Baby

The little girl wants to be a doctor

05.23.2011

For now, I think. She likes putting on her aunt’s lab coat and playing with her stethoscope. Whenever someone in the family is sick or feels the slightest discomfort, she always assumes the role of doctor. She’d dig in her box to find odd toys she can use as “doctor tools”. I don’t want to [...]

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Baby carrying blues

05.06.2011

Whenever my big girl asks me to carry her, I almost always oblige because I want to make the most of these moments when she still needs me and wants to be around me. My only challenge is she’s grown to be so heavy. Not really like fat heavy, but big heavy. She’s quite tall [...]

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Four things

12.19.2010

One morning while watching “Go Diego Go!” on TV, Jamaine blurted out, “Mommy! It’s a field journal!I want a field journal!” A few minutes earlier, we were having the “stay home – have to go to the office tug of war” again. Seeing an opportunity to convince her to let me go to the office [...]

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Must wear…

11.18.2010

After brushing her teeth and playing water washing her hands on the sink, Kalia tugs at me and says “Mommy basa na ‘to” while pointing to her clothes. We go to the playroom and I bring out a new pair of pambahay sando and baby panty. She still wears diapers so we usually just let [...]

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