Argh

It was declared last night that due to typhoon signal number 1, classes in the preschool and elementary levels are suspended. Krissy and I were jumping for joy (or at least I imagined her jumping for joy since we were just texting:). My co-teachers and i were text brigading about the good news. I had my day all planned out. Teachers are still required to report to work but i decided i will just take the day off. I didn't feel guilty wanting to stay home since there won't be any kids around anyway =p.
I really just felt like staying home with Julia so i won't have to pump milk in school then bring it home during lunch... It's just too time consuming. I was so looking forward to my day off.

What do you know...I woke up this morning and the news said there are classes in all levels.

Indian givers!

I guess a 3 day work week is just too good to be true.

No classes on Friday! For real! (Thank you Mr. Andres Bonifacio!)
You're a hero! (ya think? haha)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Here's to the most patient, hardworking, generous man i know....(next is Drago :)... Happy birthday Daddy!!! We love you! From right to left: Lovely (Bam's wife), Bam, Daddy, Mommy, Kuya Ton, Me, Drago and Joey(trying to grab my Mom's hair)
For our family dinner, we ate at an old Chinese place in Binondo. Ang layo! :) The place looks like a carinderia when you enter but it leads to a restaurant annex that looks alot more presentable :) The food was good and there were lots of exotic animals. Can you believe they have a "guard pig" by the entrance. It was actually a huge boar that could barely even stand :)


Poor guard pig. He probably had too much chinese food for dinner.

Bad Weather Forecast

A super dooper typhoon was supposed to hit today. It was all over the news. Billboards were brought down, people are more prepared now than when “Milenyo” hit Manila. Even Julia came prepared.

Check out her nice new cardigan and her trusty hooded jacket (we love that jacket! thanks char and maddie! we use it all the time! it's already bitin in the arms but we don't care coz joey's soooo comfortable in it :)

All for the porma. Apparently, no typhoon. Hope i'm not speaking too soon though.

Meet My Kids

Section: Senior Prep F '07-08
Ages: 5-6 years old
Teacher: Teacher Margot
Class size: 36 (20 boys, 16 girls)

yes, 20 boys. imagine the riot :)

TOXIC

It's been quite toxic at work lately. With the Foundation Week coming up and me being the assigned Team Leader for the month, there's just too much to do. Aside from all the papers, lesson plans and activities that i had to prepare, the meetings here and there and of course the kids i have to attend to. Oh and did i mention pumping milk in between? Phew. I can't wait till Christmas break :)

Zobel is already 29 years old :)

Joey's First Kiddie Party :)

Julia attended a kiddie party (Gabby, dra. Romero's daughter celebrated her 7th birthday) yesterday in Makati. It was her first ever kiddie party. The invite said kids should come in a princess costume or something but of course she didn't have any. They wanted her to wear the bumble bee costume she wore on Halloween but i was worried she might get too hot. So Krissy just borrowed a crown from her friend's niece (thanks Justine!) and...voila! An instant princess! Ninang Krissy and Drago took lots of pictures and they're really cute! thanks ninang krissy! Joey was in a playful mood that day :) She was smiling and making 'pa-cute' in most of the pictures :) Too bad i wasn't there! I was busy with the boxing event at Elorde. The thing ended quite late so i wasn't able to spend that much time with joey. After the party, Drago went to Elorde so we could switch places and i took joey home. I freshened up a bit, let her nurse for a while, pumped some milk and went back to finish the event. phew. What a day. When we got home, joey was already sleeping.

Anyway, haven't been able to post lately-- since i went back to work after the 1 week break. hay! i just can't seem to find the time. Will try my best to post more pictures. I already set aside a folder of Julia's most recent photos. I will probably post them in my multiply account. :)

Goodnight.

Sleepyheads

This is what happens when Drago wakes up before we do (one of those very rare times =p )

Today i was welcomed by 32 over-excited students (4 are absent--so should've been 36) each demanding for their own share of the limelight as they told me (almost all at the same time) what they did during the week long break. Phew. I gave them all a piece of paper, asked them to bring out their pencils and crayons and told them to draw what they did during the mid year break. At least that calmed them down a bit. A drawing activity is always a good idea :) It's an emergency tranquilizer in a preschool classroom. That and storytelling time. I shall do that with Julia when she's old enough :)

I was too excited to leave for the mid year break last friday so i wasn't at all prepared for today. Of course i did not dare bring home work because i knew i would just be slacking around with drago and julia the whoooole week :) And i did. Anyway, my lessons had lots of holes. My materials were incomplete. My mood...bad. Plus the students were still very restless after coming from a week long vacation :( Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Goodnight.

Bath time fun!

We got Joey a new bath tub with a built in cushioned seat. We bought it at Rustan's for P1200, which is quite expensive if you ask me. I remember seeing almost the same kind in SM for a much cheaper price. Plus, the old one that we had (which we recently handed over to Tessa for Baby Robyn) only cost us P250 in divisoria. But it's just the regular kind. No seat or grooves or whatever. I like this one because Joey can sit comfortably without slipping :) The good thing is we have a Rustan's GC to spend which is only valid in the baby section of the store. So there, perfect! Check out the pic where drago is trying to feed her an apple :) She loved it! (Sosyal! May taga subo pa!)

She looks so much like drago no? =P

A Day of Firsts :)

Today is a day of many firsts. FIRST of all, i finally started a blog of my own (thanks char and ate jill for the inspiration :) and thus... my FIRST blog post!

It is also Julia's FIRST Halloween. Check out her bumble bee costume (thanks ninang char!!!)

She also had her FIRST taste of solids! Cerelac (yum!). I don't think she enjoyed it though :) Parang napilitan lang sya kumain :) So much for a milestone.