Happy Pumpkin Hunting!

All of a sudden the end of the year creeped up on us. We're just living life day by day, then we start to notice "hmm, it's starting to get darker earlier", and then, "hmm, the leaves are changing colors", and then we notice "hmm, Marley's getting taller.....Holy Cow! Her birthday's coming up!" Yep! Fall's here, and it's Halloween time again. How do we start the season off? By going to the Pumpkin Patch to buy dried mango's! But first.... let me share our farewell to summer photo.

And now, on with our trip to the Pumpkin Patch with Tia Chamina, and co-sin Means.

It's hard to believe that just the week before, it was cold and raining. This ALMOST felt like the hottest day of the year.

Lee-Lai and Papa trying to figure out where to start first.

The 2 diva's striking a pose.

Pumpkins as far and the eye can see!!!! Seriously, there was sooo many to choose from... it was great!

The main problem with picking a pumpkin is that "They're all dirty!" as Marley would put it.

Sadly, they saw the not so glamorous side of the patch .....

We had an excellent time! Next year we'll be more prepared with a wagon and gloves cause them vines were prickly!

I have no camera.....

Yes, i know i've neglected this site. It's mostly cause i'm a dork and left my camera in San Diego. Also, August was a busy month. I was able to steal some pictures from friends that i would like to share. It's not much, but here they are:

This picture was taken in Vegas for Ninong Alfie's birthday (Marley's Godfather and not pictured). He turned the big 3-0!

These are my loving girlfriends, minus one. We poured one for you Miriam!

Here's Lee-lai and her other beastly friend Xander. These little fools are just 2 weeks apart in age. His mom is the third girl from the right in the picutre above this one.

Lastly, I'd like to give a shout out to Melissa! Congrats girlfriend! May your child be as crazy as our kids!

Bellatrix Lestrange!

OMG! I just read that Helena Bonham Carter is gonna play Bellatrix Lestrange in the next Harry Potter movie! I absolutely lover her in all the movies she's been in and I don't think she gets recognized enough. I can't wait for the movie to come out!

Mitor's post

Mitor told me the funniest story today.
The 3 oldest spent the night at Shirley's house so Mitor had Joie all to herself in the morning. She brought Joie to the T.V. room so she can play, and then Mitor went back asleep on the couch. Joie then wakes her up and says "mommy, i go poo-poo". So Mitor takes her into her room to change her and all is well. They go back to living room so Joie can continue to play and again, Mitor fall back asleep. Joie then wakes her up again and says "mommy, i go poo-poo again". Mitor was like, wow, alright then. As they're walking into the bedroom, Mitor notices that Joie's shorts and diaper looks really big. So then Mitor props Joie on to the bed to change her. She takes off her shorts and notices that Joie's Pull-up still had the stars on it (side note: pull-ups have blue designes on them and then once the kid goes pee, the design dissapear). So Mitor takes off the Pull-up and there's another Pull-up underneath. So then took off that pull-up, and there was ANOTHER ONE underneath that one. Mitor totally starts to laugh as she takes that pull-up off and then finds yet ANOTHER pull-up. Joie had on a totall of 5 pull-ups underneath her shorts. It's amazing to think that Joie was able to take off her shorts, put on 4 pull-ups (over the one she already had on), and then was able to put her shorts back on. The word "Toddlers" should be renamed to "Crazy little people".

A new hair do

One of Marley and Brie's teachers braided the girls' hair the other day. Oh! I loved it! It looked soooo cute on her. They said it took 2 hours to do. I never thought my monster could sit for that long.

When taking them out, i was expecting a big poof ball of hair but instead she looked like a Mermaid. I wanted to keep it like this for at least the rest of the day but after she took a nap (she sweats a grip while sleeping), it was back to her natural curls.

Playing catch up

Now that Marley's older, it's a lot easier to take her places and have fun, fun, fun! I promised i would share pictures and here they are!


July 4th weekend

This was taken 4th of July at Millies'. We celebrated my birthday a little early this year since we had the familia already together.

And to celebrate the fireworks of 4th of July, we headed over to Huntington beach for the Buu family's annual party. Here a picture of my adopted family. Yes, i am close to each and everyone one of these persons. I think there are even a few missing....

