An Intriguing Tale Of Being An Owner

Been raining nitely for the last 3 nites. This morning when baby woke up at 3am.. there was thunderstorm too. Bummer..!!

I had my very own version of surf and turf tonite for dinner.
I baked a piece of salmon.. and fried some ham for my spouse.. while he made instant potatoes.. and i stir-fried some brocolli, carrots and peas..
Yummilicious..!! When you are on yer own.. you just gotta improvised.. i guess..??!!!??

Can’t wait to have fences up for baby… so that she can play in the lawn. Chloe had so much fun .. going outta the house.. and just running around.
She is getting really brave too.. and wanna walk behind the house.. and all.
She had fun today.. even though it was only for a few mins.. for the wind was gusty.

My other half and I have been picking up the keyboard again. We used to play it.. before i was pregnant with baby. After getting pregnant .. i was too sick to do anything .. much less play the keyboard. So we haven’t played like for 2 yrs now and finally picking it up again .. for the sake of my baby.. for she loves music.
I donch think it is gonna be hard .. for us to re-learn it all over again.. in fact it was quite easy to pick up from where we left off.

Chloe only ate a few cheerios a few days ago.. and refuses to eat some more.
Yesterday .. while we were at the store… i offered some children some of baby’s cheerio.. and when baby saw it.. she started wanting some too! And she ate quite abit of cheerios as well.
So i guess it was a really good thing to be offering food to the children that comes into the store… heheh!

You might have noticed that i am hardly posting nor reading anyone’s post for the past one week. The business has been extremely busy… and Chloe is reaching some milestone too. Not only is she sleeping good.. she is eating alot of big gal food lately.

Every baby here in this country is entitled to some money from the government .. it is a tax-free monthly payment made to eligible families to help them with the cost of raising children under age 18…. but we’ve never gotten any .. since our chloe was born.
Firstly, they said.. we cannot apply for it under her daddy’s name .. after 1 yr..!!! and then when i applied it thru’ my name.. they said.. i have to do my tax paper…!!
What tax paper.. i asked..?? i donch make any money..??? So we go filing my tax.. after a year.. and 4 months later.. still nothing. So this morning i called… and they confirmed that we will be getting some money for baby in May.. and if i wanted to back date benefit from when baby was born in 2003, i would have to file my tax for 2002.
Oh well.. the system i guess…???? At least chloe is getting what is rightfully hers… so i am not making too much noise. We figured Chloe will only get like 80$/mth.. but money is money.. and it can always go into her college funds.. And yes.. we started on it.. like any “kaisu” parents.

Chloe started eating cheerio yesterday… had 4 but today.. she had like 10. It’s a start.. and i shouldn’t push it too hard.. and let her eat at her own pace.
We are just really happy that she is starting to eat some big gal food.

Been having alot of Persimmon of late.. because our local supermarket is selling them at .99 cents each. They were kinda overly ripe.. but that is the way i liked it.. so that was nice.. but i donch think.. there will be alot more to sell.. coz’ today.. i checked and they were really in bad shape.
But i really enjoy.. being able to eat some local fruits from home here. And they were real yummy too.

Btw.. not many ppl here know what persimmons are.. nor how to eat them.. hahha!! Funny huh..??