Our Long Weekend

It has been a pretty hectic year for this mom, work-wise. The reason why I had less posts, less outings, less arts and crafts. But the 4 day long weekend and  re-energized me (and then made me tired again) simply because we got to enjoy our little boy fot 4 straight days.

 

 

 

A toast to the great results of his 2nd quarter exams.

 

 

You might be seeing this angry bird shirt in several posts. As his current fave, this is wash and wear.

 

 

Here he is enjoying the display at SM-- then this toppled over scaring him in the process.

The race track at Festivall Mall where he gets to take his chosen car for a few spins around the area. This I think is the best bump car (if you wiill call it that) place we have tried. Only P40 per ride, which will take you 4 or 5 rounds in this well-organized and big track.

We used to take him often to MOA Bayside in the mornings, but that dwindled when I got busy, too. Look at our boy run!

Now he likes boats, ships, trains (still), airplanes, tracks and anything in the solar system. He was fascinated by all the birds hovering above this docked boat.

Carousel ride!

We ended that Friday with a long, sweet kiss.

 

Cemetery visits will be in another post.

 

What a Difference a Year Makes

Last year, we put up our first ever Christmas tree. It was exactly how I want it to be. The husband of course would be happy with what I come up with and my then 3 year old looked up to me in awe of our wonderful tree.

Our red and gold tree

Fast forward to about 11 months and the now 4 year old has declared it is his tree and he will decorate it.

Knowing my days will be busy again, and to make up for some lost days with the boy, we decided to bring out the tree earlier this year.

He wanted to tear open the box.

And then, with the star in hand, acted as the boss of the entire spectacle.

I still think this tree is way tooo thin...

 

 

Would you be able to guess our theme for this year???

 

 

I still think it's not an appropriate theme for a tree. I mean, angry???



But surely, our boy and the birds are the star this year. And I am just too happy to smile from the sideline.

He kept re-arranging the entire thing!

And here is our bird-infested tree. I must add some nest!

The Professional Heckler

If I might borrow the title of one very popular blog, then my son is one.

This is one instance I truly regret not charging my cellphone, or the digicam.

About three weeks ago, I brought jared to watch his dad’s basketball game.
My guess is, he will be thrilled.

And he was! Very much. 

Presenting my son, the professional heckler.

His lines were:

Oh no, dad, you missed!

Here dad, here’s another ball for you (pointing to their team’s spare ball)

Then one player missed his free throw. Jared says:

Number 11, you missed!

Number 29, uh oh. Almost….

And he says these things in a really loud voice.

 

Then the following day, my son uttered what I think is the sweetest thing he has ever said to his dad.

 

"You're the best basketball player dad"

 

"..... but you lost yesterday"

 

=)