Nap Time Rocks!

Hey thanks for the comments and the visits. I haven’t been able to reply to and approve (and sort through the spam comments) comments because since Tuesday Mia was confined to the hospital again for acute gastroenteritis. She probably got it from eating barbecue at a cousin’s birthday party last Sunday and while I’ve been careful not to give her any kind of food or meat that’s not well cooked, it’s just hard to keep track of what goes into her mouth especially when she just loves to get her hands on anything. And you know how kids are when they see food from other people’s hands they just flash those big puppy eyes and reach out to you so you just cannot resist giving in.

That was Sunday. By Monday night, after amusing us with her insistent ability to keep people up despite the hour, Mia kept throwing up whatever food and milk she had in her tummy. That happened every hour or so. I was already near tears everytime she wakes up convulsing so at 2:30am I decided to bring her to the hospital. I am so grateful to my parents that they kept awake with me all throughout. The helpless feeling that you don’t know what’s happening to your kid is just plain horrible.

At the ER they took Mia’s blood sample and that was another wrestling match. Since I couldn’t bear to have her inserted with an IV again (because of what happened the last time), and since the resident doctor said there was nothing abnormal with her blood test, I decided to just take her home and give her lots of Pedialyte and Gatorade.

Thing is she didn’t get better by morning, 3 hours of restless sleep later, and she threw up again so I packed our bags and went to see her pediatrician. The rest, they say is history.

Well now we’re home; we could’ve gone home earlier had the billing department of World Citi Medical Center done their jobs a little more efficiently. Hmp.

Anyway lesson learned, make sure to let people know not to give feed Mia raw foods especially meat and except fruits and veggies. Mia and I are back at square one. Kailangan magpataba ulit. She lost some weight and she’s already a skinny little baby. But a very cute one at that :). It’s been one hell of a week and I’m really tired. So next week na lahat ng utang na posts.

Hindi ko kuha ito. Kuha ito ng aking ama noong ako ay may isang taong gulang pa lang. Kahit noong maliit pa lang ako, mahilig ng maglakwatsa, este, mag-travel ang aking magulang, dala na rin ng kanilang ministeryo sa Iglesia. At ako naman ay kaladkad na nila kahit saan mapunta. Ito ay kuha sa Baguio.

Gustong-gusto ko itong litratong ito dahil napaka-saya ng mukha ng aking Ina. Kahit saan namang litrato ay napakaganda niya. Lalo kapag siya ay ngumingiti.

Malabo lang itong litrato dahil kinuhanan ko lang yan gamit ng cellphone camera. Dapat siguro na-scan ko. At maniwala ka’t sa hindi, ang kamera na ginamit sa pagkuha ng litratong iyan ay buhay pa. Ito yung Minolta na sinasabi kong nagamit ko noong kolehiyo ako.

Sana’y magustuhan niyo ang litratog ito! Magandang LP weekend!

Litratong Pinoy, Aking Ina

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Edit: At dahil naka-schedule lang itong post na ito, huli na rin itong pahabol ko. Hindi ako makakuha ng litrato nitong nakaraang linggo dahil na-ospital si Mia simula nung Tuesday. Sa susunod na post ang kwento. Pero salamat pa rin sa pagbisita.

This is one of those times I wish Mia was born full-term. At other times, it’s really ok that she chose to greet the world earlier than scheduled. I’ve been having a difficult time getting Mia to eat, not just a particular food, but every type of food. Well not everything. She can feed herself noodles and that’s the only time she can finish what I put on her bowl.

But lately fruits and veggies have taken the back seat in her diet and the only thing she’ll welcome with open arms is chocolate. So why do I wish she was born full term? At least she would have gained enough weight to be on track, and not just her height that’s doing ok.

We just had our routine wrestling-slash-crying session, err, checkup with the doctor this morning and she says Mia’s height is within the acceptable range but her weight is not. She’s just at 8.6kg or 18.96lbs. That’s pretty underweight for a toddler her age.

There was this little kid who is 1 year and 3 months old (just 2 months younger than Mia) who was at the hospital at the same time as us and she was huge. She was so big and chubby (and cute) that when she was walking by herself and her mom was telling her to be careful, I thought, ‘How else could she fall off her 2 feet with all that weight?’ That was meant in a positive way, mind you, but really, I was thinking to myself the baby wasn’t even wobbling, she was so sturdy already!

Mia’s other developmental milestones have been great and pretty surprising, and the weight department is just one area that she needs to be better in. I know, at another point in the future it could be a problem again, but right now all I want for her is to gain the right amount of weight.

Our pediatrician actually changed her vitamins to include Cellife, a food suplement that is mixed in food or beverages three times a day. Ever heard about it? I was wondering kasi how effective it will be for Mia. She used to just take Ceelin and Clusivol for kids, but it wasn’t just working.

How about you, what vitamins do you give your kid? And any tips on getting toddlers to eat more? I’d really appreciate it.

