Mamu

It was my sons classmate who celebrated his birthday at Jollibee SM Bacoor last January 20, 2013. It was a Sunday afternoon and supposedly we are going to church. My son is excited to attend the party and I don't want him to miss the event and also most of his classmate will be there. First I told them that daddy will go with him and me and Rhaine will attend the church service. Then we decided to go all together. It was a fun day for the kids, though the space is too small for everyone. We are not able to finish our food, each is served with chicken + spaghetti, regular yum, coke float, fries and ice cream. 

My kids love watching cartoons and when I went out the other day they prefer to have a new VCD rather than having food as a "pasalubong". My son David requested for Smurfs but I didn't find one. As I browse through the different movies I saw Lion King 1, 2 and 3. They've already watched Lion King 1 although its not an English version and only has an English subtitle my son was able to understand the story. He's already in grade 1 and already knows how to read. So I decided to get the Lion King 2 and since I wanted them to be aware of the classics I also bought Beauty and the Beast. We've enjoyed watching both movies and just like any other VCDs I bought they would watch it everyday until the CD gets broken. 

I find it funny when my son told me he bought the jet made out of paper from his classmate for one peso. He said his classmate give it away for free but if you want with design then you need to pay one peso. I told him not to buy again but it amazes me how his classmate think of business at an early age. Their only in grade one and they already have this kind of thinking.

My kids was not able to attend the trick or treat last year in our subdivision so this year I made sure they are able to participate. The registration is only P20. My little Rhaine wore peter pan's costume which her kuya used when he was 3yrs old. Her Kuya David wore his Taiwanese costume he used in school before. I bought them pumpkin basket to collect candies. I was surprised to see lots of kids in our subdivision. To my estimate its around 100 who participated. Its fun to see little children with different costumes. I though its gonna be less than 50 so we only prepared 40 packs of assorted candies. I even asked my husband to unpack it to be able to give everyone. Not everyone in the subdivision participated in giving candies but my kids was able to have their pumpkin basket almost half full. For sure next year they will join again, I just hope that the program would be more organized and in a bigger place.

Last week we noticed that the right eye of my 3 years old baby girl is reddish. After 3 days we decided to bring her to an ophthalmology. She had a history of multiple "kuliti" before and she even had a surgery. I was surprised that the doctor recommended an x-ray since it can be a lung problem. I checked what the diagnosis and I read phlyctenular disease. I started searching online and it looks like around 70% of patient diagnosed is related to tubercolosis. That gives me a little nervous even though I know it can be treated. The doctor also give her Tobramycin eye drop, we are advised to use it every 3 hours whenever she is awake. The first day we started using it, her red eye got cleared. We went back to the doctor yesterday and thank God, she doesn't have any issue with her lungs and it is just an eye irritation. Thank you Lord for protecting my kids and my whole family.

I enrolled David for 6 Saturday session for Math tutorial. Unfortunately this Saturday he was absent due to cough and fever. I remember when he was still a toddler he always get confined in the hospital due to cough and fever too. I wonder if he really has poor lungs. I did not bring him to the doctor and we just bought Calpol for his fever and phlemex for his cough. I hope he gets well before the class resume this coming Wednesday. We still need to study for his up coming periodical test.

While doing assignments for the past week. I noticed that David doesn't enjoy much reading and writing. Due to this sometimes he don't finish their school activity on time and mostly he have low score when it comes to answering questions on short story. I think he got it from me, me too I don't love reading. I wonder what do I do to help him improve on this. We are now in computer world and what he enjoys doing are playing games online and on his Ipad.

Last June 4 most schools already started. But for my son who will be in grade one, theirs will start on June 13. He is not excited going back to school he said, he still likes to play. I know its gonna be more serious, less play compared to preschool. He will be part of the new school curriculum which is K12. I was not able to attend the school meeting about this last year. But what I've heard the school will use native language in teaching and the curriculum will be more advanced. I knew he will be able to cope up and I am praying that he would get better achievement as he grew up. 

Two more weeks and David will be back to school but this time in elementary. He's done with playtime and is going to face now a more serious world of studying. I knew he will be able to cope up. Beside I will always be there to support him. We haven't bought books and school supplies yet because we are running out of budget.... urgh. Anyways I know God will provide our needs. Excited for David's new world.

David is counting days before his birthday. He is really excited for his new gadget, maybe an itouch or an ipad. For the mean time he keeps on playing my iphone and this time he got hooked with the smurfs. Those cute little blue creatures, how lovely. 

