Me? A Mother? Yesway.

Hi everyone! It’s been such a long while since I’ve last posted… it’s quite scary. I cannot believe it’s already the end of November, I feel like Christmas is just around the corner! So much has happened since my last real update, so I’ll just post a few recent findings with Leobuns here :) 

• Just a little over a month until Leo’s 2nd birthday in January… he’s mastered just a handful of words, or sounds rather! “MAaaa!!” (for Mama) “UhhOhh…” (for everytime I ask if he pooped his pants) and 
• When I hold out my arms and do the wave from one side of my arm to the other, Leo immediately starts clapping and laughing hysterically.
• He loves playing ball. Insists on sitting halfway on the stairs, throwing the ball down as I receive it on the bottom. 
• Just start to grasp how to catch a ball (when thrown at about 3 feet in front of him- it has to be a direct throw into his arms… but nonetheless!) 
• He’s a terrible napper. I’m not sure why, but he absolutely dreads his naps. I think this was the same as since well… since he was 3 months old?!
• Leo has discovered the utensils drawer in the kitchen and deliberately takes out everything he can grasp and throws it in the sink for poor daddy to clean.
• He’s become quite a little demanding fellow, and is comfortable taking the hands of almost anyone and leading them in a direction or place he wants to go. He doesn’t seem very excited if no one goes with him. I guess we have a little leader in our hands! :) 
• During bath time (amongst other times…) he loves taking his baby shampoo and putting it in his hair by himself.
• It all started with his socks, but now he’s become very curious with taking off his pants and putting them back on.
• Loves to watch daddy play Soul Caliber on the xBox, to the point where daddy doesn’t want to play anymore. For anyone who knows Arthur, this is a very rare occasion. 
• The terrible twos has started early for us, 4 months early to be exact. His tantrums always begin with a dramatic but careful drop to the ground, and if we pretend to not care or pay attention, he would (from his laying position) start rolling further and further away from us until he is blocked by either a wall or other obstacle. He would then cry for about 1 minute, give up and run into my arms, carefully letting go and then finally grabbing my hand to lead me elsewhere (most likely to where ever he wanted to go in the first place). Yay for parenting! 
• Lastly, Leo has become quite the explorer. He would want to explore every new corner of any new place we take him. Curious little man he is :)~ 

I’m sure there are quite a few more, but I will probably take a whole day writing them all here. I’ll try to update more often because I do want to capture the bits and pieces… I’ve just been so swamped with work! >_< Which I love! But it’s a constant battle, like most working moms I suppose :)! 

That’s a picture of us from our Taiwan trip <3 I’ll post a few more in my next post! 

I’m not sure when it started, but it’s been a while since I last sang to myself. From as long as I can remember my mother has always told me I was an extremely cheerful baby- happily mumbling to myself at the age of two weeks, singing full-on ballads in the tub not long after. Somewhere along the road I had stopped singing, and now I’m determined to pick up from where I had left off.

Therefore, I’m deciding here and now that that’s how I want to live again. Every morning when I get ready to conquer the day ahead I will have a song in me.

Hello my loves! I’ve finally got a moment to sit down and actually write a nice post :)! It’s been so long since my last actual update so I’ll do this one with a few pictures too.

On Leo:
Our little man has grown so fast in the last few months, I can only imagine what he’ll be like next year around this time. He’s able to walk with ease and has become so independent that it’s bittersweet. Now that I’m working, I’m no longer able to spend 24/7 with him- which is good and bad. I find myself missing him at work, and a little jealous of the time he spends with his grandparents but whenever we do get time together it’s spent more valuably on learning or doing fun things together. Arthur and I are also in a better mood every time Leo is around and we’ve become much more conscious about our time with him. At the same time, we have enough time to rest and go on dates here and there as we work on our own relationship. I would say the good definitely outweighs the bad although we lost some time with Leo in comparison to before.
 

On life in general: 
For the last few weeks up until the wedding, everyone had been asking me if I was nervous or stressed but to be honest, I was more stressed about my real estate salesperson exam that was scheduled on the Monday before our wedding. I knew in my heart that I would have a stress-free wedding if all were to go well with the test. After studying for the exam on and off for the past few months, I was so excited to actually pass! For those who know me, I’m not exactly the best test taker so WHEW, so glad that was over and done with! On the other hand, I really have my wonderful husband to thank. Not only did he fully finance the whole thing, he was so supportive throughout. If it weren’t for his constant support, we would not have pulled off our amazing wedding. I’ll post a few pictures here, but I’ll save the rest for when we get our professional ones from our photographer :). Now that the wedding and my exam is done, all I have on mind mind is to finally get started on selling homes! It’s an exciting beginning for my career line and I’m so blessed to be able to have Arthur’s parents be supportive of me working as well. If it weren’t for their helping hand, I would definitely not be able to pursue a career as I am doing now. Marriage life is not much different from what we had prior to the marriage, mostly because we’re both so settled in by now. I can only pray to always have this kind of love and support throughout our marriage, and I will work hard to maintain the balance of my family and career life. Wish me luck? :)