happy mothers day to you and to me!

it feels a little weird that starting this year i will also be receiving mothers' day greetings... i'm now part of the elite force of mommies worldwide...and i'll get the sweetest laway kiss from my little dude... :-) it feels a little surreal. :-)

i'm still a newbie to this mommy business but i'm soooo loving it. :-)

and to the mamang who raised us all 3 really really well mmmmmwuah! i may not be the kind who tells how much i love you and how grateful i am... but i am... :-) 

happy mothers day to us all pretties!!!!

1st Paseo del Mar trip ni Pao

yey! finally we were able to bring the babyboo to Paseo! it was a major field day for him... he loves open spaces and lots of curious stuff around!!! :-)

we've been planning for this trip for as long as i can remember... we decided impromptu after pao's immunization that day that we'll treat him with a little sidetrip... the prick didn't bother him at all the whole time! im'ma proud momma! hehehe mataas din tolerance sa pain ng babyboo ko!!!

the Badjaos who flock the place for coin diving made those brows meet again... :-) daddy and tita leila was throwing coins for them to dive so almost all bancas in the area went right in front of us... the drum and the dancing got him hooked at them... :-)

love my curious little man to bits!!! <3

wow... 1year!

time flies sooooo fast indeed... no, make that super duper mega fast... :-)

happy 1st hon! :-)

                     

promding chamimay is under construction for the meantime

well.... that is i'm still trying to put some order in my archiving... hehehe been wanting to have pages which will lead you to a more organized index because this blog is one big chopsuey of my everything.... i realized i don't have the skills to do an elaborate page yet and also learned that blogger can only provide static pages so i'm resorting to a barbaric way (manually doing it, that is hehehe) of linking all my posts per page... if there's anyone  who happened to pass this way and knows how to.... please i beg you, help me. :-) hehehe 


i found a blog who has what i had been thinking all along.... here, check this out: Lakwatsero.me. :-) well i'm not really keen on wanting my blog to be like that, i still want my homepage as plain and simple as i have it now, i just want my posts to be linked in the pages automatically and with the summaries and photos too.... 

i suppose this is what's going to eat my online time this month... :-) fingers crossed i hope to figure everything out by end of May! 


yey to little projects! :D

happy birthday the HUBBYNESS!!!

cheers to your 31years on earth honey! :-) di na ulit tayo magka-age!!! mmmmwuah! let's make today your bestest bestest ordinary day this year... :-)


-paomommy-

nappy verdict

some 2years ago i never thought i would be talking about diapers so soon... hehehe... i was even shocked by the price when i accompanied my sister buy her Uno his supply while here in Zambo... and all those nappy commercials, i really didn't mind them at all.

but today, lemme share some diaper thoughts... hehe me and hubby had been discussing which one's worth it... pao started with Huggies when he was still at the Nursery... 7 days after, he developed some red spots on the hindcheeks... i decided i'll change his diapers to Pampers New Baby... and the reds were gone! we used that until he was over a month old... then we were on different diapers every month, experimenting hehe....you'll notice it in my monthly birthday photos of pao... thoughts and reviews and the final decision to settle on which nappy below...

1st month: Pampers New Baby. this saved us from the red spots that could have worsen into some diaper rash... i like that it remains dry even inside even though it looks so full already. it can last the whole day!!! i like the fit too, the color and design is very straightforward, almost plain-looking so no need to worry if it matches or not with the top...

2nd month: Pampers Comfort. this is the one that's being highly advertised by Pampers. It's the cheaper end of Pampers... sizing is smaller than the other Pampers so you have to go up one size higher so it wont be too tight for your baby... contrary to the ads, it can not last the whole day! you have to change in between... and it feels wet when lightly squeezed.

more photos after the jump. Please click "Read more".

tummy bed strikes again! :-)

i'm not complaining though...i'm actually loving it. :-) well at least for now, i just hope it won't turn into a bad habit both for me and pao...

this photo was taken when he was still 4months old... this was the only instance back then... but the past 3-4days he's having some crying moments in the middle of his sleep, before it was just a sign for feeding time... but lately he wants something else... he cries and tries to lift his body as if wanting to be carried, and all that while his eyes are still closed... so the mommy instinct tells me to carry him, and he stops crying immediately... i have tried lying down, same as in the photo below, with pao on my tummy/chest... and he gets to sleep soundly while we are in this position, but he prefers to be faced down while sleeping over me now...

the "tummy bed" term was actually coined by my sister... she experienced the same "lambing" from her son... i wonder if this happens to your baby too? :-) i wanna know, please tell me... hehe i just want to make sure this is normal haha!

visita iglesia zamboanga (2011)

I was 4 1/2 months pregnant during last year's holy week. Since I was not allowed to go to Abong-Abong for the stations of the cross.... me, hubby and SIL leila decided to do a Visita Iglesia for 10 churches in Zamboanga. I will be creating one post for each church visited. Links will be provided below:

Visited churches:

1) Tumaga Parish Church (Our Lady of Manaoag Parish)

2) Sta Maria Parish Church (Our Lady of the Purification Parish)

3) Pasonanca Parish Church (Holy Trinity Parish)

4) San Roque Parish Church

5) Wesmincom (Southcom) Chapel

6) Philippine Navy Chapel (Our Lady of La Naval Chapel)

7) Claret Chapel (San Antonio Maria Claret Parish)

8) Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepcion

9) Fort Pilar Shrine
10) St. Joseph Church
11) Tetuan Parish Church (St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish)

12) Guiwan Parish Church (Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish)

Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish Church (Guiwan, Zamboanga City)

12th church stop. finally!!! this was our last church visited... we stayed longer here. that visit was my first time in Guiwan parish church... this is a newer structure i think... the first time i saw this some years before my first impression was that it's exuding some rough air... it's too concrete... but this visit changed my views about this church... despite being concrete all over, i love the flow of the breeze in and around the church... we were all tired from the 3-5hours of visita iglesia and this church offered us a place to breath before heading home....

i just find the ceiling's design a bit unusual...

more Guiwan church photos after the jump. Please click "Read more"

St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish Church (Tetuan, Zamboanga City)

11th church stop. the most striking feature of the church for me is the ceiling... i love how grand it look when you're standing at the end of the aisle. :-) we tried going up the bell tower and even got a better view of the ceiling. 

i don't have any connection with this church except for one or two instances back in highschool when instead of the parish priest going to our school for the first friday mass, we were the ones who went to the church. i can still remember the huge balete tree in the church's courtyard. it's not there anymore, after they renovated the church.

very simple when viewed from outside. :-)

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