Heads Up!

Baby Ike can now pull his head up! Its amazing to see how time flies so fast Baby Ike now 3 months old. He can now pull his head up, play with his toys and talk to us. He also smiles and giggles a lot. He also stares at objects and people around him. Just today he was able to roll over. Here are some pictures that we took of him.

My Creative Mess!

Here is a slide show of my Scrap space. It is located in an elevated area in our Living room. I share it with my husband who uses the computer often and with our pet cat Kulet who uses it as her nap area. At present since, I gave birth, I scrap in a moving table so I can scrap while looking after Baby Ike.

2 Birthdays and a Layout

So many things happened during the past 2 weeks. We celebrated 2 birthdays and I was able to make a layout or the Piggy Tales Challenge.

Super Lolo


Last October 28, 2007, we celebrated Lolo Apeng’s or Super Lolo to Baby Ike (that is how our children calls their great grand father) 97th birthday. Imagine 3 years more and he turns 100. We celebrated it in a resort here in Laguna.
Almost everyone in the family was there. Lolo’s colleagues in the San Miguel Bulacan water district were there too. Yes colleagues as in officemates! My grandfather even at that age still works as a volunteer at their local water district. He even serves as president. Our Lolo is still strong and witty. His memory is still excellent, even better than mine! Hahaha.... He can still walk on his own, answer trivia questions, edit official letters and still recognize all of his grand children even his great grand children. He is such a great and strong man!

I’m Thirty-one!

Last November 1, 2007, I turned 31 years old. We did not have any celebration, just the usual All Saint’s Day activities. This year I was not able to visit our grandparent’s grave in Bulacan because Baby Ike is too young to travel that far. We just went to my sister’s house and then visited our parents’ grave. This birthday is special to me because this is the first time I celebrated it as a mom.

Piggy Tales


I was able to create a new layout for Baby Ike. This time it featured his father looking over his. The picture is very special because it captured the emotions of my husband.

Please view my webshots.

Yesterday I have finally updated my webshots account. I uploaded my layouts there. Please do visit the site. Link is on the sidebar. Thank you!

I'm on Basic Grey Gallery!

Early this week I recieved an email from Basic Grey telling me that my layout was chosen to be posted on their gallery. This was the first time I tried to submit a layout to them and I'm glad they chose it. I'm very comfortable using Basic Grey papers mainly because of their distressed look, which is my style. Now I am more encouraged to use these products!

Here is the letter.

Congratulations, your layout has been selected to appear in our on-line
gallery at www.basicgrey.com! We appreciate your time and talent and
thank you for using BasicGrey papers and embellishments.

Sincerely,
The BasicGrey Team

Issa Tagged me

Issa tagged me!

Instructions: Each player starts with 7 random habits/facts about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!

Seven facts about me: (1)I gave birth to a baby boy last Aug.18, 2007 (2) I got pregnant after 3 years of marriage (3) My baby was named after my husband (Gilfred) and my late father (Pacifico) (4) My husband and I got married after 10 years of being steady (5) I am a preschool teacher (6) I was born on All Saints' Day Nov. 1 (7) I'm a scrapbooker

A - Age: 30 turning 31

B - Band Listening To Right Now: none

C - Career: Teaching
D - Drink or Smoke: I don't drink or smoke. Mabait ako eh.

E - Easiest Friends To Talk To: Issa, Liezl and Chris

G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: Gummy Worms

H - Have a Boyfriend: none, a husband!

I - In love: of course, with my family

J- Junk Food You Like: Lay's Potato chips addict ako dun!

K - Kids: Baby Ike

L - Longest Ride Ever: Trip to Pagudpud

N - Names For Your Future Kids: Tatiana yun dapat yung name ni Ike kung Girl sya

O - One Wish You Have Now: To go on a trip around the world!

P - Phobias: Creepy crawlers!

Q - Favorite Quote: Life is like a box of chocolates you'll never know what you'll get -Forrest Gump

R - Reasons To Smile: Baby Ike

S - Sleeping Hours: During work days 12pm to 5am, ngayon while on maternity leave... 9pm to 12mn then 1am to 3am then 4am to 8am

T - Time You Woke Up: between 5 to 8am

U - Unknown Fact About You: it took me 6 years to tell my parents na boyfriend ko ang asawa ko ngayon.

V - Vegetable You Hate: okra

W - Worst Habit: I can sleep all day!

X - X-rays You’ve Had: Chest and foot

Y - Yummy Foods: Roast Chicken,

Z - Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


Anyone can grab this tag... and now I'm tagging Cabbie, Au, Iris, Ria, Joanne, April, Phylline

Baby Ike can smile!

During the first month of Baby Ike it was hard for us to make him smile. In fact he never smiles unless he is asleep. Maybe angels are playing with him in his dreams. Then during the week of October 15-19 exactly after his christening and when he turned 2 months he smiled at us. He already communicates with his kus and aws. He responds to us. He now looks at us. We can see that his eyes are really expressive. Seeing him respond to us makes me really proud that I am his mother