may 28

today would have marked my parents' 43rd wedding anniversary. unfortunately, my papa died six years ago. i would have loved to see them together still celebrating their 50th golden anniversary, but i guess it wasn't meant to be.

so let me just say, cheers to your wedding anniversary! it would have been a blast!

interesting discussion

while preparing to go to sleep last night, i had a pretty interesting and very logical discussion with my migs and it goes something like this:

migs: (pointing to his head) this is my brain

me: you want to see what a brain looks like? it's like a long worm crumpled up.

migs: yes!

me: (used my iphone to search for pictures of a brain) this is what it looks like. see?

migs: mama, my brain is inside my head?

me: yes.

migs: how about my bones?

me: (searched for skeletal system on google images) these are your bones. you see your skull, your arms, your pelvic bone - where your bumbum is, and your legs and toes and fingers.

migs: (pointing to his body parts for each) my bumbum? this is my arms and legs and toes. my stomach have no bones.

me: (seeing how interested he is to see the inside of his body) you want to see your heart? this is your heart, see where it is?

migs: inside my chest.

me: very good! you want to see your lungs? remember, when you go to dr. reloza, she makes you breathe? the lungs are what you use. i'll show you.

me: (found pics of healthy and sick lungs) this is your lungs when it is healthy and not sick (pointing to the healthy lung) and this is the sick lung. when you smoke, your lungs look like this, pointing to the sick lung).
migs: (at this point, he got the phone from my hands and immediately went to his papa's side) papa, your lungs is pangit! you should stop smoking because your lungs is sick!

hubby: (while still playing his computer game) yes baby, i will stop smoking.

migs: (still at his papa's side) papa, your lungs is sick, stop smoking na! look! see, this is my lungs it's healthy!

i was pretty shocked that he absorbed all that in a span of a few minutes. he truly is a sponge when it comes to information and i'm glad we had that discussion. i'm sure he would want to see all of these pictures again tonight. future doctor or scientist? too early to tell, but as long as he'll be happy, i will support him.

my first big purchase

the first ever "big purchase" i had when i started earning my own money was my nokia 8250. coming from my nokia 5110, it was a big improvement. i was mesmerized by the 8210's blue backlight, small handy size, and butterfly looking keypad. so, it didn't matter that i paid Php27,000 or so for it when it first came out. call me a sucker but i just loved that phone to bits. it took a couple of years before i replaced that phone. i don't even remember what i replaced it with.

now i'm using an iphone 3g, which, come to think of it, i paid less for than the 8250. hopefully, i don't replace this anytime soon. :)

plans for june

hubby and i are planning to go on an overnight trip in a hotel in june. actually, it's more of a treat for migs, than a 4th wedding anniversary celebration.

my migs is a curious boy. he loves to observe and see things that are new to him. and a hotel is certainly a new place to go to. some of the things i think he might find amusing would be:

• hotel lobby
• concierge
• baggage trolleys
  
• elevator
• bathtub
• shower
• faucet
• mini shampoo bottles
• mini soap
  
• big bed
• hotel stationery and pencil
• room service
• mini bar
• hotel phone
• room curtains
• view
• swimming pool
• garden

so here i am scouting for a good hotel with a pool and a good buffet menu. the buffet would be the 4th year wedding celebration. i'm leaning towards edsa shangri la with h.e.a.t. we've eaten there before and found they had really good food. hopefully i get to finalize things before the month ends.

i'm so excited! finally, something to look forward to!

something i remembered

it's funny how, when you're young, you think that some things are more important and you find things you can't live without. only realizing when you're older that it was so trivial and there are far more important things to think of.

i just remembered, out of the blue, that i cried over this board game:


yes, i was a big fan of sweet valley high books way way back then. and when i saw this board game, i fell in love with it. not even seeing the contents, just the box made me want to ask my dad to buy it for me. of course, he wouldn't let me since it cost something like P800 which was a big amount sometime 1988. so i cried for days, until he finally bought it for me.

funny thing is, i never got to play with it. i opened it, checked out the contents and never really played with it. well first, it was for 2 or more players. second, my brothers never wanted to play with a girl board game so it was left stuck in a closet somewhere. now, looking back at my 11 year old self, i smile and think "what was i thinking?!"

happy mother's day to me

I will always remember the day,

I first held you in my arms,
how great you looked all wrapped up,
and the best feeling of all,

kissing you, the first time I saw you.

migs 1st field trip

on may 5, 2009, migs went on his first school field trip. the day started around 9:30 am when he woke up. but he didn't actually get off from the bed by then. instead, we spent around 30 minutes just lying there. around 10am, he was off downstairs for some breakfast. he finished eating around 10:20 just in time to get a quick bath. the school service came by for us around 10:35 am. off to school we went.

in school, we read a couple of books in the lobby and when some of his classmates started to arrive, he went inside the classroom. as usual, there were kids crying and clinging to the other moms and yayas. my migs was just hanging cool. he was cutting paper and while i was sitting beside him, he innocently said "mama, go out na." i was heartbroken! but i decided to look at the brighter side so i said, "no, i want to stay inside your classroom and watch you." so he began to walk around the room looking for something to do. he put together some puzzles, he wrote on the white board, erased, then they had circle time. this is to calm the children through songs and prepare them for where they were about to go. finally, they lined up and out we went to the cars.

i hitched a ride with carissa's mom. she was the first mom i ever talked to in the school and we got along pretty well. in the car with us was teacher teejay. so off we went to ice cream bar in rockwell. there were about 5 private cars in total carrying 11 kids, a couple of yayas, 4 moms and 4 teachers. it was good that it was only drizzling and not pouring like it is today.

once in ice cream bar, the kids looked around while teacher lisette introduced ms. jo. she's the lady who demonstrated how to make chocolate overload sundae (yum!). during her demonstration, the kids were already asking for spoons, evidently, they knew they were about to eat some ice cream! all in all, they ate three flavors - chocolate overload, mango yogurt with cornflakes and strawberry ice cream.


the kids got to pick their favorite and most of the kids picked strawberry, including migs. they got to peek at the freezers and see the different flavors and colors of ice cream.


but alas, it was time to go, so they thanked ms. jo, said goodye to the ice cream bar and formed their line to leave.

it was definitely a fun day with my migs. i look forward to future field trips to come. i have a couple more years until he finally says "mom, you don't have to go with me. my classmates don't have any moms with them." *sniff sniff*