Moments In Our Months: March -April 2013 / Happy Second Birthday Quad.

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Things have been particularly delightful around lately so please excuse me while I get all kids and 'selfie' photos in here.

So to begin...

March was tough. 

Night after nights I've had asthma attacks. 

I had that lasted for hours and I thought I might be dying.

Soon after the month ended my lungs begin to open wider, gradually. 

And then like a sail caught in wind I can breathe full breaths again. 

It feels so incredible and blissful to be well and alive.

And recently the attacks has been miles away! 

A part of me feels grateful for the reminder of how good it feels to be well.

It’s April and Quad is recently finding his voice. 

We now could hear lots of ramblings from him!  And Oh! Hundreds of times of being grumpy.
Some day it will be Quad’s turn to fill us in and we will listen enthusiastically.

We bet his little mind is filled with magic.

Our kids can teach us so much about ourselves if we just see life through their eyes and through things they wanted to mean.

 

Most days I feel like I have too many responsibilities and too little time.

Most specially now that we're preparing Ora for nursery.
So,Yey! Hurray to being Four!

 So this is how we teach Ora the value of saving greens (money).

No exciting writing places for him and so the walls were covered with awesome masterpiece  like these...

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. 
And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. - Maggie Gallagher 

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." -Chinese Proverbs

Just because they love on each other does not mean they do not also fight on each other. 

For every kiss and hug across the room or a full on wrestle match under 

the table complete with head butting and leg twisting and everyone screaming!!!

 So it isn't all sweetness and light around…

HAPPY TWO BABY QUAD

April as well was all about cakes, sweets, fancy decorations. 

Do you know why? 

Because it is the Birthday of the our cute little Megamind..

our Miracle Boy! 

Each Holy Week is always the same as far as its structure and order. 

Despite its regularity, my experience of Holy Week is never the same.

The weather was calm. 
There was a profound silence when I entered the emergency room of SPH. 

Running out breath and devoid of what would come sooner, 
but one thing that I was certain throughout that very moment… 

I put all my life, our life, in God’s hands.

Both heartbeats drastically dropped down which lead me to a decisive operation. 

But on this very day I resolutely believe that miracles do happen.

The journey coupled our fate, 
with an unwavering determination that it takes to continue when times get tough.

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Holy Thursday of 2011, 

I gave birth to an AMAZING, SWEET little boy.

Oh Quad... 

These last couple of years has been more than I ever could have dreamed. 

When I think back on all the hours I spent praying 
& believing for you, 

it is such a testament of God's goodness and never understanding His plan, but trusting it anyway. 

When I look at you, 

I'm always reminded that God is with us, 

through it all.

 

I hope you have enjoyed your first two years on earth. 

Life is yet to begin and once it does, 

you will grow up to be a very loving and genuine individual,
 just like your Papa.

Oh yeah! With every passing year, 
I see a little more of your Papa's shadow in you. 

Haha! Oscar na Oscar lang!

Quad, may you continue to grow up more and more adorable. 

May God bless you and give you a healthy life ahead.

Nothing is more adorable than a smile and nothing is more wonderful than when it stays that way.  

You're naughty as ever, still the apple of everyone's eye. 

You manage to make us smile so easily, and we love you so much.

You'll always be my "precious miracle baby". 

I'm excited to begin another adventure with you!

He is extremely funny, loves to eat, and gets frustrated when we can't comprehend his sentences.

  

24 months ago, the world greeted you into this world with joy and delight.
 Today we feel all the more happy to see your sweet face Baby Qwaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!



Hello to May Flowers! 

Embrace the current season of your life!
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Moments In Our Month: February

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TINY BITS OF OUR LITTLE THINGS.

Sometimes its cool just to document some of the modest things. Well, something that I’ll be posting here in this blog. The small things that I will want to remember 5, 10, 15 years from now.

I cherish every-single-thing-I/we-do and love looking back at the memories I've/we've made.  

Life is moving way too fast. These are the little things I’ve shared with friends and family lately…

To begin my year, as I now reaches a quarter of century, 
I write down any requests for myself 

- outstandingly those I desire the most (definitely not those tangible ones!). 

These has something to do with my health, key appointments coming up, 

things that concern me and my family or those causing me to be anxious, 

or anything else that springs to my mind. 

I write down verses that I feel are meaningful to me. 

Lately, he's been badly mischievous, so to keep him from not climbing,

and running around to the extent that he shatters cabinet glasses, 

there he is wrapped like a neonate.

I often wonder why I am so very lucky, blessed and fortunate to have Oscar as my husband and my children’s father.  

I’ve not figured that out, and perhaps I never will.  

One thing is true, each special moments like today, 

I am once again reminded with perfect clarity that lucky, 

BLESSED and FORTUNATE am I. 

Thank you B, for making my life so INCREDIBLE.  

I only wish I am able to give back at least some good fraction of the kindness you impart upon me.

Always and Forever. 

Rozette is a root of the Latin word Rose. And so she is.

 

My gratitude Oh God that Ora's now completely okay in her battle with UTI sooner than the month ends.

  Ora, 

‘Twas around 9 pm when we brought you to the hospital. You bear with you 39.8° C fever. 

You were wholly feeling frail. When we waited for your turn, 

all you wanted to do is to go home and you uttered for a lot of times 

“ Mama Da, Uwi na tayo?”… 

You were brave! When they asked you to get a second doze of your blood sample, 

you were just listening to me whispering you “Sofia’s Song”. 
You saplessly tried to chant with me not minding the series of blood sample they were getting on you.



Moving on, I'd like to share to you this remarkable piece Michael Chabon of New York Review of Books and goes like this:

The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research “childhood.” 

Because childhood is magical and wonderful and hilarious...
...and because it's ought to be.
And we get to see these things through our children. 

So what are we gonna do with these brokenness?

In the middle of these brokenness there are wonderful creatures who recognize the magic of the world. 

The other night before I put my kids to bed, 
Ora asked me to look for her baby bird stuffed toy.
I mean. how amazing are birds! 
Maybe they bear with them something we don't understand that only a child would do. 
They're amazing great and whoa! maybe they're right that birds are actually just merely birds but birds at times the greatest thing ever happen to a child.

Embrace the current season of your life!

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Love Month!

The full version of this quote, I borrowed from Lewis’s book, The Four Loves:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. 

If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; 

avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. 

But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. 

It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. 

The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. 

The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

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A million, billions of LOVE! 

Embrace the current season of your life! 

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Moments in our Months: Dec-Jan.

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W A R N I N G

Random Photos in a row. 

Enjoy! 

So there's this girl... She's stolen every piece of my heart.

I totally fell head over heels...

The best part is she calls me "Mama Da."

Look who's playing with the doll! 

"Mama Da. Picture. Picture."

I grab my camera and I got this rather flirty pose from her. 

Her smile is one of my life's greatest blessing! 

Hair is the richest ornament of women. 

So, seriously, who wouldn't want to have great looking hair? 

I'm lucky because I have a one-in-a-million sibling like YOU! 

He's a sunflower. He's my sunflower.

And I know we'll never part.

He's my sunflower, he's my one sunfower.

He's a flower of my heart.

All you need in life is a friend who has chocolate!

Thank you Abby for my monthly supplies of chocolates! 

You can offer me a pencil for my thoughts! 

Peace, love and light

... and open doors for 2013! 

Embrace the current season of your life!

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