My Little Tinkers

My kiddos are really big already, they are a big help in terms of doing some simple households!

We went to buy some storage box in walmart last weekend. We bought one for their toys and one for my balloons. We also got some hangers and shoe rack for them. 

Look at them doing stuff on their own but ofcourse still with my supervision.

Kiddos and the Dad on our Way home from Walmart

Ethan assembling the storage box

Ethan transferring his toys in the storage box

Ishi putting up the Shoes in the Shoe Rack

Ishi packing Away some of her toys

Mommy Moments : Congratulations!

Congratulations to all of us Moms! Congratulations for another year has passed and another milestones for us!

My kids finished their studies before we left, Ethan finished as Junior Casa or Nursery and Ishi finished Junior Advance Casa or Kinder I. We purposedly scheduled our flight in March to catch up with the 4th quarter exam. My kids took their exam 1 week in advance since our flight then was 11th of March and their real exam was March 16-19.

I was happy they finished their studies even though they are more excited counting down days than going to school coz they know we will be leaving so soon. Nursery doesn't have graduation in La Cabecera de Montessori (where my kids studied), only Kinder II has. But I already experience them graduate during their 'saling pusa' stage at the age of 2 and half and I already know the feeling though they are so little by that time.

I am really glad they made it without my supervision for the last 2 months of their schooling, I maybe busy that time but they are still going to school with their Lola Taba.

My little angels in their PE uniform during the last day of their exam

Now that we're here, I guess they will be back to Zero. Ethan will be in Pre K (I hope) and Ishi will be in Kindergarten. It's spring time break but we were getting ready for another school year coming.

I am excited for them but I am worried about bullies esp. for Ethan. He's very vulnerable, he easily cries and I am afraid he'll be like that in school. I hope not.

Happy Mommy Moments to all of us here! Again Congratulations!

Our 1- Restless Week

Sounds like we were out of town or something? No were not, but we were out everyday last week to visit a friend and relatives. We will soon be leaving the country and there's a possibility of not seeing them for some years so I decided to spend our days visiting and spent some time with them.

We started our escapade last TUESDAY, after school we visited Lola MING (Lola sa tuhod nila Ishi and Ethan) in Hermosa Tondo. They seldom see their Lola so she's the first person came into my mind to visit. Lola Ming was so happy to see her grand kids but we stayed there for like 3 hours because my kids are very hyper and I don't want to stressed out Lola Ming. :D

Lola Ming and my little angels

Lola Gay and my little angels

Wednesday, after school, we visited my Aunte Beng in Caloocan before she fly to QATAR. After that we headed to Velasquez, Tondo and visited one of my friend. We also didn't stay that long, we stayed like 3 hours again and then home.

Aunt Beng and my kids

Shiela with my kids and her daughter Sky

Thursday, again, after school, we visited NORA in Dapitan.
My kids loved it there and they don't wanna go home anymore. It's not because of the Spaghetti that Nora cooked for my kids nor the Pizzas she ordered in Pizza Hut, It's how she spoiled my kids. She took out almost of her daughter Jill's toys and my kids were so excited and don't even know what to play first for there are so many toys in front of them. They ended up watching TV inside Jill's room and paint in their veranda afterwards. LOL.

My kids enjoying the Toys

My kids are painting with Ate Jill

Time to eat but my kids's didn't eat again!

Nora and Ishi & Kids :D

My kids really enjoyed there, in fact they are asking me again to bring them back to their Tita Nora's house. I will surely schedule another visit there but we still have line up activities for the following week so I will think of that later.
Our restless week didn't end there, for FRIDAY, kids had their VARICELLA shot and then rested in the house after. SATURDAY, it's Ishi's 2d Echo schedule after then we ate and ran to a friend's birthday party and then headed to QC to attend anticipated mass. After that mass we still went to Marikina before we finally home. Now that is multi-tripping!
Tomorrow is SUNDAY, we will be in ORTIGAS to attend Sunday Service in CCF and then will attend PARENTIN-TV seminar in PODIUM mall.

Isn't it RESTLESS? But it's alright coz I will surely miss these things in the Philippines soon!

'Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote' Kid's 1st movie for the year!

When this movie started to air in televisions, I noticed my kids watching it and laughing in it. I am not watching TV so much coz my kids don't like any channel except Disney Channel and that's the reason why I have no chance of watching TV. But when "Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote" aired, they were watching channel 7 already! Haha not because of the 'palabas' but because of the commercial of this movie! :D

We watched this movie last JANUARY 1st, and still, the lines in ticketing booths were still so so long! I actually decided not to watch that day and come back for another day but Ishi refused to go home and insisted that she wanted to watch it that day! So we fall in line and waited for 30 mins. And finally watched it that day.

(my kids wanted to take a pic with the big poster unfortunately i didn't bring my cam)

Ishi were so excited, she keeps on asking "Si Enteng na ba? si Enteng na ba?" every time there's another trailer aired on. They enjoyed it, they don't fail to laugh whenever there's a funny scene. They love, Vic Sotto, Jose and Wally. They also started to love "AGIMAT" played by Bong Revilla, Jr and Sam Pinto as "SAMARA". They hated the part where the monsters (their term) appeared in the scene. My kids were very affected in each scene, if they were happy they were laughing, if it's sad they were also sad and even crying sometimes.
My kids love to watch movies so as much as possible I love bringing them to cinemas or giving them movies to watch at home.

