Archive for the 'Milestones' Category

Oct 11 2012

Scarlett’s First Haircut

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Every baby grows up at some milestone, and I think that this is probably the last one for our little one to finally be a little girl rather than a baby girl.  Scarlett has been asking about haircuts for a while now and with UNIS about to start for a new year the whole family [...]

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Oct 11 2012

Ophelia’s Stanford Experience

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During our Summer vacation, we visited the USA.  It has been a while since we saw the Hamada relatives in California, and we made time to try and see all the nearest and dearest whilst in that neck of the woods.  First stop, the very generous and loving Aunt Riki and Uncle Shuji who made [...]

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Oct 30 2011

Mel’s Vertical Marathon #1

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Bitexco Vertical Marathon I have had an extraordinary weekend.  The story begins in April, over the swimming pool of Hua Hin, I met a mother of 2 who was incredibly fit and asked her what she did – she must have a secret – and she told me that she was a runner and had [...]

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Sep 22 2011

Mel back to work – first impressions

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So, it has now been over a month since I handed over sole parent duty to our nanny, Su, and returned back to UNIS Hanoi full time. I have to say that it was not too difficult to begin with to head back to the classroom and to enjoy seeing my students and engaging in [...]

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Aug 28 2011

First Day of School

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This year marks the start of Oscar’s fourth year at UNIS Hanoi. This year he is in Grade 1 with Ms. Julia and is his first year in the Elementary School! It is also Ophelia’s first year at UNIS! She is so excited to be in Ms. Heidi’s Discovery class. Needless to say, she is [...]

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Aug 14 2010

Scarlett Commando crawling…

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and so a new and very diligent chapter of our lives begins….

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Apr 18 2010

Oscar and the Case of the Missing Teeth

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Where did they go???? Listen to Oscar talk about how he pulled it out. Oscars Missing Tooth

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