Such a great day and its only half over!!

What a wonderful day!!

Rested on the couch this morning and listened to d2 play with is cars in the kitchen. Then We played hide and seek for the very 1st time.

It was soo cute! He counted like this.

one....

two....

three....

five....

six....

seven...

eight...

& then mumbled something that sounded like

Ready or not here I come.

(thank you word world for teaching my child how to play hide and seek!)

He was the seeker the whole time...& I got to hide. 

You all know hiding is the best part!!

But to my little one, finding me was more fun for him.

Giggles filled the house and every now and then a snort.

(thank you D for passing your snort on to our child, it is by far my most favorite thing)

I cant remember the last time I played this game, but it as soo much fun.

I had so much fun that at one point while running to hide, I wasn’t paying very good attention and ran my left shoulder blade into a corner of the house. 

(it still hurts)

On top of all the fun, d2 also had a big boy moment!

He is growing up, but this one I am soo ready for!

He peed in his frog potty for the 1st time today.

I have been putting him on his frog potty pretty much whenever he wants....he does get m&m’s so it help with him making that choice. 

So today I have been asking him to poop so I can put him down for his nap

There is nothing worse they having your child's nap interrupted because of a bowel movement. This lead to asking if he wanted to sit on the potty.

So we sat him down...and gave him a bowl of m&m’s like normal.

I really wasn't expecting too much from it. He usually just wants the m&m’s.

The all of the sudden he said... Look...its the water!

I looked in his potty and what did I find to my pleasure!!

Yes he peed in the potty! & I took pictures.

I never understood why Kate Gosselin photographed her children when the each pooped in the potty until this moment. 

(Yes I might be one of those people who photographs that moment too)

After getting a diaper on him, and what not, We cheered, spun around, and I told him how very excited I was about this. Then he helped me put it in the toilet, and flush.

(yes I photographed it all, for daddy of course)

And we Cheered some more!!

Good job little man!!

This is one of the things to do when I get back from my trip, & I feel like he might actually be ready for it!!

Getting on the Plane!!!

This friday!

I am soo very excited and nervous at the same time! Boy this time has flown by!

First, I would like to thank all of you for your support, and encouragement!

So many people have shown me the fathers love in the last few months and I am so grateful! Whether you have supported me financially, or in prayer, it all means soo much! 

With your help I have raised all but $130, but the Lord is good and has provided that in another way, by blessing D with lots of extra hours at work, adding extra money to our budgets that we were able to put toward the trip. Praise Jesus!

So now I ask you to pray! And keep me and the team in your prayers while we travel. These are the things our team has be praying for as we prepare for our trip, & we ask that you join us in that.

• Ask God to keep our travels safe & that our group will continue to get to know each other and communicate well. 

• Pray that we will be invited into homes of nationals.

• Pray for the women's retreat. That women can come & that they can take a few days off from responsibilities to attend. 

• Pray that the women will be encouraged and motivated to share in their community. 

• Pray for the man in our group as he will be meeting other male nationals during the women’s retreat. That he will be bold in sharing Jesus’s Love.

• Pray for their government, Right now they have no hope for it to improve and pray for the country. 

For those of you who don't know, We will be going to south asia.

I also ask that you pray for me personally. 

• Ask God to give me peace as I leave D & d2 for two weeks. 

      (this will be the longest I have ever be away from my little boy)

• Pray that d2 will adjust to having my dear friend Ann watch him while I am away.

       (this is also a praise bc knowing his environment wont change will             help while Im gone)

• Pray for D 

      (Two weeks as a single dad might get to him)

• Pray that I will give all this up to God, and embrace the moments while I am there, and not focus on worries of home.

Im not sure what else, but please pray as you feel lead. 

This is my verse as we go! I hope it encourages you as much as it does me.

Eph. 3: 17-19 “and I pray that you, being rooted & established in love, may have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide, and long, and high, and deep is the love of christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

5 Years....Already!

Hello June! 

Ok, so life is crazy...Will it ever slow down?

I am not so sure!

So first things first,

D and I celebrated out 5 year anniversary on May 29th!

Its hard to believe its already been 5 years. 

It makes me wonder...what happened to all those goals....?

Thats it..Im making a list and posting it somewhere in the house...and maybe even on here, and making some goals...I mean really Im gonna be 30 in like....2 1/2 years. Where do I want to be when Im 30...and am I even that close to getting there? 

Not so sure.

Sorry for the side note.

Anyways, 5 years...boy time goes so quickly.

So for your viewing pleasure...This is us....5 years ago....so in love.

And this is us today...

Still in love. Yea for that! And I find more reasons everyday why I love him so much!

