Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentines to everyone!

We had a pretty exciting day today and by the time I sat down the was almost shot. Wow! time fly so fast when you are having fun. 

Anyway, our Valentines day was pretty busy. In the morning, I have school and in the afternoon the girls had their doctor check-ups, and last but not the least we killed our non producing egg chicken.

 Ralph got me fresh tulips and a card for valentines day :-) which is I like it so much! Thanks hon!

My husband and I

My first flower ;-) love it! You'll only got flower one in eight years I better be loving it!

My girls on Valentine's day.
Madisen's 1st Valentines day and she got that purple outfit and a card same as ate Kathlyn.

Kuya GJ waiting for the school bus...hmmm I didn't realized that he didn't comb his hair.

Kuya GJ has been very good and the bump on his head still there although it subside a little bit. The only problem I have for him is his lips getting so chappy. Over all and health wise... he is good !

Ate KC at the doctors clinic just took her to the pediatrician because she was having diarrhea and fever. 

Ate Kathlyn seen the doctor too, because she has been sick for few days. But the doctor said she is doing well as long as she eats healthy food and drink lots of fluids. So she is good too!

Madisen's 6 month well check. 

Madisen had her six month well check. Her weight now is 19 lbs. and 14 oz. She is a little late on the physical activity skills I should say ( like the rolling over and stuff). She is still on her tummy pretty much most of the time, but she is turning around like in circles...so she is getting there. The doctor said that she is pretty much a boring baby compare to my son( hlhs). Thank God!

CHD Awareness Week!

Today is the start of Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week. One in 100 babies are born with Congenital Heart Defects every year! My son is one of them out of 100 babies that year born with a rare heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. He had his very first open heart surgery at 7 days old. He had numerous heart caths and four open heart surgeries and few other side effects. He overcome all of that and right now he is "stable". He very active and he never stops! 

Please help us spread CHD Awareness!

I thank God for saving my son's life and thank you Jesus for everything!

School Award

Gerald received another academic award from school. I don't think he really understand that we appreciate his effort, but I am happy to know that he is improving a lot. He might not be talking, but he is definitely learning something. His attention span increase a little bit. At his school they have a program called 100 book challenge that means they have to 100 read books for  entire school year. When we started reading to him, he would not stay for five minutes sitting and reading the book. He just want to run around the house and do other stuff. But now I am glad to see him sitting quietly and reading with us.

 Anyway, today I went to Gerald's school to show support for my son's education. Mr. G was holding him still because if no one was holding him you will see him run around the stage. He is very active and the more you told him not to run the fastest he go. Anyway, Mr. G is his favorite teacher's aid at school. They take good care of him at school, so I am very thankful for them.

After the ceremony, I ask GJ's teacher if I could take the picture of all of them but I guess special ED kindergarten are hard to redirect and it was hard to  take a nice class picture; therefore, I only took Ms. Stone and Gj's photo. As you can see one of his classmate kiss GJ on head. I think it was cute!
Ms. Stone is a wonderful teacher and I thank her for her teaching.

Lastly, I stopped by at the clinic since GJ was due for his feeding. I waited for him and he was so happy to see me again. Posing with Angelina and Nurse Melody. Nurse Melody was very good at him and so nice that he really care about her kids at school. Gerald pre-school nurse was no were close to Ms. Melody's service. I thank her for taking care of him.

Overall I am very proud of my son efforts in everything!

Way to go baby and congratulations!

The unexpected Trip to the PCH ER

This was unexpected trip to the ER. He fell six foot high and had a big bump on his head. He had the cat scan, but he was fine. 

Worth to Celebrate

Today, I have so much to be thankful for and it is worth for a simple celebration.

 First of all, it is my birthday. I am in good health and have a beautiful family to keep me busy.

I thank you Lord for giving me another year of life and blessings!

Secondly, today is also our 8th wedding anniversary. I thank God for keeping our marriage safe, strong and happy! I love this man very much! He is my husband, my best friend, my lover, my provider, and the love of my life!

Another, kuya GJ has been doing so well health wise and so as Ate KC.

And last but not the least, our youngest daughter rolled on her tummy by herself.

Just this morning her dad and I talked about her not rolling on her tummy yet. When KC was a baby she rolled on her tummy when she was at 4 months and 1 week old. So dad was worried. I guess she heard it and doesn't want mommy and daddy to worry at all :-). So yay! for baby Maddi

Thank be to God and Praise you Almighty Father.

Madisen's Baptism

January 14th, 2011

Welcome to Christianity little one!

 Madisen in her baptism dress

 with Deacon William Jerkins and God Parents

 with ninang Rose

 Mommy and Madi

The clan!

White Tanks National Park

Wow! It is 15th of the month already! 15 more days and this month will be over time flies so fast!
Lately, we've been busy in our house and household chores. Like today we went to White Tanks National Park. Ralph had two unexpected days off, so he suggested to do something different than going to Children's Museum. I been to this particular park long time ago when I don't have any kids yet. It was good to be back to that place again. The place have changed a lot though. at the entrance  of the park they built a Library/ Museum and they added playgrounds for children... those weren't there before.

