Endless Talking

Yena talks a lot these days. The other night, while I was cooking our dinner she called me and showed her book of lambs and said, BABOY (pig). I told her, No It’s lamb. She answered me back, MOMMY BABOY KA (mom you are a pig). I was laughing and asked her, Sinong Baboy? She replied BABOY DADDY.

Last night, I read her the story of Christmas twice and I was like a broken record already. So I told her to read the story for me, she pointed at the pictures and said ERI, OTEP, ISAS (Mary, Joseph, Jesus) UTOM (GUTOM).. AIN (KAIN) while laughing I asked her what’s next and she replied UWA (TUWA). I don’t know where she got that story line. But there was a line in the book that says Mary and Joseph was tired in Betlehem.. Maybe she thought that being tired is like being hungry.

When we were at Coron Airport waiting for our plane for almost six hours we stayed at a nearby cottage near the souvenir shops. I saw a little kid snob Yena. Yena saw that too and she told me, MOMMY BATA AWAY YUN (the kid snobs me, she likes a fight). After awhile the kid came back and gave Yena a polvoron. Yena smiled and said TENCHU (thank you). After the kid went away Yena told me, MOMMY BATA BAIT (the kid is kind mom). That was her first ever clear sentences I have heard from her. While eating her polvoron at the airport she would say, MOMMY BIGAY BATA BAIT (the kid was nice she gave me polvoron).

Every time there would be a fight between her and her cousins she would warn them with these lines. SUMBONG MOMMY.. SUMBONG DADDY.. The other night when I was scolding her, she cried and said, MOMMY BAD SUMBONG DADDY (mom‘s bad I’ll tell dad).

I have a very talkative 21 months old toddler I know and I love it!How about you? Does your toddler talk too much too?

Mommy Moments - Let's Pretend

Every night Yena would ask me to get my camera and take her pictures. She means one thing by that. She will be a monster to scare daddy. This was one of her monster like pose :)
And she would give me a squeal of laughter right after pretending to be a monster :)
She looked very messy by the way after kissing a balloon.. the tint gets all over her face. ;)

Mommy Moments - Precious Gift

Today's theme for mommy moment is about any precious gift from our child. Yena has not given me anything if a precious gift means any material thing. But from all the gift i have received in my entire life, i have been and will always be grateful for this little gift i kept inside my tummy for nine colorful months, the gift that rocks my tummy whenever she wanted to (ex: see photo below) and that same gift from Above that makes me a complete person.

I would be thrilled to receive any gift from my daughter in the near future, but she is already the GIFT i have been wanting.. She is enough gift and i am soooo blessed to have her in my life.

How i wish..

i see you always running..

OR sitting pretty after a tiring day..

OR just making faces when i ask you to smile..

How i wish you can also run away from sickness..

How i wish that you and i will always be sitting at the top of a mountain like Mt Tapias, just relaxing and making happy faces together..

I just wish that a little minutes before i went home today..

YOU ARE WELL.

Spending a little on something so big!

Weekends for my little family mean bonding time in front of my beloved laptop. My daughter loves barney, spongebob and dora so much she can watch her cds all day! On the other hand, my husband became addicted to movies when we got married. He can watch all greek mythologies and the likes all day long. I am not complaining though, giving them some time to watch their favorites give me some quality time for myself, which is reading or doing the usual house chores. It’s chaotic to see us every weekend especially if my daughter would like to watch barneys and the husband would watch his dvds too.

Now I want to pull the holiday season immediately. It gives me the reason to buy that most sought after LCD TV, and I have been promising husband we would get charter that offers over 6,000 movies and shows we could watch anytime we would want to. I am so excited to see one of my favorite heroes shows, that even If I miss one episode I could watch it the next day on charter for free! Now I can’t stop dreaming every time I get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page. Charter digital is really On Demand! You can learn more at charter.net/ondemand and I know you will agree that they really rock!

I know I have to wait for the Christmas season to enjoy this wonders.. If only I can pull December instantly.

Tantrums! Tantrums!

I have my share of yena's tantrum moments where she would cry while babbling something that i find hard to understand. Most of the time i try to talk to her calmly and spell out what she has been wanting. At times when it's too much to handle, i call her daddy.. That's always my last option, when she hears the word 'daddy' she knows she has to behave. Don't get me wrong, they are both close to the bones, they are the best buddies but there is something about my husband that tames her all the time.

One good example of her tantrum moment is the photo below. She has been asking me to dip into the water again for the nth time, while i was asking her to pose first..

Instead of posing, she cried! This photo was at 91 Beach in Coron Palawan. When we reached Kayangan Lake an hour later, she asked me to take her pictures while posing endlessly. So this is the result!

How about you? How do you handle your child's tantrums? Share your tantrums stories and join us at Mommy Moments by clicking the badge above! See you..

Caught Counting!

Oh, boy! I finally captured my 21 months old daughter counting from one to ten last night! :) She learned how to count when she was 19 months old but she mastered detailing them "clearly" at 20 months. She can also count in tagalog (isa hanggang sampu!). And boy, she sings bahay kubo, pakitong kitong and a whole lot barney's songs! :)

That was her second set of enumerating one to ten so she seemed irritated, but she is always like that when she sensed that am capturing her every move.

How about you? When did your child started to count?

The Yena Eras Show

The following pictures of my 21 months old daughter Yena was taken while we were waiting at the boat at Cayangan Lake in Coron Palawan. Out of the blue, she asked me to get my camera out with a babble of words like these, mommy pichure, mommy pichure :)

When i gave in to her request, these are the result of her posing like a model!

Seriously..

I don't know where in the world she saw that pose! I won't dare do that.. LOL

A pose with her stage-father..

Doing the hula dance here maybe..

Aint no hollaback girl..

And who says model don't eat??

Happy Memories :)

Yena calls me MOMMY and calls my sister MAMA. She calls my Mother in Law MAMATO and calls my mother NANAY. Lucky child to call 4 ladies as her mother :)

Now here's yena's cousins whom she spends the whole day playing at home. Yael and Eya are my sister's children.. They play and they pout together! See?! :)
They live next to our house. They look like siblings when they are together. They hug and kiss each other and then fight and cry for some toys.. They make up and hug each other again.. And yes, that's my only sister Aya with our kids..
I have two siblings, the youngest is a hopeless rapper. Aya and my youngest brother fights all the time, they love each other that much. I can see our children's little love fights to them.. My sister is very disciplinarian, while i am a self confessed spoiler of the family:D
Lately, we love to spend our saturdays at the mall. Our kids love arcade games and my sister is very addicted to playing basketball at the mall too.
While i am very addicted to capturing all our happy memories together..

Off to Palawan!

My husband, daughter, my godmother and ghie’s siblings will be heading to Palawan this morning for our three days vacation. This trip was planned since May and I couldn’t believe that I am writing this now, is it October 17 already? LOLThis trip is supposed to be for husband and I’s second wedding anniversary. BUT since it is a week before our actual wedding date, I am thinking of our ‘solo’ celebration somewhere in Tagaytay. If we can leave our daughter for one night, if not it will be another family affair I am looking forward to. ;)

Anyways, I should be going. This is supposed to be a rest from all that is giving me stress (work and blogging, LOL) but I will be bringing my laptop just in case I find time to drop EC and adgitize.

Please help us pray for a nice weather! :) Thank you so much for dropping by. Have a great weekend!

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And yes, my 5 blogs has the same entry for today. And your guess is right, this is a scheduled post! :)