From where I am, the rain is not as hard any more and the husband being away (he’s in Singapore), this is all I am asking for. As much as I don’t want to panic, I can’t help it as listening from the reports over the radio, the scenario is really getting worst by the minute. So let us be one in praying for everybody’s safety. Please.

I am diverting my attention at online shopping for the kids and searching the net for the best diet pills so I won’t panic. Seriously. I need to relax or else I might lose it and cry.

My little boy has been loving his ate’s exersaucer and has been making poopoo in his potty seat too (will post a pic soon).

SOPHIA

Physically and emotionally, my eldest is such a big girl already. She takes her “ate” role seriously too, always looking after her baby brother.  Here she is biking at Tagaytay Highlands last May 1.

Now tell me, doesn’t time really flies fast?  I’m sure before I know it Mateo is running around already while Sophia will be in puberty stage. Yaiks! Thinking about it makes me cringe. I just hope that Sophia won’t have problems with acne and won’t need acne treatment like I did when I was younger.

Just when I thought we’re over with the sickies in the house, now its the little girl’s turn. She has been running a fever since last night and the paranoid mommy that I am can’t stop worrying. Who can blame me? After my five year old cousin’s bout with dengue last December, I now dread even a simple fever. I hope she gets better asap. As of typing this though, her temperature is down to 37.8.

I haven’t blogged about Mateo diagnosed to have UTI some two weeks ago, have I? Well, I was worried stiff I tell you as I have learned that UTI in children is something serious and doesn’t stop at just having urinalysis and urine cultures. Well, we and my pedia wanted to be on the safe side of course so we were referred to a urologist after the little boy was cleared from UTI after taking antibiotics for a week. That’s the time I found out that an ultrasound needs to be done and a procedure called VCUG where there’s a catheter involved and xrays. Thinking about the procedure made me sleepless for days as it sounded so complicated while it was being explained to me but apparently it was fast and simple. I’m just really glad Mateo’s UTI ordeal is now over and his VCUG result was a-okay. He has no reflux. If he happens to have one, he would need to maintain a low dose antibiotics everyday or worst undergo a surgery would you believe? Hay, thank God wala. However, he is advised to undergo circumcision. So by next week, on the 13th maybe, we’ll have our little boy circumcised na which now makes me one busy mommy. I plan to finish all party related stuff before the 13 as I don’t think I can take it to leave Mateo at home with just the yaya to look after him after his circumcision. So far, my things to do are:

~ finalize cake design
~ deposits payments to all my suppliers
~ buy prizes
~ shop for our outfits
~ food tasting at C3 and pay the full amount already
~ finalize table centerpiece designs
~ and something not party related, finish all my online assignments starting with a certain linear motion task

Hope I can do all these in less than a week! Oh, I just remembered, I also need to have my treadmill test completed by Sunday as part of my executive check up. Whew!

By the way, I just need to say that I can’t believe how a fairly nice (read decent) party would cost these days! Grabe!  Sophia’s 1st birthday party sometime in 2006 is panis! Cost wise ha … Susme. Jon is close to having a heart attack with the expenses.  Me too! And to think the money isn’t coming from my own pocket, haha!

My laptop arrived today and I’m giddy happy! Thanks to Yvette’s husband – Bishop. He’s a genius! LOL.

I never thought I’d be attached to my laptop so much but apparently I am. While it was away for reprogramming, I had to content myself with the desktop computer and I must say, it isn’t the same. I guess when you’re used to using a laptop and browsing the net anywhere in the house, you kinda get bored and find it hard to use the desktop again. Anyway, since my beloved laptop is now back in my arms, you can now expect updates on all my blogs. I plan to be back to blogging big time. Watch out.

It’s 10pm now though and its way past my bedtime so I have to make this comeback post short. I will be back tomorrow with more posts though so do check back. In the meantime, let me leave you with these latest photos of the kids.

Our little girl …

And our little boy …

Ain’t they the cutest?

Okay, signing off for now but before I do, need to check out for a digital signage first for the husband.  By tomorrow, more photos and posts so stay tuned!

