One Day At A Time

Sofia wore her new sneaker today. Bought it last week, the same day I bought myself a book. It’s called Twinkle Toes by skechers. It lights up She wanted the pair the 1st time she saw it last month at Nordstrom. (or rather the 1st time the salesperson showed it to her!) I kept reminding her to refrain from stomping her feet inside the class to make it light up ‘coz her teacher might not like it.

My daughter’s feet grows so fast! Just last month I was surprised when we went out to buy her rainboots. I asked for a size 13. (coz that was her size the last time I bought her shoes) and the salesperson was like, “why don’t we check her shoesize to be sure” and to my amazement, she’s a size 2 already! No wonder she’s been complaining that her converse is tight na daw. I thought she was just making excuses to be able to wear her winter boots instead of her sneakers. Come spring, she’s gonna need new sandals naman. (and new clothes too i bet) Oh well, we’ve got a fast growing kid

I finally bought the book “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls the other day. Whenever I go to the bookstore and see that book, it’s like it’s one of those books that I think I have to buy and I don’t know why. So last night I started reading it. And darn, after a few pages I knew right away i’ve read the book na pala!! I did read the synopsis at the back cover of the book ofcourse but it didn’t seem familiar. Only when I started reading it did I realize that I actually have read it. Now I remember borrowing the book from my youngest sister. The reason probably why I didn’t remember reading it before is the fact that the book wasn’t mine. Oh well, the last time I read it was a couple of years ago so….. (the bad thing I suppose is that now i’m thinking it must not have had an impact on me coz I didn’t remember it!)

Anyway, it was just another sunday. Hubby bought pasta from Olive Garden for lunch (it’s been years since we last dined there hehe) Sofia loved the lasagna. And she enjoyed saying the word lasagna over and over like crazy! lol! (mom, can you make lasagna for my baon at school so that when my friends ask what it is i’ll tell them “oh, it’s lasagna”–with matching batting eyelashes!)

Around 6pm I suddenly remembered we had to buy valentine cards for her classmates at school! Hubby’s gonna be too busy at work for sure to drive us during the week so I asked him to accompany us to target pronto! hehe… picked up a total of 40 (gulp!) cards, gift for her teacher, a disney princess toothpaste for princess Sofia and a few more things. There’s a lot of cute spring clothes right now and I was sooooo tempted to get a few for the girls but stopped myself. It’s baby sale over at Old Navy’s so hopefully I can go check ‘em out soon haha…

I was so glad when Odette called this morning and told me she is actually free today and can accompany me for a haircut. (Thanks a lot again!!) We went to the salon she goes to. Just had my hair layered. I enjoyed the blowing out part. Coz at my age I still don’t know how to blow dry my hair hehe.. After that we went to a different salon for a spa pedicure since the salon where I had my haircut was closing already. (they were only open until 5pm)  The girl who did my nails was really good. Magaan ang kamay. And I enjoyed the leg massage I can’t believe it’s been more than a year since I last had this luxury. Then Odette and I went to church.

We met up with Jojo for dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant.  And we all had a hearty meal. Then went to Seattle’s Best at Borders and more chika. Ofcourse I didn’t forget to get pasalubong for Iya. And i’m glad she liked it. (Backyardigans book with music cd–it’s one of her favorite tv shows)

I rarely go out without the kids in tow. (I think this is only the 3rd or 4th time I went out without them) And  believe me I felt guilty the whole time I was out. But I was so happy when I got home and was greeted by Maia’s ever sweet smile! She was practically jumping on the bed upon seeing me with arms stretched out! So I scooped her right away and gave her a tight hug and lots of kisses! Her reaction made me feel really good. I guess it’s because since we’re always together 24/7 I don’t get to feel how the kids miss me.

So that’s how my day went. Hopefully it won’t take a year again before I get to pamper myself a bit

I was tagged by Odette eons ago and this draft has been sitting in the file for i don’t know how long so had to edit stuff…

1. I am a mother to a 5-going-on-15-year old kindergartner, a 15 month old & a 35wk old baby boy in my tummy as of this writing

2. I am very sentimental. I am also pack rat. I just can’t part with letters and other stuff friends have given through the years! I still have postcards/letters of classmates from elementary!!! I had boxes of them!

