Sleep sleep sleep!!!

erika my love,

why don't you seem to want to sleep when i'm with you?
and when your yaya vana takes you for play time, you're back in ten minutes snorring your energy away...
on some occasions i already lost my temper with you. i had to spank your pretty butt and then you'd cry but only for approximately 5 seconds and you'd go on with your tirelessness. hahahah! you are such an adorable kid. you are soooo smart, no doubt you took after me.

now you're mastering "makulay ang buhay sa sinabawang gulay..." hahahah!

wowo and wowa called last night but you were already asleep. there was hawaiian background music when they called. imagine they bought a hawaiian cd just so you can dance with them! you are sooooo blessed to be loved by everyone around you. they're waiting for us in manila for our visit. they say they miss you terribly.

we can't go there right away. lack of funds anak. it's the lean season for the business. we'd have to wait some more so that we can save up for another trip to manila.

love you.

Mike Go for City Vice Mayor - Halalan 2007

may 14, 2007 - tension fills the household of go family as the moment of truth comes nearer by the hour. it's d day for tito mike and for all of us who have prayed to high heavens that he make it as the city vice mayor this election. mommy just finished creating a worksheet for the tally votes. daddy is in tito mike's house making last minute arrangements, accompanying the very seemingly poised candidate despite the fact that it's just hours away before the results of the elections are finally proclaimed. lolo vic, lola jo, tito vj and your cousins are off to legazpi city to send off lola jo to the airport after coming here for the lone reason of exercising her right to vote. she is, after all the DILG Director of RegionIII and not to make use of such right is so unlikely. that makes me a little "dyahe" since i haven't once in my adult life exercised my right of suffrage considering i was once an iskolar ng bayan who marched with friends, orgmates and school mates to EDSA rallying for Erap's resignation.

and you erika...you are...well, sleeping.

unmindful of all the hustle and bustle that this election has brought the family and friends of tito mike. you are still, in spite of all that's happening around you, the center of attention. the apple of everyone's eyes, the sunshine that lights up our day, the comic relief. yes baby, the comic relief. you don't only make us smile but you make us laugh with your antics. you know how to pose - head tilted on one side with a big smile, you have an infectious laughter, you have weird facial expressions, you can now walk without support though your balance isn't very stable yet. you like banana- that's why sometimes i call you carissa - a character in a tv drama series that looks like a monkey. hehehe.

your daddy is the no. 1 supporter. (or is it your lolo vic?) mga "punong abala" in tito mike's campaign. i am helping of course, in the sidelines, backstage, not too glamorous, i think daddy's afraid i might end up hogging the limelight. hahaha! joke lang. or maybe, i might know too much to want to run for politics myself in the future. well, i dunno. ask your daddy why i am not allowed to go to campaign sorties while everybody else is there.

so now it's just you, me and ate vana. i didn't go to the fast food to accompany you. ate margie went home(again - 2nd time this month) to vote. ate vana is only 16 so as much as she wanted to go home and vote, she can't. hehehe. kind of anti-climactic, staying indoors while all else are busy and filled with anticipation. but i don't mind, staying here, having the chance to do this blog for you.

oh remember i was working with james pitt? well, it was short-lived. he realized too that it is better for him to get an assistant he could train face to face and since he's already in davao city, he might as well get an assistant there. so no work na si mommy again. oh but i have my small business - loadextreme. e-load. so far, so good.

you cried like crazy around 2 o'clock this morning. you must have been dreaming. what was it anak? i had a hard time making you stop. i ended up sleeping till 10:30 am today.

i love you.

Bath Tub Blues

May 1, 2007. It's Labor Day today as it was last year. But for you my dear Ikay, it's just another ordinary day. You are sleeping right now. Just finished taking a dip in your bath tub. Heheheh. Kala mo may pool noh. Well, you actually have a mini inflatable pool given by your Lolo Vic and Lola Jo. Unfortunately, Ate Louise unintentionally created a hole in it. Tsk tsk. You were only able to use it once.




I am waiting for James - my boss to go online at 11am today. He requested that we have a little chat eventhough it's a holiday. And I didn't mind considering that I almost didn't do anything this month of April yet I'm getting my whole salary. Hohoho! Lucky me....and you of course as you are the first recipient of whatever money I get. I just love buying you clothes and girly stuff. Your daddy thinks sometimes I am too extravagant. Well, you are my first child...and could be the last considering my PCOS - polycystic ovarian syndrome... now you research on that.

The cd that effectively puts you to sleep is playing in the background as I am writing this journal. Funny how you automatically lay your head on my shoulder or anyone who's carrying you when you hear the first track of this cd. It's Lolo Vic's cd and he's the one who introduced it to you. Includes Green Green Grass of Home, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone, Moon River...those oldies songs. Hehehehe

I have to close the fastfood at 12 noon today to give our staff time for their families. It's Labor Day after all!

The pictures are from earlier this morning while you were taking a bath. You are not always that happy you know. When I start pouring water in your head, you scramble to your feet and cling on to me making me really wet. That's why I almost always need to take a bath after you do.

Love you Ikay. Your Daddy, Lolo Vic, Lola Jo, Wowo and Wowa love you too! (eventhough you're kinda pasaway na...took after your dad i guess *wink*

An Unfortunate Event

Erika,

A sad thing just happened recently. Your tito *** got shot by the rebels and not just once but seven times!!! Imagine our shock when we learned what transpired. And the real reason why he is now in a critical condition angered us more. Fortunately, he is still alive while I am sharing this story to you. The doctors say he's "masamang damo" after seeing his ct scan result. It is indeed a miracle that he survived when he took a bullet in his head. We are all very affected most especially your father who has treated tito *** like a real brother. I am just so happy that you are spared from all this. You play, you throw your fist into the air when people chant "Go Mike Go!" (tito mike is running for city vice mayor this coming elections. cross your finger, hope he wins), you have a new facial expression - a cross between smiling and crying. You know what fish and flowers are. You have a terrible tantrum and always get what you want. You are a very very cute little baby and everybody as in eeevrybody looooves you. I hope you grow up to be a very nice girl anak. And I hope you still have the chance to get to know your tito *** as he is also very fond of you.

P.S. So cute in mommy's headset huh...

Pre-birthday

Hi Ika!

It's 15 days before your first birthday and i'm soooo excited.

you're gonna have two parties. one here in sorsogon and one in manila.

We had a FREE pre-bday pictorial with ate Carla Berroya. Twas a great experience eventhough you were not smiling at all...well, you just woke up from a nap before the pictoria..that would explain it.

you better check this site out: http://www.carlaberroya-foster.blogspot.com/

Love you baby!