Lucas's 3rd Birthday Celebration

Lucas's 3rd birthday celebration was simple, with dinner at home with the family. We had the usual children's party food like fried chicken and spaghetti. Lucas's cake was Shopwise's yummy and moist chocolate cake.

Here are several pics from my son's birthday celebration:

 Horsing around while waiting for dinner

With Mommy

with his cake

I know... cute, right?

Blow...

With Ate Denny

Opening Ninong B's gift

Wow! It's Stanley

Ang daling kumiss at yumakap ah...

Track's been there for almost a year now... at mukhang hindi siya madi-dismantle anytime soon

Happy Birthday baby... we love you!

Happy Birthday Lola E :)

Lola E turned a year older last Friday, July 30. We celebrated her actual birthday at home with lamb chops and chocolate cake (both were so yummy! the cake was so moist!).

Saturday, the family had dinner at Yakimix MOA. Good thing Nice was able to call days ahead and reserve a table for us. First batch (Me, JJ, Lucas, Ate Michelle, Einar and Enrico) were seated by 6:10PM. We were there early so as not to lose our reservation. If we didn't come in by 6:15PM, our slot would have been given to someone else. Believe me, the line when we got there was pretty long already! 

We enjoyed the food :) Our little boy was running around the place after he had his fill of fried rice, blueberry cheesecake and ice cream. It was pretty tiring but what can a mom-to-a-two-year-old-who-loves-to-run do? :) As usual, loved the salmon sashimi and maki. Missed the siomai though.

After dinner, we decided to walk around the mall. We dropped by Booksale. It was HUGE! Ate Michelle and I enjoyed browsing through titles. Got lots of children's books for Lucas at reasonable prices. Ate Michelle and I left the place dreaming of days when we can browse to our hearts' content (translation: Just us, without the kiddos :) ). It will come, Ate. It will come.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Cherished MotherEvery day since I was born,
My mother cared for me.
Now that’s a lot of caring,
As anyone can see.Please, Lord, protect my mother,
And keep her safe from harm,
For she is a cherished person,
With great wisdom, love and charm.Lord, it’s my mother’s birthday
So please, help her to see
How much she means to us,
Her loving family.

By Karl Fuchs

Happy Birthday Momsy :-) Love love.

Lucas' 1st Birthday Party

We celebrated Munchkin's first birthday at Shakey's in Shopwise Sucat. Despite the SLEX traffic, we're thankful that our loved ones were there to celebrate the day with us.

Lucas - we just arrived at Shakey's

The birthday boy dressed-up for his big day

Lola Mami and Lucas checking out the place and the party items.

Family snapshot before the guests started arriving.

Chocolate Fountain.

This is sort of a DIY project for us. Ate Michelle (Lucas' godmother and hubby's cousin) lent us the chocolate fountain. We just bought the chocolate fondue syrup (melted and ready to use) at Chocolate Lover's in QC with fruits and pastries as dippings. Voila! Chocolate fountain station na :-) As predicted, it was a hit with everyone. Lucas' cake from Goldilock's.

Before Lucas blew his birthday candle

With Lola Mami and Lolo Dadi

Lucas with Lolo Pops and Lola Momsy

Thanks to Tita Nice for taking photos and Tito Patchu for being the videographer :-)

Happy Birthday Lucas :-) We hope you had fun. Love you.

And we now have a toddler...

Happy First Birthday Lucas :-)

Daddy and Mommy love you very much.

Party kuwento and pics to follow...

Happy Fourth Month Birthday Lucas!

Happy Fourth Month Birthday Sweetheart :-) Mommy and Daddy love you much much.

Here's our shirt-eating celebrant with Daddy. This was taken at 6 AM, by the way. First shift kasi si daddy and office party nila tonight. He didn't want to miss Lucas' birthday celebration (or should I say photo op? :-)) so we opted to do the candle-blowing ritual this morning.

Happy Birthday Pops!

My birthday kicks off a three-bdays-in-11-days thing for my family (not counting the fact that I share the same birthdate with my darling Lola Ima). We celebrated my 28th last weekend (pics to be uploaded later) and yesterday, we celebrated my dad's, uhhuhmmm, 20th :D though his big day is today, November 3. (ka-birthday niya si Ate Vi! hehe...)

My brother (whose 27th birthday is on Nov. 6) flew in from Macau to celebrate with us and it is nice to be with everyone in the family once again. It was another laugh- and chika-filled day with the family :-)

To daddypops, Happy happy birthday! Thanks for being a great daddy to us. Love you! :-)

Lolo Pops with Lucas