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Merry Christmas from Singapore

It's a little belated, but we wanted to wish all our friends and family all over the world Merry Christmas! This Christmas season was went by to fast. December was a really busy month. We moved in to our new apartment at the end of November and I spent most of December unpacking and Lyndon at the office. Plus, being in a new country and learning the ropes of Christmas in Singapore made the whole month go by in the blink of an eye. I missed NYC a lot. Christmas time is the best time to be in the city. NYC knows how to do Christmas, and I was not sure if Singapore would do the holiday justice since Christianity is not the main religion. There was not a lot of religious symbolism, although surprisingly Tangs on Orchard had a big sign with John 8:12 (I think that's the right scripture) on it. That made it difficult to make Christ the center of our holiday. We tried and Cosette will tell you that we celebrate Christmas because it is Jesus' birthday. So something sunk i

Christmas Eve Baby

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Christmas Eve was a big day, because our little Rafa Roo turned five months old! My mind is blown. He has said goodbye to the infant stage a long time ago and he is becoming a big boy. And I am crying because he is not my tiny baby anymore. Every experience I have had with each kid is different. With Raphael I don't want him to grow up at all. I am loving having this sweet little boy baby in our house. He is my buddy and we go everywhere together with him strapped to me. We are literally bonded together. Cosette said the other day that when Raphael grows up she wants to marry him. She is the best big sister to baby Ralphie, except when she puts him on the couch where he can roll off. It's not happened yet, and we have had many discussions about what will happen to him if that happens, so I think he is safe. Things Raphael is doing at five months: Rolling over like a champ. The hair on the back of his head has grown back because he loves being on his tummy. Sl

The Force is Strong in Singapore

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Like everyone else in the world, we were really excited for the new Star Wars movie. Like so excited. We tried to watch the first six before number seven came out. We got through one and two. Lyndon's work keeps hims busy so it was not possible to finish them all. We will watch the rest. We have added it to our list of new year's resolution. I remember that one of the first things that I learned about Lyndon when we were dating is that Star Wars is his favorite movie. The second one is his favorite. We have watched that one so many times I cannot even count.  Vivo City mall had a massive Star Wars display up. It was pretty incredible. Lyndon was running around in looking at everything. It was a mini Star Wars expo really. There were all sorts of different Star Wars paraphernalia and it was a Star Wars lover paradise. Seeing Han Solo in carbonate was pretty cool. It was all cool. This display was made entirely of Legos. Lyndon's two favorite things, Legos an

Super Christmas Saturday

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Over the weekend we checked a couple of traditions off our Christmas list. The big one was our making our gingerbread house. Cosette was especially excited about it and was my sous chef in the kitchen this week. She helped measure, pour, mix all of our ingredients to make gingerbread. She even created a flour storm and made it "snow" in our kitchen. Singapore's first snow, if you will. Instead of cooking she calls it making. She loves to help me make things in the kitchen. And instead of calling a bakery a bakery it is makery according to her. I love my little maker. It does make the process go slower, but she is learning and getting good life skills. It's pretty awesome that she likes to do things like this with me. I hope that she continues to enjoy making in the kitchen. I know I did with my mom as a kid. .We had our dear friend Marissa over to make gingerbread houses with us. She served her mission in our ward in NYC and while she was there we had her and he

The Zoo is our Happy Place

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When doing all my research for Singapore everything I looked said that the zoo was a must. I was excited about it because I am a zoo person and have trained my children to love the zoo as well. Really they just love going to the zoo. Who doesn't? Getting close to exotic animals is thrilling. It will always be a different experience when ever you go because the animals are always changing and doing different things. You know when you walk into a zoo and the first exhibit is a free range monkey exhibit with the monkeys running around and you can walk up right next to them it's going to be cool. My favorite zoo I think we have ever been too. It is the world's best rain forest zoo. We saw a lot of animals we had never seen before. A lot of them native to Malaysia which is only a bus ride away. It's so cool!  The first Friday we were here we made the long trek up to the zoo. You think it would be more accessible since it is such a destination stop, but it