With the departure of Abuela, followed by the departure of Pappou, we had three days of quiet solitude, reflection and stillness in the house... not! Irini still ran around and Amalia worked on perfecting her smile. She had shown signs of it in the last week Pappou was here and now she is able to impress even the most difficult critic. Kisses continued in a frenetic pace but for those few days we had a rather basic nuclear family in the place. Not much to our liking we were happy as can be with the arrival of Beto (Taita) and Emilia Patricia (Tia), both off a trans-pacific flight from Colombia to Florida to Chicago to Hong Kong to Singapore and finally to Kuala Lumpur. We were - and still are - happy as can be to be with them. Irini and Amalia took the change of extended family members roaming the apartment's floor in stide and happily continue growing, laughing, tantruming (is that a word?) day in and day out.
The style, of course, is different with this new shipment of guests, as their personalities and approach to things is a personal matter, meshed to perfection with our own. Irini doesn't seem to mind and Amalia, as long as she's in someone's arms, is happy as can be. In the meantime we roam the city (and country) showing Tia the ropes and the happenin' places, (she's the only one who hasn't been here before) from the playground in Great Eastern Mall to the open pool by the Petronas Towers to the Immigration office in Putrajaya. :-) In a week or so they were up-to-par with all the great spots for toddlers and infants. By now, they are experts. :-)
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