Caroleen’s Treasures

At last I got this package from Rochelle Price, the owner of SlingRings. Soon there will be ring slings up for sale in my store, the Home of Handmade Goodies.

It contains 50 pairs of rings for my ring slings.

They shipped my order from Laveen, Arizona last February 12 and the package was already received by Davao Post Office on the 28th. As expected, the parcel notice was delivered here at home yesterday after 9 days of sitting on their desk. If you ever need to know what a “snail mail” means, try the Philippine Postal Corporation’s service and you would certainly know.

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I was looking at old pictures and found these precious ones. I forgot to blog about this, not that they don’t really matter to me but because I can’t keep up with a lot of things to blog about when this happened. Last March 20, 2009, the day before her Graduation Day, Ella drew this in 4″ x 6″ white board.

We were waiting for Eman to make an appearance and she envisions what will happen when that most awaited day will come. As you can see, I am on the delivery table and the doctor was helping Eman come out.

I took pictures. She erased it and made another drawing. Now the doctor is holding Eman while I was still on the delivery table.

This third drawing made me really giggle. See the taxi? Isn’t it the cutest taxi? Here we brought home the baby. Wondering why she’s not in the drawing? It’s because we have briefed her earlier that when I will give birth to her little brother, she will stay at my sister Crislyn’s apartment and wait for us to bring the baby home. We did that just in case she won’t be allowed to stay with us in the hospital but she ended up sleeping at our room for 2 nights and we all went home together with the baby.

These photos remind me of how I really loathe my huge prenatal vitamins that made me puke.With my two pregnancies, I have not finished all the vitamins that we bought. I don’t even drink Anmum when I was pregnant with Eman, just the regular milk, because I hate vanilla flavored milk. I can’t tolerate chocolate too. They just don’t appeal to me though I tried drinking a few glasses when I was pregnant with Ella. I just eat a lot of fruits, fish and vegetables (and rice too…hehehehehehe).

I am very concerned of Ella’s permanent teeth. As I see how her new teeth are coming out, it appears that we will need to save for some braces. When her two lower front teeth (central incisor) came off and the permanent teeth came out, she started pushing them out. I told her she need to to that so she won’t have an abnormal teeth growth. She is doing that for long but it seemed it won’t do any good unless the lateral incisors (beside the central incisor) will come off. Her milk teeth are too tiny and now that her new teeth are coming out, it is becoming too crowded in there. But if we will not be lucky, we already accepted that we will really need to shell out some moolah just to get her teeth fixed. That will be in 7 years or 10 maybe.

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I posted some photos of Ella and I got this comment from Julie:

Boy! I can’t get over how grown up Ella is looking in these pictures! Did she just have a growth spurt?

Yes she certainly is on growth spurt and I wish it would slow down a bit before she couldn’t wear any of her clothes. Look at what she did while we attended a breastfeeding seminar last Friday. I had no idea she had lip gloss and powder in her bag! When she got so bored inside the function room, she roamed around the lobby of Lispher Inn and ended up in their restaurant. Donald, who brought Eman out so I can participate in the group discussion, saw the waiter take one piece of siopao from the steamer and served it to the customer seated alone on one of the tables. He glanced again and saw none other than her very own daughter. She really feels she’s grown up and likes to sit in different table when we are eating out. She not yet 7 and she’s asserting her independence already. Oh how I missed when she was still learning to walk……I couldn’t believe I will have a teen soon.

Okay enough drama. I will try to get my hands on the fabric after I check one of the weight loss products. I don’t need one yet since Eman is causing me to burn fats fast. But who knows, tomorrow I will.

Heading to the water still on diaper

I am such a good procrastinator and I have proved that for the nth time. Read more… »

Eman turned 11 months old yesterday and I am such a bad mom for not being able to take decent photos of him. We went to my SIL’s house warming party in the evening and though I knew he turned another month old…….I didn’t bother to take even a single solo picture of him maybe because I was so tired and sore. We traveled an hour to get there so imagine how my back hurt. So to make up for it, we went out tonight to have some sort of late celebration. We actually  had no plans on going out but I just asked if we could go buy ingredients for mango float. I ate almost half of the whole batch that was served last night yet I still crave for it. So off we went with the kids in their jackets because we are also heading to Jack’s Ridge. It is a restaurant on top of a hill. We have been there for several times before I got pregnant with Eman so this time it was his turn to see the place. The good thing there is that you can just hang in there the park overlooking Davao City, Davao Gulf and the islands of Samal and Talicud without needing to dine in their restaurant. So that’s what we did.

This art seemed nicer during daytime. The word DAVAO is a sculpture of Durian, waling-waling, native people and Pomelo. Read more… »

Last Saturday, I went to SM to meet my high school friends and of course my whole family tagged along. We are inseparables ya know. We were at SM a couple of hours before the agreed time. We brought the laptop to Thinking Tools to get the DVD ROM checked. Then we went down to the Food Court (our favorite tambayan) and pigged out on cheese flavored french fries and choco fudge black pearls. Nom nom nom.

Since we will have  dinner together with my friends, we brought the stroller so the little guy will be comfortable just in case he naps. The whole time we were there Ella was the one pushing the stroller around. She would get mad if we will take over.

She was showing his little brother around the windows we passed by, stopping for a while to let the little guy see those mannequins in fancy clothes. Read more… »

Last February 8 was our 7th wedding anniversary and that day we had the worst meal.

Daddy, who is in Pagadian City, sent an sms greetings early in the morning. Donald was surprised he still remembers it. Well of course he does because he was the mastermind of our wedding date. LOL Daddy is not Chinese but he suggested it should be on the 8th or any date that the bottom does not points downward (like 1, 4, 7 and 9).

There in so specific plan for that day but Ella wanted it to be special by making a greeting card for me and Donald. We went to SM and did our usual walk around the ground floor and checked for a good deal at the second floor. Good thing I didn’t find anything worth buying because I have no plans in spending for anything but food that day. Then we passed by this new section at the second floor that really bothered Ella.

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I wrote last night about Ella’s Barbie dresses made of scraps from my cloth diapers and baby slings. Julie left a comment in that post wanting to see the pictures and so I am sharing to you all the photos of her masterpieces.

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I just finished sewing new set of curtains for the living room mainly because I can’t live without it, I want privacy and I want a dim house. I did some little cleaning in the kitchen this afternoon and took down the curtains but I am too lazy to wash it. It was soaked but it’ll take me more time to remove the spots from I-don’t-know-where than I imagined so I dug in my box for fabric. I find it a lot easier and more fun to sew than do the laundry.

It’s almost midnight but the kids are still wide awake. Ella is hard at work with her crafts while Eman is busy with my soft tape measure. I hope this means my little guy will love numbers and math will be his favorite subject. Well the little girl is inclined to arts and I absolutely don’t have any issues with that. I actually would want her to be an artist or anything related to arts, fashion and the like. Yeah, fashion. She is learning to dress up her Barbie dolls with her handmade dresses made of scraps from my cloth diapers and baby slings.

We are loving the oldies music on Donald’s playlist……remembering the olden days. Go to go now because Eman is sitting on my lap now and is trying to reach the keyboard with his fingers and toes.