Second-guessing the Bike

Baby has been wanting a bike for a while now and I was all set to get him a balance bike to humor him. Last night, however, while I was wondering over getting him a scooter, the guy selling bikes mentioned that the size 12 ones would be fine for him.

I thought it over more than twice, even up to the point when I was paying for it but he was playing with the bike so happily that I punched out the PIN, sighed and prayed I made a good decision. Just before going to sleep, he dragged the bike inside the room and asked me, "Mommy, please get bike inside bed." That was just so funny and I guess he really did like his bike.

Books

We're a family of bookworms. This little baby is getting there. He yells out "Pabet!!!" for his alphabet book, "Viking!" for his funny faces book and "Wind!" for the book pictured here. I'm so proud.

Sweet Baby

He wanted to eat all of the sweets for lunch. He started shoveling the ice cream in after this picture.

A Father

Though who knows when paths will cross once more, and memories may not remain, there is no denying that you were a part of me.

April 2013 weekend

Where's the Easter Bunny?

Driving through congested traffic at the toy section.

Shopping for diapers.

Baby Wish List: Christmas 2012

I'm still missing a few Christmas gifts from last year. Also birthday ones. You know who you are so please...

Cloth Diapers
I would like to try contour diapers this year but for fogeys, pocket diapers are just fine, thank you.

Educational toys
I like to learn. Thank you very much. Leap Frog please.

Books
I may not be able to read but flipping through the pictures work fine for me.

Baby Tales: Almost Christmas

I've stopped counting my days long ago. I'm so much more than a year older now, as my avid fans can attest and the counting was so last year.

I've been doing good, if anyone has been worrying about me. I've had some hiccups earlier today, a cold and a fever last month. There's a saying that only a fool can not catch a fever and I've proven myself quite the toddler genius.

I've lost weight for the cameras but I've realized the errors of dieting and have since restarted on fruits, oatmeal and shredded meat. I don't like sugary sweet stuff but chocolate is love. Pik nik is another favorite.

I'm quite steady on my feet now and just a bit more and I'll be ready to take on the world. I think we'll start on Palawan or Baguio. Though really, why not Tagaytay as well? Hongkong Disneyland is also part of the intermediate plans. I hear Mickey would like to discuss some of my thoughts on world domination.

My favorite word right now is Papa. I love whispering it on people's ears and they find it to be quite amusing. Yum, food.

To everyone who loves me, I love you all back.

Day 239: Baby Tales

Last weekend, I got myself measured at Rustan's and I'm 2'3" already. Of course, I'm a little bit taller than that by today. Just a little more and I'll be taller than everyone else with the vitamins I've been taking.

PM1 is worried over the fact that I pooed 5 times today. It's not so bad, right? But she thinks I have tummyaches. She says if I'm not ok by tomorrow, we're going to the doctor. Ugh!

It's so hot!!! SO HOT!!! We bought an almost industrial-sized electric fan because my neck rashes are getting worse with the heat in spite of getting two baths per day. My mug may look great but if I want to model, I gotta keep my body in good shape too.

I hope everyone will think of me always so that they will stay happy.

Loves to all..

Day 205: Baby Tales

I didn't mean to do it. I swear I didn't. I was only being friendly. Please please please don't think bad of me.

I only wanted to say hi. I didn't know my voice was too loud when I said hi... twice. I wasn't yelling. I don't know why he would cry. I said nice things, really.

And I didn't really grab him when he started crying. I was only trying to touch him. I wanted to comfort him. I know I held a little too strongly... and maybe a little too long. It's not my fault. I'm just a wee baby.

I'm not a bully!

Please don't think bad of me.

I love you!

Day 200: Baby Tales

World, I am a big baby now.

I eat solid food. To date, I have eaten bananas, oranges, oatmeal, squash, mangoes, potatoes, apples, avocados, and I will eat even more.

I can crawl all over my 'rent's bed and back. I can dive to get to places faster and when all else fails, I will roll over and over.

I do not lie back for my bath anymore. I insist on sitting up and standing to get all the places to be cleaned up soaped down.

