I got to finally visit my nephew last Saturday. Anyway, he’s as big as they’ve been telling, he looks like he’s 2 months old! And he looks a bit like his cousin Theo. Well, I’ll wait for another month to figure out who he really resembles.

I also got to talk to my youngest brother, who again tried teaching Mikee how to play an instrument, the guitar (yeah, not the violin this time) but Theo was too interested too, he kept bugging them. I told him that my box came last week, and all my scrapbook stuff have arrived. He had been wanting to shop some gifts for musicians, but he will have to wait till my next shopping spree. I’m hoping to have another box mid year for the kids’ Halloween costume.

One sad part of reunions is missing relatives who couldn’t come home for the holidays. My husband is very close to his cousins. Two of which are in the US. His cousin in New Jersey couldn’t come because of his busy work schedule, while the other in NC is still busy with his business doing some tax preparations. Everyone suggested he see a raleigh nc accountant next time.

So it was agreed on that everyone will be coming home on December 2014. The two-year preparation should be enough for everyone. No excuses.

My parents are done with their annual physical exams, and I’m very happy that the results came out all normal. Now, they can travel together without me worrying about their health. My father can now visit his sisters both in California, and visit his friend in North Carolina, who has been encouraging him to invest on real estate holden beach nc, knowing that my father loves nature.

Anyway, I’m happy to see my dad starting to gain weight again, and he’s back to his bubbly self. He was even the one who played with (aka took care of) my little boy while I had my (home service) massage.

Wow, it’s been a month since Theo’s first haircut. I forgot to blog about it. Don’t worry. I hope the memory’s still fresh.

First, we were able to lure him to sit in the “car”, and let him watch Spongebob, his favorite. Then he played with different toys, they kept offering him a new toy every about 10 minutes. So there, he hardly noticed his hair was being cut.

From his Korean pop star look to his policeman look. Haha.

We also took the kids to a movie that ate Mikee chose, Brave. I was just surprised that we had to pay for Theo. He was just sleeping at the first half of the movie.

As I have previously blogged, the husband has been training for competitive swimming. We’re also considering to enroll our 2 kids, but of course, this means we have to talk to our daughter (who loves to stay only at the sides of the pool for hours hahaha) and convince her she needs to learn.

I think she has been convinced. She has asked when they’d start. My only problem now is the schedule. I’d like them to take a Saturday class because first of all, they change pool water and fill up the pool using pentair pool pumps before they open on Saturdays (so yes it’s the day it’s cleanest). Second, our daughter have classes on weekdays. And Sunday is reserved for family.

But, I still have Saturday dance practice until November. So I guess this has to wait. Sorry.

As much as possible, we go to UP church for mass. But it’s been a while that we last attended mass there. I sort of already miss the church chairs there. Haha. First reason we like hearing mass there is the time. We can go late in the afternoon. With our body clocks, we find it hard to catch the morning mass on the church near our place. Second is the avocado flavored ice cream, Mikee’s favorite. Also on the second place are the fish balls, kwek-kwek (quail egg balls) and other street foods. Yes, in this family, food “decides”.

I’d say that this weekend was a relaxed one. For Saturday lunch time, we went to a baptismal party of a friend’s daughter. Met with friends and spent about 2 hours of chatting with them. Then I had a 2-hour nap, beside my son. And later in the evening, had another “food trip” with neighbor friends, and food trip also meant laugh trip. I was laughing while listening to them, I was in front of my laptop, browsing websites doing some sort of “window shopping”, looking for cheap jewelry online for myself. It always feels good to re-connect with friends.

Then on Sunday, I had another restful day. Right after lunch, I took another 2-hr nap, again with my son. When we woke up, it was time for church. After hearing mass (in UP), we just had to have some avocado ice cream, fish balls, (isaw) and barbeque.

We had dinner at home. And went out again for a full body massage. Aaaah. I guess I’m ready to face Monday.

I bet my youngest brother would be excited to try one of those left handed electric guitars. You see, he’s a different ambidextrous. He eats and does most common tasks with his right hand but writes and plays the guitar like a left-handed. But he can’t use the other hand for the same task. It’s like each hand has its own skill. Now I wonder, which side of his brain is more often used.

It’s Taguig day! So hubby and I have no work! Whew! A little break in the middle of the week. Perfect. So we went out with the kids to have pizza. Theo enjoyed too as he had some spaghetti noodles (no sauce though, sorry sweetie).

This would have been a perfect family photo but Mikee was too stubborn to look at the camera (phone).

But when she saw the game zone, I told her if she wants to play, she needed to look at the camera. Geez, I had to blackmail her just to get some decent shots of her when I know she’ll be using these photos when she gets into her teens and starts doing scrapbooks of her own. Tsk!

It used to be that we put on our Christmas decors even before December but things had been very hectic. Well, at least, it’s still first week of the month.

Mikee helped out in decorating the Christmas tree but she specifically informed everyone that she’ll be the one to put the star on top of the tree.

So there! We now have a place to put all the gifts we receive which we will open on Christmas eve.