Actually, there are only occasional moments of madness. Usually it’s more factory like: cry, feed, burp, rock, sleep, change diaper, change clothes, make food, clean up, sleep, start over. Luckily Anise can entertain us now with several songs, especially Happy Birthday sung to herself, though her 2nd birthday is still a couple of months off. Her vocabulary grows by the day – and her memory is like a steel trap.
Sebastian is doing great, better than we would have dared hope those first weeks after he was born. His cheeks seem to grow by the hour, and the legs that were once scrawny are now thick, almost Kobe beef-like.
Last few weeks have been drab and rainy – but luckily Anise has started school, a sort of daycare/social hour at a Singaporese-run place nearby. She goes two mornings a week and seems to enjoy it. She is the youngest in the class, but her French teacher (nationality, not language) says she picks up songs quickly, and she even has a uniform for outings. On the curriculum last week was making muffins (?).
Nga is working part-time so her maternity leave can extend into April. It looks likely that we now will be in Vietnam until December. Although I wanted to leave this summer, it’s a bit of a relief because there were no clear job prospects on the horizon yet.
Sebastian at about 2.5 months
Nga with new haircut, Anise in new dress from Bangladesh, and Sebastian..uh..ruining a new diaper
Anise looking like a school BOY in her uniform
Anise enjoyed her first time behind the wheel at "Lenin Park" - though dad was in control with a remote joystick
Anise at Lenin Park - that smile looks quite Vietnamese to me
Posting some photos from last couple of months. This is sugarcane being sold just before Tet, Vietnamese new year. We were in Hanoi for Tet for the first time, and it was a truly dramatic change: city seemed almost empty (since migrants return home and many others go to their ancestral villages) and we could walk the streets and tried out the double stroller in unusually warm, sunny weather.
This is Nit, Anise's nanny while we were in Bangkok. Very soft-spoken but she took good care of Anise, along with Grandma, and it was a sad farewell when we left.
Anise playing with her friend Rita in Bangkok.
Ready to party
Fresh haircut NKN!! I like it.
Seems like Sebastian’s hair is like yours NKN, no?