But I will be nice and only post my top 5 since it is our 5 year anniversary!

D... I love....

#1... Your Orneriness. (did you know how to spell this word...because I had to type it 3 different ways before it would come up in spell check. Thank you for spell check)

#2... Your Heart

#3... Your Eyes

#4... Your Patience (with me and your child)

#5... Your drive (No matter how hard life gets.... you keep at it)

I love you D!

& Im looking forward to many more years with you!

The you I get to see that no one else does.

Yes, I know it defeats the purpose if I share with you all, but some days I wish you could know the husband I feel in love with. These moments slip out every now and then with close friends, but I thought I would share this one with you all.

So picture this,

We are driving home, and almost there, I might add. 

When D accidentally hits the horn on the car.

“BEEEEEP!”

(keep in mind this happens more often the is should, but we aren’t normally so close to home)

I say.. “D I mean really, we are almost home.”

He is looking around to see if anyones outside of there house.

I say, “look, that guy in his garage is looking at us like we are crazy for honking our horn.”

He replies,

“where? I would have waved!” 

With this grin, that can only be explained as the grin I get when he is in his silly mood. Its on of mischief and orneriness combined. And only comes out every now and then.

I just shake my head...and proceed to tell him that I will be posting it on fb, until I realized that this would just be too long of a fb status update, and thus the blog post. 

did he just say what I think he said?

So, my goal is to try and update our blog once a month. Lets hope I can do it. I’ve already got one for this month...but its for last month.

As for April, it too has gone by pretty quickly. So many sweet moments with my little man, I should keep a note pad around so I don’t forget them all. 

At the beginning of the month I had my training show for my latest endeavor. I started another blog for it so go check it out! www.SPARKLEnBLING.blogspot.com

I decided that this year would be the first year I didn’t take d2 in for professional portraits. After all, I do photography on the side, and should be able to get at least one good shot right? Right. 

I did, and it is by far my most favorite. 

Here it is for all you to enjoy!

He climed the ladder at the park for the 1st time and loved his new found skill!

d2 has had some pretty funny moments. 

I will share with you my most favorite.

Now d2 has always been interested in his private parts, and bath time has always been the time when we have to tell him to leave it alone. For those of you who don’t know, I am half Filipino, and the word for that area is “Tay-Tay”. Bath time consisted of us telling d2 to leave his “tay-tay” alone. 

Now with his vocabulary growing, this word has become a part of it. Now at bath time, he still grabs it, and then tells us what it is. And we have to tell him to leave it alone. 

Anyways, the other day he came over with his stuffed animal. Its a dog, but it is in the shape of a ball, with its face flat against the ball, but with the ears, arms, legs, & tail coming off the ball. d2 came to us, holding the dog by its tail, and looked as us and said. “Tay-tay?”

Holding back my laughter, I said, “No dear, that is the doggies tail.” 

He the repeated the word. “Tail?”

“yes, thats’ its tail.”

D and I about feel on the floor laughing. I was laughing so hard, there were tears in my eyes.!

Looks like kids say the darndest things has already begun, and I will continue to share them with you!

Oh March?! Where did you go?

I find myself amazed that march has come and gone. 

But even more how my day to day life has changed.

In March,

I was finishing up the term, where my weeks, Monday threw Thursday, contained classes for me. I would spend my time designing, helping others design, and pretty much did what I wanted till I came home. Depending on the day, I would arrive home to my family around 3 or 5. I had long breaks, where I could contemplate whatever the day brought, or what life was bringing my way. I could sit and chat with friends, and just enjoy time to myself. All of which I enjoyed, but at the same time, missed being at home with my d2, and even D.

March also held d2’s 2nd birthday! Its hard to believe. He is beginning to use full sentences, is trying to enter in the tantrum stage ( we are trying to keep that in line ), and learning so much. I am amazed at how is brain is a sponge.  He already knows every letter in the alphabet, of which we learned from the Sunday school teacher, ( I knew he knew many of them but it has been confirmed..he knows them all ).  He knows the basic colors, although has trouble with red and orange ( but those 2 are really close ). 

For his 2nd birthday, I could only have done one theme..there really was no other option. He loves Word World. Have you scene or heard of it? Well my dear friend Alyssa, who we call auntie Lys, said that her niece loved it, so we thought, why not. We bought a dvd, and it has been a daily thing in our house. And the funny thing is, I find myself glued to the TV if it is an episode I have never seen. I also find myself singing 

songs from it. 

Check it out! www.wordworld.com ! Best thing ever!

