Little Athlete
Note to self: need to get some new outdoor lighting fixtures so the kids can play in the garage when it’s night time. Meg is at the age where staying in one place for more than an hour bores her to bits. So we move from room to room upstairs, living area downstairs and lastly, the garage wherein she can hang out with her ate Sandy.
This little one is so mobile now. She crawls nonstop and if not that, she wants to stand up and cruise towards me (no surprise) as if she can really walk. I do hope she can walk without help before her birthday or at least a month after. We are planning on a much-awaited beach getaway and it will be great if I can leave her in the sand without worrying every minute.
Gifts: Picture Frames
Just found some really nice customized picture frames that I could use for my niece’s baptism. At first, the mom (my cousin) wanted them as giveaways but it might be too expensive even if we just give it to the ladies. We came up with the idea of just buying at least 20 and then give it to godparents instead. The customized frames will work just right since we can either spell out the godparents names or have it engraved.
Meg At 7 Monts
At 7 months:
Meg is unstoppable. She crawls, walk/runs with the help of her walkers, loves to kneel and dance, hangs on to anything near so she can pull herself up.
Loves Justin Bieber’s Baby to bits. Even if she’s crying, just play that song and she will be distracted immediately. She dances by waving her hands and kicking her feet which are always in perfect rhythm.
Say “arimunding munding” and she’ll wave her chubby fingers as if dancing the hula.
She calls me mummm or mummmah although it could just be me translating her gibberish words into something that I like. Still, you can always hear her say mummmm if she’s starting to get angry.
She has a temper, which shouldn’t have surprised me (knowing her Papa’s and Ate’s own tempers) but I was shocked the first time she got angry. There’s nothing in the world that could distract her. She has always been such a happy baby that I thought nothing could ever irritate her. I was actually ignoring her cues, knowing she wouldn’t care if she doesn’t get what she wants. I kept missing the fact that she’s not a newborn anymore. She knows what she wants and she wouldn’t stop until she gets it. Either by crying, crawling, or grabbing and wrestling with anything/anyone near her to reach her goal.
Her two bottom teeth are out so she’s also cranky at times. The biting has started too, as if the sleepless nights are not enough!
Speaking of, still no luck on sleeping for more than two hours. I think I’m too accessible for her.
I can leave her for five hours now, thanks to her love for solid foods. 
Wednesday Happy Thoughts
No, I haven’t lost any belly fat yet but I ate two slices of mango cake and I didn’t gain a pound. That’s a lot considering I now gain and lose weight everyday depending on what I eat. If you ask me what my weight now is, I wouldn’t know if it’s real or just a result of my dieting/bingeing.
Great news on my inbox today. Can’t divulge yet. But let’s just say it’s enough to make me forget about sleepless nights for a few days.
My two girls playing and “sleeping” at the same time. They just love to hang out on our big bed, playing with Justin Bieber’s game on the Husband’s iTouch (Sandy) or just wrestling (Meg).
Beach travel in 6 months! I know it’s too far for me to celebrate but still, I’m dying to feel the sun on my skin and hear the sound of the waves crashing that I don’t care if I have to wait for months. Besides, we want Meg to be one year old or so before we travel / ride a plane.
Goodbye Healthy Skin
I wish I still have my pregnancy glow. (Just the glow, not another baby)
Now I have the skin agents will pay for just so they can feature me as the BEFORE photo on their beauty product commercial. Luckily, it’s not something that will make me research how to get rid of acne fast for hours, knowing there’s no tried and tested way that will fit everyone. Still, I already have two huge black bags under my eyes so the absence of skin breakouts would be greatly appreciated. I am too tired at the end of the day to do something about it (can’t even find the time to brush my hair after a bath) so I’ll just wait until Meg is one before I do one of those twice a day, one-hour beauty regimens.
Point and Shoot Lovers
I can’t have enough of digital cameras! I’m currently looking for a cheap Panasonic LX3 or LX5 but first, I need to dispose my fairly new point and shoot, Canon iXus 80. Let me know if any of you are interested. It has motion and face detection technology, 18 shooting modes, 8MP and uses DIGIC III Image processor, the ones used in DSLRs. You can read about it here. It’s rarely used, just as a backup when we are too lazy to bring the Husband’s 40D.
Happy 7th Month Meg!
Since Meg’s 7th month fell on a Saturday, we had a quick lunch at our favorite not-so-crowded restaurant in Rockwell – Kulinarya. Food was great as usual and now that Meg eats solids, she joined us with her mixed veggies and her first taste of Marie biscuits.
I bought her first toothbrush too, which occupied her for a few minutes so we can eat in peace.
Me and Ate Sandy
After some quick shopping, we went home, slept and had another celebration before dinner. I asked the Husband to buy some cupcakes for a change and then we had Sandy arrange them into a one big cake. After putting 7 candles on top, we sang Happy Birthday to our dear Chubameg.
She had colds at the time (every month, actually) so she was a little cranky. Still, it didn’t stop her from exploring and touching the candles.
Trying ….
Success!
Ewww!
After touching the icing, she didn’t like it anymore. Just look at her face!
Happy 7th Month to our darling Meg!
Exercise for The Lazy Ones
Speaking of diets, my cousin-in-law has a blog that features all kinds of fast diets that work. I visited it a few times and I would recommend it to my friends who are interested to lose some extra pounds. Aside from diets, she also writes about healthy and easy workouts that you can do in front of the computer, while playing with the kids or while out doing an errand.
I will try the tummy squeezes myself because although I am now back to my old weight, I couldn’t say the same to my used to be flat belly. I ate everything and anything I could put my hands on while I was pregnant with Meg and unlike with Sandy, I was very lazy to exercise. After almost 7 months, my hips and tummy area are still huge so I need to do my best to tone them so I can wear my old shorts again.
Frenemy
Funny how my email inbox is filled with the best fat burner emails when I am very happy about my current weight right now. I think I’ll forward it to my “friend” who loved telling me how huge and ugly (you read that right!) I looked when I was 8 months pregnant with Meg. Her baby is now one year old and she still looks as if she’s having another baby soon. Not that I’m being mean, but you could say she deserves it after listing all our old acquaintances who gained weight since we graduated from College. When people talk about each other’s success, she lists downfalls so she’ll feel good about herself.
All is Vanity
Women will never be satisfied with how they look no matter how perfect they seem. It’s a common trait among womenfolk and if you’ve seen Mean Girls with the scene about them commenting on the body parts that they hate, you’ll know what I mean.
Talk of liposuction is always popular especially with moms like me who just have no time to exercise yet loves food with a passion. Not that we could all afford it but we look at it as an option when worse comes to worst. Even the Husband talks about it all the time whenever he gets frustrated about his belly. Based from what I read, a liposuction procedure can take as fast as 1-2 hours only but you will need to stay overnight in a hospital.
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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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