extended xmas gift opening

got a message from kuya that there's supposed to be a package they've send to us before christmas last year which until now we have not received, so i went to JRS' office to check.... and lo and behold, the big green package was just there gathering dust.... their reason: they don't deliver to the Barangay indicated in the address + no phone number of the recipient was indicated so they can not call to pick up....

but at least their little inefficiency gave these boys an extra gift to open one month after christmas!!! thank you ate chuchay, ate jewel, tita analyn and tito dada!!!! mwuah!

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yoya's bday morning

let them hold one cupcake with candle each... :-) 

masyado pang bagong gising.... hehehe :-)

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2015 targets

im not sure why im not as excited as last year when preparing this now.... but i dont want to hate myself at the end of the year for not having documented some targets (im OC like that pero tinotopak lang ngayon).... anyways, let's try some 15 for 2015:

1. big school for paolo! - he's more than 3 now, and i think it's about time we start real school this year....
2. play school for mateo - im not sure if il be able to find one around August-November... but let me keep my fingers crossed... im assuming he'll be talking like crazy by that time, and since kuya is already at school he might also be interested...
3. revive my boy's shoot and monthly family shoot - i wanted that glamored-taken-by-a pro kind of family shoot last year... but then, thinking about the cost (which i can just use to buy more stocks!!! hehe) and how orchestrated that will be, i just think coming up with a monthly or at least a quarterly kind of family shoot where we're all dressed up would be nice.... i just need to train our ate jean (pao's yaya). I also want to revive my boy's regular monthly shoot before, but need to change some things, need them not on the bed anymore! hehe and oh i might be able to proceed with the one where they wear their dad's polo during our wedding... :-)

How To Track Your BBT Temps

I had my 2 boys without conceiving problems... but I have a friend who got married in the same year as i did who still struggles to have a baby. I feel for her every time a new pregnancy is being announced in the office.

We have been suggesting a lot of possible ways to her. One of the things a woman can do in order to get pregnant fast is by being able to pinpoint her ovulation. Knowing when you ovulate increases your chances of getting pregnant since ovulation is when the body releases the egg, making a woman fertile. One way to track ovulation is by using a BBT (Basal Body Temperature) thermometer says the experts at www.diaperchamp.com. A BBT thermometer, compared to a regular thermometer, is very sensitive and can detect even the slightest change of temperature. The thermometer is purchased over the counter with a chart ready for you to track and can be taken orally. You need to track your temperature daily – once as soon as you wake-up, before getting out of bed. As you go along, you’ll get to know your body. What we are looking for is a sudden increase in your temperature. If you see that on your chart, it most probably means that you are ovulating.

K! simula ng taon party

just immortalizing that day here.... :-) 

lamon, kantahan, chika-galore, exchange gifts, at higit sa lahat camwhoring to the max! :-)

that fun group who's always the alalay in major activities in the office, but are kati-paa when it comes to gala! :-) 2014 was not our year.... we were all soooo busy we even had our usual year-ender moved to january to be a year-starter na! haha... 

here's to the hope that 2015 will provide us days to sooth our itchy feet and discover nice place in zambo or outside! ;-)

celebrating day1 2015

january 1st will always be another excuse for us to play....there were times we go out (beach or pool), but that's just too stressful since everybody else in zamboanga thought of doing that also.... so for 2015 we decided to bring out the kid's mini pool and invited ate shasha and ate greene.... 

ate greene was late.... so it's just paolo, mateo and ate shasha first... but mateo could not handle ate shasha and pao's play so he asked to be taken out....

fave yearend activity: Revisiting my wishlist!!!

i'm soooo excited to do this revisit/evaluation of my to-do list for 2014 that i have started draft of this post as early as Dec1 (could have been earlier pero ngpipigil pa ako sa lagay na yan! hahaha)

so here goes, i have my original post here, with my evaluation/revisit comments in RED



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im beginning to love this idea of listing my wishes and plan at the start of the year and checking how much was achieved at the end of the year.... so here's my list for this year.... :-)


Family

play school for paolo. Find pao a nice play school this sum mer.... i've tried to ask him once last year if he wants to go to school already and he said yes. And i randomly hear him say "punta na school papao" eversince. :-) got me thinking also that if he did like play school and is actually school-ready, should i enrol him already for kinder in the next school year??? he's just 2 and will turn 3 in October. 

(1) -we did a one month play school at Yogi Veterans!!! he was excited at first.... but he was more of an observer the whole playschool time (soooo mommy!!!) he doesn't participate so much in the singing and dancing part of their everyday class, but he participates with coloring-related activities. his coloring skills are getting better! with only little strokes outside any figure's lines...i asked him if he still wants to go to school after 1mo in Yogi, he said no, so we're giving him one extra year of pure play and bonding with the mateo (who's catching up with kuya fast!!!)

blogged about this HERE and HERE!!!

mateo's 1st birthday! Organize a fun but not so expensive 1st birthday party for our  Mateo.... i think Jollibee will still have to be part of the whole act, he's just a children's party centerpiece hehehe. Good thing Mateo chose a holiday as his birthday!

(1) - achieved! :-) a The Little Prince inspired party na merong jollibee.... hahaha it was a bit magastos but it's all worth it.... seeing mateo and paolo having fun, and also the guests! :-) (no blog about the party as of this post yet...)

paolo's 3!!!

i suppose these smiles summarized his 3rd birthday.... :-)

mommy's goal for his birthday.... he'll appreciate that he has one special day in a year, he'll feel that he is really loved.... :-) it's that one day in a year that mommy would really take a time off from work.... :-)

unolulu & baduday & sol time!

spent time with the sistah! and the roommate.... :-) oh and the pamangkins! :-) everytime i have a manila trip, i usually try to meetup with my sibs... pero kuyapots didnt get to join us this time....

walang kaplano-plano, so we just decided to go around UP....our home for 5years during college.... it looked oooold and "small" despite the new buildings... well cguro kasi we've been to bigger spaced and newer places kaya mejo iba na ang perspective.... but we still had fun, feel na feel ang pagtuturista! :D

who's the boss...

ze motmot had turned into a bed gymnast.... so when daddyboo's not around during bedtime, this is us.... :)

created and posted: October 11, 2014