Thank You

We are happy campers today. M will be flying in tomorrow night and Emz has arrived (unannounced)
to surprise Big B. Speaking of Big B, he and I have set up shop. I am just enjoying the moment. Gratitude
all around.

Sometimes Life's A B!

I was going through some saved messages on my mobile phone when I came across one
sent to M. It was dated April 15, 2010. It was a quote from TLG. Sometimes, I just have
to laugh at what comes out of his mouth. As the saying goes, 'from the mouth's of babes...'

So here goes, TLG logic:

"So you mean to tell me life is like a boomerang. It swings right back and hits you in the ass?"

I can only imagine what we were talking about that day.

Going On A Trip

I am packing for a brief trip to HK. I am meeting M there. Spending three days as a couple and then back to Manila. I haven't been away from TLG since a trip to Venice sometime ago. He was much smaller then. I don't think he even realized I was gone. Since then he's been my constant travel companion. This evening, he offered to pack my clothes. He stood by me as I mixed and matched and folded. "Do you like this?" "Do you want me to pack that?" My heart was melting. After packing, I got him a year subscription to a school approved website. It's only three days but I'll miss our secret flying kisses and "love you, love you" at bedtime.

Time To Tidy Up.

Little Hands At Work

Multi-Tasking

Cupcake(s).

                          There are days when one isn't enough.

Once And For All.

I Do.

April 8, 2010. After eleven years, we've made it official. Yes M. You were right.
It didn't hurt at all. In fact, nothing felt more right. I love you truly, madly, deeply.

I Learn Something New Everyday.

According to TLG:


"Failure is the other 'F' word."


"You need to work with your partner."

David Byrne

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim – Please Don’t video featuring Santogold

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Reunited And It Feels So Good!

All I have to say: Three months is way too long.

Countdown

It's nearly midnight and in a few hours we'll be on our way to Finland. M. will be coming in
from Moscow. TLG is much too excited to go to bed. He keeps asking, "How much hours and minutes?"
He's itching to get out of his pj's and into his "airplane clothes."

Five more hours to go.


PS Tooth no.8 was lost a day after no.7. It was past two a.m. when TLG sat up and said, "Mummy, my tooth fell out." Lights turned on and sure enough, there it was. I was too tired to do the tooth fairy thing
at that moment. Thankfully, it was a rush to school that morning.

Yesterday's Milestones.

Yesterday TLG sat through an entire film at the cinema. We caught the late afternoon showing of
How To Train Your Dragon (or something like that) in 3D. Very nice. (The Vikings with Scottish
accents were memorable).

Yesterday TLG lost tooth number 7. (Hello Ratoncito Perez).

A New Career For M.

As we were walking up the steps to TLG's classroom, he announced that M. should consider a new
career. "I think dad should be a teacher. Or better yet, a teacher at the computer lab. If dad was a
teacher at my school, he could see me everyday."

Sweet.

On A Lazy Saturday We:

Hang around in our jammies.

Make chocolate milkshakes.

Drink copious amounts of green tea.

Take the plastic bugs out.

Trawl ebay.

Fiddle with our camera.

Watch ANTM. ("It's a Ty Over.")

Download a Valentine's/ Chinese New Year film for Sunday night.

Listen to Vitamin String Quartet.

Watch a Pokemon movie (TLG's pick).

Watch Sweeney Todd (Big B's pick).

Steam lobster and shrimp siomais. (After all, it's practically New Year).

The Song Du Jour.

Vitamin String Quartet's rendition of U2's With Or Without You.

Where The Pug Goes.

   It's a gloriously lazy Saturday morning. There's a ruckus  in the closet. When I peek in it's
the family pug Fat Boy Slim and TLG. They've got the turtle night light beaming stars across
the low ceiling and theyre plotting today's adventures.

      

It's Great To Be Eight!

Ok. So the heading sounds lame but TLG was feeling pretty good on Tuesday
(February 2). Since it was his 8th birthday I volunteered to be the parent chaperone to the planetarium.
It was the bus ride from hell. TLG wasn't too thrilled that he had to sit next to his mummy but hey, that's life. The show was better then I expected. It took awhile for me to realize that the "sheferd"the voice over guy kept saying was actually "shepard." On the plus side, I don't think any of the children were actually listening. The bus ride back to school was quick. TLG sat with his friends. Cupcakes served at half past
one. This year's theme: "bugs that make you deathly ill."

The afternoon was spent with friends and cousins at the video arcade and the requisite Japanese dinner.
And of course, M.

Whoa. Where's This Coming From?

So there we are sitting at the dining table working on our table of 7, when TLG asks,

"Is my dad partying at night and drinking alcohol?" "What?! Of course not!"I say. I am

genuinely shocked that my little guy is asking me this. "My friend

X says his dad goes out to parties at night and drinks alcohol. X doesn't like it. So he formed

 the 'I Hate It When My Dad Parties And Drinks Alcohol Club'."

Then three hours later, "Can a brother marry his sister?"

Another Bedtime Moment

In bed. Lights off.

TLG:   "You know Mom E loves me more then she loves you."

Me:   "Is that so? How do you know?"

TLG:   "I saw it on TV. It's a fact. Grandmother's love their grandchildren more then their own children.

             TV never lies. If it did it would be called the Fiction Box."

            

Is That So?

Bedtime. Pitch black.

"You know just because your eyes are closed, doesn't mean your asleep."

*sigh*

Goodbye's

. . . and just like that 4.30 a.m. came and went.

Bedtime - Not.

It's nearly ten p.m. I am letting TLG stay up later then usual.
M. will be returning to Moscow early Tuesday morning.
Father and son are watching TLG's video on deadly bugs
and enjoying an in-bed snack of sliced apples and pomelo.
The doggies are here too. They also love family time.

We'll miss this.

Hide And Seek

We haven't played our bedtime game of hide and seek in a long time.

So it was a surprise when TLG said, "one more thing before bed please."

Under the covers he goes. For my part, I pat the duvet down while saying,

"Where are you? Is that TLG hiding under the covers? Peek a boo.

I see you!" And just like that, TLG  pokes his head out from under the duvet.

He's laughing like it's the most amazing thing ever. Now how can I not smile

with that.

January 4

January 4. 2.52 a.m.

Snow Patrol's Run playing.

1 photo down.

Hello 2010.

TLG and I have embarked on a new project: 1 photo a day.

2 down. 363 to go.