A Complete Wipe-Out!

Picture this.

One day, I was busy reading a few mommy blogs and left Maia to the care of her Yaya Ann.  Ann was having one of her "absent-minded spells".  While putting away all the clutter and toys, she forgot about the baby wipes. 

Maia loves the baby wipes!  She loves pulling the sheets from the pack.  She loves the dampness and feel of it when she wipes her face and hands with it.  She also uses it to wipe the floor while saying, "Clean!".

So what did Maia, a curious little toddler, do when she saw the pack of baby wipes just lying around for her perusal?  Check out the photos below to find out! :)

Maia's Playdate with Ernie

Hi everyone!  Who among you love Ernie from the children's show, Sesame Street?

I remember when I was a little girl, I used to prefer Bert over Ernie.  I used to think how unfair it was that Ernie always put one over Bert.  Ernie was never consistent...he was sometimes naughty but, at times, sweet.

My Maia seems to like him though.  She especially likes his unique snicker.

Opening the Last Christmas Gifts

This post is actually just a follow up to my previous post, Late Christmas Reunion with College Buddies.  I briefly mentioned there about our tradition of exchanging gifts once all the eating, catching up and laughing have been exhausted.  Traditionally, the adults exchange gift tokens, while the kids receive toys, clothes, accessories, or Christmas money.

At home the following day, we initially felt a little weird having to still open presents almost a full month after December.  But that feeling soon disappeared as soon as we saw how cute all of Maia's presents were, and how much she seemed to appreciate each of them!

Opening of Christmas Gifts

Would you believe that we were only able to open our gifts two (2) days after Christmas?  It's true!  There were just so many things we needed to do first.  It also took me a while to post these photos as I tried first to remember which gift came from whom.

Opening Christmas gifts always elicits good feelings from me.  I think I speak for everyone when I say that it brings out the child in every one.  Of course, Christmas is more than just about opening presents.   It's about commemorating the birth of our Lord with people that you love; and knowing that they love you, care for you, and appreciate you for who you are.

Christmas Shopping (Part 1?)

Cupid and I finally decided to do some christmas shopping yesterday.  First stop was at the Toys "R" Us store inside Robinson's Galleria.  It was a joy seeing Maia's eyes light up when she saw all the many toys, and more so when she got to "sample" playing with them.  She tinkered with the toy grand piano, pointed to some kiddie bicycles, slid on some slides, but spent a good part of her time banging on the Dora the Explorer drum set (I tell, you, she was a natural!).  It took a bit of effort to pry her from everything (which was expected when you put a 2-year old inside  a toy store).  But it had to be done because pretty soon she seemed to want everything she could put her hands on.  And we couldn't allow that.  We needed to think long and hard to ensure that the gift we will soon buy for Maia will be worth it and one that she will actually love and enjoy playing with.  Good thing we still have enough time to decide.

In order to actually start buying gifts, we had to take Maia and her Yaya Ann to Austin's Land, the kiddie play area inside Tom's World.  Good thing we did just that because it made Maia forget all about Toys "R" Us!  Inside were padded and water-inflated (that's right...water!) ball swims, see-saws, and slides. which just aroused my little toddler's curiosity.  She wanted to see where the water was coming and going, and wondered how come she wasn't getting wet...she kept asking her yaya, "Where's water?"  Hahaha...cute huh?! :-)

Maia's First Birthday Gifts (an extremely late post)

I was just browsing through my Windows Explorer and saw that I see still had a few pictures there which were originally meant for posting in this blog.

One such set of pictures is the one taken the day AFTER her 1st birthday party.  The day when my one and only child opened her gifts.  I've decided to not include all photos from that day since they are just TOO many!  And if I remember correctly, Maia was really all over the place that day.  She couldn't sit still.  Perhaps she got a little excited seeing all the boxes on the bedroom floor...and in different shapes and sizes!  I even thought, then, that in the beginning, she liked the gifts in their "un-opened" state...for she went a little irate when we started to tear the wrappings and open the boxes.  But she did ease up once she saw what we were pulling out from them.