Last Saturday (March 24, 20212) was David's Graduation Day in Pre-school along with the Kinder accelerated to Grade 1. There are 66 total graduates for Pred and Kinder accelerated. I learned from the speaker that as parent we should at least spend few minutes of playtime and story time with our kids when they are small. She mention that our world today modern that communication can be everywhere but there are still lots of families with no communication. I know I am not a perfect mom but I do love my kids. Even David was not able to get honor this time I am still very proud of him. He was able to get one medal and one ribbon, Academic Achiever and Most Cooperative. After the event we eat dinner at Pizza Hut. Congrats David! and Thanks to Harrell Horne Integrated School for teaching and making my kid ready for grade 1.

It was David's last day of school yesterday. They were even asked to bring food for the farewell party. He brought pansit for the said event. He said there were lots of foods specially cakes. This would be his last graduation in pre-school and next year he would be in elementary. I am not sure yet if he has any award or honor this coming graduation since they just took their last exam before the farewell party. Anyway with honor or not I am proud of my son moving in to elementary. Love you, son.

Two weeks ago we celebrated my mom's birthday at Circle Island Resort. This is the first time David was able to use the life vest that he purchased from the money that he got last Christmas. He spend most of his time in the pool the whole day which caused him to be dark, hehe. With his life vest with no fear he would jump in the 6ft pool and enjoy swimming  much better. Before he would only spend his time at the stairs of the pool. But since he is only wearing sando he got rashes in his armpit I guess due to the life vest that keeps on rubbing into his armpit. My brother suggested to me to buy rash guard for David. I am thinking of enrolling him to swimming lesson this summer and I am thinking of buying him rash guard swim wear. I wonder how much it is.

David just had their exam last week. It was called CGAT. I wonder what it means. I think the AT means achievement test but I don't know what CG stands for. There exam was from their 3rd quarter lesson up to the latest topic. One more month and its going to be their graduation day. I am excited for him to enter the elementary level. Really school are advanced now a days and I am  happy that he is learning how to speak in english well too. I did not train him in english but I noticed recently that he uses english more frequent than before. Thanks to all his teachers, the school and the director of the school. I am looking forward of more fruitful years as we work as partners.

Its third grading period and I asked my husband to go to school to get my son's class card. He was told the school doesn't give out class card during the 3rd quarter but instead oblige the parents to go to school and talk to the adviser to have update about their kids. His teacher, Teacher Rose, says Ron was moved to advanced students since he is coping very well. However after that he started to lose his focus. He become noisy and lose attention with their school activities. Before he can  finish all activities the teacher ask him to do but now he doesnt. Teacher Rose also mention there was a time wherein he switch plus from minus and vise versa so the teacher asked him to do the test again and he was able to answer it well. Teacher decided to put David back to his previous seat. We need to help David focus on his studies whoever he seat with.  I guess that's what you call peer influence. 

Well, as requested by my son we bought this movie. We already have part one and two of this. I was able bought it for P275... not much of a discount. Just like the previous Toy Story both my kids love it. They keep on watching it... everyday.. more than once.. the whole day. Thanks to the three aliens from Pizza Planet from saving them... hehehe. My two year old girl imitates the aliens when they say, "The Claw." Another great movie from Pixar. I don't get tired watching it over and over.

My son David will be 7 years old this coming June and I'm getting head ache on how to discipline him. Most of the time he is very active. He cannot stay on one location, he climbs almost every where. He always make tease his little sister and make her cry. He doesn't listen to our instruction most of the time. As much as possible I am avoiding spanking him but due to my high temper I always end up shouting and sometime saying words that I know could hurt him. There was an incident I told him that its much better if he is not around. I know I should have not told him that but I was not able to control myself. Haayss... I wanted my kids to grow up as a good citizen and God fearing. I guess my fault was I don't have time with my spiritual life so I was not able to instill to them the word of God. Lord please help me raise my kids. They are your gifts to us ... don't let them go astray and be far away from you. Forgive us for being not a good shepherd. I lay down my kids to you.. please be with them the rest of their lives. 

This is our Christmas gift for David. I bought this for half the price (1000php) from cash cash pinoy. I did check Toy Kingdom and the price is really 2k. I picked it up at Chicco Store in Festival Mall. David has a big smile when he saw his gift. I am glad he liked it and I will try to learn it too. It can be use like a real guitar wherein you can play using chords. It comes with a small card board showing how to form the chords.

December 22, 2011 was David's last day at school and their christmas party. It was a fun day and the kids really enjoy it. They got different toys from their classmate, teacher and Mcdo.