Sunshine Award 2011

Thank you sis Michi for giving me this award although I'm a few days late in posting.better late than never,hehe.

The rules:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award and write a post about it.
2. Answer the following questions.
3. Pass it on to ten fabulous bloggers and send them a message to let them know.

Favourite Colour: yellow, pink, green, purple
Favourite Animal: dog, love birds
Favourite Number: 1,7,8,9,11,25 
Favourite Drink: coke forever
Facebook or Twitter: i do like twitter now pero more of facebook pa din.
Your passion: taking care of my family
Giving or getting presents: both 
Favourite pattern: Stripes
Favourite day: weekend = super family bonding :)
Favourite flowers: tulips,orchids

I would like to pass this award to:
 Nuna, France, Anney, Kristeta, Lanie, Em, Jenggai, Nani, Anne,and Vanenie.


 

TGIF!

Been busy for the past few days because of a special event in our school called Research Forum wherein our institutional researchers from different colleges in our school defend their research outputs in front of the panel/evaluators consists of VP’s, College Dean, Department Heads and Research Directors with a lot of participants in the audience including faculty, staff and chosen students in our institution. It’s quite surprising that some of these research presenters still gets nervous especially on the evaluation part regardless of their age and rank.I don't want to go exactly into the details but if there's one word to describe: nerve-wracking.

Our department organize that event every year which needs a lot of time and effort,and being one of the committee I got one of the big chunk of responsibility in terms of planning and organizing especially on the actual event. I had to extend a few hours of my working schedule just to make sure everything is smooth meaning less time for my Xian and less bonding time for us that’s why this week is kinda hard for me. This is actually one of the highlight of the school activities that's why kelangan ng sobrang preparations.

Finally,after all the efforts of everyone this year's Research Forum is over and done,not to mention it is another successful event! It’s just so ironic how I used to hate my thesis days way back in college as in feeling ko lalagnatin lagi ako not to mention a lot of editing,revisions and other research-related chorva yet this is what I’m actually doing for the past 3 years working in the academe.haha! Labo no?

It is such a relief to finally breathe a little and focus on other stuffs not as heavy as that.So literally I wanna shout:

To my two boys,hubby love and baby love I'll make it up to you! Busy day's over....for now! (I hope!) :D

Bohol,Bohol! ♥

Our original plan is to spend a few days in Tagaytay come December as our family vacation since there are still a lot of places that we haven’t visited yet after the last time we went there and Xian is just a tiny living thing in my tummy. That was 3 years ago. Kase even though I’m from Batangas, Tagaytay is still a 3 hours drive from our place that’s why we seldom go there.

Besides, I think hubby and I deserve our much awaited R & R after working hard for the whole year. My mind is set preparing our itinerary for that supposedly 3 days and 2 nights stay but during hubby and I’s conversation several weeks ago, he mentioned that instead of our Tagaytay family trip, why not go to Bohol for a change. Honestly na-excite naman ako with his idea since this will be the first time na lalayo kami ng CALABARZON area! Level-up ito.Yehey! Most of the time kase neighboring provinces lang kami pumupunta on our family trip but this time around may involve ng airplane as transportation. Ooooohhhh why not, di ko tatanggihan idea na yun.

Even though the little man is quite a handful, the husband thinks that Xian’s age is quite ok na to travel since he’s more observant and appreciative na of the environment so I’m sure he will enjoy it too.

Anyway, I’m excited planning our upcoming Bohol trip. As usual,hubby’s in charge of the expenses while I take charge on the preparations because that is what I do best. Hihi! By the way,can you recommend me a nice and pocket-friendly travel agency that can arrange our trip including land and airfare accommodation? When you travel, do you book separately then just avail the land arrangement package? Is that much better? I'm clueless.sorry naman! Like what I've said, we're a traveling family,pero pinakamalayo na ang Laguna. So far, our preferred travel date is on December 2-4 if there's any changes. Everything will be highly appreciated.Thank you so much! :)

We will see yah soon! :)

              

          photo courtesy of Bohol.ph    

Xian's "Aral Time"

I noticed that I have a lot of Xian's pictures that didn't make it to this blog. One of them is his "aral time". Although we allow him to watch his favorite cartoons and movies every once in a while but we see to it that he also have some study session sort of (fun) learning while watching.Like we'll allow him to watch his favorite movie before bedtime given with the condition that we'll have a study session first. Deal namin yun kay bagets. 

