Mother's Day

Mother's Day here in Qatar coincide with the UK celebration, but me and my Filipino friends celebrate it the Philippine way which usually falls on the first Sunday of May. Since it was my mom's birthday yesterday, we just opted to celebrate our pizza day at home, watched pay per view, and a dinner at Friday's. Simple but the usual family bonding.

With my mom & baby Andrea

Happy Birthday Mom!

----------------------------------------- At Miggy's school last March, they also celebrated Mother's Day here in Qatar. Moms were invited to come in for a tea party. Surprisingly, their teacher taught them a simple presentation which, to my heart's delight, was Miggy's first ever song number.

Roses for moms..

Posing with Miggy & friend Kerim

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb

Recent Happenings..

I'm just lucky once in a while to have the luxury of time logging in to write my thoughts. Having two kids has been a handful for me and i'm thankful that mom is still around to help me with the chores. Oh well, two major milestones of my two babies took place during those days that i have been extinct in the blogosphere: Miggy started going to nursery school a month ago. Yep, he started going to school last Feb.15. I already have the feel of that added responsibility being a mom to a student. Aside from imposing Miggy to sleep earlier than usual, i need to wake up early 5 days a week to prepare his breakfast & snacks for school. Sometimes, i need to pick him up too when hubby is preoccupied with work. One funny thing about Miggy in school - during his first day he was crying because of separation anxiety; the following days, he was crying because he doesn't want to leave school & go home. I'm just being thankful that my son enjoys it very much, and looks forward everyday going to school. In fact he was able to adapt & adjust easily. He's been learning a lot about Arabic, French & English and singing songs i haven't heard him singing.

A typical day in school...this is what he love most before going home.

Andrea finally was Christened. Apart from being busy with Miggy, with so little time i did the preparations for Andrea's baptism. I'm thankful that hubby was supportive to the point that we needed to personally ask the priest for a special schedule, canvassed for the best venue, and bought Andrea's baptismal dress & favors from the internet. Having pressed for time, I'm so glad that Andrea's Baptismal day went smoothly & succesfully. The pouring of the holy water...

My Two Angels

I just realized how time flies. Andrea Gabrielle is now in her second month and she has remarkably gained weight. She's now almost 6 kilos, the ideal weight for a three month old baby which merit came from my breastfeeding her. No, not exclusively as planned because once in a while i still supplement her with formula. The truth is i feel guilty every time i give her a bottle or two - but still i'm trying to give her my milk as long as i can. I first saw Andrea Gabrielle's first smile on her 7th week. Now that she's 9 weeks old, she can already communicate by her coo's and ahh's aside from smiling back at me. Oh well, i needed to take note of her milestone in spite of not writing it down in her baby book. Busy mom... as always. Just a few days ago, i asked my brother to take some pics of Andrea. And just exactly, there are some angles in her picture that closely resembles Miggy when he was almost the same age as her. I then thought of playing with their pics and ended up making a collage -the two of them look exactly alike, you wouldn't even recognize who is who. The pictures of Miguel Gerard & Andrea Gabrielle, my two angels. Andrea (lower pics) is 8 weeks in the pictures, while Miggy (upper) is only 6 weeks old.