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!

School hunting…

…can be taxing.

Even before we arrived from Israel, I was already researching where to enroll my little princess. I have tons of schools in mind but they were either too far or too expensive!! (what’s with the 100k up fees!!! and that’s for nursery!) Anyway, I was keen on enrolling her at Early Achievers especially since we already visited the school last yr when we went home for vacation. Unfortunately we weren’t able to make the reservation ‘coz by the time they called for the update we were up up and away! haha… Sayang din yung 20% discount because of the school’s anniversary, if i remember it right. (the time we inquired naman semestral break pa and they didn’t have the discounted fees computed yet) Only early birds can get the discount that’s what I was told. So scrap that.

Birthday Girl

We weren’t able to celebrate my little girl’s birthday on the 15th itself since hubby and the rest of our friends were really swamped with work. But we did finally had a small get together the ff night at Odette’s apartment.

the birthday girl so shy and conscious on this shot, palibhasa all eyes were on her:

four candles for the birthday girl!

while we were busy fixing the food her tito manny caught her already tasting the yummy cupcake!

and look at her smile…she loved those cupcakes..especially the icing and flowers!!

a closer look at her gorgeous birthday cupcakes!

Thanks Odette, Manny and Daniel for celebrating with us! Kahit na kaunti lang tayo i’m so glad that she still had fun!

please check out this link from odette’s blog:

http://mylittlekettle.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-birthday-iya.html

How time flies!

It’s April! and 2 weeks from now my little girl will turn 4! Imagine we arrived in Israel when she was just 2 1/2. And now she’s turning 4!

~ She has learned to understand and talk a bit of hebrew (especially last year when i was still taking lessons)
~ can count in four languages (english,tagalog,hebrew and spanish)
~ she can “tie her shoelace like the letter X”
~ change clothes on her own
~ knows how to fold clothes
~ brush her teeth (i still assist her though to make sure everything’s okay)
~ run very fast!
~ loves to sing and dance
~ can fix her things
~ write her name and the word papa (she has refused to learn to write other words..for now) she knows how to write letters A-Z but only when she feels like writing them down.
~ she is very very curious. about a lot of things! never ending what’s, why’s, how’s…
~ manages to make me really angry and then happy at the same time!

sept 2007

Wrote this sept 2007…

We think Iya wants a sibling already. Coz lately whenever she’d draw, there’ll be 5 faces. Biggest one is papa, followed by mama, small one for DD and 2 little ones for “my baby brother AND baby sister” hahaha (kaloka, she wants twins pa ata!) Also, when she makes bilin to her papa before he goes to work she says ” papa, buy icecream okay? (or whatever it is she wants for that day) we’ll all share. for papa, mama, me, baby sister AND baby brother”! Hubby & I would just look at each other and smile. I asked iya one time what she’ll do when she has a baby sister or brother. She said

“mama i’ll help you fold the baby’s clothes, and wash her bottles, and give her milk and tell her a story”

aaw..now isn’t that sweet? Well, hubby & I talked it over and we’re ready to have another baby. This time ofcourse hubby would like to have a son. But if it’s another girl, then it’s still okay. So goodluck to us!

Iya and the baby

Iya loves kissing my tummy and talking to the baby inside…

“hi baby!! you’re so beautiful! and so cute!”

smile fades from her face….

“mama, the baby is not answering!!!” lol!

Ofcourse she doesn’t quite understand a lot of things yet so we have to explain. She can’t wait to play with the baby It’s funny how when i think about it, Iya was the 1st one to sense i was pregnant! She kept touching my tummy early february and kept asking if she has a baby sister already. Yup, she wants a baby sister. Whenever hubby and I tell her what about a baby brother… she then will say “okay,baby sister AND baby brother!” oh boy! good thing twins don’t run in the family

