karen becomes a mummy!

I'm proud to announce that my ka-tagteam partner, my tokwabot girl power, is now a mommy!!! I'm so happy! 

I can't wait to see you soon dhay! Labsyuu! I'm sure we'll have a messier fun with our babies, a grand tokwabot team! We will have to make my dream of us celebrating at wild wadi come true *wink! Take care of yourself and that beautiful belly dweller. (photo: titagalog karen and 1.8yo zaiid)

cake hunting

My 2.10yo is going to have his 3rd birthday in Cebu. It's going to be his first birthday here so I'm making sure he'd have the best memory of it. With his 1st and 2nd birthdays in Dubai, we stayed indoors because it's the peak of summer.

We need to plan out where to have the party. He loves the waters, so it would be cool for him to have a beach or a pool party. Or we can have it in a nice park where all the kids could run around with their bikes. Bottomline, my son would love to celebrate his birthday under the sun.

I need to find the perfect cake. Last year we improvised and had fun. Zaiid too was happy with it. We bought a mini cake from BreadTalk and replaced the toppings with his favourite characters from Cars. The characters are hardboard cutouts so we only had to paste a toothpick so we could stick it on to the cake. I would 

love to have a cake, not so fancy or 

costly, that speaks the habits or favourites of my son. Something he would appreciate and be proud of. I hope I could get my budget and imagination ready and in time.

morning shoot

It's an early morning thing. Little brother wakes up 2 hours earlier than his big brother. Big brother wakes up and calls for his little brother. They sit while mama takes a picture. Nice way to start the morning.

alt_key_broken_by_Akii!

My 8month old Macbook Pro has never been this swolen since Zaiid's crazy clay days. This is the work of my 8month old baby, showing his affection to our "appo" already.

dadilo

His day is always full with his daily routine: cook, his usual car business, his BLD business, his whatever-a-Dadi-is-always-busy-with business... He still takes time to be with his apos. And who could blame a grandfather who feels every bit of peace and happiness with his grandbabies.

happy to come home.

So eager to go to school, equally eager to go home. His little brother awaits his kuya smelling dirt and crayons and sun. They say hi and kiss away forever. 

an insane amount of faith

I am always a believer of the Big Picture. Even how sour a day could be, or how deep I am swallowed by the biggest failure I made, I am sure that at the end of a hardship, there's always a bigger picture that says: you were part of that mess to sacrifice and achieve this grandest universal story. 

Faith is something no one can give you. It is rooted deeper than hope, or maybe love. Of course I could be wrong because this is just me, saying things that could at least erase any fears sleeping or lingering somewhere in my head. 

"With a little help of Rust-eze - and an insane amount of luck - you too can look like me. Ka-chow." says Lightning McQueen, but I'd like to rephrase it in my terms: With a little help of a wise plan and an insane amount of faith, everything will fall into place. Because we can only do so much and it's His time and His yes, that could move mountains. We can only plan, and hope, and believe that things will move according to His will.

And everytime, the Big Picture always put everybody in a smile.