He actually have a lot of fave movies: from Cars to Toy Story, Rio, Happy Feet, Shrek, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chicken Little, Stuart Little, Finding Nemo, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Despicable Me, Wall-E, Ice Age and other kiddie movies downloaded by the husband.

Here's the little man in his "aral time". These pictures came from one of the chapters of his Baby Einstein DVD.

My little man will shout "ayun mommy,yellow crayon!" same thing with the other "dancing crayons" that appear on the screen which he can perfectly distinguish one by one (wag lang naman syempre yung mga aquamarine, fuchsia,tangerine etc..)

the different colors of crayons will start to draw one by one from small circle to big circle with instructions from the video...

..until it forms into this clown figure - only with the help of the basic shapes and colors.Galing ano?


This is just one of the chapters in the wide range of titles included in his cd which he enjoy a lot.


Here's my very attentive student:

ayan nga't sa sa sobrang attentive sa "lesson" nya,TL pa tuloy.hihi! I love you baby! :)

My Favorite Weekend Snapshots

Just Another Family Day Sunday!

After the mass, we went straight to the mall for Xian's weekly dose of playtime. Here's my favorite photos from our Sunday Day Out.

 1.with my Bieber wannabe! see the haircut? :D

2. playtime is not complete without a carousel ride :)

3. the little man's favorite ride @ Quantum - the red car.

4. my big baby!

5. my life's happy duo!

6. my future binata ;)

7. I'm wondering what he's thinking.

8.our Shakey's food!

 No wonder this is my favorite day! How about you,what's your favorite day in a week? :)


 

My Happy Weekend!

Recapping the weekend that was.

After my work last Saturday, I met up with the ATF girls as part of my post birthday celebration besides our group date has been a long overdue plan since our schedule always didn’t meet parang north pole-south pole lang.Finally, the plan pushed through last Saturday although Mareng Nancy wasn’t able to join us since she’s in Manila that time plus she’s 5 months pregnant already (yey,we will have another ATF baby in a couple of months! another playmate for the rest of the ATF kids! ) so it’s just the five of us that day.

 Mareng Shiela (mommy of 2) Mareng Dialyn and Mareng Frances (my two single ladies friends) as in kami na ang naiinip para sa love life nila! :)

 with my bestfriend Mabs.we're both mommy of 1, mag-bff na din boys namin as early as now :)

Fab 5

peace daw sabi ni manong guard.hihi!

We had our snacks first at Shakey’s with our favorite chic n’ chips, pasta and pizza then capped the day off with our favorite frappe at Starbucks. Unfortunately Mareng Shiela wasn't able to join our coffee bonding because of some commitment that day.See the difference of the first three and last two pictures, we spend about a good 6 hours together with our endless chikahan kaya inabot na ng dilim. Haha! Oh well girls will always be girls right,besides hubby knew that I also deserve a social life every once in a while; plus he knows very well that these are the girls I grew up with.I missed them, it’s a good thing that we still finds time for our group date like this even though we’re all busy with our  lives ;)

Then Sunday came,I was quite disappointed since we’re supposedly going to have a family lunch out at Casa Rap after hearing the Sunday mass. The place is located in our neighbor town, San Jose. That’s my initial plan talaga since I heard good reviews about the place. They had been featured in the country's leading newspapers and some lifestyle television program because the food they served are produced from organic farming. nice di ba? Actually that’s also one of the place that we considered for our Batanggenya SP Moms' EB last month which unfortunately didn’t pushed through.I really wanna try their menu plus visit the place. I am so confident that they’re open that time since they’re just like other restaurants who accept walk-in customers, unfortunately when I called last Saturday morning to check and to set a reservation, the girl on the other line told me that they’re temporarily closed until September 17 since they’re undergoing some minor renovations of the restaurant. Tsk,tsk Sayang! :(

