Mommy Sweetie

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Rasing Happy D!

Where did time go?! Last week of March na? Oh my! I haven't posted my month long birthday celebration last February, all my other post are left in the draft, I have tons of stories to share about my family and career life, yet nada! ang mga posts. Tsk! And I am about to celebrate my anniversary in blogging (yes! feeling true blogger lang tlaga!) Ang bilis talaga ng time kapag busy ka. And one of the reasons why I am so busy is spent time reading resources on how to discipline baby D. And I want to share this inforgraphics from lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/this-infographic-reveals-how-to-raise-happy-and-healthy-1542169077

I hope this will help mother's out there!

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

SUCCESS! I PASSED!

I am so happy! I passed the board exam! Success! I am so blessed.

I actually received the results a few days ago, and just today that I realized that I am so lucky! Okay, I admit, I am bit disappointed because I didn't made it to the Top10. I know ang yabang db?! R and I are hoping for the Top10, I wanted my Disneyland prize lol! as baby D will say "Juke Lang!". I am so happy actually, I just can't figure what's next after this success, thus the confusion part.

Anyway, enough for the drama. Everyone is so happy for me! Mama said "Ang galing ko kasi magdasal nagpamisa pa ako nung exam day mo na!" and Papa said "Para ka na din nanalo sa lotto anak, 30,000++ hindi nakapasa, ikaw nakapasa!" Tita A said "Wow! ang galing mo naman! first take?!" Hahaha they can't believe I passed the board exam! And daddy R's reaction?! "Oh magmasters ka na!" Super supportive right!?

Reminiscing my life two months before the exam made me relish this good news more. Although I am not really 100% serious with my review classes, the time I spent every saturday and sunday, plus the expenses is serious ha?! And the playtimes I missed with baby D in exchange for the review classes is priceless. And I can imagine myself crying if I learned that I failed. Although daddy R has a contingency plan to that "Retake sa July!" lol.

And after the treats, blow-outs and dine-outs to celebrate how lucky I am, I still have not thanked all the people who helped me through this journey. I started this dream some four years ago and almost stopped when I got pregnant to baby D, I almost dropped (oh I actually repeated 2 field studies). And things turned around that baby D became my source of inspiration to reach the finish line.

Thank you so much daddy R, my boyfriend then who helped me morally and financially from the start of my review for the entrance exam until board exam. For always believing in me that I will pass my exams even if I didn't study. For believing that I can pass all the requirements needed. Thank you so much for always believing in me.

To Papa & Mama who are there to take care of baby D when I need to attend my evening and weekend classes. For preparing my breakfasts and baon during reviews. For praying for me. You know that all I want is for you guys to be proud of me.

To my boss, who is always considerate when I need to change travel schedules due to my scheduled exams and field studies. Thank you for allowing me to grow as an individual outside my career.

To my bestfriend who is always encouraging me to be the best that I can be.

To my MIL and BIL who literally made one of my field studies, thank you so much.

Thank you so much Lord, for blessing me with so much! you always never fail me.

To everyone who believed and prayed for me, Thank you so much guys! (Okay I feel like I won Oscars na!)

Last 4 years was a journey of learning, gaining new friends and expanding my horizons. And I am so thankful that I made it and I am step closer to my dreams. I am happy that all my hard work has paid off and hopefully will enjoy the harvest soon. My next plans may not be as water clear right know, but I trust that He has a beautiful plan for me. And I so much excited for the next chapters.

Friday, 7 February 2014

The Joy of Long Weekend

TGIF! I'm so happy that finally after two months, I am now excited for weekends again. Weekends are the only time R and I spends time with our little firecracker. So last week's long weekend was special. And our little boy enjoyed it to bits. I know! its been a week! but I wanna document D's milestones right? so let the pictures do it. How our long weekend was.

Night of Thursday, but technically start of longweekend. D threw a drinking glass again! yes, malapit na maubos gamit ng lola niya. And to discipline him, I tried to put him in the corner. And guess what? he even tagged Jollibee along for company. Silly baby. How can I discipline this toddler without spanking him? help!

I also brought home a little cake. So D thought its his birthday again!

Look at the smile! because he's watching barney for the nth time at 4am! hay...

The next morning, he tagged to the village's playground. I wanna sleep pa sana, but how I can resist?!

