Cheerios : Not just a morning breakfast cereal ANYMORE!!!

The workings of the mind of a 15 month old

Cheerios:

1. Doubles as confetti, to be stcatter evenly EVERYWHERE!! Of course, when hungry, there's always food around to eat.

2. Also can be use as dog/cat/bird/duck food.

3. As a side OR a scoop when eating grass/rocks/pepples/acorns/dirt/bugs

4. Acts as a "weapon", to be thrown/strewn at chasing parent when needed.

5. A floatation "toy" like that of the Rubber Duckie, use in the presence of a bath or for playing with the toilet ball!

6. Substitute for "missing" mini toy balls; hence can be use to put into ANY SORT OF HOLES!!!

7. Also as store-away food, to be stuffed into couches, high chairs, juice cups, bed, DIAPERS and other places that you can hide or stuff anything!!

8. Amazingly funny when crushed with a juice cup.

9. A bartering tool with mummy for her cellphone/remote control/purse/anything else that I'm not supposed to play with.

10. Oh yah, also as a good morning breakfast cereal!!


--------------------------------Contributed SOLELY by Ethan T---------------

Life on a tightrope!

Yup...today's a really really bad day for me. Actually these couple of weeks have been pretty bad, just that these few days have gotten even worse (if it can get any worse!!!).

I've been in and out of some serious mood swings, mostly depression. Things are not alright. My husband had to work some really late nights to get his work done for the deadline and even weekends are spent(from day till late night) at the office. So Ethan and I had barely see him at all.

To make things worse, my thumbs' been acting back up again!!!! ARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! I've, or rather had, DeQuervain's Tenosynovitis, so my doc told me to "relax" my thumbs and lay off those repetitive motions/actions that aggravigate my fingers. Well, it's back coz these days there was no one to help me except me so it can't be helped. Anyway, the "good" news would be that Ed would have some comtime and be off on Thursday and Friday with a three day weekend (American Labor Day). So, woohoo, 5 days off!! However we have friends over here to stay for the three day weekend. Not that bad, it would be nice to FINALLY have some adult company!!!

Decided that I needed some mood alleviators!! Noooo!! Not drugs!!! Called up my hairstylist to make an appt (it's always great to have a cut when you're down!!hehehe). Had some chocs and started flipping through some mags that I've gotten some days earlier....*good while Ethan's napping* Wrote down the menu for the pending menu. Listed out the stuff I needed to get at Ikea (GOD I LOVE THAT PLACE!!!)


This is how my day went today....*sigh*

7am: Ethan woke up whinning a little, got up(UNWILLINGLY)got his milk, changed his diaper and fed him. Was a happy camper again and started scampering about!! Got him his breakie (cheerios) and juice. An even happier camper!! Started feeding mommy some cheerios as well. Got meself a banana and Ethan got greedy, so shared some with him!!

8:30am: Ed woke up, clean upped, got ready to go back to WORK!!!!

8:45am: I cleaned up, got out of my jammies, while Ed played with Ethan for a bit before heading off to WORK!

9:15am: All done and Ed getting out of the door, Ethan decided that he's not letting Ed go THIS TIME!!! He clinged on his daddy like a little koala. Each time Ed tried to let him down, Ethan screamed. Didn't want mommy. Finally had to "remove" him by some force. He was ok...other then seriously upset!

9:45am: Ok, Ed's FINALLY GONE!! Got the laundry going. Ethan already happily "torturing" the dog. Dog's pitiful, begging to let him into the room so that the boy wouldn't bug him. did not.

10am: Read rascal a couple of books. He would sit and listen and also chew on the corners of all the books!!! Let him do that! He loves his ladybug book!! Played "catch" with him for a bit, got exhausted (ermm...me that is)

10:30am: Fed him his morning snack of BabyYogurt!

11am: NAP NAP TIME!!! YOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

Intermission: *exhhhhaaallllleeeee*

1:15pm: Ethan woke up with a goofy grin (probably some goofy dream he had). Fed him lunch, milk and he went INSANE with his toys!!!

2pm: Found Ethan in the toilet "partying" with his makeshift hottub aka TOILET BOWL!!!! *sigh* He was splashing and dumping toilet paper, toys and whatever he found into the bowl!!! Dragged him out of the toilet, screaming and "fighting" with me!! AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Clean and dried the place out!

3pm: Went to store to get milk, got hungry and decided to have some chow at the store as well. Got some salad, got a table, strapped kid down, went and get some napkins. Came back to table, kid had poured the entire cup of ice water all over himself!!!!! AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT"S THE DEAL WITH WATER TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone was looking!! *EMBARRASSING* Went to the restroom to dry him off as much as possible. Packed my salad, rushed into the store, got the milk and got out. Drove home with a naked kid (other than diapers!)in the back seat!!!! He was really cheerful for one who's just got soaked through in icewater!

5pm: HOME!!! SALVATION!!!!! Let hyperactive boy to play while I clean up. Had to catch him to put on some dry clothes on him!!! *sigh* (serious cardio workout already). Started working on dinner; roast pork loin and salsa taco.

6:30pm: Fed Ethan dinner, while I continue prepping tmr's dinner!!!! Funny kid, loves cherry tomatoes, hates meat (any kind), picking out the peas to eat and had some tortilla pieces, with pineapples no less!!! Weird combo right. Well, it was the never eaten salad!! He was busy throwing chicken chunks on the floor!! *sigh* more cleanups!!!