Disneyland Paris

Our trip to disneyland probably was the best thing that ever happened in my daughter’s 4 yrs!It was raining the previous days so we were praying for sunshine on the day we went there. We bought her a raincoat the night before incase it does rain coz we don’t have umbrellas. And so on that fateful day, we woke up to a surprisingly bright morning. Thank God i said. So we hurriedly took a bath, fixed our stuff and off we went to the train station. It took us about an hour. And the weather started getting gloomy again…

After we’ve purchased our tickets we looked at the schedule for the day and hurriedly fell in line for Mickey’s photo op. The schedule said the photo op’s gonna last only until 12:15. and it was already nearing 12nn. The line was long. I was thinking we won’t be able to make it but fell in line anyway. And then…it started to rain..again!! dang! i really thought the weather would cooperate that day.

Iya loves to eat…

Just thought i’d share food that my little girl loves:

Mommy’s (that’s my mom) Tinolang manok, isda sa miso, arrozcaldo

Lola’s (hubby’s mom) pansit, karne prita, turon, lumpia (but with veggies inside)

Mama’s (moi) adobo, carbonara with lots of mushroom and parmesan cheese, italian spaghetti with again, lots of parmesan cheese!

Tito ruben’s sinigang

Tita Odette’s yummy cakes and cupcakes

yoghurt, (which hubby absolutely finds revolting!) banana, apple, grapes etc etc

She eats a lot more than those mentioned above ofcourse. She likes saucy dishes, sabaw and fried too. (chicken, tilapia and hotdog forever!) But no ketchup or mayonnaise for her pls. Funny nga kasi when she was below 2 1/2 she loved ketchup! When we’d eat out and she’d have fries, she’ll dip the fries in ketchup, put it in her mouth but not eat it, yet. The fries would still be there, minus the ketchup! she’ll dip it a few more times before she actually finished one. she ate that way! lol! So i guess nanawa na sya sa ketchup that’s why she sooo hates it now. hehe

Proud mama!

Lookie, that’s my darling Sofia on page 80 Smart Parenting magazine march 2008 issue Since i don’t have a scanner i had to rely on irish (super thanks!) to send me a scanned copy of the page where iya was in. I cannot believe i totally forgot to blog about it!

Earlier today, i finally received my copy! too bad it was folded in half! the mail carrier obviously wanted it to fit sa mailbox…but that’s ok i still have copies back home! lol! I asked my mom to buy me one and send it over here. Wow, iba pala feeling pag hawak mo na ang magazine and you’re looking and touching your daughter’s pic hahaha OA ba?

The shot took place at Robinson’s Galleria last december pa when we went home for a vacation. How did my daughter end up in the mag? Well, i met Irish through friendster last yr & she asked if i wanted Iya to model. My answer–Ofcourse! who wouldn’t want that?? haha.. Irish works as a stylist for the said mag. Then we had our vacation last yr, contacted each other and that was that.

Oy ha, it wasn’t a paid thing. Lots of people have been asking kasi. Kids daw model for the said mag gratis. Eh no problem naman with me coz you’d get to see your baby in a widely circulated mag so that was enough for me.

here’s another scan:

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my little girl grew a bit taller it seems after our recent trip. and eversince she learned she’s taller she’s been telling us that she’s an ate now. ate because she’s big na daw.

then she’d tell us that when she has a baby sister (kailangan sister talaga, ayaw ng brother hahaha) she’s gonna help me take care of the baby, fold the clothes, prepare her milk etc….

*** pls make sure you’re not eating if you wanna proceed reading hehe..

just this morning while cleaning her after she made poopoo eh bigla ba naman sabi:

“mama, i will not clean the baby’s poopoo!”

eh di nagulat ako sabay tawa… then asked her why (kahit obvious na ang dahilan diba hehe)

“coz it smells yucky and it’s eeww. mama will just clean the baby’s poopoo, not iya”

but ofcourse, all the dirty work nanay dapat ang gagawa and i suddenly recalled my younger sisters’ request whenever they’re taking care of iya when she was little..

“basta ate ha, pag nagpoopoo na si iya ikaw ang bahala”