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This blog received another award!

Posted on 29 October, 2008 | 1 Comment

You know how peer reviews are among the most respected write-ups in terms of integrity, authenticity, and recognition, in respective industries and fields of studies?

Well, for me, I think endorsements from fellow bloggers and readers are just as significant.

Fellow blogger, parent, and offline friend Moomykin has given Daddeeyah! an award!

Thanks, Moomykin, for this award! This comes just a little after Daddeeyah! blog reached its first anniversary!


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The Proximidade award. It is a Portuguese word which means “proximity” or “nearness”- suppose it means this blog or blogging makes us feel close together ?

Proximidade award pic

They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship;
there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut or that they propagate?
Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text.


So here are the other bloggers whom I stalk :)

  1. Since I am a Husband and Dad also
  2. Another Good Husband-related blog
  3. Toddlerdaddy
  4. Lynn Lim
  5. Derek Semmler’s The Man Page
  6. Parent Hacks! has lots of tips
  7. This Cuddly Family :)
  8. My brother’s Flickr site (I know this is cheating, but he does photo-blog somewhat with this)

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Mini milestone in the pool…

Posted on 17 August, 2008 | 3 Comments

Today I took Caitlin for a swim. Long story short, it had involved going out of my way just to keep my promise to her that I would bring her for a swim, particularly this morning.

Anyway. A short proud note to my friends here, that she achieved two small feats in the pool:

  1. She held her breath and went underwater for a peek; with goggles.
    What’s the big deal you ask? It’s because she’s never gone underwater intentionally before. Which means she was both fearful of the “unknown” of “going under” as she calls it, as well as subsequently freaking out and take in some water. Unintentionally of course means the times when she’s jumped in too eagerly and had gone under for a while, taking in water especially through the nose.

    Apparently there is a whole new world underwater….

  2. She took off her floats for a while in the adult pool, wading in 0.5m deep of water (in the shallow end)
    What’s the big deal you ask? It’s because again of conquering fear, but not as explicit as it sounds. Other than the first time getting in, it’s never been an issue with the adult pool anymore while wearing the float. Taking it off however, was more like a real excitement for her and more like concern for me! I know, it was my idea, but I just wanted to try it out, let her touch the floor with her feet on her own, wade around for a while.

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    Picture taken Sept 2007, ankle deep in the baby pool.

These events actually happened in reverse. You see, at the condo poolside there is also a jacuzzi thing that we sometimes also visit when I bring her for a swim. It’s a round pool, with “steps” which act as seats all round the pool. It’s the deepest in the middle; and today I measured it at Caitlin’s chin-height.

I actually took her floats out at the jacuzzi, wanting her more “freedom” in her play in there. It was then that I asked if she’d wanna try going under with the goggles, to see the bubbles underwater. It was then after that that I braved going (back) into the adult pool without her wearing the floats in her costume.

On the way back to my parents’ after the swim at our condo, I had the opportunity to “teach” her that the bubbles she saw underwater are actually just air, and very different from the bubbles that she’d get from blowing through the loopy thing that comes with the bottle of soap from Toys’ R Us; even though both are called bubbles.

I think she got it.

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Posted in A father's POV, A toddler's POV, Adventures, Caitlin the heiress, milestones, Parenting musing

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