celebrate.

remember that i was planning on making brownies for R's birthday? well, last week i made two pans of em.

the first one was this photo above, which actually turned out quite well (threw in some pumpkin seeds for goodluck since my attempt at making brownies always end up in disaster!). in between myself, R, my sister and a friend of hers who slept over at our place last weekend, the brownies went quite fast. then since tuesday was a public holiday, we had a few friends over for dinner (when i went to feed jigglyboo then promptly conked out on the bed next to her, leaving R and our friends to their own devices playing monopoly haha). anyway, baked another pan of brownies for that night (this time with whole-wheat flour and dark chocolate), different but good all the same.

also have a bunch of arts and crafts stuff (glitter glue, colored paper, markers and the likes) leftover from the stuff i bought to make props for R's birthday (which went quite well, methinks).

i know it's super early days yet, but already planning my joint birthday with jigglyboo in my head, haha. i wonder if we'll be nicely moved in the new house by then (probably not, seeing as we havent even gotten the keys to the house yet and we'll need time to save up for renovation and decorating works). can't wait to have a housewarming party (altho my poor friends will have to travel all the way just to come haha). oh well.

but if we do decide to move, i guess i'll have to be on the lookout for new career opportunities closer to that side of town. i mean, i think i already have a pretty good job here already but it wouldn't be very practical to keep shepherding jigglyboo around with all that traveling distance. sigh. so i guess, will have to put off the moving in anyway then.

excited to have our own space, i haven't stayed in any landed houses since college days (except for the parents house, of course). but not excited at all the cleaning up that it requires. i barely have time to clean up the current apartment, much less a whole house.

anyway, back to the earlier topic of birthdays. yes, this year, me and jigglyboo are gonna have a joint birthday celebration! never really been into joint celebrations but if i have to share with someone, might as well be with her.

speaking of jigglyboo, she's at that age where everything she does seems just adorable. but seriously, she spends most of her waking hours just laughing and playing! just got ourselves a food processor to get ready for her days of starting her on solids. only a few weeks away, so excited!