Fun at the OC Fair!

Here's Lee-lai and papa at the petting zoo. Poor thing was trying so hard to appreciate the animals but the stink was just too much for her.

Lee-lai as a farmer. Here's a secret, Manny's holding her up in the back

so her head could fit the hole.

What's a visit to the Fair without riding some rides?.... old,.. rickity.. rides....

just kidding we had a blast!

Where have i been?

I'm here...

I've been trying to upload picutres galore but for whatever reason, it's not working. I need a computer of my own damn it.

Events that i will eventually share with you

-Beach time with tots (please refer to Chamina's site and Bina's site)
-4th of July with the homies
-Fun at the Orange County Fair!!!!

Scrapless book!

I finally got my first Heritage Makers book. It is soo cute! If you wanna take a sneak peak at it, go to the Heritage Makers website and go into the "browse project gallery" link. Next click on the "Search project gallery" link and then type in my first and last name into the "Author" section.
I'm now deciding on what my next project is going to be. I may have found a new addiction....

Super Star!

Dum da-da-da (fanfare)! My proud mama moment. Lee-lai and Brie had their first school performance. I'm so glad Miriam and I have the girls at the same school cause now we have even more moments to share together.


Marley is in the top row, 2nd kid from the right. If you get your magnifying glass out, you may be able to recognize her.



"Please, no autographs"



Familia pix moment. I think Marley gets her shyness from her dad.... you think?

More pictures to come!

Great fun with the familia

This past weekend was full of fun for Lee-lai.

First, we had Jill's birthday party on Saturday. Nina and Nino got a jumper for the party and boy was that a blessing! It keeps the kids busy, and brings down the sugar highs. Here are a few pics of the girly-girly event.



Here's Jill and her Girlfriends. Note the hula girl pinata.... yeah, that thing was huge and full of candy.


Here's Marley and Joie eating some "fruit salad....yummy, yummy" (I got to stop watching The Wiggles).



Here's that blessed jumper I was talking about. I have to admit that I had my kicks in there too.


"I wanna slide.. just... one.... more...zzzzzzzzzz"

The next day, we had Chamina's birthday at the Zoo! Thank you Chamina and Kimay for providing beautiful pictures. I'm such a bad mom for forgetting to bring a camera.


Hippo Birdie Baby Famini!


Marley with cutie Katrina. Lee-lai loves people that are smaller than her. She's the baby hugging bandit.


Chismosas in the making!



Here are the girls with local gorillas.

Summer's here!

Yay! We've already been swimming everyday here at Lolo and Lola's house. Sadly, i haven't taken any pictures but we have a whole summer ahead of us to go crazy with the pix taking. Lee-lai is already 2 shades darker than she was just a month ago.
My new project i'm working on is the Heritage Makers album. This has taken up most of my down time. I've actually been neglecting Myspace which I'm pathetically addicted to. Anyhow, i forgot what a sio-pow head Lee-lai use to be... let me remind you.

It's like her skin can't contain her face.

Happy Mother's day to the strong mothers out there!

I hope all you lovely mom's (and dad's who also take the roll as mom) had a wonderful Mother's day. One of our bestest friends, Mike, sent this silly pic to me and the caption he attached to it was "MOMMY..... a childs word for God." I have no idea when or where this picture was taken but I love it!
As for my Mother's day, I spent it mostly at home with a fever .... sucks to be me, I know. I later took tylenol to repress any symptoms of illness and headed over to my mom's house. Even though I only live .06 of a mile away, the Tylenol only lasted long enough for me to get there, play slide (the hand clapping game) with the Mitor's kids, and feed Marley. The rest of the time I slept in a dark room. Being sick totally stinks!

Where a kid can be a kid!

We has so much fun at Chuck E Cheese yesterday! I wanna share some pictures that Uncle Gabe took of Marley and Brie... or, as some people call them, Mel and Miriam part II.

We were actually surprised that they went in the tubes. Big bro Jonnie helped lead them around and shooed away the rough kids with smelly feet.

Okay, Miriam and I would never let the girls cheat in any game okay! This was obviously taken when their Papa's were watching them.