7:30pm: Gave stinker a bath; giggling and splashing MORE water onto the floor!! Cleaning up YET AGAIN!

8:30pm: Had one last bottle of milk, brushed his teeth, he was EXHAUSTED!!! SO was I!!! Sang to him, rocked him a little, he was still all smiley and wanting to play!! But he was pooped!! heeheh....Sweetest boy when he's all tired out!! Gave all the goodnight kisses, and tucked him out!!

8:40pm: Ran around the house, doing ALL the cleanups!!!

9:30pm: Bathed and now all relaxed!! Finally sat down!! GOD MY LEGS FEEL REAL GOOD!!!

10pm: Finshed with dinner and now blogging with a glass of wine!! LIFE!!!

It's a looooonnnggg day and I think I'll be hitting the sack in a bit....

11pm: Now......ending...ciao....goodnight.....Ed's still not back.....tmr's another day..can't wait till Thurs........THREE MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Redesigned

Hope that you'd all enjoy this blog. Took me a while but I'm done (for NOW). There was a lot I wanted to do but with the "limited" time I have, this is the "best" I can come up with. Will blog in a later post. Meanwhile...I'm going back to "work".

PS: I think the background sound can get buggy after a while...hmmm...any comments?? Take it off???

Of Watermelons, Great food and Ethan......of course...

Decided that since it's been a while I've updated, I'll include EVERYTHING(ok, the summarized version, of course) that's been going on with my life...

Went to a Watermelon Festival this past weekend in Oklahoma in a small town call Rushmoore. It's great, a real true blue, small country fare. I think my lil' gourment watermelon expert (Ethan) has the bestest time! He LOVES watermelon. He can live on watermelon alone(if I let him, YAH! in his dreams!). It was muggy coz of all the rain, but you know what, sunshine came back for a while and we had a really good time! (yah, if you don't have hair like mine, it WOULD have been great...San, you would know what I mean!). They actually have some watermelon competition and the winner went to a 141 pounder!! I wonder who gets to eat those prize winning suckers.....hehehe... Would be a waste not to get your hands on those beauties!! And of course, Ethan was slapping those PRIZE WINNING MELONS like drums. Somehow I didn't think those farmers appreciate that! *GULP*


Watermelon Festival in Rushmoore, Oklahoma 

You get to eat those succulent watermelons right there if you want to for a meagre price of 50cents a slice!! YES 50 CENTS!!!! You heard me.....HALF A DOLLAR/TWO QUARTERS/FIVE DIMES!!! Mannn....they were good, it was one of those elongated varieties and they cut it into quarters, lengthwise!! Some people ate their pieces with sprinkling of salt on it. I know, sounds weird, but when I tried it, it was actually quite refreshing! Not strange at all! I guess they knew what they were doing afterall.


Great watermelon! 

And that's the pic of my greedy lil boy dripping with watermelon juice. The sun was in his eyes and it didn't even bother him, well, it's watermelon, what can I say! He was sitting on the table while his daddy fed him. :D

Some Food Pic

There's Nasi Lemak that I'd made for last Sunday brunch. Was not too bad, and quick. Make some tumeric chicken wings (stuck it in the oven...:D)and had some sambal in the freezer so fried some anchovies to go with that. The rest is self-explanatory....


Nasi Lemak 

This is Alaskan King Crab Fried Rice. Can't see the rice coz it's at the bottom of this wonderful, simply marvelous tasting Stir-fried Crab!! It's really really goooddd.... you've got to be there to really enjoy this. Ethan LOVES this!! No kidding! Errmmm...I didn't make this! Hehehehe... My friend did! Hehehe... We were at his place over the weekend (for the Watermelon Festival in Oklahoma) and he made us dinner. There were other dishes but this is DA BOMB!! Hehehhe... If there were Smell-A-Vision!!


Alaskan King Crab Fried Rice! YUMMY 


This is a test of my new Indoor Grill!! DANG! How did I manage to live WITHOUT it before?!?!?!? Heheheh... Yah, made this up (from fridge leftovers)for a Saturday lunch. Didn't know what to make so took some stuff and slap it on the grill! And it really look great! Thanks to the grill marks on the panini!! It really looked pro! hehehehe... Oh yah, I even grilled the chicken I used in the panini, hey, no many cleanups! The Indoor Grill(got the cheapo one coz I wanted to check it out!)works great with Korean Bulgolgi (had done that 3 times already! it's that great especially when you are too lazy to cook a "real" sit-down dishes kinda dinner). Just marinate everything you wanna slapped it on the grill for 15-30mins and it's done. All the meat already come pre-sliced (so that saved me tons of work!!!Heheheh...ok...I'm lazy too....hehehe)! Everyone loves the end result! So this grill is definitely a KEEPER!! For those who are interested in this grill, I got it from Sam's Club for $35+ and it's worth every penny. Not only it grills, you can flipped it to the other side and use it as a griddle too. Haven't got a chance to use that yet but soooooonnnnn..... hehehehe...Oh yah, it's from Wolfgang Puck series in Sam's Club.



Chicken, Basil and Tomato Panini 

And finally Ethan...Just some random pics of him. He's such a goofboy! Right now he's sssooooooooo active.....


Is it basball time? 


I've fallen and I kinda can't get up??!!!