29 Jan 2007

Tagged by Nita. Here are 5 things that you might not know about me…

1. I like to sew. I sew my Barbie’s dresses when I was young using my mommy’s sewing machine. I still have that old sewing machine. It still is working but needs a little tuning-up. I also enrolled in a dressmaking class before but I stopped. Low-budget kasi yung school, madalas sira yung ibang machines, and so we had to share one sewing machine.
2. I eat dessert before the main meal.
3. Frustrated singer I am.
4. I hate lizards.
5. I’m a slippers person. I very seldom wear closed shoes.

Care to share yours?

28 Jan 2007

Picture-filled Weekend
Saturday

Getting a cupcake fix at Cupcakes by Sonja.

Various pics inside the store.

We ordered vanilla sunshine, chocolate surprise, red velvet vixen, mocha motion, melt-in-your mouth flourless chocolate cupcake and another chocolate cupcake, the name of which I can’t remember. Our 8 cupcakes cost more than 500 pesos! Read about this store in one food blog and decided to give it a try. The cupcakes cost anywhere from 50-130 pesos. A little bit too much for a cupcake, right? J thinks so, too. That’s why when I asked him how much he was willing to spend for our taste-test, he said 500 is enough. I do like the vanilla sunshine, but I can’t finish the whole cupcake in one eating. It’s just too sweet for my tastebuds. The flourless chocolate cupcake tastes like the no-bake chocolate fudge which I learned from Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Meals, so there was really no surprise there for me. I haven’t tried everything we bought though. We still a have a few more cupcakes left.

Sunday
Had brunch at Heaven ‘n Eggs at Market!Market!.

Coloring while waiting for our food. Kaliwete?

Our food.

Chow time.

Then we went to Manila afterwards. Wala lang, pasyal lang at syempre kodakan.

Outside Manila Cathedral.

Pictures galore at Fort Santiago. Since Estong was always on the go, J set the camera’s shooting mode to continuous. And so we ended up with tons of pictures, mostly continuous action shots of kulit.

Don’t mind my hair. Ang likot ng alaga ko.

Tingin ka sa camera! {Please, dedma lang sa bilbil, lol!}

Ang likot talaga.

By the lamp post. {Sana lang dumiretso yung poste, lol.}

At last, nagpahinga din.

Uwian na.

~Needless to say, I gained a few pounds this weekend. I was munching on potato chips while watching tv (before bedtime!), then the cupcake fix, then the brunch, then meryenda at Wendy’s (where we slurped up the biggie coke), cupcake, then dinner (with coke, again!). I surely need to cut back on my eating. I will. I just have to finish all the cupcakes we bought. Ang mahal kaya, dapat ubusin.

26 Jan 2007

Ang Tsinelas ni Estong
Bought the rubber slippers when Estong and I went to the grocery the other day. I tied a small strip of garter to serve as a strap. (And I’ll be trimming the excess garter later.) It would have been nice if he’d sport one of those cute havaianas slippers, but I know it’s impractical. Besides he’ll be wearing this mostly in the house. And this brings memories of my childhood. I used to wear a similar pair of inexpensive slippers, plus the garter, when I was little.

23 Jan 2007

{that’s my measuring spoon on his mouth}

Brought Estong to the grocery this afternoon. Just me, myself and kulit. It was just the grocery outside the subdivision though. And he got to ride the tricycle. I thought it was gonna be exhausting because he was malikot. Surprisingly, he was cooperative, happily looking around while we were riding the tricycle and contentedly standing in the pushcart while inside the supermarket (for a little while). I had to replace the chicken nuggets at the last minute however as he stepped on it. And not surprisingly, after a while he was already attempting to get out of the pushcart, so I had to wrap-up our shopping.

.:More pictures:.

I was trying to get a picture of J, and this little boy passed by.

With kulit before bedtime.

22 Jan 2007

Blew up some balloons for estong so he can have something new to play with. Aba, pwede ng sumali sa parlor games!

21 Jan 2007

Admiring his latest artwork. I was still asleep and his daddy was looking after him. He just took a few pictures at our kitchen and the next thing he saw was Estong scribbling on the wall.

A closer look. I think he actually drew a circle. The pic at the bottom was his doodles on the floor.

Our living room in chaos. Good thing we don’t have much stuff or else…

Helping out in washing the car. Not really, nakikigulo lang.

Our dinner. Pesto and salad. Just bought salad vegies and dressing from the grocery, just so I can get over my cravings.

Enjoying mommy’s pasta. {Thanks to McCormick!} He’s eating on his own, and without his high chair. We took apart his high chair already, and he’s now using it as his table and chair.

Or is he really?

20 Jan 2007

On our way home. Estong feeding me his bread sticks.

19 Jan 2007

He’s going to be 2 soon. Still deciding where to have the celebration – our house, or my in-law’s in Marikina, or just go somewhere just the 3 of us. Most probably, we’ll settle with whichever is the cheapest.

17 Jan 2007

craving…

14 Jan 2007

bubbly sunday