I fit into toddler clothes. No more baby clothes for me. I don't like suits unless it's cold but I will deign to wear them on special occasions as long as said occasions will get me photographed on my good side.

I insist on sleeping alone. No more singing me to sleep. Singing me to half-sleep yes, but no more on the cuddling, unless I feel bad and achy, then that's another matter.

So please, be prepared. Tomorrow, I will be much more.

Day 182: Baby Tales

I'm going to be 6 month-old this week. I expect celebrations and such. Maybe even the Christmas gifts I should have received by now. Hey, GODPARENTS!!!

What has been happening 'round here lately? We have a new point and shoot. SN1 will probably post about it in her blog someday. I've got new pics everyday. They're including unmentionables like the one above. But at least I'm wearing blue. I'm owning this color. It's mine!!! No one else can have it.

Everyone has been into vitamins lately. I've got my Cherifer, SN1 is taking organic iron and folic acid, SN2 has his Stresstabs and GM even has her One-A-Day 50+. I'm actually big for my age but with my 'rents' heights, I may need a little boost.

I've got some clothes at the tailor's. They're so slow these days. Really, for a VIP like me to wait so long for my suit is a no-no. These people should know better. We also bought some RTW and a pair of shoes today. They say I'm growing up way too fast that they bought some for a one-year-old already. We'll see how long these will last me.

Tomorrow, I'm starting on solids. Bananas first then squash three days after. SN1 wanted to get me Tommee Tippee but there aren't any available at the mall we went to so we had to make do with Avent. She says she'll check on Monday in Makati for the sippy cups. I'm not going to be sipping on silicone nipples in half a year. I'm a big boy now.

Day 173: Baby Tales

I've  been able to beat the cold last week. Really, everyone tends to overreact. I'm breastfed. People shouldn't worry about me so much.

We have a new toy at home. The 'rents are having a blast just clicking away. I'm just hoping no nude pictures of me leak out. They can be so trigger-happy sometimes.

I'm getting some stuff tailor-made. There's a formal event happening at the end of this month. I wonder if I can manage to walk by then?

Almost 6 months of my life has passed. So many things to learn. Once I start walking, the world is going to be mine.

Day 162: Mommy Tales

It's heartbreaking seeing my baby sick with a cold. It hasn't left since Saturday last week after we went home late on the MRT from the baby fair. It could be the fact it was late, the MRT was crowded or anything at all. So hard for me to understand why I didn't take a stand on that one.

We went to the doctor last Thursday and she said it's asthma. I want a second opinion. He definitely hates the nebulizer. I'm happy she didn't give him any other medication but it's tough when he cries the whole time we're using it. Definitely dreading tomorrow when I'm going to work and someone else has to check the exact volume.

I hope he gets better soon. My breasts are gonna get plugged again if he keeps on insisting he isn't hungry. After the week before of him wanting his food all the time, this week is hard with him not wanting any and having to be forced to eat. How will he get better if he's like that?

Day 156: Baby Tales

GM has come back. Yay! I missed the up and down trick. Maybe now I'll get to sleep in the afternoons.

I've been eating twice of what I used to these days. SN1 says she needs an electric now. Tsk! She should just stay home and let me eat from her. No fowl there.

Day 155: Mommy Tales

Thank goodness I've read a lot about poop during the first months that when Ren stopped pooping everyday, we didn't go on complete panic mode at the house. Everyone got really worried. He stopped pooping for 3 days and the last, 6 days. I had to recheck the sites I've read and got back the same message, as long as it's not over a week and he doesn't look like he's having any tummy aches and is healthy and happy, there is no problem at all. As long as he's eating well and when his poop comes out, they're as creamy as ever, then he doesn't have constipation and everything is just fine.

His cradle cap is mostly gone now. I haven't been on any medication for a while and that helps. JR got rid of the scaly stuff on the top of Ren's head and baby was bald for a while. The hair has grown back up now. A bit more of the cap has grown but with a little baby oil (sunflower and grape seed oil based), it was easy enough to get rid of without his getting bald once again.

My father-in-law has been taking care of baby. They have been getting along quite well. I'm glad to have good in-law relationships. It's better this way but it's embarrassing to be so dependent on a guy. I wish I can be supermom again but I'm so sleepy these days.

