A dinner to remember... sort of.

It's not an extra-ordinary dinner.

Since we were out the whole day, we have no dinner prepared to go home to. We had dinner at Shakey's at Magallanes and it brought so much memories - like going to the theater, love their thin crust pizza and mojos, super love their strawberry shake, their striped uniform and flat hats, spaghetti served on a sizzling plate, childhood memories!

I love their ultimate cheese and garlic thin crust pizza. Yun nga lang di masyadong nakakabusog kasi thin nga! I'd rather dip the mojos in catsup over their garlic and ceasars dip. Of course, I have to get their strawberry shake in large size!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?

November Check-up

The 2 babies are due for their monthly check-up with their pedia.

Summer is still 15.5kg, no weight gain and no weight loss. But still, under low normal na weight nya. So I requested tests just to rule out primary complex dahil sa kapayatan. We had her chest x-ray already and will have her tuberculin test maybe next week. She's a picky eater and so active. She'd rather play than eat. She also had her Hepa-A booster shot.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!

Thank God all is well with my kids! Though, I have to find ways to increase Summer's weight.

November Celebrants

The Reantaso family has a lot of reason to celebrate the month of November:Nov. 5 - Yang's birhtday
Nov. 11 - Onnie's birthday
Nov. 19 - Ojay's birthday
Nov. 21 - Omar's birthday

November - Histopath result showed that Odie is now cancer free.

We had a simple dinner at Mama's house - pancit lucban, barbecue, roast chicken and cake.

The 5 celebrants blew the cake. Ojay led the thanksgiving prayer.
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!

Happy Birthday Tita Nora!

It's Tita Nora's birthday!

Her friend, Tita Bambi and her hubby, from Chicago is in the country. In celebration of her birthday, we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant along Wilson St., along with her other friends as well.

We were served yummy food!It was a birthday dinner without the birthday celebrant for she's in Chicago. Happy birthday Tita Nora and thank you for the dinner!

Happy Birthday Lola!

Lola's birthday fell on a Monday so we went to see her on Sunday instead.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.

The lolas love speaking with Winter, who responded to them as well. Summer had fun playing with her aunts.Happy birthday Lola!

Jollitown party.

We were invited at Benedict's Baptism and Marga's 1st birthday party at Jollibee.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.

Surprise for Jenny

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.