Hello Thursday!
It took me this long to get the weekend out from my system. We went to Manila for the weekend to attend the birthday party of a niece and spent the night at the my in-law’s place. It was great catching up with my sisters-in-law and the kids had fun playing with their cousins (and their toys). It was really a weekend spent overeating (my sister-in-law is now into baking and she baked the most most most delicious pound cake (with cream cheese) I’ve ever tasted. Add to that was my other sister-in-law made me realize Nescafe Iced coffee (with ice cubes really) was delicious was icing on the cake – what a great combination! (Cheap too!) Now I need an effective fat burner to help me burn all these off, considering I have been doing nothing but sit all day in front of my computer!
Can you guess what drink this is? 
It was also great catching up with friends my sister-in-law invited after the party and we had a few drinks. I think drinking is not really for me anymore since it took me two days to get over drinking one cocktail Seriously, we went straight home on Monday morning around 4AM because we knew we would be sleeping all day and all of us are still on reversed body clocks.
Yep, this is a Blow Job 
Overeating and drinking – that was my weekend
How was yours?
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Posted on May 28, 2009 under All Around the Web |
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And the much awaited part: swimming of the kids
Gosh, there were so many pictures here – mostly of Martha though. Matthew was always nowhere to be found (hay naku, more on that later) and well, Edil and I talked, and we really should adjust to our big boy – he is turning 9 this year and is clearly asserting his independence.
Anyway, let the pictures do the talking:
1. Martha was drinking water from the pool like an elephant. Yes, spitting it out like an elephant too. It was a good thing that she wasn’t acting out like a lion or a dog that day, her two other favorite animals or else she will be so loud . She has taken to liking dogs though and if not for dog-training and expensive dog supplies, I would have given in and brought myself my third kid, a puppy
2. Her first swimming partner was Austin, Apple’s son. We had them near the pool that is just directly in front of where we sat (tamad mag-tingin ang mga mommies eh). And even if they were not talking, they seem to be enjoying each other’s company. Pareho silang liliphant eh
3. Edil knew he was the one who will go swimming with the kids. But I guess the lure of beer with kwento sessions with fellow daddies was better. He stayed in the pool for maybe a total of 30 minutes. I’m super glad though the my kids are very independent and do not need close supervision (and that the kids’ pool was really very mababaw). Martha was even running from one pool to another. Matthew was always with the other kids with other dads Making kulit.
**I really like the last two pictures of her – para syang sirena na umaahon sa tubig LOL
4. I was looking for pictures of Matthew and found almost none (even at other’s pictures at Flickr)
Eto lang, a shot I took when I panicked because he was nowhere to be seen that I walked around under the heat! Hahaha (I never do that unless I absolutely have to). Un pala, nasa bridge! Nagiimagine!
He enjoyed thoroughly though, kaso super bitin sya. He wanted to go fishing but we were dead tired already (Martha was even sleeping na) and go ride the cable cars. Good thing he was able to join other families in the cable car. Sayang dapat pala sumama ako.
In fact, on the way home, I asked him, “Are you happy?”, “Not really”, he said. Why? Kasi madami pa ako gusto gawin eh. Hehehe.
5. What were we doing? Taking pictures of course!
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We went to the Country ClubHouse for lunch and swimming and I was pleasantly surprised that they arranged a surprise birthday cake for Martha and Peachy. Martha and Peachy had their birthdays a week before, May 9 and 10, respectively. There were balloons even (And lootbags, stickers and pencils – thank you! Enjoy ang mga kids! Too bad there weren’t anything for the moms – vinyl bustiers anyone?! 
) Akala ko talaga part lang ng arte flair un ni Jacqui para talagang party
Thank you again MBAPs for remembering.
You can read about what we ate here.
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(Notice Martha was in her swimsuit already – atat na sya magswimming nyan!)
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After the animal farm, by 9:45AM, we moved to the Sports Center for the daddies’ basketball game. Jacqui reserved the basketball court for an hour of basketball and Edil was pretty excited to play. He loves to play basketball – his problem is where to play and whom to play it with. That is why he joined the the basketball league in Matthew’s school for daddies and even organized a league in a hospital he covers in.
Anyways, while the Daddies were playing basketball (pasahan bola lang ata eh, hahaha, joke), we Mommies did what we do best – multitask! Random chikahan, picture-taking, and looking after the kids. I was just not chatty because I was preoccupied with the heat (pag mainit talaga nawawala ako sa wisyo – mataba eh!)
A great view captured by Thea:
Ganyan na ganyan kami talaga – patayo tayo, pawalk-walk lang ever
While the Daddies were playing basketball:
* Edil was the one in yellow.
It was a good workout for the daddies really. On second thought, for mommies too, since we were left to run after the kids while they were playing. The best diet pills are truly no match for activity and real good sweating and huffing and puffing
Martha cried twice – because she bumped her head in the railing and then she fell down the bleachers and hit her eye (barely). Good thing she was a trooper as she was playing a good ten minutes right after. Thank you to Olin for sharing her food with Kuya Mato and Martha. Hahaha.
Here are the daddies (super close up no – para di nyo kita ung hingal nila!)