3. I collect a lot of things..teehee.. it started with letters and pictures of classmates… then late in highschool my mom started buying those happy meal toys for my then 5 yr old youngest sister. And i’ve picked up the hobby of collecting the toys since then. I also collect mugs. I started with mugs that fancy me or those I find cute when I started to work. Until hubby bought me my 1st starbucks citymug back in ‘04. So now i’m just collecting those citymugs I also have US commemorative quarters, a few shotglass…and the moo parade figurines.

4. I am a gypsy. Yup, no permanent address. I’ve lived in 5 cities between 3 countries since 2001. Keeping my fingers crossed that the current place we’re at is where we’ll be staying for good–or not. haha

5. I was a die hard fan of Francis Magalona from wayyyyyy back! as in grade 6! so i was only 12 then. So imagine my deep sadness when he passed away last yr… a day before we left for the US. I was crying while packing… so stressed about our departure and so heartbroken over what happened to Francis. Everything was just too much at that time

6. I love reading the newspaper. I know you can read them online. But I prefer holding the paper. I enjoy flipping through the pages… I still prefer books over ebooks, even over television!

7. I wanted to be a flight stewardess when I was younger because they kept telling me I was tall for my age then. I also wanted to be a lawyer like my grandfather since before he passed away he told me he i will inherit all his (antiquated!) law books nyahaha.. Ended up being a bank employee and now a full time mom..who would’ve thought!

8. I am allergic to certain seafoods like shrimp, lobster, crabs… even in chichiria form. One time we attended a wake. they had this huge bag of crackers and my ofcmate and I munched on them. and suddenly red dots started appearing on my legs, we were eating shrimp crackers!! We all thought they were fish crackers! I am also allergic to some medicine, some alcoholic drinks, and a few others..

9. I’m a Literature major. The library was our hang out place. We read a couple of novels a week so we were fast readers.

10. I took ballet lessons and I used to play the piano. Unfortunately I never really enjoyed reading music sheets/notes. Except for the ones I have learned, I mostly just play by ear. I hated my teacher who happened to be a nun! Boy was she so strict! She uses a stick to correct the position of your hands if she sees them not raised.

Well I guess that’s it!

My little one’s a bit sick I noticed she had a runny nose this morning but didn’t really worry since she was all active and happy and eating. But come night time… ayayay! she had a hard time sleeping! she was so sleepy yet couldn’t really sleep coz she had a runny nose… and she wanted to be carried. I tried sitting down but she’d cry all the more and so finally she fell asleep and i was able to put her down just now. (and it’s past 12mn)

It’s really so sad when our kids get sick. Even if it’s just a cold. I’m hoping she’ll feel better in the morning. I don’t want her to be sick knowing i’m due to give birth anytime now. Sigh…

I don’t know if I have shared the story of Maia’s name. It wasn’t supposed to be Maia. I have thought of a name for a second daughter years ago and it was supposed to be Fiona Simoune. It has the same initials as her older sister Frances Sofia and both names happen to have the exact number of letters! (12) And so the day came we found out I was pregnant with another girl. And her name was the least of the things I had to think about. Until one day I was lying in bed with Sofia and told her what we would name her baby sister… and her reaction was:

“i don’t like fiona mama..remember in Shrek (the movie) fiona turned ugly!”

I had a fit laughing! and then thought it over and was like, darn, she’s right. I picked the name Fiona because I liked the singer Fiona Apple. But it never crossed my mind that in my children’s generation, the name Fiona will always be associated with Shrek the movie. And Fiona, though a princess, was also an ogre! (que horror!)

So there I was on the last month of my pregnancy in panic thinking of what to rename her sister! I asked hubby to think of a name and he was the one who came up with Maya. I just decided to change the spelling to Maia.

Here I am now ready to give birth anytime and still haven’t decided what to name our little boy!! I know…bad… hopefully we won’t end up calling him “baby boy” lol!