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Category Archives: Babycare Bootcamp
How Dare They Obstruct Feet!
Me: Look Ms Rockstar! Cow! Moooooo! Pig! Snort-snort! Goat! Behhh! Ms Rockstar: Feet! I have Feet! Me: (reading enthusiastically) So-the-cow-took-one-look-and-charged-straight-at-the-pig, Then-jumped-on-the-table-and-tapped-out-a-jig! Ms Rockstar: I can wiggle Toes? <pause> What’s bothering Feet? Those MY feet. AIN’T NUTHIN’ GONNA DISRESPECT MA FEEEEEEEEETTT!! <lets fly … Continue reading
Posted in Babycare Bootcamp
Tagged accent, baby feet, blog, buatan malaysia, cow, disrespect, goat, hong kong, jig, lt, pig, rockstar, snort, St Anthony's, St Anthony's Catholic Church, St Anthony's Pok Fu Lam, tapi, toes, wiggle, Wild wild west
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How To Survive Armageddon (Or Construction Works And Screaming Baby)
If you are in a difficult place (ie your baby is screaming in your face so hard you want to bang your head on the wall because if you pass out you wouldn’t be able to hear it anymore), a … Continue reading
Posted in Babycare Bootcamp, Rockstar Thoughts
Tagged bedtime, breastmilk, cleaning lady, drugs, game, girlfriend, laptop, lt, lunch, morning sickness, nbsp, portuguese water dog, second pregnancy, sense of humor, sparkle, terrible twos, third time, wardrobe, young baby
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Dragon Mother Cometh
There is a special place in my heart for the joys of construction works being carried out in the neighboring apartment (“til October!” the officious-sounding laminated notice pasted in the lift lobby promises – did anyone notice the irony is just … Continue reading
Posted in Babycare Bootcamp, Rockstar Shots
Tagged btw, building management, construction noise, cue, doors and windows, dust protection, hk, hooks, irony, management person, neighbors, place in my heart, promises, reception desk, rockstar, shangri la, shelves, smog, terrible person, window blinds
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I’ve Got You Babe
I behaved in the days leading up to the nanny’s final departure recently as someone who would soon join the Legion Of People Perpetually Trapped Under Napping Babies: 1) Tried to see all my regular friends “one last time” sans … Continue reading
Posted in Babycare Bootcamp
Tagged babe, babes, babies, clinique concealer, dark undereye circles, final departure, fruit smoothies, god, laptop, last time, nanny, numbers games, panda, panda eyes, rockstar, Shopping, squeezies, toiletries
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Oh, The Songs We Sing To Baby…
So after a rocky start I’ve been singing regularly to Ms Rockstar, which means we have an official “sleeping song,” a couple “feeding songs,” a “bath song”. Decided to do that after the baby screamed her lungs out at me … Continue reading
Posted in Babycare Bootcamp
Tagged charles dicken, creatures of habit, donald trump, false hope, glimmer, good mood, kne, little baby girl, little face, musical instrument, oliver twist, oom pah pah, performance pressure, red queen, rockstar, rocky start, sleeping song, sling, sweet little baby, tavern wench
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