2/28- Peace Day in Taiwan but not in the Zahler's home

Hey, its mommy.

Yesterday was Taiwan Peace Day, a national holiday for everyone. However, Peace was not the agenda of the day in the Zahler residence.

Ethan has been staying at the nanny's the last 3 evenings as well as the days so I can catch up on sleep, get over allergies and/or cold. However, yesterday, I brought him home to play with a boy from playgroup.

We went to pick up Samantha, around 10:30am (one of my bridemaids at the Taiwan wedding), She came over and played with Ethan. Around 12:30pm Ethan had a bottle and fell asleep at 1:00pm. Samantha said her goodbyes around 1:30pm and I joined Ethan for a quick rest as Rosela and her son Zer Zer (4yrs) and Pin Ju (4mths) were to arrive around 2pm.

They arrived around 2:30pm with cake and coffee in hand. After awhile, Zer Zer quickly got used to his new surroundings and enjoyed playing with Ethan and his toys. He sped Ethan along in his walker and showed Ethan how to build lego towers. Ethan was thrilled and overjoyed to have a new playmate. Pinju was happy to sit on his mommy's lap and take everything in.

Unfortunately the mommies were so busy chatting, that we forgot to take any pictures of the kids playing!!!

However one situation made itself very clear that it needed to be captured on camera.

Ethan has just started eating tiny morsels of food. However, since adults are the primary morsel givers, he often gets impatient and wants to feed himself. Last weekend, it was inhaling a rice cracker at the speed of light. Yesterday afternoon, it was cake....

Here you can see Ethan enjoying his cake. The flailing arms are an attempt to see how far cake can fly, how much he can smoosh into his pants and whatever was left, was to be stuffed in his mouth.

(I had just put the cake down on the sofa for a second!!!!)





Here is Ethan surveying his artistic cake masterpiece. Maybe we need to ask Mamazee to start doing claywork again...

As I picked him up to change his attire, Ethan emptied his belly onto the floor, as with the rice cracker. So a quick clean up and laundry time .Then thinking, he would be hungry, I gave him his bottle which he emptied onto the me, him and the mats. More laundry...

Big mistake. LOL.

Later, I was to learn from the nanny that after he eats solids, we should wait another hour before giving him formula- duly noted.

Rosela, Zer Zer and Pin Ju hurriedly departed while we were getting changed. Hopefully not because of Ethan's stomach contents... but more to do with it getting closer to dinner time.

All in all , it was a wonderful day despite the wiping, mopping and laundry. It must be said that I am most appreciative of Vanish Stain remover as it has become a staple in our house.

Love Joanne