Tuesday Quotable Toots (4)

Do not be discouraged if your plans do not succeed the first time.
No one learn how to walk by taking only one step.

-Catherine Pulsifer

Welcome to the love month

It's the first day of February. Have u made any plans for the Valentine celebration friends? For sure, me and hubby will celebrate Valentine's day in advance. Why? We had a not so good experience in celebrating it before. Usually, we celebrate it with a dinner in restaurants we seldom go. But during Valentines Day, most restaurants are full and crowded. One time, we went to a beautiful restaurant overlooking the city. We really love this place because aside from the delicious foods that they serve in just a reasonable price, the ambiance is really cool. It's located atop a hill, in the middle of mini-forest. In there, you can see the beautiful silhouette of lights in the downtown area of the city. But when we were there, it was full of people. We waited but we noticed that those people who arrived later than us gets tables first. We complained to the manager but he just can't get us vacant table and be served. I was really upset at that time. I was already very hungry and I have really no tolerance for hunger. If I'm hungry, I really eat or else I'll have an aching head. So we decided to get out in there or else we'll starve to death. We end up eating in a restaurant where many youngsters hang out which I didn't like because it's very noisy and there's a lot of smoke. What we thought to be a romantic dinner turned out to be a real disaster. Since then, we celebrate Valentine's day in advance.

New Year Celebration

I was busy during the last day of December. Since the house helps went home to their province, I did the laundry, cleaned our room and every nook of it because it is believed that we should welcome the new year with a clean house to ward off the bad energy and bad luck of year 2009. Mom follows feng shui beliefs and principles like these and whether it's true or not, it's always feels good when your house and your room is free from clutter and really clean, right? While I was busy doing my thing, Mom was also very busy in the kitchen preparing for the Media Noche for the New Year's eve. As usual, there's the lechon de leche which we ordered at Kat and Cris. Mom prepared tikoy which is believed to foster close family ties. She also prepared shrimps and Lapu-lapu fish because they are colored red and they bring good luck for the new year. There's also the spaghetti for long life:) and fruit salad for dessert. She also prepared the 13 kinds of fruits. Pappa had no choice but to take care of lil Keona because all of us were very busy:).

lil Keona carried by Pappa, still sleepy. Oh we all wore red (except Keona who just got off from bed) for it is believed to bring good luck:)

yummy, crunchy lechon(roasted pig)

Lapu-lapu fish

tikoy

13 kinds of fruits

It is a city ordinance that firecrackers are not allowed in our place so Pappa rented a videoke to make some noise. We also have toy horns. Lil Keona was asleep at 10:00 o'clock in the evening but when new year's eve came, she was awaken by the noise. So we just brought her outside and let her join us in making noise, jumping with our coins:)

I love Christmas vacation!

Today starts our Christmas vacation. Yipeeee! I'm savoring this moment. No work. No rushing in the morning. No setting of time in the alarm clock. No seeing of Keona's sad face (sometimes crying face) when me and hubby bid her goodbye for work.

I love Christmas vacation. Time to stroll around in the neighborhood. Me and hubby together with Keona can have an afternoon walk. We have all the time we can spend the way we want it. And I can laze around just like Sundays:). Four more days to go and it's gonna be Christmas time. Done with the groceries and shopping with gifts. Merry Christmas everyone:)

Identifying colors through ref magnets

Keona loves to walking around the house by holding just one of my hands and whenever she passes by the refrigerator, she stops, and rearrange the different magnetic fruits in its door. And she identifies their colors. She points to the particular fruit corresponding to the color I asked her. Her favorite color? Green and blue! And she's learning fast. Thanks to Mom who acts as her tutor whenever me and hubby are at work during the day.

Breakfast at work

It's Alfred's (my officemate) birthday today. He told us not to take our breakfast at home because he will have his breakfast treat at the office since we have only a half day work and it's gonna be holidays already!Yeheeey...long Halloween holidays!

Today is Keona's big day as well. So, its gonna be a fun Thursday for us! Happy Halloween everyone! Enjoy the holidays!

HPS#2 Walking most of the time

Sunday is the only day that we can devote our time to our little girl Keona. So I really make it a point to bond with her during this day. Early in the morning, even if I would have wanted to extend time in the bed, I heard her say "Pappa, Momma, baba". She's already awake and she wants to go down! When she says "baba", that means she want to go down to the floor and walk while holding my hands.

She's can't balance yet and can't stand on her own and this is her way of learning. We spend most of the time walking around the house on a lovely Sunday. Ifever I'm really tired, I would play her nursery rhymes CD because this will make her get glued on TV and it gives me time to rest. Have a great Sunday friends!