Lennox & Me

Today's blog is about sleeping times. And how I'm still amazed at the fact that many of my Dutch friends have their kids in bed by 7pm!! Having moved to the Netherlands 8 years ago, you would think that i would already have adapted to the Dutch way of living/sleeping. Although we are surrounded by Dutchies, my husband is Dutch-Surinamese and not "Dutch-dutch". So while we enjoy certain Dutch treats like kibbeling, stroopwaffles, dutch pancakes and cheese, we are pretty much still asian/south american in many ways as well. The majority of dutch people have dinner early. And when i say early i mean EARLY like 530 or 6pm! This means that by 7 or 730pm, the kid/s are probably washed up and ready for bed. It's actually pretty awesome that parents can come home from work on time probably around 5 or 530pm to have dinner with the family. The Dutch enjoy family time and that's the main reason most shops are closed by 6pm every day, and in the weekends as well

As some of you may know, we are currently in my home town Singapore on vacation! We are here to celebrate Eid (Suikerfeest in Dutch) and we have been having a blast so far! Vacation and celebrations always means family, food, food and more food ;) Being on vacation also means that our workout schedules get haywire!! So while we do enjoy our time here, i do try to squeeze in some sort of physical activity, even if it's just a swim, a walk or a jog. Just 5 mins from my family home where we are staying there is a small park/playground with some exercise equipment. My husband needed some pull up bars for his workout so we headed there. For me, before heading there i just googled 'crossfit workout without equipment' and got a whole list of suggestions on what to do. Here's a workout i came up with! 2 Rounds, each for time of 50 Air Squats 25 Bench dips 25 Burpees Rest 3 min in between Warm up  was a slow 5 min jog from home to the playground Do you even squ

From my previous post about Introducing Solids , I mentioned that I would also document Lennox's journey with BLW. He started when he was 24 weeks old (5 and a half months). By the time he could sit up on his own and was already holding items and putting them into his mouth. Here are some tips i learnt when starting BLW, suggested first foods and basically photos of him looking terribly cute while eating! :P Food prep for BLW Babies do not need teeth to chew! Their gums are strong enough to bite stuff off (just check with moms who breastfeed babies without teeth - the gummy bite can still be painful! :P) Babies around 6 months would be able to pick up objects, but using their whole fists. So one tip i learnt was to cut food into strips that are a little longer that their fists, so that even when they grabbed the food, one part would be sticking out for them to eat. I have here a few examples of Nox holding pieces of carrot, beans and cooked plaintain with his whole fist.