Far too long

It has been ages since i posted. I have had my hands full with these two little people.. Maya is pulling up onto everything and cruising slowly, that and she is irritable some days..think teething..very clingy or "sticky to me" as her nurse wrote in her communication book.:)) She is so curious and wants to be into everything. She calls Dylan Dy-an and the other day she was holding out her cookie to him and said "sh-ee".
Dylan's talking is coming along. He wanted to talk to Ciro on the phone the other day it was to tell him "I colour yellow there" this after he got into trouble for colouring on Ciro's computer tablet...

The last two Saturday mornings Ciro has taken them to Yuku island play space in Mitsukoshi while i am at work...loads of fun..when i get there, there are two exhausted munchkins ....Pics from 25/10 and 1/11




Pics from the jazz festival 25/26 October... Dylan enjoyed the music..then got tired out and nearly fell asleep on Ciro's shoulders. Maya slept through everything both days!!!






More from yuku island...















I often find the two of them together..i came round the corner to find these two angelic faces..looking so innocent:)) hmm...what had they been up to?... Trying to make daddy's x-box work.

Happy Maya at the park this weekend.

Dylan on Ciro's bike....loves playing on it when we get back from anywhere.

Maya nine months

Maya is nine months old (yesterday :) It has been an exhausting week with both of them having sore throats, runny noses and coughs..then of course Ciro and i joined in the fun!!! We seem to be coming out of the woods..went to the Chinese doctor yesterday and after just one dose of meds they both perked up and the nose stopped running so much!! Yay!!
Maya is all over the place crawling now and she pulls herself up on to EVERYTHING!!! She tries to take steps and uses furniture to help her cruise about...especially to get near to Dylan...and i know it sounds unbelievable but if i leave the room she cries..ma ma ma...she points at Ciro and says da..di... and da...in for Dylan..when pointing at him...it freaks me out that she is doing this already but it seems so controlled and it is exactly the same each time!! If you ask where is daddy? She looks at him and points and same for Dylan.She is really keeping us on our toes!!

Double ten day weekend

Last weekend was a long one...Double ten day. The flags were flying all over the city.

We had a quiet weekend. Hit the department stores, went out to Changhua and Huatan to see Karen, Hogie, Josie and Jevin , got a lot of chores done around the house and just relaxed!!!

The weather is starting to cool off a little in the morning and evenings and i guess that is why we have all ended up a little sick....throats, noses and coughs!!!! Change of season bugs!!!

Oh and let me not forget...there was a fire in our apartmetnt building yesterday...the alarm went off and i checked outside the door (they had tested the alarm a month ago..so was not sure if they were doing that again) the hall was filled with smoke...picked up the Intercom, the doorman said to get downstairs and the elevator was okay to use..so grabbed the kids and high tailed it out...fire men everywhere...was down for about 15minutes and they said we could go back. It was contained in that apartment...turned out to be a cigarette left burning when the people went out... Hectic though.

Ciro and Dylan walking in the neighbourhood.

At the park..Maya was not too fond of the prickly grass!!

Little foot...

I realise i have not mentioned the tainted milk scandal in China...it has affected us here as a lot of stuff comes over from China...so at the moment we are off anything with any kind of milk in it...Dylan's dairy allergy means he is okay anyway..those of us who like milk in our coffee are not too happy though!!! Luckily Maya is still breastfeeding and as far as her cereal goes we are buying the European imported brands...cookies too..these are teething biscuits from The States... she finds them absolutely yummy!!!!!

Maya is all over the place and pulling herself up on everything!!!

I just love these pics of Ciro and Dylan taken on his computer...

More when all are recovered from the bugglies

Birthdays and bye bye

Last week was Ciro's birthday...D and I made him a cake. Dylan was super excited and sat in front of the cake for about twenty minutes as we eagerly awaited Ciro coming back from work. The weather is still warm but not the unbearable heat of summer so most of the weekend was spent outdoors.... Dylan rode his bike round the block too (well sat on it and kind of pedalled with a lot of help from mommy:)Finally managed to get the photos to upload!!
Maya is moving all over the place...she is into everything and if you dare remove something from her..a little tantrum follows!! . Maya has been making ba ba sounds for a while...then we noticed she began waving and the sound sounded more like bye bye...today when we dropped them off at school i wanted to show her teacher..so i said bye bye to prompt the imitation...instead of the mimic came floods of tears...this time she did not want to bye bye... Maya saying bye-bye

Maya is pulling herself up on things or people...she really wants to get moving.

Lots of running around and playing with Daddy!

Maya loved going on the slide...did not want to stop.

Typhoon day

It is official...Maya is crawling....having trouble uploading so.....video at the link below.

Maya crawling

Last week we were in the book store and Dylan saw these figurines...Wall-E is probably his favourite movie ever. He loved it so when he saw a Wall-E and Eve...that was it!! They are even allowed to play with his precious play-doh:))

My gorgeous hubby of seven years!!

We celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary yesterday...after the typhoon died down we went for a meal...Maya was so excited to get her own balloon.

Saturday was the last day for swimming...the pool closes on 30th :((We all love swimming...It is supposed to be really heading into autumn now.





Maya wants to be wherever Dylan is and doing whatever Dylan is doing...in the pics this was okay and tolerated...but on Saturday morning they had their first fight...Maya was pressing the buttons on the tv...it was not even on anything Dylan likes...he took offense and shouted at her..she shouted back a few time and then they both ended up in tears..i was at work so Ciro had to separate them and give them both time to calm down after a while it was all okay...:)

So we were hit by Typhoon Jangmi this past weekend. It was a super typhoon, really strong. When we had our air conditioners put in they filled in the rest of the window space with polystyrene board and silicone. Well.... we were sitting in the living room on Sunday afternoon listening to the wind when all of a sudden there was a really loud THWACK sound...we ran to the room to see a gaping hole where the board had been...now most places were closing up as it had been called a typhoon day..Ciro ran to see what was open..he found the bookstore still open...got some plastic board and he managed to fix it in the window...with the wind trying to suck it out as he was doing it....photos below:)

Trees were blown to bits.

These flower pots weigh a ton...i was surprised to see them blown over...there were also loads of sign boards either blown over or completely buckled.