Little Angels in our Family

A long drive was the order of the day yesterday when we trooped to Pampanga to attend my 3-month old nephew Enzo's christening. He is such a big boy now :) It is amazing how fast little boys like him fill up.

Here are snapshots of Lolo Popsy and Lola Momsy's grandsons...

Julian Matthew - MATTY

Juan Miguel - MIGGY

Lucas Ethan - LUCAS

Luis Jacob - LUIS

Lorenzo Macarius - ENZO

Popsy's been badgering us (his married children) to work on his granddaughter :) Haha! as if it's that easy...

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The reception was held at Cabalen's in Robinson's Starmills in San Fernando. Buffet again. JJ and I probably gained five lbs. each with all that eat-all-you-can thing the past weekend :)

There's a mall-wide sale the same day so the family checked out the stores. Mom and Chissa loved the Mango and Plains & Prints outlet stores. Mom enjoyed shopping and was kind enough to buy tops for me and my sister. Thanks Mom :)

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It was indeed a fattening weekend :) More please.... 

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.

Ate Mariel is back :)

Yey!

I am sure most of you are familiar with the anxiety that comes with a very good household help going on vacation. The past two weeks weren't really that difficult for us, thanks to Mommy E and Tita Nice who watched over Lucas while we were at work (one major perk of living with my in-laws :) ). 

But was I glad when Mariel sent me an SMS saying that she's already at Dumaguete airport's waiting lounge, waiting for the boarding announcement. Sigh of relief indeed. Now we can go back to "regular programming". Back to regular gym sessions, aero class and other "me-time" activities :)  Of course, date nights are back too.

A month away from his second birthday

Lucas turns 23 months today! Whew! In a month, our little guy will turn two years old. Sniff. Sniff. I know it's such a cliche' but really, how fast time flies.

Here's a couple of Lucas's pics:

At Isabel's 1st Birthday Party

Hi Mom! Lucas watching the games for adults

Obviously, starstruck! He kept on pointing at him and shouting his name but he refused to go near Jollibee.

"Water!"

With daddy and with mommy...

Choo-choo train at Festival Mall

At a family dinner

MILESTONES:

• "A" = apple, "B" = B, "C" = coo-coo (for cookie), "D" = Da, "E" = egg, "P" = P, "R"=R
• Can count from 1-5, when he's in the mood. Can fill in the next number until number 10 (Thanks Tita Nice for patiently teaching Lucas)
• Says the following words and uses them in the right context: Mommy, Daddy, Lolo, Lola, Ate, Danel (Daniel), Cwaker (Cracker), Yumyum, Up, Joo (juice), Igs (Migs), Bath, No, Ya, Cake, Cream (ice cream), egg, bread, jump, book, please (pwease), swim, etc. (forgot the other words na but he says a lot. he also imitates the words from his tv shows (Dora, Thomas, Sesame Street). Lolo G often calls him a myna bird.
• Can identify the following animals and can say what they are aloud: dog, nyaw (cat), rabbit, frog (fwog), mouse, duck, pig, ipi (ipis or ladybug, ipi tawag niya :) ), elephant (elepa). He barks when he sees dogs and says "Nyaw!" when he sees cats.
• Imitates actions
• When he hears people call our household help "'day", he calls them Day too instead of his usual "Ate"
• He sometimes calls his daddy, "J" and calls me "Chie" when he hears people calling me by name.
• One day, he was writing on a paper. When we asked him what he's drawing, he replied, "Ipi" (ipis). Believe me, his scribble was nowhere near an actual ipis :)
• He loves Thomas the Train. He'd eat, sleep, take a bath, travel, etc. with his trains. We love buying trains for him because his face lights up with delight when we show him his pasalubong.

Mini Shopaholic

I dropped by Amazon earlier today and saw the synopsis for Sophie Kinsella's upcoming book. Mini Shopaholic will be available by September 2010. Oh I just can't wait!

I got the UK version cover from Sophie's website

Click here to see the synopsis at Amazon.

Wimbledon 2010 Champion

Celebratory forward roll

At the Champions Ball

With Serena

Vamos Rafa!

Pictures by Julian Finney/ Getty Images.

I Love Breaking Dawn

I started reading Eclipse a few months ago but after three chapters of Bella and Edward professing their love and saying they cannot live without each other every time the opportunity presents itself, I decided to put it back in the shelf and moved on to another book. Hubby was insistent that I continue reading as the mushy parts will give way to the exciting parts of the book soon after the third chapter. I only conceded when I saw the Eclipse Movie trailer and saw a group of vampires and asked, "Ano yan J? May army of vampires?". And his reply was, "Tagal ko na sinasabi sa iyo na basahin mo na kasi ulit..". And so I did. And finished it in two days.

As all you Twilight fans know, you just cannot put the third book down and not want to start on Breaking Dawn and see how it will all end. This one I also finished in two days. It was just so hard to put down!!! For me the fourth book is the best. Meyer did a great job in developing the story in the past three books. It was marvelous how she made everything work out in the end.

I cannot wait for the two-part movie...

As for Eclipse the Movie, hubby and I will try to find time for it. But maybe by next week. We're banking on a lesser movie house crowd :) I cannot blame those who wanted to see it ASAP and endure long lines though. If everything went on as in the book, I am sure the movie is all worth the long wait.