My Little Angel's 1st 3d Experience

Kids and I watched 3d Despicable Me last week with my cousins Joan, John and my nephew Brent at SM Megamall. This was just my second time while my kid's first time. I had to experience it first before introducing them to this kind of cinema view. I enjoyed my first 3d experience and so with my kids, It's just the glasses that you have to put on while watching is a bit problem, it was one size fits all. My kids got irritated by it coz it keeps on falling. I tried doing something about it but it was stressful watching my kids glasses while watching at the same time. It's really hassle. How I wish they think of making glasses for kids who has smaller head than adults. Tsk..tsk.. =P But it's okay coz I guess they enjoyed the movie despite of the hassle glasses, they also enjoyed the WINEMA, the new interaction game inside the cinema before the movie starts instead of showing trailers and commercials. We played and my kids loved it and they often remember the experience once in a while.
Here's some of the pics taken in SM Megamall Cinema.....












I have watched another 3D movie last Saturday in SM San Lazaro and I find the glasses more comfortable. Next time I know where to bring my kids when there's another 3d movie coming soon. =)

My Little Angels Fieldtrip 2010

My kids had FUN in their field trip. How I wish husband was here to join the kids.

Good thing most of the chaperons were moms so my kids didn't able to see some kids with their dads coz for sure "maiinggit sila" =(
Anyways, just wanna share some of my kids pics enjoying the activities in FUN FARM at Canlubang, Laguna.
6:15 in the morning we travelled from Malabon to Laguna for almost 3 hours if I am not mistaken coz we arrived there at 9am.
First the tour guides from LAKBAY KALIKASAN held some exercise for both kids and chaperons to ensure safety and avoid injuries while running and walking and doing their physical activities.
(There's my Ishi with blue head band and a very excited smile)

(There's ETHAN, ung pinakalinggit with faded blue mickey hat)

After exercises they started to explore the farm, there are play area there and it's more like a relay to me. My kids love them all.




Fun Farm is not that big compared to other parks, there are only few farm animals to see like, pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, bees, horses, rabbits, guinea pigs, carabaos and cows.

These animals are very common to the kids already but they are still excited to see them coz in our area, it's rare to see. My kids were amazed how the BEES work. The speaker talked about the bees and they seem to be interested and their eyes seem asking more questions. Lols.

Viewing animals and petting them is just their bonus, coz the real thing that excites them most is the rides. Rides in horses and carabaos. One more thing is fishing and boating.

(Ethan holding the fish we just borrowed form one kid who caught the fish)

They really had a blast in this field trip.
I am really glad Ishi was able to join. She had fun so much even she just had a fever. =)
They didn't even bother their selves to eat their favorite food that we "baon".

(Our pack-in pack-out baon)

They just ate some biscuits and some juice while heading back to Manila to watch "Sleeping Beauty" play at repertory Philippines.

Second part of the fieldtrip is this play, I love plays! Last year, they also watched play "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Ishi loved it. Ethan finds it boring in some parts but he was also amazed by the artists and the costumes. In short they still enjoyed it. And we went home very very tired and hungry! So we ate in the BUS and sleep happily ever after.

My Princess Made it to the FIELDTRIP

My Little Angels fieldtrip was held last Wednesday, September 15, 2010. We went o FUN FARM Laguna and then headed to Repertory Philippines after lunch for "Sleeping Beauty" play viewing.
The fieldtrip was tiring yet super fun fun fun for kids as well as for us parents who appreciates the beauty of the farm.
I am so thankful that ISHI made it to the fieldtrip. The day before the fieldtrip I decided not to join her already because she was so sick when she came home from school. In her looks and with the symptoms of having 39 fever high and stomach aching, I thought it was dengue but the doctor can't tell yet coz she hasn't undergone CBC platelet test yet. The doctor said she can go to the fieldtrip if her fever will be gone that evening. But since I was thinking that it was really a dengue, I tried to ask the school if we can still back out from the fieldtrip but they said I can only refund 50% of my payment. I was so confused that day, I wanted Ishi to join but I was afraid that what if something worst gonna happen on our way. I was also afraid to let ETHAN go without me on his side and just her LOLA Taba but I am feeling guilty not to let ETHAN join coz it was his first fieldtrip ever and I don't want him to miss it. So I decided not to refund it and wait until Ishi miraculously lose her fever.
I was monitoring Ishi all night long, her fever was on and off from 39.9 to 37.5, she even vomits already and complaining about her teeth aching. I was panicking that night. I feel like she's getting worst. So I finally decided not to join her and called up my brother to bring ALiyyah, my niece in our place and join ETHAN in the fieldtrip as Ishi's representative. So ALiyyah and my other brother came up in the middle of the night. While monitoring Ishi that night and waiting for her next medicine schedule, still, somehow, hoping she'll miraculously gets better, I didn't sleep, I keep on rubbing her forehead and underarms with wet towel until her next med schedule @ 1AM. To my surprise, Ishi has no FEVER already. I thought it's just because I was rubbing her with wet towel so I did still give her paracetamol. I didn't sleep well monitoring her coz I am still hoping she could still make it to the fieldtrip.
I woke up 5:30 in the morning, my Mom and my brother were all ready to go to the fieldtrip coz the departure is 6am. So I hurriedly checked Ishi and YES! She really has no FEVER anymore!! So I hurriedly took a bath and go to the fieldtrip, still with ALiyyah (I just added an additional payment). Since we're obviously late already, we didn't able to catch up the bus in our meeting place. The BUS already took off. So the tricycle did his job and catch up the BUS. Whew! I thought we really can't able to go to that FIELDTRIP after all that happened. LOLS. Thanks to my fellow moms in that Bus who keeps on calling me and so I was able to tell them that we were already behind that running BUS. Funny experience!
I really wanted to thank GOD for hearing my KID's prayer. Ishi really tried so hard to get better. She tried to eat and drinks her medicine so she could be able to go to that fieldtrip. Ethan was also praying for his ate that day. Thank you LORD!