A Happy Christmas

It's our second Christmas with Trisha and yes, we've somehow established our routine for the holidays :). We spend Christmas Eve's dinner with MS's family and come home around 10pm to spend Noche Buena with my family. Then Christmas Day would be lunch with my family and dinner with MS's family. We will be spending our New Year with the same routine. I am sincerely very thankful that MS understands my need to be with my family for Noche Buena and Media Noche. Without Trisha, MS and me, it would just be Mom, MAC and MAA (My Ading Adrian). It breaks my heart to leave them on their own.

Anyway, this Christmas is one of my happiest Christmas :). I have always loved the holiday season, but with Trisha around, my Christmas became more special, more meaningful. I know my daughter feels the love around her, her Lola (Mama Lou as she wants to be called) loves her dearly, so as her Tita MAL, Tita MAC and Tito MAA. And she holds a special place in the heart of her dad's family too. And of course, I feel that nothing compares to the love her dad and I feel for her. We just love her so very much :).

She has grown so fast in the past year. I don't regret missing out on gimiks since I had her. I am happier spending each night with her, playing until she's ready for her sleep and dancing her to sleep when she gets tired from playing. Though, I sometimes complain about not getting enough sleep because of her feeding time :), I don't really mind waking up during the night to feed her. I know it won't be long when she'll stop feeding from her bottle and I know I will miss her dependency on me on that area.

I am looking forward to next Christmas when Trisha would be more excited to open her gifts. I just feel a little bit of sadness thinking about Cai graduating and eventually pursuing her career out of the country, then it would just be Mom and Adrian here in Baguio. Good thing that Trisha's around, I know that her little presence helps my Mom overcome any sadness in her heart :). Christmases would be more special once MAC also leaves the country, we plan to make it a big reunion with MAC & MAL coming home to join us or all of us flying out to one location to spend our Christmas together.

Again, a belated Merry Christmas to all and a Blessed New Year.

What I did today :)

It has been a busy day for me. I had to go out this morning to meet my cousin at the bank. Then MAC (My Ading Cai) and I had to run errands for mom. Our last stop was at SM to do our groceries. This has been a happy vacation for me (with a few more days left to enjoy it).

Oh by the way, I bought K Magazine this morning (Kris Aquino's magazine). I love her new house :). I love her kitchen, her rooftop, the facade of her house... Ok, I think I should stop here now or else MS will tease me again - of being a big fan of Kris. Which is actually true *laughs*. I do like Kris Aquino :).

Anyway, I just wanted to write something down. I would love to write more, but my thoughts are kind of disorganized today. I need to work tomorrow, on the documentations I brought home. I have to finish them all tomorrow, which I think is not possible. But I have to submit them before going back to Manila. I will, I will, I will work tomorrow :).

Goodnight everyone!

2007 Holidays :)

As I write this, we are in Baguio with my family for the holidays. So far, things have been great since we left Manila at 5am last Saturday, Dec 23. I have not updated my blog for so long, honestly, I have been really lazy to write. I have a million things in mind to do before the holidays, but I have some unfinished tasks back home in Manila (It was also my last month in U so I have been busy completing my projects in the office, which took my time off from my household tasks I wanted to complete before the year ended).

Anyway, back to my main line of thought. I just wanted to write something down before the year ends. I plan to post new pictures of Trisha as soon as I have time to upload them.

My young family is looking forward to the new year ahead, I have a new job which I am really excited about. MS has great plans for next year as well. I am also looking forward to getting my own car by February when the new Altis ('08) is released.

(Belated) Merry Christmas everyone. Let's all look forward to 2008!

Trisha's First Walk

I just want to share some pictures of Trisha walking around MOA's Science and Discovery Center. She enjoyed walking around, despite of falling several times (good thing the place is carpeted).

She is such a happy baby, oh yes I stand corrected, she is now a little girl :). She dresses up like a big girl actually. In the picture that follows she wears one of our favorite shirts from Zara, her RL pants and our favorite Brazil Havaianas.

And she walked all over the place....

So proud of herself walking alone...

Smiling at everyone she catches looking at her walk by herself...

See that proud look that seems to be saying "Yes! Mom! I am so good at walking!

:)

8 years as a couple :)

Dec 1 marks our anniversary as a couple. Although our May 8 wedding anniversary is now THE official anniversary, Dec 1 still holds a soft spot in my heart. We were not able to celebrate it with an intimate dinner this year, we instead held Trisha's Time Capsule party that day.

We are now on our 9th year as a couple. Only almost 2 years married to each other, but prior to our romantic relationship, we have been friends for a long time. I think I can still recall how we were introduced by our common friend, Rhona, who is now based in Cayman Island. We were classmates in some of our subjects (only a few, since he's a batch ahead of me) and we have a lot of common friends, so we would often see each other in our school corridors and their barkada's tambayan. But we only got close during my 3rd year in college. I can't really explain how we hit it off, I couldn't even recall how we developed our friendship. Oh now I remember! Hahaha. I am not sure I would want to share the details now and I don't think MS would want me to tell the detailed story. But suffice it to say that he became my confidante and my bestfriend ;).

I still feel kilig thinking about that part of our lives. MS still makes me kilig until now. I enjoy his company. I love talking to him. I love spending time with him. I enjoy laughing with him. He is a wonderful person, he is a good husband and a good father. And yes, I love him and will love him with all my life. :)

Nov 30 is the day!

Nov 30 is my daughter's first independent walk! I have been so wanting to see her let go of my hand to walk on her own, but when it finally happened and the initial excitement wore off, my heart broke into pieces *frowns*. My baby is now a little girl, the realization hit me hard. Soon, my little Trisha will not need Mommy to walk around, she will start doing things on her own and will not need me anymore.

Sad sad.. But at least, all my worries flew off! At 1 year old and not wanting to walk on her own, I feared that there is something physically wrong with her. For awhile, I thought that she might have problems with her legs (maybe not of the same length that's why she can't find her balance *laughs*). I am such a worry-wart! I thank God that everything is ok with my daughter. Thinking about it now, she has only been sick twice. First one because she got the flu from me and second, I think she got it from somebody else during the first birthday party she attended (of MCT, My Cousin Troi, at Little Gym Alabang). And in both occassions, she recovered really fast. If and when I ever have a baby again, I will surely breastfeed as long as I have milk! There is nothing like a breast-fed baby. Trisha has only been breastfed until she's 10months, but she's got a really strong resistance.

MS posted some pictures in his blog entry about Trisha's first walk on earth *winks winks* (who knows, she might be able to walk on the moon or another planet in the future!). Here's the link to Sherwin's blog to view her picture (pardon my pangbahay outfit hehe, really difficult to be a fashionista when you're a mom to a very active toddler).

http://31thirtyone.blogspot.com/2007/11/1-year-1-month-and-4-days.html

I have so many things to write about, but I am sleepy. We had our time capsule party last night and had coffee with our close friends until 1am. Then I had to wake up early today to go to the office for some month-end activities. I will make time to write tomorrow, provided that our Globe Visibility connection will be as good as tonight.

Goodnight everyone :). Watch out for some TETwitter updates (a new feature that I just added to my blog site).