Today is our 5 year wedding anniversary. I looked at our two beautiful bundles of joy and I never felt so complete.
Bing Bing has turned into even a more wonderful child as she is now a big sister. She feeds him, she talks to him, she laughs with him, baths with him, she holds his hand in the car even though their car seats are quite far apart which makes her reach with half of her body outside her car seat. When her arm gets too tired she asked me (who sits in the middle) to hold DD's hand instead.
Bing Bing stayed at home for two week school holiday. It was so much work with the two of them home but now that she's back to school next week I truly miss the time we're together. I wasn't taking care of them both but she took care of her little brother with me. She runs upstairs and downstairs to get his nappies and wipes. She covers him with blankets when she thinks he's cold. She talks to him with her sweetest voice when he's crying.
"Ôi em hóc à? Chị có làm gì đâu, chị biết rồi em ơi, chị yêu em mà, ừ, ừ, em đừng hóc nữa..."
"Mẹ ơi, mẹ để em hóc một lúc cũng được mà, mẹ cứ ngồi đây ăn đi."
"Mẹ ơi, em lại ị rồi, em suốt ngày ị thôi, bỉm đây mẹ lau đít cho em đi mẹ"
"Mẹ ơi, con có phải là baby của mẹ không? Mẹ có yêu con hông?"
"Mẹ ơi, con giúp được ba mẹ nhiều việc lắm, con có ngoan hông mẹ?"
Bing Bing hugs and holds Deeda anytime she could. She kisses him and said "I love you so much Deeda, you're my honey bee bee."
I always called Bing Bing "honey bee bee" when she was a baby and it's so sweet now to hear she calls Deeda like that again.
I've started teaching Bing Bing the piano. She is learning so fast and doing really well. This kid definitely has a thing for music. I also started teaching her to read Vietnamese. She recognises words and does spelling quite fluently.
Summer's coming and we're looking forward to our 2 week beach holiday at the end of November. Bing Bing is a beach lover and I know she's going to have a great time.
Deeda has started to smile. He's a very alert baby. His eyes move across the room very quickly and they always follow Bing Bing's voice and her presence. He smiles every time he sees her face.
He's now 6.1kg. Quite a big (handsome) boy with funny eyelids ;) He's not as chubby but he's going to be strong and tall :) I'm just so proud of my two kids and only have wonderful things to brag about them aye?
The kids give me highest of the highs and lowest of the lows. Every morning I wake up and think it's another god damn day that I only just had 4 hours of sleep and 15 hours straight to work/ cook/ clean/ baby/ business and everything else. Then there are so many moments in a day when Bing Bing's said or done something that I just wanted to burst into tears because I know that I have raised an amazing little girl.
Alan booked a table for us at the Soul Bar again for our anniversary. I was surprised that he remembered to book, given all the craziness going on now that we have two kids.
My little sister is coming to visit. I hope she's here to stay. That our family will be even bigger.
Anyway, it's a miracle that I have the time and energy to write a blog these days. But I made time :) I don't want to forget these days - one of the happiest days of my life, like in a movie, enough to give meaning for the entire life.
