Since Mom and Dad went home from Canada on August, orders were given left and right for the preparation of Jenny's upcoming surprised thanksgiving party for her graduation from her masters of law from the University of Toronto.
While on maternity leave, I started doing her invites. I surfed the net for a nice lay-out. It was a 3-page invitation. The front has a cut-out toga with a small real tassle, a scanned grad pic of Jenny embossed on top of the toga, and the name of the invited guest at the bottom. The second page was the details of the party printed in a diploma format, using parchment paper and tucked in a board paper. The last page was a reminder to the guests that it will be a surprise party, the sketch of the venue, and numbers to be called for the rsvp. And invites must be mailed 2months before the event.
After my birthday and Winter's baptism, I went back to work with lots of back log to catch up to. And at the same time, I have to start preparing for Jenny's AVP - which, I do not even know how to do. I started texting her friends requesting for their wishes or greetings for Jenny. I ransacked her room for photos to be scanned for the presentation. I even have to bring the photos to Kuya Dojoe's office to have them scanned since I do not know how to use a scanner. And have to do them twice since the first scanning had too low resolution. First week of November, it was my only time to take videos of the family's wishes for Jenny. I finished the avp the night before Mom and Dad's departure for Canada. How to transform them to dvd format? I slept at 3am, woke up at 6am, still I cannot figure it out. I was able to figure it out the last minute - as in when they were preparing to leave for the airport.
On the last week of October, I did her guest book too! I planned to do a digital scrapbook style but never got the time to do it. So I did the actual scrapbook. It was a few late nights too, with a toddler roaming around my materials and breastfeeding in between.
Tags were made simple for the souvenirs. I was able to do that in one day.
It's hard to have a stage mom, yet I am one! You'll really try to pull all your resources to make your child happy. Every child is worthy of their parent's love. Every parents must be proud of their children.
I wish for more moolah for more shopping! hehehe
After a decade, I finally had my Tag repaired. I lost its bezel, brought it to the service center, my watch stayed there almost, if not more, a year, pulled it out, and stuck the watch in my drawer.
Oh no! My boy is no longer a newborn but an infant.
Look at Summer's first christmas decor made with love by Papa O and Ninang Onnie, taken with Julian and Jaja.
And Papa Omar's produce:
A play school project turned into a family affair.
Winter can now shift sideways, while lying down, on his own. Ayaw pa din nya ng nakadapa, nakasubsob lng ang ulo nya di makagalaw. Di kayang buhatin angulo, ang bigat kasi.
On his first month, we blew his candle at our house in France St., his second month at 1618 at my inlaws, and 3rd month here at Bulacan. Next month, we will be blowing our 4th candle at Canada! Woohoo!!! Ninang Jenny, sagot mo cupcakes natin ha!
Thanks to Ryan who cooked some of the food. We had so much food and have to bring the left overs to Bulacan.
Winter slept the whole time. I wonder if that's the effect of his vaccine too or if he was just being his normal self hehehe. Oh, and I was able to manage to have dinner properly with one hand! Practice na to! for Canada and US trip! hahaha!
May Shakey's ba outside the Philippines? O dito lang sya sa atin? Does that mean Shakey's is a good place to bring balikbayans?
Winter now weighs 6.5kg, a 1.1kg weight gain from his 5.4kg weight last month. He's big for his age, according to his pedia. Looks like his lower teeth will be coming out soon, as confirmed by the pedia. He still has rashes on his face and will try to use Cetaphil this time.
On the side note: Si Summer, sa Karcraft pa lang, di na maipinta ang face. She'd rather stay in the car alone than to go down with us at the hospital. She was crying while walking from the car to the clinic of her pedia. But after her vaccine, while we were having her X-ray, she's so hyper - running, shouting, and laughing. I wonder if that's the effect of her vaccine or she was just being her normal self. She was scared at first with her X-ray. She just took her Papa's word that they will just take her photo and all she had to do was smile. She was looking for her photo after her test. Winter, on the other hand, didn't even cry when he was injected with his vaccine. Boy na boy!
Nov. 5 - Yang's birhtday
We had a game of poker after dinner. Guess who won? Not me! I don't know how to play the game.
Winter had fun entertaining Odie while thumbsucking and Ninong Odie happily watched him.
Summer, as usual, had so much fun playing with her cousins.
Thank God for birthdays! Thank God for answered prayers!
It was a birthday dinner without the birthday celebrant for she's in Chicago. Happy birthday Tita Nora and thank you for the dinner!
We just had our breakfast before going to her place but we just so love her bopis and cannot resist not eating again. So we had our second breakfast for the day.
Tita Cel cooked carbonara but were so full, we took them home na lang.
Happy birthday Lola!
The party made me realized how my baby grew to be a big girl. She's no longer scared of Jollibee. She joins the games and plays with other kids. I was surprised that she can play the longest greeting, though she did not win the game.
As usual, we did not go out of Jollibee without her playing in the play area.
Maybe I can give her a Jollibee party on her 5th year, if budget will allow =D. Winter would learn to love Jollibee by then.
They had entertainment for guests who came in early. Clowns were doing tricks, clowns walking and dancing on stilts, a guy playing like a mannequin, and clowns doing balloon twisting.
It wasn't just a show, but a battle of the champions. There were 9 champions competing for the title 'Champion of the Champions'. Rico won the title.
Thank you Tito Boy for inviting us!
Kuya Ed organized a welcome dinner for her. We had it at Bahay Ligaya and had filipino dishes.
As usual, it was a loud night. We were not complete, yet enough to make it a fun night. We set our christmas party tentatively on Jan. 3, 2009.
Kuya had Cut Steak with Rice.
And what better way to end our food trip with a dessert - Choco something from Crepes and more.
It's so yummy to run errands for Mom and Dad, specially when you're with Kuya =).
