Won’t your day just be perfect when your little girl greets you with such smile?

She came home from school pretending to be a Chef as they cooked “pizza” for the day.

Sophia went to school in jammies today as they are having a pajama party. She also brought with her her blanket and pillow. And since they are on learning the letter P, they also are having a picnic after and were asked to bring food that starts with letter P. I made her bring popcorn and pretzels, stuff that are so easy to find. LOL.

Here are some pics.

While in the car. 

During their morning assembly.

On the way to her room.

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.

Proud mommy here.

Sophia took this home yesterday.

Am I reading it right? I don’t need Lasik yet I’m sure though but its just hard to believe. My little girl is awarded for practicing “Respect”? Wow. I wonder how and why she was chosen among all her classmates. Will it be too much if I give the teacher a call and ask?

I was in Sophia’s school for their “Linggo ng Wika” program this morning where students paraded with their Filipiniana costume when I got a call from Jon’s travel agent telling me of some minor changes on Jon’s booking for his Macau trip next month. She also asked if I was interested as she has great travel deals that she wanted to offer us. No thanks please. I’m VERY pregnant now you know. Tummy is getting bigger and heavier by the day.

Anyway, back to Sophia’s school program, as I was saying, they were asked to come in costume today. And here is my little girl in her Filipiniana dress with matching “bakya” in what color but PINK of course as she so specified.

With her classmates.

While dancing and singing “Maliliit na Gagamba”.

Yayas were not allowed inside the school premises so you could just imagine, I was taking all these photos while recording the goings-on on the video camera too. Harassed mommy! Yeah, the husband wasn’t with us.

Will post more pictures here.

Well, she performed all on her own and I am one proud mommy. She sang “So Much More Than A Dream” infront of her classmates, teachers and a few parents wearing her all time favorite Cinderella costume. She did not show any trace of shyness or stage fright you know and it seems that it was me who was so worried all along. Why? When I was about to take a photo of her singing on stage, wala pala ang memory card na cam ko!!! Serious!

Goodness, I left it on my laptop memory slot! Kainis!

I do have a video of her singing but how can I not check the memory card of my digital camera?!?!?!?! Why oh why!!!!!!!!!

Friday

Sophia’s Talent Show in school was postponed. They watched a group of Bayanihan Dancers instead in preparation for their Linggo ng Wika which started yesterday.

Saturday

Yaya went on a sudden day off as her mom who takes care of her baby is sick. So Jon didn’t go to the farm and took care of the little girl which is his usual duty when the yaya is off. Oh, I just love being pregnant LOL! We decided to let Sophia get a haircut so we went to ATC before lunch time. Sophia now sports a shorter hair which I think suits her. I don’t have pics to show though as I left my camera at home. We then went to Bio Research in Paranaque to buy salt water for Sophia’s aquarium after eating lunch at Gloria Maris. Sophia was ecstatic to see so many aquariums and fishes. Boy oh boy, this was a filed trip destination pala as we were with some kids from Don Bosco touring the premises. This is where Jon bought Nemo (clownfish) by the way.

Sunday

My family from Pampanga came to visit and we trooped to Tagaytay Highlands. Good thing the weather cooperated so everybody had fun. Sophia and my brothers went fishing, horseback riding and bowling. My brothers also rode the go karts while me, my mom and my sister spent the day eating and talking about their upcoming Las Vegas travel next month. When the kids were done, Sophia insisted on riding the funicular so we obliged. We were able to catch the last funicular trip at 6:00pm. Then, we were off - home. We had dinner at Paseo de Sta. Rosa by the way which has got so many new restos right now. There’s Kanin Club, Poquito Mas, Razon’s, Cabalen to name a few I have noticed but they have got many many more I swear. Again, I have no pics to show as my camera had no battery. Bummer! My sister took pics though so I’ll ask her to email some to me.

Monday

Rest Day, which we (more of I) badly need.

****my internet connection sucks so bad lately. there are a couple of sites i can’t access too like other MBAPs’ blogs and even some of my own… i wonder why.****

Sophia’s long paper game aka exams are done, thank gawd! After two afternoons of cramming (reviewing), finally I can relax now.

Or so I thought.

Tomorrow, Nursery students in Sophia’s school are having a talent show. Each student is asked to perform anything, be it a dance or song number, poem recital, painting etc. They are encouraged to wear costumes too. Ayan, panibagong pressure.

Figuring out what my little girl will do is a no-brainer. You see, she can’t dance, at all. I’m not exaggerating but she really can’t dance. So you guessed it right, Sophia will render a song. What song you may ask? Her all time favorite - So much More Than A Dream from the Cinderella 3 movie. She loves this song to bits and she knows it by heart. I’ll make her wear the Cinderella gown she wore during my cousin’s birthday and I guess we’re all set.

Yesterday though, I was desperate and buzzed people over at YM for help on looking for a So Much More Than A Dream Audio over the net available for downloading as I don’t know how to use limewire and even if I did, according to Abie, the song wasn’t available there. I have long been wanting to buy the Cinderella 3 soundtrack but after going to every music store, I was told that it was pulled out from the market as there was a change in the producing company or something like that. So you see, we never had a cd of this song. Sophia would only hear it while watching her Cinderella 3 DVD. So how can she sing it if we didn’t have a cd right? Thank you so much to the people who tried to help me and sorry also for bothering all of you. You know who you are.

At the end, thanks to my good friend’s husband, Bishop for making it possible. Heaven sent! He was able to download a video from YouTube and converted it to an MP3 and sent the file to me over at YM without a fuss. Ang galing! Thank you thank you.

Now all we need to do is practice. Naku, wish us luck!

That’s what I am.

You see, as you all know, we just arrived from HK and so the little girl was absent from school for a week. Yes, bad mommy here. Then, yesterday, I took Sophia to school and I just had the shock of my life finding out that they are having a “LONG PAPER GAME” aka their Reading Exam! Oh my! They also sent me the worksheets she missed and goodness, there were 20 pages!!!! And to top it off, these worksheets are part of the exam! Shucks…. May ganun pala sa NURSERY?!?!?!?!

So imagine my frustration.

We spent the whole afternoon yesterday reviewing. Good thing, the little girl was very cooperative naman. Oh, I hope she does well and remembers the stuff we reviewed. Pretty please! And now, I’ve learned my lesson too. I should first check her school schedule before I book a trip!

Tomorrow, its Math Exam so today will again be a busy day! Gosh, I think I need a wrinkle cream this early!

I hope so!

Can you see the black and blue spot on her upper right cheek?

The little girl came home yesterday with a surprise for me. May black eye siya!  Apparently, she was running to her line when she hit/collided with her other classmate. Hence, the booboo.  Its not obvious in the picture but when you see it for real, its huge! I actually got a call from her teacher right after class so even before she came home I knew about the accident already.

This is actually the third time she went home with an incident report - my second time to get a call from her teacher and the third time for the little girl to come home with a booboo.  This last one is the major one though but remember, she has only been to school for a month!  Obviously, malikot ang anak ko as in!

First incident, she fell off the swing.  She vowed though not to go on the swing anymore - ever, which is good!

Second incident, she hit her face on the door. She vowed to be careful next time. Great.

And now, the accident I wrote above.  She promised to not run while in the classroom and in school.  I hope so!

Hay, sana nga she learned her lesson na!!!