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Raphael Update

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Raphael is four months old today! Time needs to slow way down. I want him to stay little forever. Okay, not really, but he is no longer a new born and he just keeps growing. All good things, but he is my baby and I want him to stay a baby for a little while longer. And I have a while cause he is only four months old.  Things that he is doing: smiling, cooing or gooing because that is what he does. He will say "goo" and it is the sweetest. Sleeping through the night (a chorus of angels is singing hallelujah as you read this)! Don't ask me how, he just is. He started laughing this past week!!! No amount of exclamation points can express my joy when I heard his little laugh. Apparently I am hilarious because he laughs at me when we talk. He likes to bounce too. That makes him giggle. His two main nick names are Raffa and Ralphie. He is very curious about his surroundings and looks all around. Cosette will tell you that he likes songs. She sings the primary song "

What Singapore is Like

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Singapore is better than what we expected. We are all loving it here. We have been here just over three weeks now and I cannot remember what our life was like before this. We have acclimated very well so far. New York is very different from Singapore and I do not want to compare the two, but life here has been a lot easier so far. We are living in a very central area close to a lot of things so it might be a little different once we move to our apartment. For right now Singapore is home and it really feels like home.  We take our swim suits everywhere. There is a pool at every apartment complex, home, or splash pad. We have started not leaving home with out them.  Cosette and Henry have been working on their photography skills. And don't let this innocent face fool you. He has pulled out the ice cube trays, spilled some yoghurt, and torn up an entire roll of paper towels all within sixty seconds.  Eastern culture meets Western culture here. I was s

Cirque Du Soleil and Mickey Mouse

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A friend told us about a free Cirque du Soleil show down in Marina Bay this week. We were able to get tickets (thank you Natalie) and got to see Totem, Cirque du Soleil's two brand new act. The show was pretty amazing. It is incredible how they can bend their bodies. Cirque du Soleil really demonstrates how amazing the human body is. The kids were enthralled by the performance the whole time. Cosette has not come out and said she wants to be and acrobat, but was clearly inspired by the show. She was climbing and doing all sorts of tricks on the way out of the venue. Henry was cute during the show and said “look Mommy! Look!”. I love my littles. I have never been interested in going to one of those shows before, but since the kids loved it so much I think we will have to check it out. Since they enjoyed the show so much and were entertained the whole time it gives me hope that we can do more things like this in the future. There were two acts that they performed. One was a

Happy Birthday Lyndon!

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Happy Birthday to my love. Lyndon turned thirty this year. It was a big birthday and we celebrated kind of big. His birthday morning he opened his present from the kids. Cosette picked out the Lego Tree house creator set. Lyndon is really into Lego's right now. He was excited exclaiming "my first Lego set!". He and the kids put it together this weekend. His dreams of doing things like this with the kids are coming true. He had to work late on his birthday, so we brought his birthday to him. We went down to his work and had dinner with him. We brought his presents and cake. It was kind of a lame party, but Lyndon said he was happy that we came down to be with him. We do what we can. And we had to go down, it was his birthday! We had a pool party at our place Saturday to celebrate him with friends. We invited everyone we have met here so far and had a great turnout. The kids had a blast playing with all the other kids. Everyone was happy. We filled

The Red Barn: Pumpkin Patch Take Three and Four

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We spent a week in Utah before we left for Singapore. We had a great time! Lyndon was made a lot of plans. One of the plans was to find a pumpkin patch. We decided you can never go to too many. We went to The Red Barn out in Santaquin on afternoon. When we left Orem it was hot, like we were sweating hot. When we got to Santaquin it was freezing! None of us were prepared for the cold because it had been so hot. So we all kind of froze. We grabbed blankets, pillows, whatever we could find in the cars to bundle up with. This place was probably my favorite out of all the pumpkin patches we made it to this season. There were a lot of things for the kids to do as well as us big kids. The apple gun was pretty fantastic. My brother was the only one who actually hit the target. The ice cream was really good. You don't need to go do all the other stuff, just go for the ice cream. We had so much fun we got a bounce back ticket so we could go again the next day. We brought home a lot of