Eating on her own

On her first year and 1month, my baby loves eating on her own.

It was too early but I just have to get my camera and capture this moment.

She loves her minnie mouse feeding set.

BirthDay Party!!!

Summer turned 1!

We celebrated her 1st birthday party at DJ Paradise Resort in Malolos, Bulacan on March 25, 2005. Most of the stuff are DIYs. I prepared the invitation card with a message of invitation in front, a pop-up butterfly which I colored one by one, all 60 pieces of them and more, and a caricature of Summer. I also prepared the balloon decors, all manually pumped, tiring but all for the love for my very bubbly daughter.

I prepared 3 birthday outfits for her, and this was the first one bought my her Mommy Duning from Thailand. She had a good sleep so we were expecting a happy celebrant on her very first birthday party.This is her welcome banner with the same caricature from her invitation card.

I bought the cake from our local supplier with butterflies and flowers for the theme. I also ordered cupcakes for the kids. I decorated it with an arch of flower balloons.

Before Summer turned 1, we had her photo taken in a studio. Of course I have to brag her cute photos by using it in her tarpaulin. Here is a photo of her stage with flower balloons.

And another photo tarp - this was the same dress she wore on her birthday when we brought her to Church to hear mass. The dress was from Mommy Duning also.

And her main birthday dress from Mommy Duning - a gown with cut-out butterflies flapping their wings with matching hairband. Isn't she lovely? Or am I just too proud to be her mom?

I got Marcus to host the party. I saw him from my cousin. I liked the way he does the balloon twisting and his magic show for the kids.

Thank God for Divisoria! I was able to bring cheap toys for prizes for the kids for the party games.
The sumptuous food was catered by DJ Paradise Resort. Everybody had a feast, specially with the Lechon baka. Ninang Jenny prepared her AVP. I have to pull my resources for this birthday party so I asked Ninang Jenny to provide the bubble show!!!My baby had fun during her birthday party. She did not cry at all, so happy with so many kids around to join her celebrate the day. I even bought confetti and party poppers for the blowing of the cake.

Look at all her birthday gifts!

It was a tiring event but a fulfilling one. Everybody liked the balloon decor I prepared and appreciated my effort for the invitation card. All these for my little girl - a baby no more. Next party on her 7th year hehehe.

Andador

Being a first time mommy, I am so reading into baby books on how to raise my baby. I read that using walker is no longer recommended for babies, aside from it being accident prone, it doesn't teach babies how to walk, but to kick and slide instead.

I just let Summer cruise on her own in our home. My dad, knowing that I am against the use of walker, bought andador for Summer. But too late, it is now up to her waist instead of her kilikili. In less than 30minutes, she got a bump on her head. She felt so free she can go anywhere she wants on her own.

Thank you Daddy for the andador.

Tour the Canada Days

My parents bought a house in Markham, Ontario, Canada. So to celebrate for a new home, off we flew to Canada for our very first White Christmas!

After Christmas, we then went to tour Canada.

Our first stop was Ottawa. That's where the Parliament of Canada is. It was very very cold. The Parliament was closed for the holidays so we just had some picture taking outside.

We spent the night at Montreal - where the night life is. Luckily for the boys - all shops are closed for the holidays so the girls can't go shopping. Luckily for the girls - all bars are closed so no night out for the boys. How cold was it at Montreal? We left our bottled water at the van, went up to our hotel room to sleep. The following day, our bottled water turned to ice.

From Montreal, we went to Quebec to see Canada's Little Europe. The place is so cute, so old, and everything in ice, even the river.

We went to visit the Cathedral of St. Anne, which is a must-see for it is the patron saint of the Church where our parents grew up from.

We loved taking photos of the fresh Christmas trees with Christmas lights on.

We haven't seen the most of Canada. We still have Vancouver to visit soon! Canadian Rockies!!!

First Day of School

Summer was invited by her 2nd cousin, Henry, son of my cousin Harry and Chiquita, to attend his school at Ontario Homes.

So all bundled up, we went to her day school. We registered with our home address in Canada. She met a lot of kids - surprisingly Asian, she sang and danced with the teacher. You can really see her big eyes focused on the teacher. She was attentive and was following the dance instruction of the teacher. She shared toys with other children too.

Summer went home with lots of books, VHS and casette tape of musical songs for kids, and lots of reading materials for mothers on raising babies and toddlers.

Christmas Day

Dec. 25, 2005 - It was our first Christmas with Summer. We had a White Christmas, we witnessed our first fleurice on Christmas night. We were all excited as we went out of our cousin's house taking photos in the snow without any jackets on. So much excitement, we did not feel the cold air.

We spent it at Toronto, Canada. We had our picture taking with our family at our house in Markham, then we went to hear the Christmas Mass. We went to Tita Turing's house for dinner - where Summer changed to her Santa outfit surprising everyone. We then went to my other Tita's house at Mississauga. It was past midnight when we got home already and everybody's energy were still up to open everybody's gifts. It was Summer's first time to receive so much gifts, she was more excited with all the wrappers around than with the gift itself. She'd rather play with her cousin's gifts over her toys. At night, we went to Ate Heidi's house to plan our trip to Quebec and that was when we saw our first snow fall.

Summer spent her first Winter Christmas at Canada.

NYer Day

A day after travelling a thousand miles from home to Canada, off we went to Buffalo,NY to see the Festival of Lights at Our Lady of Fatima. We went there in the afternoon so we could see the lights. It was so cold, my baby was bundled in a blanket aside from her jacket, bonnet, scarf, and gloves. We didn't get to stay long looking at the lights since it was so cold.



We went to the factory outlet to do some shopping since tax is lesser in NY than in Canada.

And above all, with 3months US Visa, we got stamped for 6months!


From NY, we dropped by the Niagara Falls to see the fireworks.


Fireworks are not enough to warm the freezing misty air of Niagara.