear. But since she couldn't do it without support, her dad had to holder her so she won't fall face flat. hehehe
Husbo and her with other halloween characters. I had a laugh when I saw the white man behind Jom. Multong-multo lang. hahahaI had so much fun doing this. I never imagined myself being a stage mom. But I was that day. Running around, looking for opportunities for her to get an official photo from the organizer and looking for something to take home with us.
Next time we'll bring her to a real trick or treat experience where she'll get candies and stuff that she can eat.
I've started doing a new exercise in the form of swimming. For a few days now, I've been swimming a few laps at night in our pool (okay, to be more technical, at the pool in our clubhouse, better?) for 30 minutes. I'm not a good swimmer, in fact, I can't stay floating in deep water for a long period of time as I don't know how to thread. Good thing our pool is only about 5feet deep so I can still tip toe. But I'm loving it and I plan to do this regularly especially when I don't have badminton
I fell in love with it cause I feel more relaxed after a swim. And the extra calories burned after a 30-minute swim would help in my overall agenda of losing weight. Yeah, I'm still way too far from my pre-pregnancy weight so I need to work double time.
I've seen a few videos of how to do certain strokes and read an article about how to make swimming an effective weight loss exercise, and I'm pumped up. I want to try them right away tonight and see if I learned from it.
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