To top such wonderful wedding ceremony, a well planned honeymoon from a honeymoon all inclusive resort is something every couple will look forward to. Couples can opt to visit resorts such as Grand Lido Resorts & Spas, Negril Beach Villas, Breezes Resorts, Hedonism Resorts, and Starfish Trelawny Resort which are all top quality resorts. I bet even the not so beach lover like me would appreciate these resorts. But since we are nowhere near getting married again soon, I guess what is realistic to look at now are the discount vacation packages from such resorts for our growing family.  I wish we could soon plan a getaway in these wonderful resorts.

On to other things, would you know where I can buy a formal maternity dress or gown? I have a wedding to attend to in two weeks time and I am too lazy to look around for something to wear. Maybe you know of a specific store or mall I can go to?  Let me know.

I am craving for “Chicharon Bulaklak” for lunch as of writing this. Hay, I wonder where I can buy one!

Anyway, will leave you with this, Sophia’s “baon” for school which she herself packed and chose from the pantry.

As all of you have said, quota na kami. Yes, I believe so.  Well, atleast that’s what we think right now.  I wonder if it’ll change in a few years or so but so far, having two – a girl and a boy, is already enough for us.  We have big plans you see so Jon believes we can only sustain two (or three the most) with the lifestyle and plans we have for our kids. 

During my ultrasound, funny how my OB Sonologist commented that all the while she thought I was so prim and proper but when she finally wrote the word BOY on the screen, I screamed like a little girl.  I just couldn’t help it as I was preparing myself for another baby girl because most people I know commented that I looked like I was having another Sophia.  But were they so wrong! LOL. Jen are you hearing me?!?! LOL!

Jon had the biggest smile too, I swear. He kept calling everybody after. He even is treating friends to a buffet dinner at Circles in Makati Shang and his farm employees had the whole night drinking, partying and merrying, LOL! Super happy obviously. As for me, I think I still am in denial. I still can’t believe it. I so wanted to have a boy really para we are done and yun nga ang binigay. Hay, as I said in my other post, happy happy joy joy talaga.

Lately though, with the hard times we are facing each day, the economy going down, it has become more and more difficult to earn as much with every projects my parents get to close. It’s just not the same as before as they would put it. Construction material prices are sometimes way over board and sometimes, by a stroke of bad luck, they also get to deal with people who are dishonest and who doesn’t hold true to contracts signed. One time, my parents even resorted to sending stop notices as materials or equipments my parents supplied to the work of improvement has been furnished but not paid for.  I wonder why there are certain people who just don’t know how to do business at all.  But what can my parents do? Nothing, as they don’t know of any other business alternative because all these years, they have dedicated their time and effort to their one and only construction business which I doubt will last for another five years because of the terrible economy crisis we are experiencing now.

It was the very first time I didn’t take Sophia to school. You see, since she started toddler classes at a play-based toddler school when she was almost 2 years old, I made it a point to take her to class. All other activities or classes too like The Little Gym and Gymboree, I was with her. Never missed a class. And so, yesterday was a first for me and I didn’t take it well.

I HAD SEPARATION ANXIETY.

I was literally holding my tears back while I was taking her inside the car with her yaya and the driver. She, on the other hand, didn’t have any hint of sadness at all which made me want to cry all the more. SUSME, ano ba ito? Could it be the pregnancy hormones or what?

When she shouted “Goodbye, Mommy!” with hands waving while the car was about to go, I couldn’t hold it any longer. I ran inside the house and wept. I called the husband and continued to cry over the phone. Crazy, isn’t it? OA, ano?

But things are better now. I have managed to accept the fact that I cannot be with her all the time and besides she needs to be on her own every once in a while.   It’s both for our own good.  After all, Ill be having another baby soon so we both need this so we can adjust.  I’ll still take her to school maybe twice or thrice a week though but everyday is not feasible anymore  because three hours in Starbucks every morning each day will do me no good.  Malls are still closed by the time she’s in school so I have nowhere to go.

Hay, another mommy moment for the books.

Anyway, as of writing this, I suddenly remembered its my birthday tomorrow! No plans at all as I am not allowed to leave the house yet haha.