halloween kwento

hello world! yep, this blog's still alive! there are just one too many milestones to share but i wouldn't bore you with that, since it's just going to make this post really long (in all honesty though, i just don't remember all of them and i wouldn't know where i'd pick up looking at the last entry of this blog, heehee)

i just have some halloween 2010 "hirits" to share that extremely surprised my parents and made them laugh to their cores...

hirit #1:
we went to the mall first after merienda on hallow's eve. but just before we go, as i was being dressed up, i saw my dad chewing a bubble gum and he blew a bubble that popped close to me and i uttered to my amazement...

"dad, great... ummm.. (thinking and searching for a more apt term).. popping!"
(uh-huh, they didn't know that i know that word and that i know how to use it).

hirit #2:
at the mall, as soon as i got the first lollipop, i asked mom to open it and i giddily sucked on it right away. my dad observed that i was probably on lollipop-high that i was so hyper (understatement!) running around the mall uncontrollably.

whenever i would step on a visible line on the marble floors, i would stop and pretend i couldn't get off and i surprised my dad when i was on one foot and extending one arm towards him, said...

"help mom! help dad!... my wing's broken!" (yep, i have wild imaginations!)



hirit #3:
doing the same thing at another instance, i then said:

"i'm stuck! really really stuck! ... my wing's stuck!"

hirit #4:
in one of the stores at the mall, just before i was able to say "trick-or-treat!", a lady in costume handing out candy told me, "happy halloween!".. and so i had to ask:

"what that?!" (hey i don't really know what halloween means!)



hirit #5:
when we reached home, i had my wings and headband taken off first just so i could sit properly while i wait for the trick-or-treating at my neighborhood. dad took my wings and tried them on. dad thought i would be mad and would tell him to take it off coz they're mine, but instead i asked him:

"dad, you want headband?" (promise, they look better with that headband)


dad looks awesome with wings and headband, doesn't he?

hirit #6:
and lastly, in our neighborhood, whenever we'd stop by a front door, i'd say "trick-or-treat!... even when the door's still closed. so when it opens, i would just hand my pumpkin basket out for my treat. and nah, even if anyone told me to repeat what i just said, i wouldn't. hey, i already told them and it's time for MY treats!


trick-or-treating with mamita

haha, classic! now, we're all the more excited for next halloween!

while at it, might as well share a picture of me as a tootie-pacutie-striped butterfly (on saturday at the "boo at the zoo!). i was the wickedest-of-the-witch butterfly on hallow's eve (i was a caterpillar last year, remember? so now, "i'm a beautiful butterfly!")



if you want to see more (and i mean a lot!), you can click here for the boo at the zoo pictures and here for the halloween trick-or-treating pics (mom has yet to upload the videos though). by the way, majority of them are private pics so you won't be seeing them if you aren't a friend/family contact of my mom on flickr (if you're friends with mom on facebook, she normally shares a guest pass link there)

patingin! patingin!

whenever my parents are feeding me, before the next spoonful of food, they'd ask "patingin?" (just to check if my mouth's still stuffed). what i'll do is try to stick my tongue out as if to say "opo, done na... next subo please". i actually do that with and without food. so imagine how i manage to do that while keeping my food intact. watch the video and you'll see...

2 more months!

i am now 10 months old! yep, just two months shy from my 1st birthday! i don't feel the party planning pressure from my parents yet. boise isn't a busy city ya know. plus the party isn't going be something really grande. well, maybe next month (they're both known to be good procrastinators anyway, teehee).

this afternoon, we went to our subdivision park so that i could try the slide and then do a little bit of a photo shoot in the park. here are few of 'em shots:


and and here's a video of me almost falling out of the slide

dad prepared one of my favorites -- pancit bihon!-- just for today and of course it wouldn't be complete without my monthly cake (with my favorite fruit for it's icing design) topped with 10 little candles.



before the day ended, we took a few more snaps on our lone red swivel chair (sofa in the living room is gone. my folks were able to sell it during our garage sale. it's due to be upgraded soon anyway).


the rest of my 10th month bday pics are here

now, let's all visit babycenter's 10-month old milestones first and see how i par.

i definitely have mastered all 3 from the all-kids-can-do list: waving goodbye; picking things up with pincer grasp; and crawling well, with belly off the ground. and i'll take bets on any race since i crawl really fast now! see?!

on the emerging skills i do say "mama" and "dada" to the correct parent. not very often though since i don't normally call them that. i use some gestures to indicate my wants and needs and also to tell mom or dad or anyone that i disapprove of some things. most often though, i would just cry or shout.

i've done one out of two on the advanced skills. that of standing alone for seconds. i can get myself up without any support and balance by myself. and i can actually do this a lot longer now. a video here to see what i mean.. putting object into a container is a skill i have yet to be taught though. i always make a mess by getting everything out of hampers, bags, boxes, cabinets and shelves, but i couldn't tidy up by putting them back in, heehee. wanna see how?

other 10 month updates:

-- i now weigh 20.4lbs (if only i were a year old, i would've been allowed to use a front-facing carseat) and 28.5inches long

-- i have 4 teeth now! 2 on top and 2 below. brushing seriously!

-- i tried walking by myself! i did 2 steps and dived on the 3rd =). i keep on attempting to perfect this skill by myself so you'd often see me diving down my mat. mom had no luck capturing this on cam yet. teehee. my parents had been making my play area free from sharp and hard obstructions to make walking safer for me.

-- i use almost anything to help me cruise and walk. be it a pair of hands, the furniture, the sofa, my fence, the kitchen cabinets, and yep, even the rolling fruit basket. that's why my mom calls me a "pusher". i push everything from hampers, to my toys, to anything! here i am walking careof dad, walking using the fence, and pushing the hamper and my toy.

