I am sick. You can see it in my face. The sunken eyes. The eyebags. The touseld hair. I threw up the contents of my stomach not less than 20 minutes ago onto the bed you see. But I never, ever, forget how to smile for the camera.
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- Angel - a.k.a Chloe and Cole's mom, Louie's wife, Rony and Joy's sister and gopher to her parents and pretty much anyone who needs a helping hand.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Its been a rough three days.
Chloe started a fever yesterday morning. We were all a little surprised, especially since she was perfectly jolly when we woken up. She continued to have fever the rest of the day, with brief journeys back to 37 degrees or so thanks to paracetamol.
By evening, the fever had returned -- big time. I always feel bad when Chloe's sick. Imagine how you feel when you are sick -- and you're an adult, your body can hack it. Kids, well, they cry alot, have no sense of humour, don't eat and put up a Pacquiao-style fight to fend off medicine. Yep, that was Chloe today. She had her moments though where she was all jolly, like after she'd just woken up or when she'd go to our office area in Frisco.
The thing is, when kids are sick, you pretty much forego sleep. Chloe kept getting up on our bed to cuddle with me and mind you, she was pretty hot with the fever (I'm guess it was 39ish degrees) and I couldnt sleep because of all the heat radiating from her. I got up at 4am to give her a sponge bath to try to get her to cool off. I got up at 6 am to give medicine and she put up a pretty good fight before finally taking the medicine.
Chloe was something else this morning with Louie. I left home early to go to Triumph, which meant Louie had to give Chloe her medicines. So as a delaying tactic, Chloe starts asking questions WHILE THE SPOON WITH MEDICINE IS WAITING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER MOUTH! Here are some funny ones...
- "What color is the medicine, Daddy?"
- "Is Mommy afraid of monsters?" (When Louie said no, she then proceed to ask about her Daddy, then Inday, then Lola, then Lolo, etc)
I experienced the same when I tried to give her medicine later on during the day. She would start yapping about colors, asking questions, ANYTHING TO DELAY THE INEVITABLE. I never realized what schemer she was!
The scheming was most obvious this evening. Louie and I came from the gym, thought she was asleep. It turns out she was pretending to sleep at the mere mention of the word "medicine!" Oh my gosh!!! How can she be that smart?!?
So its 11pm and we had just finished the 20-minute question, crying, medicine-taking portion. We were so relieved. She's lying down on the bed all fine and everything. Then Chloe sits up... and all hell breaks loose.
She throws up on the comforter. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! And its not a little vomit mind you, its ALOT of vomit. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww. So I pick her up to bring her in front of the toilet and tell her to puke some more there. Her hands touch the toilet (yuck!) But nope, she turns around and vomits some more on the bathroom floor! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Needless to say, Louie and I were running around trying to clean up the vomit, clean HER up, wash her hands, take off the comforter and eventually the bed sheets. Your love for somone is never quite tested as much as when you need to clean up their vomit. Ugggh.
Louie called up Inday to help us handle everything. While we're putting on new sheets, Louie asks Inday if "Ok na ba yon?" in reference to the orientation of the bed sheet (i.e. long side vs short side on the mattress). So Chloe, who is now all cleaned up, wearing just her diaper, says, "Inday, ok na ba yon?" Very style-amo! Yikes!
So when your daughter throws up all the contents of her stomach, it means one more memorable ordeal with re-taking the medicine which was probably among the stuff she vomitted. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. Another tug of war!!! After 15 minutes and some rationalizing with her, Chloe finally drank it. Of course, we had to give in to her request for Iced tea, but what the heck!
Its now 1:10 am. And finally, finally, everything is quiet.
Hmmmm... yawn. My turn.
Night.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Why do toy manufacturers make kids's toys that are so difficult to put together?
Our lovely neighbors gave us this cool gift for Chloe's birthday last March and only recently did I have time to put it together. It was so darn difficult! Golly, it was easier to assemble cabinets from Makro! Chloe was watching me put it together while she was sitting in the box. At first, it was a very ok experience but within ten minutes, I realized that some of the plastic molded pieces didn't quite fit perfectly unless you used brute force to merge them together.
Louie was asleep. And I was thinking, "Dang, this is something a man should do." Because clearly, it wasn't meant for petite women (haha, petite daw!) to assemble. Talk about sexist toy manufacturers.
