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Family Day turned out to be a day in the hopsital (VRPMC-Edsa, Mandaluyong City).

Calixto, our 2 year old son had to be admitted due to an accident at home.   Sophia and Calixto loves to bang doors, open and shut them either they were playing with each other or getting rid of the other.  At this time, Sophia accidentally banged the door while Calixto’s tiny little fingers were still there. Ouch!!!! Imagine, how that felt.

As much as Calixto felt so much pain, Sophia felt so sorry too.  I tried my best to do some first-aid to his fingers but Calixto kept crying very hard.  It only means I need badly proper handlers for this situation and to this boy who is so young and fragile.

Being his mother and pregnant at the same time, it really is not very easy for me to see Calixto crying intensely while being injected for CBC, dextrose and performing X-rays and for the grand finale tomorrow (Sunday) will be the surgical operation to remove his fingernail (not sure if it’s a part or whole nail) on his right ring finger that has been almost chipped off.  He will be given some dose of anesthesia for the operation to keep him sedated.  No matter it doesn’t feel right for a baby to be given some anesthesia but doctors said it will be very traumatic for the child if he will be awake as much as it is to a grown-up person.

I know it hurts for Calixto but it also hurts me, his mother, to see him in his intense and loud cry.  Expectations of the worst come to my mind but I try to slip it off.  It won’t help.

I just pray that everything would be fine before, during and after the surgery  and that there’ll be no next times anymore to things like this. It is just so heartbreaking.

Here’s my better half, Chris.

I was tagged by Mauie. I found it very amusing and I thought it would be fun to share some bits and pieces about my better half through this tag. Enjoy reading!

1. He’s sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?
   

   DVD or HBO movie.

2. You’re out to eat, what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
   

   Not sure. All I know he’s a meat lover.

3. What’s one food he doesn’t like?
   

   Street foods.

4. You go out to eat and have a drink, what does he order?
   

   Water.

5. What shirt size does he have?
   

   XL.

6. What shoe size does he have?
   

   Don’t know.

7. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
   

   Any as long as it looks overflowing with jam.

8. What would he eat everyday if he could?
   

   Beef and Pork Stew, Sinigang, Tinola…anything that has “sabaw”.

9. What is his favorite cereal?
   

   Not his type.

10. What would he never wear?
    

    Anything too trendy.

11. What is his favorite sports team?
    

    I have to know it yet.

12. Who did he vote for?
    

    He didn’t practice his right.

13. Who is his best friend?
    

    It has to be me!

14. What is something he does, but you wish he wouldn’t do?
    

    Overworked.

15. What is his heritage?
    

    Asian- Filipino with a drop of Chinese from his Mom.  His Dad is a real Ilocano.

16. You bake him a cake, what kind of cake?
    

    A banana cake when we weren’t married yet. Nothing followed after that.

17. Did he play sports in high school?
    

    All I know was in college.

18. What could he spend hours doing?
    

    Loving me..while working and reading books! =))

19. What is the unique talent that he has?
    

    He is very logical person.

20. What’s his type of coffee?
    

    We don’t drink coffee.

Now, I am sharing this tag with my fellow mommy bloggers: Sarah Schaeffer, Jane Villas and Sarah Parker who I think loves their hubbies so much as much as they are loved.

Sisters, it’s about time you put your better halves in the spotlight. You can either be naughty or be nice, it’s your choice!

What a surprise that I will soon be having another baby girl while my eldest is also a girl and yet I have taken so much interest in buying and eventually religiously reading on this book, “The Little Boy Book” by Sheila Moore and Roon Frost.

I bought this on a recent book sale so that I would be able to understand my one and only little boy, my middle child.  I just sometimes feel I am loosing all my patience and thoughts come to my mind if I doing the right thing for him.  Am I just being too reactive on my little boy’s temperaments?

Having read the first few chapters have already enlightened me why and how my little boy acts so different from her big sister. As we all know, boys are more active than girls. Boys are more aggressive, more spontaneous, more defiant and more non-compliant. They tend to do what you would not like them to do. They would climb up and down, wrestle or hit other kids, eat anything even if it’s crawling, get dirty and the list goes on. Also, most of the boys have delayed milestone development and learning disabilities as compared to girls.

There are reasons behind these situations and I found them on the book. What a great help in understanding the temperaments of my little boy!

Some mothers who have little boys including me find it strange at first why my boy is acting so differently from his sister and even more different from how we as parents were as a child. Parents need to train boys. Boys need to get the message what parents want from them. The message that parents need to send would still be love and concern for their little boys no matter how difficult they may be.

I am beginning to really get equipped of how to handle my difficult child and be able to show more love for him while disciplining him.

More book updates from my reading!