I am using my blog as a diary of sorts. I need to document things here so that I can look at them in the future and know when something happened, this is why I’ll be writing a whole lot of Andrea’s milestones here.

I’ve written about her words in the past and now I will add to that list

1. nana - for banana
2. mah ki - for monkey
3. mama/mimi/mami - for mommy
4. dada - for daddy
5. nyinyi - for Nyingnying (my sister)
6. Bapi -for my Aunt (whom we call Abap)
7. Nyanya - for Nanay (my grandmother)
8. Wowa - for wowa
9. Wowo - for wowo
10. Ttay - for tatay
11. ahma - for grandma
12. ahney - for Barney
13. yanzee - for chimpanzee
14. mik - for milk
15. dh gee - for doggie
16. Umbehla - for umbrella
17. Dowa - for Dora
18. No, no, no - for No
19. Haaaay - for Hi
20. Mu - for moon
21. Mayi - for Mary
22. Cahb - for Crab
23. Faweh - for Flower
24. Buk - for Book
25. Andea - for Andrea
26. Baboh - for bubbles
27. Mo - for more
28. No Mo - for No More
29. Bah - for Bath
30. Bo - for ball
31. Babol - for Basketball
32. Digdig - for Tigidig (she says this when she rides on Ruy’s tummy pretending that Ruy’s a horse…hahaha)
33. Moo (sound of the cow)
34. Qack Qack (sound of the duck — this is accompanied by the arm movement of course!)
35. Ming Ming (sound of the cat)
36. Ahf - (sound of the dog)
37. tik tok - for tik tok (sound of the clock)
38. teet - for tweet tweet (sound of the bird)

Your Slogan Should Be

How Do You Handle a Hungry Man? Olivia.

and

Your Slogan Should Be

Liv. Uncommonly Made, Uncommonly Good.

I had the best 5-day-Mother’s-Day-Celebration ever in the history of the world. It’s not because of the extravagance or the expense, but how perfectly it fit me.

Thursday was perfect cause I got to do something I’ve been meaning to do for months and haven’t gotten around to doing so which is visit my doctor. I also got to spend practically a whole day with my family which made it doubly fun.

Friday was amazing. It was perfect cause I got to go on a road trip with two of my favorite people. I’m sensitive when it comes to road trips, I can’t just go with anyone. But this trip was just perfect. The food was awesome, the company great, I felt taken cared off and pampered.

Saturday was the day Ruy insisted on celebrating Mother’s day together without Andrea. I said “What for? We celebrated already yesterday” and he said that was with Andrea, now it’s our turn. It was perfect cause it made me feel that I wasn’t just a mother, that I was a wife too. It reminded me of an often neglected role in my life.

This was the same day Ruy pointed out that I kept on buying the same kinds of shades and asked me to try on some other kind. It was beautiful. He insisted on buying it for me (I wouldn’t let him, don’t underestimate my pulling powers). It was perfect cause I realized that after 8 years together he still notices these details. Details which I myself overlook. It was perfect cause I can see that he knows me well enough to know what fits me and what I’d like.

Sunday was spent with my inlaws having the yummiest lunch ever. It was perfect cause I’m beginning to feel more and more like family.

Monday was spent sleeping the whole day suffering from migraine. It was perfect because I got to take care of myself. I got to experience not being responsible for anything and still the world continued to revolve. I realized I don’t need to worry about everything. I needed to worry about myself.

Mother’s day this year was perfect. Thursday was spent being a sister and a daughter, Friday a mother, Saturday a wife, Sunday an inlaw and Monday being myself. It was beautiful, it was complete, it was perfect.

Yes  I think it’s time I confess to the fact that I, Olivia, have the  My Daughter Has More Clothes Than I Do Syndrome. I don’t know how it started, I guess it started long before giving birth. I gave myself a certain budget to buy myself a bag, and I ended up spending 60% of that budget on baby clothes. Yes, that’s considering I didn’t even know the gender of my baby at that time.

The symptoms got progressively worse as the clothes of baby become cuter. It reached a point where I could go to a mall and not even pass by the ladies section but go only straight to the babies section.

I realized how badly I was inflicted last night. I was going around for over an hour trying to find shoes for myself (trust me, I badly need them) when I ended up with a shirt for Andrea.

Here are Andrea’s clothes for this week:

This does not include the dress her Ninang Carmi got for her. And remember, that’s just for this week. Ayayay!

I went to the Derma last Thursday. I went through an entire litany of just how bad my skin is and how it’s never been this bad, etc., etc., etc. The derma (who is a friend of my mom) just smiled at me indulgently and said in a nice way that I’m basically overacting and that my skin’s not that bad. She said that she wouldn’t even recommend any serious acne treatment now. She did give me some bleaching agent to help even out my skin tone and she gave me a cleaning.

I can’t think straight, my head is still throbbing. I still have around an hour left here in the office and I’m just hoping I can make it through that hour. I am so close to downing any form of medicine using a beer pong…yes that’s how desperate I am.

My friend Vicki said it might be cause I’m dehydrated. She could be on to something cause I’ve only had one glass of water all day. A far cry from the 3 Liters I used to drink when I was pregnant. I really should think about a lifestyle change…pretty much like what Jen has been undergoing.

Imagine this….having migraine and then having to wake up in the middle of the night because a certain baby (who shall remain nameless) was tugging at your big toe because she was somehow able to reach it from her crib. You somehow manage to wake up and pacify her and lull her back to sleep.

Two hours after, she’s screaming Mama, Mama, Mami again. And of course you’re up…migraines and all.

Then you go to work, you are in a room working under 4 industrial lights and having two glaring computer screens open and taunting you with their light.

AAAAARRRRRGGGH. With the number of pills I’m popping now I am going to need to undergo drug rehab very soon.

I’m back? I’m not so sure I am…but I’ll try to post a bit more okay? Promise!! Hahaha….

Short short update on mother’s day….it was AWESOME!! Ruy really went all out.  I’ll give more details later. Toodles!!

Ruy and I had dinner with my family 2 weeks ago, and he took this picture

It reminded me of just how much I miss my sister….sigh