It was supposed to be some group of tunnels where you could put water. Chloe found it quite amusing. I think it would have been more amusing if it didn't leak all the water you put in it. My hands were already hurting from forcing certain pieces of plastic to fit so there was nothing else I could do to fix it. It sure was a messy thing to play with.Chloe enjoyed it alot - splashing water all around, asking me, "Where did the water go, Mommy?"
Ah well, I'm glad Squirt liked it. It was pure hell to put it together. Hahaha.
Friday, June 24, 2005
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Three shots of Chloe at Times! She loved the packers too!
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
So we're at Times today to watch over the Freight people who will pack Rony's stuff. I asked Chloe, who is happily jumping on all the boxes of Uncle Rony, to smile for a picture on my phone camera. So she's prepping herself for the smile when she notices something. Thing is, Mr. Freight-man-who-is-listing-all-the-stuff is next to her writing down details. She turns to him and says...
"Smile daw."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Even Mr. Freight man couldn't hide the giggles.
She had an awful lot of fun with the boxes. She was jumping on all of them, yelling "Darna", before we finally got her to take a quick bath because she was all sweaty. Of course, when she came back from the bath and saw that all the boxes were gone, Chloe was quite disturbed. "What happened to the boxes, Mommy? No more boxes?!?" said Chloe.
After a few hours of packing all of Rony's stuff, a short trip to McDonalds, and a drive back to Frisco, Chloe finally settled down for her afternoon nap... at 6pm.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
You know, she actually posed like this by herself... no coaching from me!
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Saturday, June 18, 2005
Chloe wearing her Bratz Chloe shirt! That has got to one of her faker smiles... 
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
Chloe is growing up and peer pressure is fast approaching.
Last Tuesday, I took out her bright red boots that I bought last Christmas which still happen to fit her. She's a happy girl, wouldn't take them off, wore them to Frisco practically all day. She was one happy camper.
Then Tita Jojo buys Kimmy a cute pair of pink Barbie boots yesterday which Kimmy wears around Frisco. Expensive shoes but very pretty.
Then today, Chloe sees the pink boots and does a whole drama with our aunts! Tita Tere and Tita Rochie were telling us how Chloe looked sad that she didn't have "boots like Kimmy" and in fact even tried on Kimmy's boots when Kimmy fell asleep! Yikes!
Anyway, they said she look really really disappointed that she didn't have pink boots. In fact while she was eating lunch, Tita Rochie told her not to worry because Tita Tere will go to Shoemart to buy her boots. So Chloe stands up and makes like, she's going to Shoemart with Tita Tere to buy the darn boots!!! My daughter talaga!
The Titas are narrating this sad story to us over lunch... how they felt sorry for her and they were going to buy her boots... and of course, Louie and I were like, hell, those are P700+ boots... we're not gonna buy em!
A few hours later, Chloe's got her boots. She opens the box. Says "WOW" and proudly proclaims, "These is MY boots!" Later on, she's walking around, holding Kimmy's hand, completely enamoured by those pink boots.
And with one quick trip to SM, there is now balance in the force.
Thanks to Tita Tere for buying those adorable boots!
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Chloe went to the doctor last week to get her vaccination. I was really surprised when she didn't cry at all and was actually quite proud of her. After the doctor gave the shot, she went to the play area while I spoke to the doctor. All of a sudden, a question!
"What's doctora's name, Mommy?" says Chloe.
Doctora is happpy about the question and tells Chloe, "You don't know my name Chloe? Its doctora ETHEL!
Chloe says , " doktora..eh.thh.hhhl."
Doctora repeats it, "Doctora ETHEL!"
Chloe attempts, " doktora..eh.thh.hhhl." After a few futile tries at saying her doctor's name, she tells us...
"Doctora na lang!" (padampam!)
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Daddy and Chloe all dressed in red for Lolo Ambet's birthday!
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
I'm rocking Chloe to sleep last night. Her Dad (fresh from the gym) clings to us to join the rocking to sleep. Chloe says half-asleep, "Take a bath first, Daddy."
Hahahahahahahaha.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
"Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me..." 
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
"Look at me, I will never pass for a perfect bride..." Chloe contemplates. Its our tribute to Uncle Rony at Disney!
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Monday, June 06, 2005
Chloe in her bathing suit looking out the window at Discovery Suites
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