Warning: Not for the politically sensitive.

• Discard all my 2-inch hills and buy all the 3 to 4-inched stilletos in the designer market. Using kickback money, of course
• Have my rather distracting mole surgically removed
• Fire my fashion stylist for the boring suits and personally hire Tommy Hillfiger. That’s hitting 2 birds with one stone. Fil-American ties are cemented.
• Discard my standard government-issue plate number and go with “KICKASS” or “G-UNIT”

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It’s one of those linky love tags again, so indulge me again. It’s because of efforts like this one that we get higher google PRs Thank Christine!

Let all the bloggers around the globe come together in unity by blog linking. All you have to do is add your name to the list. Don’t forget to specify the country where you are from and of course, link your name to your respective blog. If you have two or more blogs, add and link ‘em all. Then invite 8 or more bloggers to do the same. Here we go!

Julia from Philippines, Catherine from Malaysia, Shi from USA, Mitch from Philippines, Hailey from Philippines, Sexymom from USA, Liza from Philippines, Sasha from Philippines, Thess from Netherlands, Marie from Philippines, Evi from Canada, Christine from Australia, Vannie from the Philippines, Iris from the Philippines.

And since Vannie I think tagged me with this one, I’m including your links here. Tagging everyone on my WP blogroll!

I have just been struck by the fashion bug and along with my convenient excuse that I have a new career ahead of me, I am raiding the shoes department in search for the perfect pair of boots. I may not be the devil who wears Prada or the Shoppaholic who has got the map of the fashion district tattooed on her brain, but I would really, really like to play the part when it comes to power dressing.

Who wouldn’t, when you’re walking down one of the central business district’s streets and wearing flats either mean you got callouses all over your foot (for running up and down the building for meetings in your 3-inch heels) or you’re simply out of style. Don’t get me wrong, I loooove flats (depending on the style of course). But sometimes there are just days that you want to sport that killer heel, right?

Now don’t judge me, but there was a season in fashion when anything western (think leather and western belts, and rope-slingin-gun-touting-cowboys) was in style. And now I think it’s back.

So anyway where was I? I was about to relate how unsuccessful my boot hunting is until i saw this badass pair on cavenders.com,

and this.

Well you won’t exactly see me wearing them, but looks interesting, don’t they?

Teka, bago ka mag-react kung tama bang nasa kategorya ito ng “Malungkot” ng Litratong Pinoy ngayong linggo, isipin mong maraming dahil kung bakit ang isang tao (o hayop?) ay malungkot ngunit nagagawa pang ngumiti. Ganyan ang naging kaso nitong kalabaw.

Sa kasawiang palad, hindi ko na naitanong dahil isa na siyang malamig na bato nung datnan ko.

Sana’y magustuhan niyo ang litratog ito! Magandang LP weekend!

You are cordially invited to a house party

At my (web) place

Starting today until whenever!

Earlier last month, I had small house partay to welcome everyone (and myself) into my new domain, NapTimeRocks.com. This time around, I just found a new reason to celebrate

Yup, you got that right. My blog just got GooglePR 2! All those weeks of hard blogging-work paid off. Hehe. So grabe a champagne flute and toast with me. Yey cheers!

I was dreading this tag. Unfortunately Kcee sensed that I was secretly wishing to reveal my heart’s desires… The “desires” being actual, real, human beings — well, men actually.

Here are the men that either haunt my dreams or just make me wish that I was born in another time and place — preferably one that becomes the girlfriend or the wife :

• Colin Farrell

• John Travolta

• Jude Law

• Will Devaughn (he looks so much nicer in person and in the PBB photos though)

See the common factor? They just look the part of bad boys, but they’re all softies too. Haha.

Those who have revealed their fantasies:

Aggie Joy, Litzie, Thea, Buge , Vannie , Yen, Francine, Le bric à brac de Cherie, La Place de Cherie, Hailey’s Beats and Bits, Hailey’s Domain, BaReFooTed Me, Nap Time Rocks!
LINK YOURSELF HERE!

Care to share yours? Snag the tag!

When God closes the door, He opens a window.

He opens a window so I can see,

That He’s working it out,

The very best for me.

He opens a window just for me.

These are familiar lines for most of us, but do you know where it came from? As far as my memory is concerned, it was a song from the Joseph the Dreamer soundtrack that my dad has. It’s been with us ever since I can remember and growing up in a family where Sunday School is part of your childhood and Psalty the song book is as famous as Mickey himself, it’s an embedded song lyric in my mind already.

Anyway, you might be thinking what this has got to do with my weekend. I did almost nothing over the weekend, just played around with Mia and finally got to catch up on my reading. I guess I decided to give myself a break after what I’ve emotionally gone through over the week. The photo of the window is just a reminder for me to take things easy, and that even if some things aren’t meant to be, it’s only because God has opened a window so I could see.