L-R: Jon (Jane); Ico (son of Jacqui); Mike (Thea); Marlon (Mich); Edil; Howell (Abie); Gelo (Peachy); Jojo (Alpha); Mike (Jacqui); Dicky (Jody); Sherwin (Joy); Adrian (Apple); Amiel (Kathy).
We mostly made tambay at the Wii Room, thanks to Mato, because it was cooler there Matthew was so hungry he kept on asking what time is it yet. I don’t remember which Mom told me their conversation:
”Ilang minutes pa ung basketball?”
”Five minutes na lang.”
”Five minutes, and 24 hours” o “Five minutes, and 3 hours and 5 minutes?” (to think he had spaghetti, cheeseburger and fries as breakfast!!)
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OK. I promised myself that I will write about our weekend getaway before it gets too old to even blog about. I looked around fellow mommy blogs and there were a few who blogged about it already. I might actually be the last one who will but I will try to make kwento because we had over 500++ pictures from the weekend! If I will get extremely lucky, I might be able to make a photobook out of this one!
This outing was planned months ago by Jacqui, MBAP’s designated party and event planner. The rates were pretty high, for a day trip, but thankfully, we can pay for it little by little it was not really noticeable.
We also were blessed by good weather that day, even if it was hot (at least no rain!).
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It was going to be a long day. For one thing, Matthew would not sleep because he was either so excited about going swimming or he was scared I wont wake up in time so I had to lie with him on bed to make him sleep. Wrong move! He was still awake by 3AM – the time Martha woke up (she slept at 8:30PM). AND I haven’t even packed yet. So I ended up packing our stuff and some of the things I’m selling at 5AM. Good thing Edil was not a grouch when I woke him at 6:30AM since we were supposed to meet Kathy and Alpha and their families at Jollibee Rotonda (Tagaytay) by 7AM. Kathy was late late late that they were not able to have breakfast anymore (hehehe).
We were on convoy with Alpha’s and Kathy’s cars on the way to the Highlands. Since we knew that our vehicle will not be allowed to enter the premises, we hitched a ride on Kathy’s. It was a good move too because there were a lot of deep and blind curves that our “hummer” would have definitely stopped. The roads are perfect for risk-takers and daredevils who love to ride on their motorcycles too. It’s a good thing the management has motorcycle accident attorneys just in case!
We headed straight to the Animal Farm.
The entrance was only Php110/person, not bad since the animals were clean and the kids can touch and feed them.
Look at her face!
Martha was in heaven – heaven I tell you. Edil got to capture in video her shrieks of joy everytime she sees an animal, “WOW! Mom, look – a tiger!” and the way she runs from one cage to another. She even refers to some of the animals by their Disney character, like, “Mommy, look, si Bambi!”, and “Oh wow Dad, si Pumba!”. Or she will act out their sounds, “WOW Mom, ish a sneyk..SSSSSSSSSSSSS” It was really such a joy to watch I wasn’t minding the heat (and the smell) at all. She got scared by the huge ape though – the “Mommy ni Tarzan” – because it threw a tantrum at us and banged the cage really loudly.
Matthew was reading all the labels on the cages of course. In a few years, Im sure he will find the zoo boring. This used to be his favorite place! He loved looking at the animals but absolutely got scared with the birds. He told me the white one pecked his neck
It was also a good thing that we were with Kathy and Alpha because we had time for picture-taking I remember I didn’t want to walk to where the ostrich was anymore (it had to go through a little bridge and I was tired and sweaty from walking) – but Martha and the rest went in and voila – we discovered the perfect place for taking our family pictures!
And we now have another Jojo-Alpha family picture (Thanks Jojo!) Maybe I’ll get lucky again and have this picture in a cover a magazine (this time sana totoong paper magazine!)
My most favorite picture, from the Animal Zoo, was taken by Kathy
Our personalites, specifically Martha, were captured so well. We were trying to get a decent family picture and Martha was more interested in running around with Estong and Olin.
Look at her face, sinasabi nya siguro: “Neknek nyo, di ako lalapit sa inyo!”
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There are more pictures and anecdotes in the farm but I will share them in a separate post.
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Posted on May 20, 2009 under Mommy Musings, Shopping |
I met two adorable babies last weekend – Andie and Dom, daughters of fellow mommy bloggers, Mich and Peachy (My blog post about the weekend will follow shortly, promise, I just need to finish work and they are all in drafts.). We went to Tagaytay Highlands last weekend for a summer getaway with fellow mommy bloggers and their families and we had so much fun even though we were dead tired after.
Anyway, I was completely enamored with the babies! They were so cute and cuddly! Those baby rolls will be the death of me! At least I can carry babies without actually taking care of them. I think I am content with just that – I won’t be able to take care of another baby right now especially since Martha is still a baby herself! She actually saw me carrying Dom and she threw a fit and afterwards made me carry her as punishment, I think – even if she is lean, her bones are really heavy!
I actually realize it is so much easier to have baby girls because it is easier to shop for them. From getting Baby Beddings to clothes to even cute stuff, girl options outnumber the boys!
BUT I’d still like another boy if ever I would get pregnant again . But that wouldn’t happen in the next 3 years
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