Come swim with me!

Zoe taking the stage, as usual :)

Sweet Natasha

Cayden just soaking up the action

Since we had such a big success the day before with the pool, I decided to invite a few kids over to join us in the pool on Friday afternoon. I invited Constanze and Zoe, Aivee and her 3 kids - Natasha, Felicia and Lucas.

Everyone had a great time, although the pool was really dirty by the time the 5 kids were done. They were splashing in the water, pouring water out, splashing each other! Poor Nyamaa, she was soaked because the kids were targetting her! I also took out the water pistols which I bought at Narantuul (which costs only $1 each!) and the kids just sprayed water at each other.



Needless to say, the house was in a huge mess. Zoe threw a tantrum after Natasha sprayed water on her so she decided to run into the house all wet (and dirty!) and layed down on my sofa! I nearly fainted. But that's the way it is with kids around right?

Our own pool!

Today was really hot. Instead of joining the usual playgroup at the Children's Park, I decided to blow up our inflatable pool and let Cayden play in the water instead.

While Cayden was taking his nap, I started to blow up the pool, alternating between blowing air physically and using the foot pump. Its much faster to blow air physically so I did that most of the time. But it makes my head spin! Had to take a break and eat lunch and continue. Success!

As the hose in the garden is not connected yet, Nyamaa and myself used 2 pails and 1 stockpot to fill the pool with lukewarm water. Once Cayden woke up from his nap, he saw the pool and wanted to get in! He had so much fun in the pool! He splashed water, jumped, played with the water pistol. He was in the water for at least 1 hour. I was really glad that we were in the water instead of standing in the hot sun at the Children's Park.

Say cheese!!

Cayden playing with his bath toys...

Taku's Birthday Party

Happy Birthday, Taku!

Birthday boy

Kids all going for the pizza!

Baby Sophia - how cute is she?

We went for Taku's birthday party today. He turned 2. It was a small cozy party. Very nice. Cayden had fun. He always have fun when there are other kids around. The only down side was the older children being slightly uncontrollable. I guess they are all ok with they are alone, but together with friends, they went nuts! They were encouraging each other.

2 of the boys were misbehaving so one of the boy's mom went over to discipline her son. To my surprise, the other boy actually scolded her and said "You are not his boss!". Wow, i was taken aback. This boy seriously needs some discipline! I made a mental note to myself not to let Cayden misbehave that badly! This really reflects badly on the parents.

First Blog

I have decided to start writing my blog today. A bit late, I must say, since I have been a SAHM for 2+ years already! However, I have decided that its better late than never. My memory is not as good as before, and sometimes memories do get a bit fuzzy. This is the best tool so far, to record what I have experienced.

A bit about myself. I have a 2 year old son - Cayden. To me, he is the cutest baby on earth, but of course, all mothers feels the same about their children. haha. Not shy right? Due to hubby's work, we have relocated to Ulaan Batar, Mongolia last July. So far, life has been ok in UB, but of course there are challenges. New systems, new food, new life, new weather to get used to. On the other hand, there are new friends, new experiences too.

Its the beginning of the summer now, and the weather is beautiful. A tad too hot for hubby, but I love it. It was 37 degrees yesterday! I was happy to be in my summer skirt, t shirt and floppy hat. It sure beats being under 4 layers of clothes in the -30 degrees cold!

We went to one of my girlfriends, Astrid's place for a playdate yesterday afternoon. Constanze went as well. Astrid has 2 sons - Sam & Tommie. Constanze has a daughter - Zoe. All children are aged between 2 - 5 (Cayden being the youngest).


Zoe splashing water at me as I was trying to take a picture!

As always, Cayden had so much fun at Astrid's place. Astrid took out her inflatable pool and turned her garden into UB's beach! Cayden wasn't allowed in the pool because he just recovered from bronchitis last week and the water here is icy cold! But he was happy just looking & screaming when the other kids splashed water at him. The other kids had so much fun in the water. It amazing how easily kids can amuse themselves. Cayden entertained himself in the sandpit and with the ball.


Check out Cayden's rosy cheeks!


All kids playing in the sand pit

We also have a inflatable pool at home, but hubby said to take the pool out only when our hot water returns. Oh yes, we have no hot water for 2 weeks starting 4 Jun because they are doing some maintenance work. So everyday, I have to boil 10 pots of water for us to have a bath in the "African" style. *sweat*sweat*