So Word World it had to be. But you cant just go to your local store..any I might add and get a word world cake. So I decided to tackle it myself ( lets keep in mind his birthday fell on the week of dead week, right before finals ). I managed to not have finals for 2 classes, and finished the one final I needed to turn in Monday, on Thursday. This gave me all day Friday to get ready for the party. 

So here are some shots from the party.. Only my favs. I have soo many!

First, we had Bags, and Hats...for all. Bags contained M&M's d2's fav., blowers, some crayons, and 2 coloring sheets with pictures from the word world website of party things. I had a cake, a hat, a gift, and bear with some balloons. Each bag had 2 of the 4, so many kids got different pictures.

Here is the cake! It took me pretty much all day it felt like, but I love how it turned out. I used marshmallow fondant, and made a CAKE like off the show, and then on top I put his fav character DOG & is HOUSE. I made them out of ricecrispy treats, molded them and covered them with fondant, and then piped the details on. 

I really like how it turned out...but lets just say that next year I will be ordering my cake from the store.... But maybe I will feel like being creative again. Who knows. :)

Our happy little Family!

Time to blow out the candles.

I got the happy birthday banner free of the web site. Just printed if off and put it together.

Enjoying some cake!

We got plates and cups off line with the charaters on them

Who needs presents when you can play with  the BAG it came in!

Ok...Im done with photos..although I had like 20 more I just loved. Guess you need to get on fb to see them... (guess I need to up load them too)

So after his birthday was spring break, and lots of thinking it over. D had just started a new job that week, and I was mulling over what to do. I didnt really want to put my kid in childcare, it didnt matter who was taking care of him. I know this is different for each parent, and their situation, but for me personally, I didn't have a kid, so someone else could raise him. I was ok with him being in it for half the day, but my classes wouldnt allow me to do that, so after a while, I realised all I wanted to do was take the term off, and figure out schooling later. You see, D has a job, and Praise Jesus for it, but it is through a temp. We dont know if he will be extented, hired on permenantly or, my least favorite option, let go once the project is done. Whatever the case, taking off a term and seeing how it plays out was the only thing I was comfortable with. Once I added in cost of childcare, and where, and how. It was a no brainer for me. And once I had decided to let it go, and give it to God, I had the most amazing peace about it.

So now my days are filled with chores, and play time, nap time, diapers, parks and playdates. It may be hard to find a moment for myself, but I am loving every minute of it, and soaking up this time that I know goes by soo fast!

Music to my ears!

Just had one of those moments!

My day was filled with homework, homework and more homework. I got home around 3 and decided I should take a nap. After all, I was falling asleep on the bus, thus I must need a nap. 

Before said nap, I decided to check my email. You see, last night after d2 went to bed, I started in on my invitation project for my Type 1 class. The time flew by, and when I finished and emailed it to my professor, I realized that is was 11. 3 hours felt like one. Not complaining, I was enjoying the process. So, I needed to check my email before I took my nap. Right? RIGHT!

So, I had a response with notes on my work, and my mind went off with processing it and how to fix said issues. Nap time right? right....

I went up stairs for sad nap, and d2 started to have an issue because I closed the door. This is odd because he can open all the doors in the house. So after he decided to open the door, with daddy in hand playing interference, d2 decided mommy needed a good night kiss. SO Sweet!

He walked up to my side of the bed and sweetly kissed me, turned around with dad in tow, and said nigh nigh!

So after that, I was pretty sure my day couldn’t get any better.

After all, I was snug in my bed, ready for some much needed rest.

So I thought.

Now, one would like to think that d2 came running back it...but no. Daddy was a dear and took him outside to play.

There I was, warm and toasty in bed with my electric blanket on, compliments of mom 2 christmas’ ago, wide awake. I could not get my mind to shut off. I have a list a mile long of all the things I must complete before the weekend is over. Included in this is 2 shifts at work. 

After a half hour of laying there in thought, I decided I should just get up and get to work on it.

Around 4 the boys came back in, and D needed to go to the store for a couple things for dinner. We discussed whether d2 would stay here or go. My argument was, 

“you know how he gets when you leave. Just go ask him. If he wants to stay then he can stay.” 

Lucky for me, he wanted to go with daddy. ( I dont think it was much luck though . For sure a daddy’s boy. ) 

So another kiss later, and “c a waiter” (see you later)

AND to my pleasant surprise 

“I whuv you” 

Today, my sweet boy, told be good bye, and I love you!

as he left the house with daddy.

With out being prompted!

I mean, I say I love you to him every time I leave, but we have never asked him to say it. He just said it. 

Talk about melting mommy’s heart!

He is learning new words every day, but by far this is my favorite!