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Dress Up Day is the theme for this week’s Mommy Moments.  It can be any character costumes or formal dresses that they have worn.

Here are some of the pictures of my kids in chronological order.

 

Sophia’s First Birthday (March 2007)

Our Little Mermaid

@Somethin’ Fishy (Ewood, Libis)

Our Little Wonderwoman

@ BK, Cainta.

It wasn’t a blue christmas for us but we were dressed in blue

for Christmas 2007.

 

Calixto’s First Birthday (April 2008)

Our Little Cowboy (@Fun Ranch)

 

My Kiddos’ Sunday Attire are always formal.

 

Finally,

me and my kids are dressed in white with angel wings.

Taken 2008, this was my creative shot for our Yearbook before I graduated college. I included my two kids since they were with me all throughout my college life.  From conception to birth.

We survived it because we are ANGELS. =)

~The End~

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After buying baby stuff, I haven’t really prepared yet for my due.

Days have passed and I am still packing all those stuff only in my mind.  They are still in the closet, in another bag or container.  What have I done?  What do I need to do? At this stage, I am getting anxious that the baby will just come one day while all the stuff are still cluttered all over.

Okay, this is the third time but why I haven’t learned it yet.  Blame it on this pregnancy blues!

There is one thing I am really afraid of.  PRETERM LABOR/BIRTH. This happens when the baby is born before the 37th week.  I had it with my first two.  The culprit: S-T-R-E-S-S. Both were delivered on the 36th week.

I am once again counting the days before that dreadful 36th week.  It really insanes me especially now that I can feel the baby is actively moving inside me.  I definitely do not want it the third time.  I know I have taken care so much of myself from the very beginning and yet it still haunts me.

Maybe blogging might pump me up and help put away those blues.  So, here are some things I’ve done (with **) and I haven’t yet.

**-Request leave from my online job at home.

**-Buy baby stuff

-Pack….

• my hospital bag (includes: toiletries, undergarments, socks, slippers, sandals, going-home clothes, documents, clothing for Chris, towels and towelettes, extra blanket…anything else?)
• baby bag (includes: receiving blanket, going-home clothes and diapers)
• our food bag/utilities (includes: paper plates, spoon/fork, plastic cups, dish washing soap, magazines..what else?)

-Laundry some old baby comforter, blankets and lampin (cloth diapers) that can still be used.

-Prepare my househelper and yaya in the house and with the kids while I am in the hospital.

**-My doctors and the hospital.  They are fixed.  They were there since my first pregnancy.

-Lastly, may I ask you to pray for me and my baby’s safe and normal delivery.  That would be the best blues’ eliminator for me. =)

My name is a combination of my parent’s names.  It came out to be very unique.  ELIZAGIE (Maybe I’ll blog about it next time) Most often it is misspelled, mispronounced and hardly remembered.  I had to spell it or say it over and over again until they get it.  I have been usually asked if I am a Moslem, Japanese or whatever.  But actually, I love it and the uniqueness it brings to me.  Consequently, I didn’t want my kids to feel or be treated the way I expereinced with my very unique name.

For our eldest daughter, we gave her the name that we love to hear, easy to remember and spell as well.  Or in other words, it is exactly the opposite of how my name is.  She is SOPHIA KATRINA.  Both names are of Greek origin.  Sophia meaning “wisdom” while Katrina is the modern form of Katherine and the like which means “pure”.

Katrina would be a remembrance of my life as a college student and as a pregnant mom/wife.  They came from my two friends in Miriam College whose names are spelled as Katrina.  They were, of course, one of the the school’s pride.    The one graduated as Magna Cum Laude in Miriam College and the other is a member of the MC Dance Troupe.  Whatever Sophia will be, que sera sera. And who would forget the hurricane “Katrina’ in 2005, it was still fresh when we were playing on our baby’s names.

For our second child, we were thinking of using our initials, C & E.  It was pretty difficult.  Chris searched the net to find a not-so-common name that starts with the letter C.  He found CALIXTO and I agreed.  It’s a Greek name meaning “the most handsome”.  And he really is! (of course, for us!) His second name is ELIJAH, the prophet from the Old Testament.

And for our next baby girl, who will be arriving in a few weeks from now, her name will be as pretty as her, we’re sure! Can you make a guess?

…never too late.  It’s better safe than never.

Before we went home with our little boy from the hospital, we passed by a mall to buy some home safeguards for our children.  Every home with little children should have them.

SAFETY 1^ST FINGER PINCH GUARD - a simple but effective way to safeguard against the dangers of slamming doors is to use this. It also helps prevent children from accidentally locking themselves in a room. @PhP 139.75 per piece.

SAFETY 1^ST ULTRA CLEAR OUTLET PLUGS – It helps prevent children from putting sharp objects and fingers into electrical outlets. Small children are very curious and are tempted to play with anything within their reach. Outlet Plugs are colorless, making them as uninteresting as possible to little ones, while not interfering with décor. By protecting your outlets you decrease the possibility of electrical shock. @ PhP 109.75 (pack of 12)

They are so simple, easy to use and not really expensive.

…won’t hurt.  It is a having a peace of mind.

Now, our children can play happily.  On our part, less worries but still adult supervision would be necessary.

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.