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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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
Food my parents brought from Samoa:
Everyday Tara would take walks with her papa
Dad, Tara, mom, Gram, and Ioana before buffet dinner
Visiting Maine’s wildlife park
Picnic at the fort
Freeport was shopping heaven–outlet area for big name brands–attracting tourists from all over
Mom enjoying her Maine lobster
Tara with her cousins Ryan and Adam at the corn fields, getting ready to go for a hay ride
Joining the hunt for a pumpkin for Halloween
Playing in the corn box
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Posted by sieni on August 5th, 2008 — Posted in Tara
Welcome to our cubby house! would you like to stay for tea? grapes? bananas? teddy bear, “trunk” the elephant and Tara would love to host you!
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Posted by sieni on August 2nd, 2008 — Posted in Tara
First haircut since birth and sporting the first skirt sewn by her mama
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Posted by sieni on July 28th, 2008 — Posted in Tara, Trips
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Posted by sieni on July 24th, 2008 — Posted in Tara
Stickers galore
Modeling mommy’s apron
She told me she was painting a fork, a spoon, and a hat
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Posted by sieni on July 6th, 2008 — Posted in Tara
Making a sleeping bag for Tara’s little duck friend and a hand puppet
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Posted by sieni on July 4th, 2008 — Posted in Random moments, Tara
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Posted by sieni on June 24th, 2008 — Posted in Random moments, Tara
This afternoon Tara and I made a pasta necklace:
It broke after she tried to eat it.
And for the longest time I have been cringing at the sight of the countless magnets on our refrigerator that advertise Shlomo’s pizzeria, the Golomb pharmacy, and who knows what else in Hebrew.
And also for some time I’ve been cutting out pictures of patterns and colours I love from magazines and stashing them away with the hope of using them for something creative one day. So today was the day.
I cut out those patterns and stuck them over the ugly magnets. Easy peasy.
You can go further and use family photos, recycled wrapping paper, or your child’s favourite cartoon characters. Anything goes! And the fridge doesn’t look half bad.
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