Busy with Painting
Watercolor set for Php180, two white cartolina at Php20+ each, my old paint brush and two cups of water = Busy Toddler for 20 minutes.
I’m so glad I work from home so I can take all these photos. I will have to find time to organize all of them soon as they’ve already accumulated too much space on my portable drive. Plus there’s no point on taking photos if no one can see them but online friends. I better canvass for cheap printers too so I can at least print some to show to her grandparents.
You’re A, Dora, Ball
Just had to blog about this before I forget.
Sandy: Mommy, mommy mommyyyy draw me something
ME: Yes, what?
Sandy: (handing me her magnetic sketch pad) Draw an A first.
Me: (Writing the letter A) Okay, then…?
Sandy: Then draw Dora ….
Me: I can’t draw Dora. I don’t know how.
Sandy: Drawww Doraaaaaaaaaa
Me: I can’t. Wait, I’ll try to copy her.
I got her Dora book and drew Dora as best as I could on her sketch pad.
Me: Okay? Is that Dora?
Sandy: Opo. Now, draw a ball.
Me: There’s no more space.
Sandy: Draw a ball please!!!!
Me: Okay, okay okayyyyyy!!!!! (drawing a small ball beside Dora)
Sandy: Ayannnn.
Then she started singing happily while pointing at the figures one by one.
A you’re A-Dora-Ble…. B, you’re so beautiful ….
Ah. Now I got it. LOL
For The Future
Just paid all our monthly obligations this morning. Thanks to my paypal funds, all our credit card bills have been paid two weeks early. I realized that this year will be the last payment for The Husband’s life insurance. This means we will have extra money for the next few years so I’m thinking of upgrading my insurance package too. I already asked for a life insurance quote online and hoping that the premium won’t be that high. Another option is to just open another pension plan with another company so we won’t have to put all our eggs in one basket. That way, we can enjoy the benefits while we’re alive.
Share-A-Book Drive: A Tag With A Cause.
Tagged by Mai
You have done countless of tags and memes that somehow helped you increase your traffic. This time please join me in this tag, you will not only increase your traffic but you will be able to help put smiles on kids faces by spreading the word about Kids Ahoy Share-a-book-drive.
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RULES:
1. Add your blog/s to the list. Feel free to add all your other blogs. It’s okea if you only post this in one blog as long as you answer them.
2. Get back to Me {architect} and I’ll add your blogs to the master’s list ! Note that you are not ALLOWED to change the link here.
3. Copy from Start to End.
4. Tag as many friends online you know. But you don’t need to be taged in order to join.
Participants: sweetprettynaughty, abbi, blogsilog, mommiespace, Napaboaniya, sassywham, eds, yen, christine, megamom, vannie, Mhay, lilet, Swept Away, The Scrapaholic Me, Love. Happiness. Us., Official Chosen Fate, , My Happy Place / Iam Dzoi / Suburban Sass / To the Moon and Back / Raising Sandy | Spin180, YOUR SITE/S
Dear family, friends, fellow reading advocates, parents and kid-lovers here and abroad!
Got CHILDREN’S Books?
Want to share-a-book with Kids Ahoy?
Want to give an early Christmas gift that many kids can enjoy and benefit from?
Visit our Amazon.com BookWishes list for ideas
or ask us how you can help:
(Philippines) kidsahoy@yahoo.com / 0920-9251891 / (02) 4737896
(US) 949-3407190
Check out our blog post re Educators Top 100 Childrens Books: Whats your child’s favorite book? http://kidsahoy.multiply.com/journal/item/97/
For the other MOMMIES out there who earns a lot mooolah on their blogging. You can donate by clicking on the amazon wishlist. Most books in the wishlist are priced less than $3. Or just send your kids pre-loved books. Leave a comment HERE so we can contact you how you can help.
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Tagging Mich, Jane, Jody, Kelly, Jacqui, Alpha, Peachy
More Photos from our DAMPA EB
Sandy, Alex (Mich’s), Bela (Abie’s)
Jane’s Sophia was not here because she was busy eating Sinigang na hipon LOL. Aggie’s Martha and Matthew were late naman.
