Zayne's First Month Recipe
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Zayne will be turning two months old in a few days, and here I am writing a blog post about how we celebrated her first month. Hahaha! I know, I know. I am such an efficient mommy blogger. My very clingy Little Kolokoy is not giving me the option to do other chores aside from feeding her, singing lullabies to her, changing her diapers, bathing her and being her favorite bed. But a part of me really wanted to document her milestones here in my blog. She is growing up really fast, and I want to have something tangible to look back to.
We had a very simple and intimate celebration at home when she turned one month old last December 8. It fell on a weekday so my younger brother and my in-laws failed to join us. My parents went to our…
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