Gerald love to go places, and he enjoyed playing by himself or with other kids. Kathlyn just being a bossy sister she kept telling Kuya Gj what to do. Madisen on the other hand, she still so small to do some activities with her siblings. Daddy Ralph brought some wood and burned it in the grilling area even though there was a big fire pit near by :-) he didn't see it. I on the other hand tried to heat up the frozen pizza in the skillet ( weird as he said) but what am I gonna do the pizza was frozen!!!

After we had our lunch we tried one to the trail. We took the stroller but it was kind rocky along the way. I asked some people that been in that trail they said it was a good trail and not much rocks.It wasn't true rocks were all over the place, but we made it. We just did the whole loop until we found the pave road. Then  the stroller became very handy since Gerald gets a little tired already. Madisen was giggling the first quarter of our hike then fell asleep all they way until we finished our hike. All-in-all we had a great time!

 Reheating my frozen pizza

 In the middle of the trail

 My kids and I. Madisen's first hike so as her siblings

 Praised God for a wonderful day!

5 mo old Madisen

Time flies so fast! I has been five since I gave birth with Bunso (youngest daughter). She is a happy baby and very alert. She has been eating solid food and her favorite is carrots. I tried other kind of food, but she doesn't like it. But mommy always wins. She needs variety of food to try.

 Madisen

My kids and I before Christmas.

Happy New Year!

I wish everyone a blessed New year! Welcome 2012!

Winter Party 2011

Atherton’s Winter Party 2011

Today we attended the winter party hosted by the Atherton’s family. This probably our third year to come to this party and every time we come over my kid or kids always had a great time! I would like to thank the Atherton’s Family for being so generous and giving our kids an opportunity to experience of one of a kind event.
Anyway, my kids  the same as usual they had a blast! We enjoyed the food, and all  the great things that provided for our kids such as icing some cookies, snow J, clowns, Santa Claus + gifts and more.

Gerald is a happy go lucky kid. If he sees some kids are playing he can’t say he wanted to play with them, but he will just go and join them. He left his sister and just go in his way to the play ground and play with others.

 Kathlyn on the other hand gets her priority straight… food first before anything else J. After she had her lunch I gave her the gloves and she went straight to the pile of snow and started making a small snowman. She didn’t care what the other kids was doing until she found out that throwing a snow ball is a lot more fun too! Then big brother joined her and they had such an amazing time playing with other kids. I should mention that Gerald didn’t care to sit on the snow and wet his pants. Also, he was enjoying to know that his pants was falling on the ground! Glad mommy catch right away but people sew it! Pretty entertaining GJ.
Madisen enjoyed her self too nibbling the pizza crust. This was her first time to attend the party and first time taking photo with Santa Claus. She was up and she was really good at the party. After I put her back to her car seat she cried a little bit and fell asleep.

It was an awesome day at the party  and we went visited granda Marla afterwards. Oh I should mention that this time Auntie Susan was with us and drove us to this party since dad had to go to work. Thanks a lot to Aunt Susan for donating the time and fun!

MAdisen's First Week of Eating SOlid food

December 11, 2011

Madisen has been  eating solid food for almost a week now. I was gonna let her try the solid food for her when she’s 6 months old, but I think she can’t wait any longer. At the party we went to last Saturday she was really sucking the pizza and she was angry when I took away from her. So, today I bought few gerber infant food from Walmart. I gave her carrots and men she almost finish the whole container in one meal. In the afternoon I tried to feed her cereal and she was spitting it out L do I have a picky eater in this house again??? No! She can’t do that Hashanah. Anyway, before she went to sleep I feed her the rest of her carrots but it wasn’t enough so I had to open a new container of carrots for her and she almost finish it again. What a good girl!

Another, Kathlyn can ride the training bike now. Wow! I think I need to get her a new bike since she uses her big brother’s bike and poor GJ he normally ended up using ng tricycle. Good thing about it that Gerald really doesn’t insist to get his bike back and let Kathlyn use his bike. I am very proud of GJ that he have a long patients for his little sister.

Chirstmas PHOTO

We didn’t send GJ to school today since his teacher was concerned about him being sick yesterday. He had two accidents at school and his teacher didn’t know why he was not tell her that he need to use  the bathroom. The teacher asked if something wrong with GJ and I said he was fine. I apologized that GJ had two accidents at school, so I told hubby not to send GJ to school this morning so that we can observe him. Nothing happened.

Also, since GJ stayed home we decided to take photos family photos at the downtown Glendale where they decorated probably 20ft Christmas tree for me to make a Christmas card. That didn’t go well at all. GJ and KC just want to run around on separate ways. When I finished putting the camera up I asked Ralph to get the kids together and KC just didn’t listen when Ralph picked her up she yelled “help” and cried from the top of her lungs. Yup! That was a bad idea. I didn’t have a good picture to make a card this year. Oh well, I am glad that Hopekids gave us the opportunity to have our family photo taken last September… I might use that instead. Thanks a lot to Hopekids of Phoenix ...you saved the day!

My 4 month old Madisen was the only one who never give us a grief today and pose they I want her to be. What a good girl!

Busy day: G-tube replacement and Glendale Glitters

GJ had a new G-tube replaced today since his old one was longer and it keep the milk ooze from the g-tube site. Also we went to Glendale glitters tonight with rose brown and had dinner at Mc donalds. Madisen sucks some french fries and she almost eat the whole thing and she is just 4 months old.

It's December

Wow! time flies when you are having fun. What happened to November???