Gia's Walker - My Sitter

Daddy set up my walker as soon as I turned six months as he thinks I'm a super baby whose walking ability automatically comes with the appearance of my first two teeth.

Today's "walkers" are actually hi-tech play centers on wheels. They have all the toys you would probably need to distract yourself for a full day.

In this picture, my friend Gia lets me try her hot wheels. Just look at all the neat stuff on its dashboard. There are buttons you can press to honk or to play music. There's a sporty steering wheel too, just under your nose. Phew! With all these distractions, often times, you just sit on the driver's seat and forget about wanting to walk.

Good thing Gia already knows how to walk and does not easily get distracted by these toys anymore. As for me, its not much of a walker as it is a sitter!

Flower Power

I love long weekends because Mom and Dad get to spend more time with me. This weekend was more special as we escaped to Tagaytay and enjoyed the crisp and clean air at my ninang Evie's Farmville home.

Mom and Dad took me out for an early morning stroll and together we enjoyed the sweet scents of flowers of all shapes and sizes.
The cool weather also gave me an excuse to show off my fancy hat. I know I kinda look groggy here, but it's really just the sun in my eye.

The flowers were so beautiful to look at and I’m pretty sure, they taste just as well. Well, that would remain a theory as Daddy prevented me from tasting any of them. You should go visit Tagaytay at this time of the year when all the flowers are in full bloom. I guarantee you that you'll love their play of colors. Such flower power!

Mommies' Day Out

Mommy has been wanting to take a vacation with my ninang Evie ever since she gave birth. She has hardly had time for herself, as she takes every chance she gets to be close to me... hugging, kissing, playing or just talking with me.

Finally, last weekend, Ninang Evie invited us for an overnight at their cozy house in Tagaytay. We brought a whole entourage of yayas so the super moms could spend some time on their own .... as if they could resist being away from us for long.

It was so cool in Tagaytay that I had to wear my socks the whole time! We went to Cliffhouse, a pizzeria, along the ridge and enjoyed authentic Italian pizza and pasta. I loved the view of the lake as cameras clicked non-stop.

There were three of us babies there that day. Ninang Evie's sister Gela was there too with her baby Kitkat. Kitkat is much younger than me and Gia (ninang Evie's baby) but she might easily outgrow us both because she's already very big now. We're teeny weeny babies compared to her.

Anyway, in this picture I'm with my pretty ninang Evie and her daughter Gia. We sat on this swing for some picture-taking right before we headed for home. This was my first overnight away from our home but our mommies made us feel right at home. Hope you enjoyed your day out mommies!!!

Musically inclined

As I've mentioned in my last blog, mom and dad bought some new toys for me. Most of them have multi-colored lights that dance in beat with lively music. The one I like best is the pink and white guitar you see in the picture. It has brightly colored bottons for frets that you can press to play notes on the musical scale. Spread out over its body are heads of various animals. There's Miss Piggy, Mrs. Cow, Mr. Dog, Gasper the Friendly Goat and others. Press their noses and they make their sound. And oh, there's old farmer McDonald too who sings about his farm animals when you press on him.

I think I'll be an orchestra conductor when I grow up. It's as simple as pressing buttons in this guitar. I also love pressing as many buttons as I can at the same time just to see which note, sound, or song will play first. Ha,ha,ha.

I really enjoy listening to music since mom sings to me every night. And dad... oh well, he tries to dance to the songs that I listen to. Mom and yaya laugh a lot when Daddy starts dancing. He's actuallly a good dancer if you ask me -- of the tribal kind of course.

Anyway, here beside me in this picture is Pooh and Tigger in a log raft. They make a great musical pair. When they're switched on, they row their raft about the room as they sing along with the music.

I have new pictures with my friend Gia but they are still in my dad's camera. I will have to post them soon cause we have a side-by-side sleeping marathon picture that is very interesting.

Hammer Time

My Mom must have been a tindera in Divisoria in her previous life. Her past occasionally catches up with her when she gets bitten by the bargain bug. When this happens, my Dad becomes totally powerless to resist her spell.

To give you an idea of how incurable she is, she convinced dad to drive her there last November 2 despite my dad's protests that all shops are closed on All Souls Day. Well my dad was wrong, not all shops were closed, two were actually open for business.

Anyway, they went back the following week to buy stuff and toys for my playroom. Now that I can already sit down and crawl really fast, they figured I should have more space to move around.

Dad really did a great job fixing my playroom. He laid out the whole alphabet rubber mat on the floor; hung bumble bees and butterflies from the ceiling and put all my new toys with my reach-- a sound and music guitar, a battery operated singing Pooh Bear on a raft, rubber balls which I love to bite into, and so many others.

Among the toys mom and dad brought home were two plastic hammers that make these doinky sounds when you slam them. They're neat, really! But, I'm not the violent type and I prefer sinking my teeth in them more than banging them on the floor.

Dad must have thought that I'd volunteer to move out of their room and into my own. No way, their room is still my room and so are all the rooms in the house where my other stuff are. I guess, mom and dad think they can bribe me with all these new toys. Not that I'm ungrateful but I really have very simple needs. Up to now my favorite toy is my Avent milk bottle coaster (the white one behind me in this picture). They can actually just leave me alone with it and my imagination can run wild. Plus, it's a perfect teether too.

Anyway, thanks for my new toys. Can't wait for Christmas to see what Santa and my ninongs and ninangs will give me.

Backblog - A halloween post

Hello everyone! My mom and dad have been very busy these past few weeks. Since my little fingers can't do much typing yet, I have not been able to post any of my recent adventures.

Well I'm back, and just to keep you in the loop, I had my first halloween trick-or-treat last October 31. That's me in the picture all dressed up as Tinkerbell. Lovely pose, don't you think? My dad warned me not to poo in my dress, otherwise I'll be "Stinkerbell" instead.

Mom got me a pumpkin basket filled with candies-- maybe just in case everyone decided to go for the trick instead of the treat. After a few houses, however, my other pumpkin basket was filled to the brim. I went around Tahanan Village like crazy with mom, dad, yaya Menchie, Ninang Rell, and cousin Justine (as Tigger).

Earlier that afternoon we also visited my Ninang Neva in her beautiful Mediterean house in Ayala Alabang. That was the best part of my day because she gave me this super yummy chocolate wrapped in a ghoul designed foil. It was great! But of course, mommy spotted me and told me I could only eat one. Before she could changed her mind, I licked up my ration as fast as I could and left my chubby cheeks all smeared up in chocolate. Oh I wish you could have seen me.

Halloween is only fun if you have a really nice neighborhood to go trick or treating. Otherwise I think it'll be boring. Well, the point is, I had a lot fun. Thanks mom, dad and yaya. Next year I think I want to be Yoda. What do you think?