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Project Scrap 2011 – Jan

Shabby Princess has a scrap project running, the goal is to make 2 layouts (with free templates provided yey!) every month and by the end of the year you’ll be ready with enough layouts for an album. Head on over to the shabby shoppe blog for more details and to grab your free templates.

And here’s 1 of the layout I made for January, still need to make the other one :p

Credits: Shabby Shoppe Project Scrap 2011 January template. Papers, denim stitch amd flower from Hopscotch by Shabby Princess. Circle stitch from Barefoot by Shabby Princess. January title from 2009 Wall Calendar by Zoe Pearn. Fonts: CK Ali’s Writing, Cheryl.

end of year

E’s class had their end of year party last Sunday. Everyone surely enjoyed the day from the kids to the parents. It was really nice to see majority of E’s classmates there. I can’t believe that it has been a year, it really seems like they’ve just started school. Today was their last day and they had a little send off for the year 6 students.

It was a good year in kindy and here’s to another good year in year 1.

Oh, and Shabby Shoppe Blog Challenge Seven is on till December 23, 2010. Hop on over to the Shabby Shoppe Blog to join and get your chance to win a GC to the shoppe.

Credits: Easy-As-Pie template (Shabby Shoppe Blog Template Challenge Seven) and Believe Kit. Font: Sprocket BT

15 Dec 2010 / Tagged: kindy, shabby princess 0 1

daddy and me

E loves the beach, two weekends ago we went to Wollongong for the weekend to celebrate I’s birthday. During one of our pitstops we stumbled upon this beach and father and son couldn’t resist exploring among the rocks.

Daddy & Me

Credits: Plentiful Kit by Shabby Princess. Ticket from Daditude by Peppermint Creative. Font – Myriad Pro.

22 Nov 2010 0 2

trick or treat

For halloween this year, I wanted E to have the trick or treating experience. We grew up knowing about halloween from movies and such but never got to experience it. These days though in Manila, a lot of the subdivisions hold the event and have the kids in the neighborhood come to trick or treat and even award the best decorated house. Since he couldn’t do the actual trick or treating at the different homes (didn’t see any homes decorated near us and the ones that I found on the net were a bit far to drive to) we ended bringing him to the Toys R’ Us Trick R’ Treat event. They did some colouring of either a halloween pumpkin or a witch, had a few games and went around the store to trick or treat. Most of the girls were in princess costumes, the boys in character costumes. At the end, the host pulled me aside to tell me that E won best dressed and they were going to give a prize. Going around the different stores to find his devil get-up was worth it after all haha!

And although I couldn’t join yet, mum couldn’t resist buying this – our super baby!

11 Nov 2010 0 0

happy birthday mumsy

Happy happy birthday mumsy! Wish you could have stayed a bit longer to celebrate your day with us but I know you’ll have tons of fun at your joint birthday bash with auntie S. We wish you good health and tons of happiness. Thank you for always being there for us and for your apos. See us again soon. Mwah! We love you!

17 Oct 2010 0 1

mid-autumn festival

Growing up, we’ve always celebrated the mid-autumn festival (15th day of the eight month on the Chinese calendar which usually falls either in August or September) in Manila with a dice game. I think it might have originated in the southern Fujian province in China (where most of Fil-Chi ancestors came from) and is commonly played among the Filipino-Chinese in Manila, I haven’t heard of it being played in other countries though. It is a very fun game where you throw 6 dice in a bowl and depending on the resulting combination win a prize. (Here’s a link to how the game is played : Mooncake Dice game)

So it was a welcome treat that when S celebrated his first birthday his parents decided to host a dice game. For Ichi and my turns we had E throw the dice for us and we were completely happy with the prizes that we were getting but lo and behold after a few rounds who would turn out to grab the top prize? (too bad for the dad’s friend who had thrown a combination for first prize – E’s was much higher) And he was so proud that he won it for me!

16 Oct 2010 0 0

what’s up

Woohoo! Last day of Term 3 and happy to be getting a short break before their final term starts. Can’t believe that 1) Sab will be turning a year old soon, where did the year go? 2) in the same token, a few more months and E will be finishing his first year in big school. I feel old haha!

So this year along with having to transfer houses again, E started with kindy. I am kinda adjusting to having a school curriculum with no grading just some assessments. I’m not really sure how I feel about it, I mean I definitely don’t want E to be pressured in school as early as now but then I also don’t know how he really is doing in school. The few reports that gets home does show that he’s doing ok although there are contradicting points on it. There will be another assessment on week 5 in term 4 so we’ll see how he does then.

Every term there has been some sort of school activity or special days like multi-cultural day, open days and book week. Will do separate posts on them. Last month, we enrolled E in tae kwon do classes, so far he is enjoying.

And what about baby Sab? She’s been keeping us on our toes ever since her birth. I am having a harder time this time around, what with her being more active than her brother at that age. As early as 3 months she’s been grabbing the side of her cot and pulling herself up. There’s not one corner of our unit that she hasn’t crawled to. She’s standing up now but still hesitant to take those first few steps. She babbles a lot but no words yet though Ethan claims to understand her haha (He says he’s the only one to understand her siobe’s baby talk). She loves going out but then she doesn’t like her car seat so do we end up just pushing her in the pram? I wonder how we’d do on a long drive?

One thing I really love seeing is her and E together. Whenever we come home from picking up E from school, she’ll automatically be at her brother’s side. I thank God that E has been pretty patient with her most of the time but I can see that Sab will be lording it over her brother pretty soon.

Will be having a very busy day tomorrow, a Ben 10 show (for dad and son) and then 2 birthday parties. So I need to pack now if we are to catch our flight to Adelaide on Sunday. Ok, off .. to .. pack ..

24 Sep 2010 0 0