Tayo na sa Antipolo!

It's been our tradition to hear Mass at Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage at Antipolo on Daddy's and Mommy's wedding anniversary on May 31.

Here is my photo with my counsel.

This was Summer's 3rd time to visit the church. Last year, Mommy bought her this butterfly toy. This year, it was Daddy's turn to buy her the same toy. Di pa kami nakakababa ng bundok ng Antipolo, sira na.
Who would not be tempted to buy these goodies? From parking pa lang, people would sales talk you to buy from their stores. We bought suman and cashew nuts.

After the mass, we went to Gloria Maris at Greenhills for our dimsum breakfast.

Happy Anniversary Daddy and Mommy!

Happy Birthday Alaina!

Summer attended Alaina's 1st birthday party yesterday at Gazebo Royale.

Alaina's my cousin's first child. She's the youngest in our Santiago clan. Summer just adores her. She calls all her baby dolls, Alaina.

Here's a photo of Summer with the celebrant and the funny photo of the celebrant.

Sad to say, Summer was scared to join the games. She refused to have her face paint and watch the balloon show.

She was sure happy to get her loot bag.

Happy birthday Alaina!

Bubbles!

Tita Jack gave Summer a bottle of Dora foam bath last Christmas. But since we do not have a bath tub, Summer will have to make use of her baby bath tub.

How she loves bubbles!

They're Back!

Mommy and Daddy are back from their US-Canada vacation.

Their plane landed at 4:45am, ate breakfast at home in Paranaque, and went here at Bulacan. We weren't able to fetch them since we were expecting big groups at the resort.

And we had lots and lots of pasalubongs!!!

For Omar -

For me -For Summer -Food!!! -

Thank you Mommy and Daddy! Thank you Paeng and Jenjen! Thank you to all our families from US and Canada who sent stuff for us. We liked it!

My Nanny .... not Summer's

My Ate Nora came to visit us to see my baby.

Ate Nora helped my mom raise us. She took care of us until she became a teacher. She left for Masbate and taugt there. She sees to it that she visits us at least once a year during summer. We text each other once in a while.

Now, she's not just my Ate Nora, she is my Summer's Lola Nora.

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Telenovelas may be dangerous to your baby's health

Dahil sa ka-jologan namin magasawa, nagkabukol ang baby ko.

Omar called me to record the first sets of Maging Sino Ka Man since he was just on his way home. Obedient wife that I am, I took out my cellphone to video the telenovela. Come commercial, I would then transfer the recorded video to my laptop so I could delete it in my digicam for the next set. Ganyan ako ka-tsaga - gosh, must be love!

Since it's hard to video the tv show, I pulled the table in front of the tv where I could sit comfortably.

Just when I was transferring the video from my digicam to my laptop, I saw my baby fell down from the table, head first! And she got a bump on her upper left forehead, the size of a jackstone ball. I felt so terrible and guilty. I immediately put ice on her forehead. She was crying so loud and saying 'ako na! ako na!' But she would put the ice on her right forehead, far from her bump.

Come the next set of telenovela, as I was busy attending to her bump, not planning to record the succeeding sets, she pointed at the tv saying, 'ayan na! ayan na!' To pacify her, I recorded the succeeding show.

She wouldn't let me put ice on her bump. A papa's girl in the making that she was, she allowed her papa to apply ice on her forehead. Omar brought home a burger king meal for pasalubong. Summer's not allowed to drink soda. I often tell her 'no coke!' that she would shout at the tv 'no coke!' everytime she see the commercial of Coke. But since she was injured that night, Omar let her take a sip. After taking her sip, she approached me and with a wide grin on her face, told me 'Mama, coke! I like it!' GRrr.....