Hi, peeps!

No, I still haven’t given birth yet. The lack of updates is just a result of my laziness, as usual. I’d rather stay in bed and do nothing lately, just stare at the ceiling and try to picture how my labor will go, haha. Crazy and pathetic I know.

Although I have been doing some walking in the mornings while waiting for the little girl from school, no major contractions yet as of this day. I’m getting impatient and so does the husband. In fact, the husband can’t actually take the waiting game any longer that he will have me induced already on Monday or Tuesday – by hook or by crook. We already had it scheduled with my OB. Actually, if only my mom is here, I would have been scheduled for induction tomorrow. But you see, she’s in Iloilo to attend to my brothers’ basketball event so we have no choice but to wait for her before I go to the hospital and have forced labor. She’s arriving on Monday, hence we have to prolong the husband’s (sige na nga mine na rin ) anticipation until then. I just hope I won’t naturally go into labor this weekend. *crossfingers*

Or, if nature would really take its course and will have it the other way, I just hope not until tomorrow afternoon as I badly need to attend this.

My little girl will recite a poem (with actions and all) entitled PIGGIES all on her own on stage. And I just CAN’T miss it. If I do, I’d probably be hysterical and regret it for the rest of my life, seriously. She has been practicing for days now and I am one pressured mommy. I hope she does well. Modesty aside though, I know she will. LOL. By the way, we just came from a Tutorial Chat with our daughter’s School Director and she has nothing but nice words to say about our little princess. She also had perfect scores again on both her exams – Math and Reading. Proud proud mommy here.

Before I forget, I need to send a shout out to Jody for lending me the piggy head-dress her daughter Margaux wore for Halloween. I actually called Bumblebee for the exact same costume but they said its out of stock already and if I will have one custom made, it won’t be done before Friday so I really had no choice. Thats why Jody is my savior, thanks girl!!!

Will let you all know how it goes tomorrow. Wish us luck!

It was Sophia’s Community Helpers Parade last week in school and here she is in her surgeon costume.

On the way to school.

***It was her yaya’s day off the day of the parade so it was me and Jon who prepared and took the little girl to school. Toxic! We were late as usual so I don’t have a lot of pics to share. I was catching my breath in between shots!

for her Children’s Day program this coming Thursday.

She’ll be Little Miss Korea after so much thought and consideration.

First, I wanted a costume that is easy to figure out, haha. I was thinking if I made her wear those from Holland, Switzerland, Italy and the like (which actually all look the same to me), even if really nice, its quite hard to know just by looking at it what country the costume really is from without having to wear a sash.

Second, I needed a costume that is easy to make as we only have less than a week to prepare.

Lastly, the daddy wanted Korea so no questions asked. LOL!

****photo from imagekingdom.com

I just learned the other day that Sophia’s school won’t have a Halloween Program for the kids which means I don’t have to prepare a costume for her. What they’ll have instead is a Children’s Day were they’ll be asked to come in an international costume of some sort. Wow, this got me excited! Good thing, Prim of Baby Fashionista haven’t started on Sophia’s Halloween costume yet.

Now, for the Children’s Day Program next week, I have yet to decide what country the little girl will represent. Since they gave us free hand to choose, its more confusing and the indecisive me can’t seem to make up my mind between the national costume of Korea, Spain, Italy, Holland or Sweden. Ayayay! What do you think?

I’m so excited that as early as now I took out the camcorder already, LOL!

Sophia is having Community Helpers Parade in school this Friday. They are asked to come to school as a community helper of their choice. I asked the little girl what she wants to be and she instantly blurted – “I want to be a doctor, Mommy!”. Well then. Doctor it is. Boring costume I told myself as she only needs to wear a white doctor’s coat, LOL!

Well, I guess not! I saw this on the web – head-to-toe doctor’s set includes scrubs, lab coat, cap, mask, and I am having one made for the little girl! Won’t she look so cute?! I bet she would!

Last September 8, Rosemont School celebrated Mother’s Day at Alabang Country Club. It was a fun event solely attended by mommies and their kids. Yayas were not allowed inside and daddies supposedly but they had a surprise number for us mommies.

The event had an official photographer and videographer but I still don’t have the pics and video with me so I’ll just share some photos I took while the little girl’s class – Nursery B dances “Bouncing Off the Ceiling.”

So proud of the little girl and her classmates. They were all really dancing unlike the other classes where only a few were in the mood to dance.

How can I forget to include this event from the list I made here. This was one of our week’s highlight last week.

At Sophia’s school, each child is given a tutor – the one who will monitor her emotional, spiritual and social skills. Not much of academics really but more of all the other aspects except academics. The tutor will be the one to update us on everything though including her grades, her performance in school and how she interacts with others aside from discussing with us what she needs to improve on and talk about solutions. The tutor can be anyone in the faculty, can be the kid’s teacher or not. In Sophia’s case, its the School Director! HAHA.

Jon and I met with her tutor last Friday not knowing what to really expect as its our first time. The tutorial chat as they call it was very informative. We were told that they don’t have problems with Sophia except for the sharing part. She is said to have a hard time sharing the playground equipment during play time. But on every other aspect, she is very well fine. She is even the Virtue of the Month awardee, remember? They even handed me a picture of her being awarded by the school’s two super heroes – Super Monty and Super Rosie which reminds me now that I need to get new picture frames. One thing worth noting too is how they talk about how good at communicating our little girl was. She speaks her mind all the time and very clearly at that as they told us. The tutor read a very long list of how Sophia is but I won’t go into details anymore. Syempre, positive lahat.

Now, the best part is, we were also told that she had a perfect score on all her exams (Math and Reading) or what they call the long paper game. Whoa! Remember the time I was so worried as the exam was right after we got back from our HK trip? She was absent for a whole week! I was so guilty that I didn’t even bother to ask the teacher for their schedule before planning and booking a trip. But I guess, the cramming paid off, HAHA. We were given the test papers and am I one proud mommy!!! Perfect scores indeed! Her report card of course was such a sight.

Now, would you believe that we, Jon and I, as parents have our own report card too? Outrageous? Believe it, we do. It consists of our attendance to school programs, meetings, talks and what-nots. We even have our goals each quarter for the little girl to be updated in every tutorial chat we will be having. I find such funny but for some reason, I like the idea and so does the husband. So I now get it why other parents don’t like PAREF schools while other LOVE it. Different strokes for different folks, right? To some, PAREF schools borders on being “pakialamero” already as they try to go beyond the school premises and even wants to invade the home as they talk to parents what happens at home like our daily rituals, practices etc. On our part, with all honesty, we don’t mind.