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Keplervision

Its Sunday night in the Davis-Cousins household. Its been an eventful day, with Daph and Simon getting up early and collecting Catherine and Kepler.  Kepler came home for the first time.  He met the dogs and had a good look around his apartment.  Daphne took him around the garden in his stroller.  His mom had [...]

A few more pics

Naturally, Simon has been taking plenty of pics (and video) of Kepler’s arrival into the Allegra Vita family. But with very limited spare time this week, he’s only had a few moments to do the necessary Photoshopping. These are the few that have been processed so far, with more promised this weekend.

Kepler's [...]

Welcome to the world, Kepler!

Baby Kepler

Today, Daphne’s little brother (and Simon & Catherine’s new son) Kepler Sterling Davis-Cousins was born.  Arriving in the Beijing Sino-American OB/Gyn Hospital (adjunct to the Beijing Tibetan Hospital) at 09:42, the lad caused his mom only minimal fuss, and spent most of the day resting and getting to know his family.

Daph and Simon [...]

iPhone-friendly Allegra Vita

I put a couple of hours into our family blog this Sunday.  Catherine said she is definitely going to update the blog more often, and we’re always encouraging Daphne to do the same.  So, I’ve added some fun widgets (we now get Twitter tweets and Flickr photos in the sidebar).  I’ve also installed and enabled [...]

We’re back from hiatus

Life just got away from us these last months. We’re back now, just in time for our family vacation to New York City! We depart Beijing on Friday. Simon’s trying to hook up his iPhone to our WordPress server so that we can photoblog our vacation while we’re away. More [...]

Catherine and Daph are in Los Angeles

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Catherine and Daphne left for Los Angeles on Thursday morning. They’re away for a week — Catherine to attend a wedding. As much as we tried, it was just impossible for me to [...]

Daphne and Mao and the Mad Hatter’s Teacups

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We finally upgraded our blog software, so that we can include videos from YouTube.

Here is a cute one taken by Simon at Tokyo Disneyland on our last visit. It features Daphne and her best friend in Tokyo, Mao, on the Mad Hatter’s Teacups!

Sunday

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Today we treated ourselves to a visit to Beijing’s first MUJI store. MUJI is our favourite store in the world — collectively and individually — so we made the journey to the west [...]

awfullychocolate

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We love this new arrival in Beijing. awfullychocolate is an import from Singapore. They sell only chocolate cakes and ice cream.

One may buy their cakes in only three varieties: chocolate; chocolate and [...]

It’s been a year

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Today marks one year since we adopted Lily. We celebrated with home-made cards made by Daphne, of course, and with peanut butter granola bars for Lily and Kip. Lily devoured hers, while our [...]