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little one on the way :)

Posted by sieni on November 23rd, 2008 — Posted in Family

Tara’s going to become a big sister in June ’09!

imaginary play

Posted by sieni on November 11th, 2008 — Posted in Tara

Lately, I’ve been listening in on Tara when she plays with her dinosaur figures, little doggies, cars, and dollie. Inbetween humming and singing, she creates conversation that sounds something like this: “Honey? I miss you”; “People? money! coins, twenty cents”; “Hello, how are you? Let’s go home? Yes? ok. Here’s the car. Vroom. vroom. Bye bye! kiss? Now they’re gone”. Then she packs them all up in her stroller and takes them for a ride. When I try to play with her, she tells me, “Mommy, go other room”, and she shuts the door. Haha! Ok Miss Teenager.

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time away

Posted by sieni on November 1st, 2008 — Posted in Family, Tara, Trips

Recently Tara and I returned from 3 weeks visiting family in the States. We were in Portland, Maine, and it was the perfect time of the year to visit. The leaves were changing, and every possible colour could be seen for miles and miles on stretches of road. My parents came from Samoa, together with my sister, Ioana, who flew in separately from San Francisco and surprised the heck out of us! We stayed with my grandmother, my dad’s mom, and visited with cousins. It was sooooo wonderful.

It would have been the second time I travelled alone with Tara, and the first since I weaned her, so I packed a bunch of crafts and stickers and crayons and coloured paper and little toys in sandwich bags for the plane, thanks to an idea I saw on the Crafty Crow. They were a hit! and kept her in her seat THE ENTIRE TIME. While I was nervous about landing at JFK airport and going through immigration and customs and lines with a toddler, I was surprised, actually shocked, at how nice people were! Everyone helped us: from the immigration officer who was so polite, to the couple who paid for my trolley when I didn’t have the right change, to the person who lugged my bags off the carousel, to the customs officer who didn’t even look at the food I packed, to the check-in counter who took take care of everything when I was suppose to self-check at those new machines. And the whole time I had Tara strapped to my chest in the Ergo, and mind you, she’s not a little baby anymore. I said so many thank you prayers that day.

Here are pics from the holiday

Playing in the yard