Ren and I went to the office last week. I'm such a proud mom. He was so well-behaved. Not my words but my officemates'. Such a cute baby, really.

I hate going back to work after a weekend. There's the rush and the feeling of how no one in the office really knows just how guilty it feels for a nursing mother not to be there and nurse her child. I wish, really, I just wish that I could have the luxury of quitting and staying at home and just feed little Ren all the time.

Day 142: Baby Tales

I've been waking up upside down these days. How did I do that? One day, SN1 keeps feeding me sideways and the next day, I'm already rolling by myself. No one leaves me alone now. Tsk!

Really, I should get a bigger bed by now. I'm already over 7 kilos. I deserve a bigger bed.

Everyone is worried about my pooing. So what if it takes my wonderful little body 3 days to poo? Nothing wrong with that, right?

I want to visit my gramps in the mountains but I don't want to commute. Someone please please please get me. I want to visit my cousin too. Lots of things I've got to teach him.

Grandma is going to be leaving for a while. She better come back. I hate it when I miss people.

Grandpa from SN2 is going to come visit me for a while. I wonder if he'll like me? What am I saying? Of course, he'll love me. I'm adorable.

Loves to everyone. And peace too.

Day 123: Baby Tales

I met two cousins! And aunts too.
My older cousin has the biggest eyes and he's taller than me but I promise to catch up.
My younger cousin is still small. I shared a little bit of milk because it is Christmas. I expect adoration for doing so, of course.
I love my aunties. They gave me a pool and a felt Barney toy. Thanks lots, titas.
Lots of love, world. I still think I'm the cutest of the cute so love me back, ok?

Day 114: Baby Tales

SN1 and SN2 HAS HURT ME!!! Off to the stocks with them!!!

SN1 decided that since it was a weekend last Saturday, it was time for my weekly nail cut. She did this when I was awake and waving my hands. There was a cutting sound but no nail fell. Instead, blood welled up. I stoically bore it while she kept saying sorry over and over. There was blood. She was wailing and hugging me and then my left hand was put into a mitten. Bleh! I don’t like mittens. I have since learned to grasp the mitten with my right hand and remove them.

SN2 decided yesterday to clean my neck after my back. I was yelling all day but everyone thought it was about my hand. Didn’t they notice I didn’t cry even with all the bleeding? SN1 finally noticed my neck was all red. When she wiped it with a wet cotton ball, there was red on the cotton. I was SCRAPED!!! It hurt. Really, yesterday was a lot of hurt for me. Ugh! No wonder sleep was so hard.

Day 113: Mommy Tales

When I went into being a mom, I was very confident in my husband's ability to support me, not just financially, but emotionally, and blissfully went on my way, being bitchy when I felt like it. I guess I kind of forgot that he's a man and he will never ever understand just how hard it is to be a mother to a little baby boy.
It frustrated me quite a lot when he started going out with his friends more often than I thought he ever would. Add the fact that he started drinking and came home smelling like a seedy bar just felt wrong for me.
I tried to keep my patience but somehow, I lost control and bitched. I bitched and bitched and bitched and then I gave up.
There's a lot of faults one can attribute to the other person for any failures one experiences in a relationship. I, for one, can list a lot, a whole lot. I forgot my own faults though.
I forgot, in love, that it might be a chance to find someone, but it's a choice to stay. And love is a flower that has to be watered. I forgot and though he tried to hold on, he slipped.
I resolve not to forget to kiss him. I resolve not to forget to hug him. I resolve to try to cook for him. I resolve to smile at him. I resolve to listen to him. I resolve to laugh with him. I resolve to look at him. I resolve to take care of him.
It's a relationship. Yes, we have a child but the relationship with him is husband and wife, not father-of-my-child to mother-of-my-child. It's give and take.
I'll still push him. I'll still bitch at him. I'll still be selfish. I'll still be me. But I will love him.

Day 104: Baby Tales

SN1 has been taking me out alone. We go to malls. We even went to her office once. It was nice to be told I'm such a good baby. And people are so friendly. Of course, I talk back to them. It is good to practice communication skills. The ones who thought I'm a girl are going to pay.