Yeah, here's the monster THROWING a skee ball. She has become one of those kids that use to bug me cause they wouldn't play the game right.

But at least Lee lai isn't the only annoying kid that throws skee balls!

We totally pigged out on pizza and all you can eat salad. Now that the girls are old enough, this is something we can probably do at least once a month!

Bananas!

If you know me, you may have already heard this story before. I was just telling it to one of my co-workers and we were busting up because of the randomness of it.
I was driving to the store one day, but before I left, I grabbed a banana to eat along the way. So I'm eating my banana and driving, and then I get stopped at a red light. As i'm waiting, this man in a car pulls up next to me and he's freaking eating a banana too! We look at eachother and I raised up my banana in a "Cheers!" sort of motion and he does the same. Then he raises up a bunch of bananas that he has, and motions in a way of like offering one to me. I raised my hand and shook my head in a "no thank you" kinda way. The light turned green and we waived to each other goodbye.
That was one of the funniest moments of my life. I wonder if that guy remembers me?

Word Vomit

Wow, it's been over a month since I've written here. This has been a crazy month. Life just took me on another tailspin but I think i'm okay now.... or not.... but either way, I've got a kid and husband to keep me pressing on. I feel like I have a good understanding of my life, then something happens, and then everything starts to bubble over out of my comfort zone. Thanks to the people in my life, the clean up is not hard. My sister sent me flowers the other day. I broke into tears as I read the card, but then laughed at the end cause the signature read "Love, Ganzulu". It was suppose to say "Gan-zuzu", which is Isagani's nickname. I guess the florist took it upon herself to correct what she thought was a typo. It's these episodes of comic relief that let me know that things will always be okay.

I'm so thankful to have such a healthy, and crazy daughter. Everything about her trips me out. She has her papa's dare devil nature. Let me give you examples:

-She can hop on a swing (the regular swing) and start pumping her legs so that she swings high all by herself. It scares me to watch her cause she looks like she can fly off any second.

-She will stand on her papa's back when he lies down on his stomach. Then he'll move around all crazy and she's litterally surfing on his back. Then when she falls off, she cracks up and says "Again!"

-Her teacher at preschool has to watch her go down the slide cause she tried to slide down while lying down on her back...... head first.

Then there are things about her that puzzle me:

-Her voice sounds like an old lady who's been smoking for about 50 years.

-She first learned to shake her booty at 8 months old.

-She eats lemoncito's by the wedge.

She surley makes my life interesting. At this very moment she is pulling my hand to put on Wiggles for her...again.... I love this kid......

My Bomb-ass Dad!

I'm so proud of my dadda! When we use to work together, he made this chair out of foam for fun. The president of the company absolutely loved it and was willing to do anything to get this out on the market. It's been about 6 years of re-designing, testing, adding features, taking out features, etc. ..... and now he's has a whole array of childrens furniture.
Now, his furniture is being sold on www.babyage.com ! Please visit the site, and when you get there, type in "foamables" in the search area. This picture is just one of the items he made.
This is such a big deal! I'm so excited for him mostly because it's not just an "idea" anymore, it's actually "real" now and on the market.
So, you people who are reading this (which is only about 3 of you, no joke) tell your friends, families, co-workers, and pets to check out the products!

A Toddlers World

My life has been taken over by three things..... Dora the Explorer, Elmo, and The Wiggles. Watching these show has actually made my life feel less stressed. It may be because they're upbeat shows that make me feel like a kid again. Okay, I'll be honest, I'm less stressed cause the shows take Lee lai's attention away from me. I don't just plop her in front of the TV, we actually listen to a lot of music, and read books. But guess what the music and books are about? I'll give you 3 guesses! I swear sometimes I have dreams about Jeff sleeping under la luna with Mr. Noodles.
Lee lai is an undercover knower of colors now. She had a cup of froot loops in the car, and I heard her name each color that she was putting in her mouth. I flipped down my rear view mirror to see if she was naming them correctly and she was! Then when we got home, I took each froot loop and started to ask her what color each one was... and to my surprise, each froot loop turned pink according to my mini genius.

I'm a biter...

My lovely cousters sucked me in to this lovely world of Blogging.