Creatively Senti

Our son, like most toddlers, rendered his drum set broken and useless. We were left with the two main rings, one of which was already broken. I decided to follow Brainy Baby's advice of making our own tambourine (eventhough I know we actually have one somewhere... i've taken to keeping Yakee's toys when he refuses to pack them up so am not sure where's which). Now comes the senti part. The bells I used are the last bells from our wedding reception. They were our kissing bells.

I was literally beaming with pride and sentimentality after I finished making this. Unfortunately, my son prefers the rubber band around the ice cream container as makeshift percussion.

But at least, Mommy beamed :)

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I am still a hopeless case when it comes to finding a bathing suit I like. Some look just okay (and I have three okay swimsuits already) so am really looking for a nice, cute or sexy one. Some of those I try don't have enough support for the boobies. And drat my son, he kept coming in and out and playing with the dressing room curtain when I was fitting suits earlier. Sigh.

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Stressful weekend ahead... we're visting FIL in the hospital. Hope he gets well soon and the kids won't be very kulit when we're there.

The 33rd Pedia Talk Live

It was my first time to attend one and I coerced the hubby to attend it with me. I made him register, hehe.

The event was okay. But since we were there at 8:00 and the talks started at almost 10 AM, we were really disappointed. Not only could we have spent more time sleeping or eating breakfast, but we also need not have rushed away from our son (who we decided to leave behind so we could concentrate on the speakers).

The venue of course was impressive. It was Dusit Thani after all, we had flowing coffee and water, nice comfort rooms, well-ventilated and lit activity areas. But the exhibits by sponsors was not really that great. And to think we paid P100 each to enter. I mean, comparing it to Expo Mom, I got more loot and pointers there than here.

And there was a lot of disorganization giving away the Privilege Kit and loot bags. I am torn between blaming the organizers (for not anticipating and planning properly) and the attendees (we were all parents for heaven's sake, but 70% couldn't be bothered to line up for the goodies). I am not going to be a hypocrite and say that I don't like freebies, because I do, but I was surprised that those parents weren't behaving any better than say, less educated people (at least, where distribution of loot is concerned).

I did get a Parenting Bites DVD that tackled picky eating and homeschooling. In the process of buying one, I met someone from the Catholic Filipino Academy who sort of congratulated our decision for me to stay home and homeschool in future. She also reminded me that in terms of formal training, the homeschoolers battlecry is always BETTER LATER THAN SOONER. :)

Too Funny Not To Share

Hubby usually commutes on Thursdays because the car is coding and he doesn't want to bother with going to work super early or beating the time he's allowed on the road. Last night, he hitched with a colleague up to Baclaran and planned to commute from there.

Since it is Baclaran, the streets were crowded and the pace was slow for everybody walking. Hubby was also uber paranoid already that his bag might be cut up and something will be stolen so he also kept looking back, to make sure, which must slow him down some more.

And then he felt it, something poking, nudging his back. He turned to see an old woman who waspishly said aloud, "Bilisan mo naman, taeng-tae nako!" ("Hurry, I need to poop already!")

Exhausting Bonding, Celebrating Series

We started with an almost closing time trip to Rob last Friday, just to eat at DQ. While Yakee kept stumbling down and falling on his face on the floor (4 times) and hubs kept running after him and making sure he doesn't get picked up by someone (while also feeding him the straberry banana Blizzard), I sat watching my beloeveds and feeling every bit blessed.

Saturday though, I woke up with throbbing tonsils so we had to go to the ENT first before meeting up with the Plurk Moms at Shang. Yakee discovered a music store and spent the time oggling at drums and guitars. Then we discovered there was a Jollitown event. Again, twas Pappie who attended to him while I gabbed with the Plurk Moms about all the usual topics we discuss in Plurk.

Then we went home to properly send off my sister to the life waiting for her in Michigan.



Sunday, we attended hubs' colleague's daughter's Christening. John is Yakee's godfather and he also got hubs to be his Jaden's godfather.



After that, we went with my siblings to Star City for a last bonding thingie between us siblings. My sister and I tried to ride all the wilder rides and it was really great being silly like a kid again. Pappie and I went into the haunted house thingie and such things scare me (am not exactly afraid of ghosts but I hate getting surprised) so upon enetering, I already had my arms wrapped around my darling husband's solid body and kept my eyes shut. I just let him drag me around while he laughed. Then we agreed to tell my sister that it was super scary inside so she'd be more frightened. We had to take turns riding the carnival rides because of the babies.





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Last night, we had an impromptu movie date to watch Transformers 2. It was laughable because I spent half the time asking hubby questions (because I never really saw the first movie and didn't follow the cartoon as a kid) while he also kept signing to me to watch the movie. But it was still super nice to be cuddling over popcorn.

Yup... we're all still in love!

Konti Na Lang

Longer, flatter hair for Yakee maybe.

But really, I see Pappie's face in him everyday, 80% of the time. He only looks like me when he grins.

Oh and okay, I think our son's mouth is a lot fuller than his father's was. So he took after his grandfather alright, which is probably why FIL adores Yakee so much.

Pappie Acknowledged

Unfortunately, Father's Day dawned on us with Yakee being fussy, starting at two in the morning. He's majorly constipated and I had to spend an hour with him downstairs at past 3, feeding him cereals and encouraging him to strain and push his poop out.

I was stressed. Pappie was stressed because I was stressed.

But still, Pappie Jojo woke up to this:

That's Yakee's foot and hand print. It was hard getting it done so I had to settle for one of each. Plus, because I was hung up and losing sleep over NCIS, I forgot to do it earlier. But anyway, that's what Pappie woke up to.

I cooked a lunch of beef salpicao and squash soup. Then for dinner, I cooked fried chicken and tuna pasta. Hubs bought an ice cream cake to complete our Father's Day feast. And true to form, he also went and bought our son a new trumpet and recorder (because he's already broken the drum and trumpet I bought him last Wednesday).

Living up to the name of provider though, hubs spent the whole night till around 6 or 7 this morning working.

Happy Father's Day Pappie... we love you!

An Uncommon Night Out

Twas not really an official date. I attended a bloggers event for Newport City (check out my post on Maxims Hotel) last Thursday. It so happened that hubs is in charge of the installation of the PABX system for their hotels and offices so hubs knew where I was going. I just asked the contact people if my hubby could follow and they accommodated him. It also gave him an opportunity to see the Newport City bosses (who he meets with and reports to sometimes) in a more casual setting. The president of Global Alliance even ended up learning baccarat with us.

This pic was taken in the bedroom model which we got to see. Hubs kidded me to never ask him to stay in one, hehe, because the rooms (once the hotel is finished) will start at $500/night.

It was almost midnight when we finished learning to play the casino games (we realized that we're both unlucky in gambling) and picture taking. We dropped off two of my fellow bloggers near their work and got home at around 12:30 AM, with our darling son sort of waiting for us. Poor baby, both Mommy and Pappie were out! But his Ninang read to him naman :)

We got Enduranz capsules and Slenda dance videos for giveaways. Hmmm...