 Casa Rap photo credit from travelbook.ph

Anyway, we'll just visit there some other time.Na-preempt tuloy excitement ko.So we just stayed at home that day since natamad na din kami lumabas. The husband cooked his version of sisig and his tried and tested ginataang tahong with veggies paired with yummy chocolate cake from Red Ribbon for our lunch.

 

We just watched dvd then spent our precious time with the little man with his new antics. Just another laid back Sunday.Haaay, I soooo love weekend,absolutely the best two days in a week! Til next! :)

 

What Made The Husband (A Bit) Teary-Eyed.

This is a random kwento about my mag-ama.

Since hubby is working in Manila-Subic and he only goes home every weekend, constant phone call is one of our communications. One weekday night before bedtime, it’s always a routine to talk to each other,my boys have their usual conversation too before we all doze off to bed.

Scenario:

Husband is talking to Xian asking how the little man spend his day at home while I’m carefully listening to my mag-ama’s usapan (which is of course, naka-loud speaker that's why I'm aware of the flow of their conversation)

Daddy: hello baby, how are you? Nag-eat ka na?

Xian: yes,kain baby. chicken ulam po.

Daddy: Ah chicken. delicious?

Xian: dicious! Luto ng inay.

Daddy: Ah.galing naman.delicious pala.What did you do today? Behave ka?

Xian: bi-hev! pe-play,sama kuya dale…kuya dale bah-low (borrow) toys ng Xian! (in his tone na nagsusumbong)

Daddy: Ah borrow lang naman pala eh, share kayo.bili ka na lang ni daddy ng toys sa Sunday. what do you like?

Xian: KA-QUEEN! In his excited and giggling tone (he’s referring to the red car McQueen.lol.

Xian: ..achaka robot...blue!

Daddy: ah robot.gusto mo din ng robot?

Xian: opo.

Then Xian’s kinda distracted for a moment because of a tv show. so it’s our turn to talk.

After a couple of minutes, the little man came back and had his conversation again with his dad.

Xian: daddy, watch si crush.. ayun tv! 

his eyes instantly lit up (the “crush” he’s referring to is Xyriel Manabat of the tv show 100 Days to Heaven)

Daddy: (laugh) ah watch mo si crush.ganda ga?

Xian: yes,danda! *boyish grin*

Daddy: sya behave ikaw palagi ha.

Xian: opo.bi-hev.

Daddy: sya ba-bye na baby ha.sleep na kayo ng mommy.tomorrow na lang ulit.pray na ha.goodnight na. I love you.

Xian: u-night.. daddy.. Lab youuuuuuu..  ingat! (when he's just a baby we taught him how to say "Ingat" to other people every time we're having a conversation that's why he became used to it.)

Daddy: ka-sweet naman ng baby ko. goodnight. I love you din.ingat din palagi ha.

Xian: kiss daddy! mwaaaaah! (followed by a sloppy kiss sound on my cellphone) 

u-night.. u-night daddy! u-nighttttttttt... ba-bye..

(almost 1 minute siguro sila ng pagpapaalam na di matapos tapos)

Then after 25 years the little man handed me the cellphone.

Hubby: Hello My,naiiyak ako eh.

Me: Hah? Bakit naman!

Hubby: tsk,tsk! big boy na si Xian natin eh,nakakapaluha.kaayos ng kausap.di na talaga baby.parang kelan lang..miss ko na lalo kayo.

--Awwwww--

When it comes to our kiddo,daddy's really have a soft spot talaga no?

 -sweet moment caught on cam-