-- i am becoming more and more of a helluva talkative baby! of course, none of the words can be understood by anyone but i am composing "sentences" now, "paragraphs" or "stories" if you would. specially when i'm fighting off sleep, i would talk and "sing" to myself as loudly as i could. again, yet to be captured on cam.

-- i've tried "swimming" for the first time this month. i am preparing for the swimming class on the big pool come july ya know.

-- i still eat a lot. my favorites so far include fruits like watermelon, melon and banana. and lately i am loving it when there's chicken on my food =). arrowroot biscuits are getting to be my fave on-the-go snack, specially now that it's summer when we're always out, basking under the sun. here i am taking big bites from this banana. unfortunately for my parents, my board books are included in my favorites. teehee.


-- and i am doing quite a number of cool tricks and collecting lots of funny antics and "gaya,gaya,puto,maya" moments now:

1. i now know how to do the "mano po"

2. i can do the high five but i would sometimes confuse it with "mano po"

3. i give dad and mom kisses. but i've been doing this eversince.

4. i wave hi and bye for real.

5. i know how to drive away "strangers". if someone else wants to carry me besides my mom or dad, i can twist my body and shield one arm from them which directly tells them that i don't know you. heehee

6. when my parents would say "asus, asus", i would fake "coughing". there's also a forceful grunt that i would do that would really make my face all red. heehee. and i'm proud to say that i just learned to do this by myself. =). if you can't picture it, just watch this video.

here's another one

7. i raspberry in disapproval

8. when you say no, i would move my head from side to side, as if i am agreeing to disagree with you. but expect a #7 at the end =)

9. i blurt contagious laughter and giggles out

10. i dance, wiggle, sway and stomp my feet to the music. becomings of a good dancer eh?! video links here and here.

11. i clap whenever you say "clap" or "good job". video of my "keyboard recital" here with clapping at the end.

i have lotsa tricks rolled up my sleeves and they sure are making my folks laugh their heads off. if they could only capture all of my antics, my mom would be really happy. heehee. i'll update you with more of these next month, meanwhile enjoy my month 9 to 10 pictures!

high five!

my dad taught me how to do the "high five" (or the "apir" for some of you) yesterday and i was able to learn it in a jiffy!

i still confuse it with "bless" though that i would sometimes move my head forward to touch my dad or mom's hands. haha. ah well, it's yet to be perfected. soon my friends, soon.

wavin hi and bye

my parents had been teaching me to wave to my mom when she goes to work and to wave "hello" to anyone, for probably more than a month now. i try to do it but they don't know that that was a wave, haha.

they finally found out that i can actually do it last june 4. when we were saying our goodbyes to some of our filipino friends during one dinner gathering, i did wave! it was only recently though that i was able to perfect the skill. i wouldn't fail to wave whenever my parents would say, "hi" or "bye" while waving, or say "wave" or whenever they would ask me "paano mag-wave?", or when they would wave and tell me "o ikaw naman". then, they would always reward me with a "good job" cheer and then i would clap my hands to commend myself.

very often though, i wouldn't do it in front of anyone aside from my parents. shy type eh? but if you catch me doing it, you'd also see the bonus claps and the sweetest smiles!

mano po

pagmamano, is a Filipino tradition that my parents would definitely not fail to teach me. last night, mom was just trying to see what i would do if she places her hand near my forehead and says "bless". at an instant, i moved my head forward until my it touches the back of my mom's hand! it's as if i really know how to do the "mano po". that's what i do everytime she or dad does that. pwedeng pwede na raw ako mamasko! :).

i have yet to learn how to get one's hand while i "bless" though. but i'm pretty sure that in time for our planned vacation in pinas come Christmas time, i have already mastered this Filipino tradition to show respect for the elderly :)

close, open..close,open

it's been more than three months since lolo dadi introduced the infamous "close-open" to me. and it never failed to get a smile or giggle out of me whenever i see lolo dadi chanting "close, open... close, open" to me whilst closing and opening his hand (even up to now whenever i see him through skype). he even claimed that he saw me unconsciously trying to do it with my left hand when he was here.

i actually had a realization about a month ago that i can actually do it. my parents even saw it once or twice already around that time. i used to clap my hands when mom or dad would chant "close, open" which seems to tell them that i am just applauding them for they can do it. heehee. but lately i get fascinated with it while i watch my hands do the actions, sans the chant. and now, if you chant and hold one of my hands, i'll do it and try to show off. not for long, however. coz this "talent" is yet to be perfected. therefore, i need more practice.

anyway, what is it with waving "bye-bye"?! do i really need to learn that?!

i'm a-clappin' and a-kissin'

there are two things, or tricks that i've learned from my parents this week:

1. i've learned to clap my hands! whenever mom or dad would say or sing, "clap your hands, clap your hands" or "a-clap-clap-clap, a-clap-clap-clap", i will join my hands together. if it's you're lucky day, you'd see me do it more than once, or if you're really really lucky, you'd see my right hand dustin off my left hand (and doing the kaskas motion).

2. i can now give my dad and mom a kiss! and boy they always want lots of kisses from me. when anyone of them says "kiss mommy" or "kiss daddy", they'll get one cheek near my lips, and with my mouth open, i'll give them the sweetest but silent kiss.

close-open? no, i have not learned that yet. my lolo dadi started to teach me that when he was here. but i just like to watch how funny my lolo dadi looks when he does that. well, i'll learn that eventually. my parents won't stop teaching me new tricks anyway.

ps. you might ask where my vids are knowing how my mom documents all my baby steps. well, i don't have them yet. you know how kj i am on-cam right? as soon as mom gets successful capturing them, i promise to post the links here :)