Desire to be number one

During Mau's wedding to Tony, finally! So happy for both of you. :)

It has been months since I last updated. Life has been so full for me I was not able to find time to write. With the change of address, Lois going to school, Paul and I enrolling in the gym and opening of the web design cum desktop publishing shop - which by the way is still not officially registered, hopefully ticked out of my to do's by this week- my target tasks have never been completed. I think it will take mid-next year until everything settles. Or maybe even later than that?

Competitive kids
We introduced the concept. Hoping it would speed things up with the kids but it boomeranged with bad consequences. Now the kids are always wanting to be the first. Carlos is such a big boy now he would sometimes leave Lois behind in doing stuff - eating, running, putting on clothes. That spells trouble because big girl Lois wouldn't let him be the first. And we cannot control the truth anymore, unlike before.

But there would still be times when it would work, like when helping Lois prepare for school, I would enumerate her classmates and imagine what they are doing as they prepare. That somehow eggs our lethargic Lois. I'm sure the strategy has a diminishing effect. Hopefully before it loses power, Paul and I have come up with a better solution.

Lois the writer
She writes! I am so proud of our lovely daughter. She's able to write her name! Ok, she has her own version of the letter 's' but she's able to write her name: LOIS, and letter P.

Lois: Standing line, big tummy
Me: What letter is that?
Lois: Small letter b. Beams while erasing her small white board. Standing line, big head, big tummy.
Me: What letter is that?
Lois: B!

Carlos is for car
Daddy Paul has been teaching the kids Filipino and English words. Ok, it was just Lois. But Carlos got so stuck with the car translation, he would offer it again and again.

Carlos: Daddy, kotse car.
Paul: Very good, Carlos!
Carlos: Daddy Poh Poh (yup, he calls him that!) car kotse.
Paul: Yes Carlos. Smiles.
Carlos: Daddy Poh Poh car kotse.
Paul: Smiles.
Carlos: Daddy Poh Poh car kotse.

My life in haiku
terribly busy
got no time to take a bath
living to the max