Our 18th Anniversary

Today marks the day we got together 18 years ago.. once upon a time ago ..... :)
I have actually set a reminder to remind me of this important day many months ago and the alarm went off last night. However due to the busy schedule this morning/afternoon, I have totally forgotten about it today until hubby wished me "Happpy Anniversary".. Ooppss..
Throughout these years, there were many ups & downs, temporary separations due to his many overseas assignments and most importantly, we are blessed with two wonderful kids who can be rascals at times.
Sine the kids love cake and singing birthday song, we decided to get a cake to celebrate. And there they were happily singing the birthday song over and over again as if it was someone's birthday, LOL.
May we have many more Anniversaries together ......

Weaning Off Diapers

For the past 1-2 months, Jared has been off diapers during daytime. It took us (including babysitter) about 2 weeks to train him, initially he would pee and poo in his pants. Each time we would tell him that it is dirty and smelly and he should inform us earlier and do his "business" in the potty. We also noticed that the interval between each pee is very short initially but now he seems to be able to hold for a longer time and will come to us each time he needs to do either one of his nature's call. After that, he would show his "thumb's up" signature and say "Good Job!!", as if to tell us that he has done something really good :).

He is still on diapers during naptimes or at night even though he refuses to wear them. I had to wear for him only after he has fallen asleep. On some mornings, we would find that his diapers are still dry, infact there was one night where I overslept and thankfully he didn't pee .. phew.. Hoping to totally wean off so that we can save some money on those diapers :)

Precious Hours

Tonight I had more than 3 hours of quiet time all for myself, reason being, hubby and Emily are away attending a motivational talk in her school and the little boy is already in his dreamland :). It may sound pathetic but indeed these hours are so precious to me.

I took the opportunity to do what I love to do most, Baking... Since I didn't have much ingredients on the shelf, I had to settle for a simple butter chocolate cake from the recipe in this blog with a little improvisation, as I do not like to eat whole chocolate cake :) The cake turned out to be moist and soft, taste wise, it is pretty good. Better than any other recipes that I have tried previously.

I still had some time after that to go through an interior design magazine, prepare some materials for Emily's revision and something that I wouldn't miss; surf the net :).