Learning to make Thosai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pic of all the curries, dishes and Thosai we learned.

Helen taught Linda, Ima, and I how to make Thosai (the famous Indian "pancake" that you dip in curry).

I have to say Thosai is so great because we are eating gluten free as a family (bc of Andrew) so it is an awesome dish where you don't even notice the lack of wheat!  The pancake is made out of special blended bean and rice flour.

 Here are the cooks: Helen, me and Ima--Linda who is taking the pic.

Lastly, Andrew has been totally into building trains lately.  He likes to build them all across the floor.

Experiencing more Malaysia

 Above: the gold class theatre showing of Pirates.

  Recliners, blankets and waiters.  For only $17 USD!

 Learning to make Bao at a branch activity.

  Above: Sister Ho in white teaching us all.

Next up: 

Adventures in "Petaling Street"

AKA Chinatown

Okay see you soon.

Haircut for Andrew

Andrew got his first salon haircut ever at A Cut Above in Bangsar.  Joseph loved watching.

I have received many comments on this post asking for the AFTER photo of the hair cut.  Well I did not take one because as it turns out I hated the hair cut.  The cut looked so terrible I couldn't even bring myself to take a pic.  The bangs were too short, the sides were lopsided, etc.  Oh well.  At least Joseph had fun watching.

Slowly yet surely...moving in...

 Since we did not bring much furniture with us, we had to purchase stuff here. 

I found this great store Townhouse that is more my taste than the ultra-modern furniture stores that are EVERYWHERE here.  Townhouse sources all their furniture locally and is made in the same factory as some of Pottery Barns lines.

As you can see we still need a few things (a BED, etc.).   Also we need to paint the walls...

To be continued.

Welcome to Singapore

We flew to Singapore in May to meet with Andrew's doctor for the first time.  It is a short 45min flight  so we got to walk up to get on the airplane.

Getting on the airplane...

We made it to the hotel.  We love the bellhops in Singapore because of how cool they dress.

Andrew and his monkey backpack.

The next morning we took our first visit to Andrew's paediatric neurologist.  We were referred to him from our neurologist at Johns Hopkins as he is one of the best in Asia.

Here is our doctor.

Seeing the doctor is awesome here because there are three people to play with the kids while the parents talk to the doctor.

Andrew has a little something in his brain.  We found it last year during Andrew's MRI.  We get routine MRIs to make sure it is not growing.  Here he is showing us where it is located in his brain.

Back at the hotel the boys played in the crib together.

FYI Singapore does not have a major skyline.  All the buildings are midrise.

Getting ready to go out and explore the world famous Orchard Road.

Here are some shots of us walking on Orchard Road.  Orchard Road is the equivalent of Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Oxford Street in London, or Fifth Avenue mixed with Times Square.

This pic is for my brother Nathan.

I am so in love with this pottery and art gallery.

At the food court (food courts are so good here) Andrew was obsessed with this "Central" sign.  He read all the English letters one by one and then made up names for all the Chinese characters one by one.  Ex: "buggady. djuipaa.  doodka."

Street signs pointing to two different temples.

This is how Asian people travel with kids in cars.  No carseats.  It actually was really freaky and we only did it once.  The boys loved it of course.

Arriving back at the hotel after a long day.

This is who greeted us when we got back to the hotel in our cab.

This dude was awesome.  He watched the boys for a minute while Mike paid the cab driver.

Joseph loved him because he let Joseph crawl on the benches.

 Back at the hotel after bath, the boys played on the bed with the books.  Joseph is just so dang chunky we had to take photos to document his rolls.

Do you see how his stomach hangs over his diaper?  So funny.

We found church Sunday morning.  It was a huge ward full of white people!  Turns out it was all expats.  Then they have another huge ward for the Singaporeans.  Then they have another ward for the Indonesians.  Etc etc.

We had to walk through all this construction to make it to church.

Andrew helping to push the stroller.

While Joseph napped, Andrew and I had nothing to do.  It turns out the hotel had plenty to keep him occupied forever.  He was having so much fun with the elevators, room numbers (walking down the hallway reading the room number one by one--1823, 1825, 1827), and of course the stairs.

Stairs!

More stairs!  Who would have thought climbing stairs could be entertainment.

As we were loading the bags in the car a guy from the hotel helped corral the boys.  We decided Singapore is another country that likes blond kids.

Bye bye "See-ah-poh" (as Andrew calls it).  See you soon.