Eating her veggies

Iya eats veggies though not that often and not all kinds. She loves sayote in her tinola and she eats carrots but only if they were chopped really small… I forget the other ones she likes. Anyway since we arrived here my mom has been cooking a lot of dishes with sabaw. And I found out that Iya likes pechay and kang kong without forcing her to eat them.

I now asked my mom to start using malunggay since I plan to breastfeed nga. They say malunggay leaves can help you produce more milk. With Iya kasi I only started eating malunggay after she was born & I was breastfeeding already. Now i’m thinking if I start to eat malunggay early, i’ll have more milk! hence, breastfeed longer. hehe… Anyway, what do you know, Iya loved the malunggay! While having dinner she kept asking for “more leaves”

Everyone in the family’s eating malunggay now and they’re teasing me that if ever I ran out of milk, there will be a lot of volunteer in the house! hahaha!

Iya’s school stuff!

After enrolling her we went to the mall to get her some stuff. I only originally thought of getting her new shoes but I found my basket soon filling up! I didn’t realize that she’d need a lot more! new socks, new panties etc etc… and the school required a “hygiene kit” which we had to make by using an old shoe box. It should contain things like extra clothes, soap, powder, face towel, toothbrush etc. The mention of the hygiene kit actually made me smile. Coz I remember we had them also. Well I don’t really remember my box, but definitely my sisters and I had them in preschool

here are some pics

she picked out her shoes!

Speaking of shoes, as I was looking around I couldn’t believe that some barbie shoes cost 1,300php! Same price as florsheim. While the rest of the barbie shoes hover at 600+ So I asked the salesman how come? And he said the ones that are more expensive has real leather while the cheaper ones are synthetic.

and she chose her lunch box too!

I didn’t buy her a school bag yet since I have no idea how many things she has to bring. All the materials will be given on the 1st day of school. Atleast that saves me from having to look over dozens of notebooks and have to decide which design is cuter! hehe… But for now, she likes Minnie Mouse. Disneyland hang over pa ito! lol! So i’ll probably get her a Minnie Mouse backpack soon

At one point during our shopping, she asked if all the things in the basket were hers. (it was nearly overflowing!) And I said yes! And it’s like she couldn’t believe it! lol!

The search is over!

And finally, after sleepless nights deciding where my daughter would attend school I found one that was near our place and where my daughter would hopefully enjoy and grow. (fingers crossed!)

The preschool is relatively new. I think they opened only about 4years ago. But I was willing to try this school because of the ff reasons:

- it’s near our place
- low student-teacher ratio. for Kinder 1 they have 10-15 students max per class.
- very accommodating teachers
- the rooms were airconditioned and very lively..err colorful. The students’ art works were displayed on the walls.
- they use progressive-montessori method as a way of teaching
- the directress was a former teacher at Early Achievers and I guess she adapted almost everything in her preschool (the rooms were almost the same as early achievers, uniform is checkered and almost sailor type too hehe)

I hope I made the right choice. I just want my daughter to enjoy and at the same time learn without being pressured too much. I already enrolled her so everything is paid for. The price of the school uniform i found a bit steep. The price of the blouse was different from the price of the jumper. And prices also differ according to size. Students are to wear the uniform from Mod-Thurs. Then P.E. uniform on fridays.

On the way to the school pala I was telling Iya nga that we are going to enroll her already. And she got really excited! What she said next caught me by surprise:

“And then mama when iya goes to school you will leave me alone okay? you just stay home!”

huhuhu… she can’t wait to get rid of me!!

My little girl is really ready for school!