Happy birthday to my baby brother, Cole!
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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, August 28, 2008
Chloe has been sleeping in her own room for the past few months now. Except about a month ago, she went to watch a school-mandated play at the CCP with Nanay (my Mom) which apparently featured scary creatures flying outside the window. Now she's scared to sleep alone. (Now I want to scold the school!)
Anyway, tonight, Chloe insisted again on either myself or Louie sleeping in the room until she falls asleep. I have not been fortunate enough to convince her that these "bruhahas" as she calls em, do not exist. So I went another route:
Mommy Angel: You know what the bruhahas are scared of, Chloe? They're scared of Jesus.
Chloe: Jesus? He scares the bad people away?
Mommy Angel: Yes! If we put his picture near all the windows of your room, the bruhahas will be scared and burn and die!
Chloe: Wow, so they're scared of Jesus? So no bad people will come near me?
Mommy Angel: Yep, yep!
Chloe: (Thinking hard) If they're scared of Jesus, then why did the bad people steal your laptop from the car?
Mommy Angel: Er, um... hmmmmm. (Thought bubble: This kid is too smart for me)
Needless to say, I still managed to convince her that images of Jesus and Mary would do the trick. So I printed two pictures of Jesus with children for her bedroom window and 1 picture of Mama Mary for the other bedroom window. And oh, another picture of Jesus in the bathroom.
It's almost 2 AM, and she's sound asleep. So far, so good. Thanks Jesus!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Chloe entered prep this year at Raya. Here she is in uniform!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Hey Daddy, Happy Birthday!
Where's the cake and my gift?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
We enrolled Chloe in the MILO swimming clinic at a nearby condo here in QC, after she told us a story about how she took off her vest during a swimming party because "all the other girls weren't wearing on." (See how early peer pressure sets in!) After 1 week, she was still a bit nervous in the water, even with her Coach (who's terrific by the way). So one by one, Mommy took out potential issues:
1) She wouldn't stay in the water. I asked Coach if I could swim with her. He said it would be a good idea. I thought it would help her practice (specifically when it's not Chloe's turn with Coach). Plus, she was always getting out of the pool when it wasn't her turn! When she'd be with me, we would play alot, I'd push her down to touch the floor with her toes and she'd "fly" back up on her own.
2) Water was cold. Not that I could solve that really, but Coach said to put baby oil all over her body before she came to the pool as that would help. Secondly I bought her a swimsuit that was a full t-shirt and a panty bottom (which was much better than the bikini she was wearing) to help her deal with the cold water.
3) She couldn't see the depth of the pool. I convinced Louie that we needed to "invest" in some decent goggles (Chloe had gotten goggles as gifts, but the water kept coming in). So off to the land of SPEEDO we went. I tell you, once she had them on she could see EVERYTHING and was alot more confident. We had a great game where we'd both go underwater and just say "hi". Another really cool game was where I'd pretend to be drowning and yell "Help me, help me" and she'd just swim over to "save" me.
So in two and a half weeks, we went from this...
to this...
to this... (drumroll please!)
Success!!!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Happy birthday, Ninang Mirzi!!!
I wonder why my Mommy says I could be a lawyer like Ninang Mirzi?!?!?
Friday, March 21, 2008
Happy Birthday, Chloe bear!
Chloe is five years old today :-)
Friday, March 21, 2008
Last September 2007, Chloe told her Mommy that she wanted to have a High School Musical birthday party in school (this was after classmates one after the other started having bday parties in class). Six months later, we had the party on the last day of classes at Raya. (This also ended up being the "Moving Up" swimming party for the Kindergarten class -- "Moving Up" is code word for something that remotely resembles graduation.)
It started with the invitation...
Then there were the cupcakes, toppers, and tower that Mommy made...
Plates, table cover and cups of HSM1...
And everything seemed to work out with the swimming since HSM2 had the gang swimming anyway...
Cole was a little intimidated by the other kids...
Then came eating time! By the way, Chloe had the same birthday as her classmate Joaquin so the two mommies brought food...
Chloe posing with her cupcakes...
Cole posing with his fish lumpia...
Candle-blowing by Chloe...
The loot bags...
Joaquin and Chloe...
Of course, cousin Kimmy was there!
Chloe and some of her classmates...
And finally, Chloe and Teacher Isbel!
It sure was a fun day for Chloe!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Chloe's turning 5 next Saturday... she's really growing up so fast. We had her hair cut a few weeks ago and she went from looking like this...
To looking like this... which we all love... :-)
The requested theme for her school birthday party? High School Musical. So as usual, her mommy is going all out... more on that later!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Chloe was so proud of the card she made for Mommy and Daddy at school today...
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