Sandy, Alex, Bela, Joaqui (Peachy’s), Sam (Jacqui’s)
Jacqui with Sam, Peachy, Abie, Jody
Yours truly, Mich, Jane, Aggie
Snagged most of them from Abie. I cropped them so you can see our faces. Don’t you just love the special glow on the preggy mommies? Definitely no acne treatments for them. 
We talked about how they wanted to have maternity portraits then we dared Jane to expose her tummy ROFL. By the way, Peachy will be the first to give birth but based on the photo, you wouldn’t think she’s pregnant at all! As early as now, I’m already looking forward to October’s EB because we will finally be able to see Jane’s mansion bwahahaha.
Mommy EB
Again. Last Sunday. Great food. Loud laughter. Equally talkative husbands. Behaved kids.
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Looking forward to the next meet up!
Skatie Bangs
I trimmed Sandy’s bangs last week because they irritate her eyes a lot. When I told her let’s play parlor, she immediately sat down on her monkey chair and waited for me to put a blankie around her neck. While I was combing her hair, she said “Do I look like Skatie?” (*skatie for katie holmes) I then started praying that I can at least give her bangs a decent trim so she wouldn’t look like someone just chopped it off.
Her new bangs and her powdered neck. Not so perfect but not as bad as my first try.
Home Theather
Our neighbor is having a garage sale and one of the big pieces that they’re selling is a home theater seating. The Husband wanted to get it even if we obviously have no space for it in our living room. I can’t blame him, though. It looked really comfortable and not too big. Plus it’d be nice to watch marathon TV shows (for me), sports (for him), all-day movies (us) in a real home theater chair. That and with our new surround sound system, we’ll probably never leave the house again. Add some popcorn, potato chips, drinks and I’m sure even Sandy will behave for one whole hour.
Books, books and more books.
Tagged by Jane
Do you read books to your child?
Does your child like to read books?
Do you like to buy new books or is second-hand ok?
Post a picture of your child’s bookshelf if you have one.
Drop a line in this blog if you receive this tag and do it.
Yes, we read books to Sandy even when she was still in my tummy. Then as early as one month, we let her enjoy soft books and up to now, she enjoys reading on her own or having Mommy or Papa read to her. I used to buy new books (Php450-Php500) but that was before we discovered Booksale. Now we buy her as many books as we can (especially her Papa) without spending a lot. Too many times, people wonder if she can read already the way she can recite the words from her books. But nah, she just memorized all of them LOL.
She’s learning how to read now though but that’s another post for next week.
Happiness and Sadness
Tagged by Alpha and Yen
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Here are the Rules:
1. List the things that make you Happy and those that make you Sad.
2. Add your Blog to the list. Feel free to add all your other Blogs.
3. Tag other online friends you know.Toni’s Attachments, Cecile2’s-Small and Simple Things, Lara’s Pinay dot US, Lara’s My Blog Entry, Lara’s Byaheng Pinay, Living A’ La Mode, Bits and Pieces, My Life in this Wonderful World, My Online World, Ozzy’s Mom, Me,Myself+2, Kidd Designs, Fun|Fierce|Fabulous, Eds Mommy Life, Just Me.. Eds, My Precious Niche, I Am Mommy, All About The Memories, Enchanted Play, Just My Scrap, My life is Peachy , Celebrating life , belly, baby and beyond, All Things Me, Feels Like Home, A Day of Play, Because Life is Fun, Me and Mine | Creative in Me | For the LOVE of Food | Little Peanut | Pea in a Pod | It’s Where the HEART Is | Around the World | SugarMagnolias |, My Happy Place / Iam Dzoi / Suburban Sass / To the Moon and Back / Raising Sandy | YOU
What Makes Me Happy?
>> A healthy family
>> Dinners or coffee meet ups with close friends
>> Great inspiration
>> Good book, good music, good food
>> Travel regardless if overnight or five days
>> Satisfied design clients
>> Stable job
>> A husband reaching his dreams
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I am Dzoi, a 28 year old Filipina who currently works as a web designer. I am a loving wife to my equally loving husband Sherwin and a mommy cow to my 2-year-old daughter, Sandy.
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