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You would think my iPhone belongs to Martha with all the educational and kid apps installed. Her favorites 123 Color, Matches, Dress Up, Cat in the Hat and Dr. Seuss.
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The little lady is officially four! We had a simple and small celebration on the day of her actual birthday with my side of the family. She was decided on a Little Mermaid cake since April when lo and behold, the morning of her birthday she told me she wanted to be Belle while we were in the shower. We got her small things – pencils, sticker books, stamps – which we wrapped in small packages so she can have “many presents”. As expected, she was most delighted with the cheapest gift – Disney stamps. She loved the Disney Princess stickers too.I got her a Dora Coloring book and a story book featuring the Disney Princesses with their horses (she is totally into them and animals). A kid can never have too many books so I am not open to sell used books!
Happy Birthday Marts! We love you!
Martha spends hours on this big basin everyday having her “bubble bath”. Notice she is holding Sid on her hand (of Ice Age the Movie). All her animals are with her in her tub. Sometimes, when it is really hot, she would get out of it, put on her panty, play and after an hour or two, she would declare she is hot and “baho” and would get into her bubble bath again. She would throw a fit if her water is gone, so we make sure it stays where it is. Martha’s temper tantrums are really something even I have a hard time controlling. Just this morning, while I was bombarded with a long list of work deliverables and a free life insurance quote, Martha woke up cranky. Her DVD movies are all not working – in truth, she just wants her Land Before Time DVD which is nowhere to be seen. Then, she opens the ref to find that her Yakult is missing (thanks to the Big Brother). I cannot even begin to describe how stressful this morning was, thanks to this little girl who turns into a monster whenever her routines are disrupted. I swear if Little Foot is nowhere to be found, I will buy THREE copies of it this weekend. And the Yakult is now off limits to everybody.
I love that Martha’s imagination is wild and creative enough for her to build toy houses from scratch. She even built a doctor’s clinic for her guests (the animals) because the animals got sick after eating at her party daw (food poisoning?) – teehee.
She does this every single night when her big brother is sleeping. She lets all h*ll break loose and can you imagine picking them all up every single night afterwards in addition to household chores, cooking and still needing to work prior to having house help? Just thinking about it stresses me out already – I would need anti wrinkle face cream early.
Lately, she is obsessed with PlayDoh, clay as she calls it. She makes spaghetti and eggs and serves them to her party animals (literally) who are mainstays in her house (she prefers those she sees in Disney movies – see Manny and Sid (Ice Age), lion (Lion King) and cow (Barnyard))
And here is her clinic – she made the arrangements herself. Those are stuff we got from the market for only 50 bucks 
These were taken after Martha’s entrance exam in Matthew’s school. Matthew, for merienda, ate 1 pc of chicken + rice, a Twister Toasted and mashed potatoes. Martha ate one bucket of fries and finished her potatoes as well. While she was eating she mustve been really hungry as she told me, “Ma, ang sarap talaga!” I could have laughed so loud!
And chicken trivia for you: Matthew loves chicken skin while Martha only eats the chicken white meat. She doesnt like how the skin tastes in her mouth.
My kids are really easy to please, really. They don’t have the notion on what are nice restaurants and rarely demand toys they want (They are more of I see it I want it, but if I dont see it, I forget about it). So whenever they request things, we try to give it to them. Take note my gauge of giving is them asking for it non stop for 6 months or more That’s my way of knowing if they realllllllly want it. Case in point: Matthew’s PSP and the kids’ new puppy.
Back to how they eat, whenever we go out, we only go to tried and tested restaurants: Jollibee, McDo, Pizza Hut or KFC. Matthew loves rice (like his Dad) that you wont make him happy if I take him to Pancake House or Cafe Breton (which I always want to go to). I see him getting the same risks his Dad and my father-in-law will have, too much cholesterol. This boy can eat two packs of Lapids chicharon in one sitting, same as the princess. They will need medicines to reduce cholesterol when they get older. (At least they are young now).
Oh well, I just hope my kids don’t have diabetic tendencies like me. Judging from their body structure and their eating preferences, I think they go more after their father’s.
The Lolow, Lola, Daed and Mom have this in their wallets. Lolow has Matthew’s pictures from 1-5 years old in his wallet too.
Edil commented how Martha is beginning to look like me (like when did she ever look like her Dad?!). I honestly don’t mind if she got her looks from her father’s side of the family as they are a beautiful lot but I pray that she inherits my good skin or else I would need to invest on a good acne scar removal. I also am going to be having a lot of problems with pimples since I have never encountered that kind of problem when I was a teenager. (Being fat yes, but no pimples!)
March 4th, 2009.
Full Force.
Today was a monumental day. It was Martha’s entrance exam for Nursery in the same school as Matthew’s. It was a disaster waiting to happen at the very start because Martha was wanting to go to SM not the school. She didn’t want to follow the teacher and when she was asked to sit down, she shouted, "I DON’T LIKE!" I could have died in embarrassment – there is no school I would want for her but this one. Fortunately the Tuya came to the rescue and sat beside his little sister, calming her down. Notice even the Lolow and Lola were present, I told you it was a show of full support! I even made an effort to make sure Marts doesn’t throw a fit when she saw her outfit – the poodle brooch and prints saved me from a major fight with my little tweener girl. After her test (which by the way she just went out of the room after answering – no sense of classroom rules at all!), she was running down the corridor shouting "Maaaa, tapos na test ko, punta na tyo sa SM!" I hoarded cans of PlayDoh, took the boy book shopping and have them eat whatever they wanted. This was one of those days I wish Edil was out of work – but somebody needs to work for the benjamins here. We cannot rely on payday loans forever.
I never knew that Martha and I somehow end sleeping the same way at night. Martha’s sleep patterns have now been regularized, thank God. She goes to bed at 8 or 9PM and wakes up at 6 or 7AM the following day. If she naps in the afternoon, her sleep time gets pushed back to 10-12MN but that’s OK. If she will be going to school next school year, classes start at 11:30AM so all will be well. The best sleep aid really is regular sleep times, I have discovered that now!
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