At home, while waiting for daddy R, baby D said "Bahbye!.. taxi? late naku!" haha saan kaya siya pupunta at nagmamadali? He even put on his cap and secured his cars in the paper bag.

While nursing, gawin daw bang parking lot ang tummy ko?!

Next morning was super fun. The boys rummaged our room with whole day wrestling, tickling and playing. I am actually smiling now as I imagined how they laughed. I am so lucky, no I am blessed.

We also watched Frozen. And been watching it over and over and over the week. We love the story, and the sibling love made me wanna have another baby#2! lol

Sunday morning was spent again in the playground.

This is actually the first time we accompanied D in the village playground, first for R. #guiltyworkingparents. And I so proud to see how brave my baby boy is. Imagine he can slide on the big kids slide alone?! #daigpasidaddyR

R and I also enjoyed the long weekend. We sneaked on a date and watched (I slept) I, Frankenstein. And guess who we saw?

He's so gwapo and young! I get so near na sana, pwede na ako papicture! Kaso R didn't want to. Sayang.

Anyway, we got to try Pepper Lunch.

Since Pepper Lunch is located at SM Fairview Foodcourt, they gave us this device. Galing noh?

And my Meal. I loved it.

I am so looking forward to more long weekends with D.

Happy Weekend!

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Bye Buddy!

I totally don't know what to feel this morning when I left the house without my ever reliable milk expressing breast pump. I feel happy that finally I don't need to endure the tiring milk expressing session with my ever trusted manual pump during breaks, no need to "moment time", no interruption in between my work, no worrying about unfrozen ice-packs, no hassle of carrying the insulated bag and most of all I can now go home late without the worry that my freshly expressed milk getting spoiled. So after 2 years, I can now go back to my daily routine, but I will surely miss my milking buddy, really served me well.

So this is the feeling? Like all other working breast feeding mothers feel during the transition in weaning, bittersweet. But as I mentioned in my earlier post about weaning D, I already decided to do it with justifiable reasons. Although he's not yet completely weaned, we are getting there slowly. This week, he didn't ask for "dede" during daytime. Even if asked if he wanted "dede" or "milo" he will choose "milo", very good boy! he understood that he already turned 2 years old and as we agreed "no more dede na, milo nalang and juice". But he still nurse the whole night, so I decided to stop expressing milk in during work to reserve it during nighttime, no one drinks my expressed milk anyway. So this is it, baby D is now a little boy. hay...

Dear Buddy,

Thank you for making my breast feeding journey successful. You served me well, and as I bid goodbye to you now, hopefully we will be together with baby no.2! lol. You may not be as user friendly as others do, but you are the best buddy for me. You made our life easy by helping me provide D with the liquid gold even if we are in Davao, Baguio, Sofitel, Manila Hotel, Dipolog and Aklan. You are one of the accomplish why D grew-up healthy and active. Together we provided D with the best nourishment he needed. Thank you very much for helping me provide D the best thing that a mother can do, breastmilk.

'Till we tandem again buddy,

Monday, 20 January 2014

D's Pocoyo Party (2nd Birthday)

Where did time go? I have now a toddler (officially). Last saturday, D turned 2 years old and broke 2 drinking glasses, spilled 2 pitchers of juice and had a countless bruises, OMG! what else?! But, but, those things cannot match the happiness that D brought to our family. On both side of the family, he's the ultimate favorite, because he's youngest and he's into the stage of always pasikat! haha aliw lahat!

So there..., we celebrated D's birthday with the whole family and D's barkada (yes! mayroon na!). The theme is POCOYO since D loved the gang so much! I just had a hard time since pocoyo themed party needs/supplies are very limited in the market. But I took the challenge. And in my own assessment, Baby D is so happy with the party!

I have a lot of plans for the DIY Pocoyo Party, but the stress that I had during the week before the party and the upcoming exam dates, I had enough stress and settled for few DIY's. 'Di bale baby D, mommy will make it up to you next month, birthday mo ulet! lol

Anyways, we started D's birthday celebration by a tradition that I want to have every morning with D and our future kids.

Blowing of cake and candles first thing in the morning.

R and I sang birthday song, while D is clapping and blew his candle, btw, this is a second take na, got so excited and forgot to video the first time.