playtime, for her is bigtime!

> sleeping time, bath time, eating time and reading time for yena now mean struggle.


>you see, she's getting bigger and heavier and getting dynamic all the more that she thinks it is always PLAY TIME.


>when i wanted her to sleep, she would roam around the bed, kicking and crawling.


> i would often sleep ahead and found her still awake and on play time mode still.

AND yes, her sleeping time music is not that effective anymore and i sigh. :(

Grow Baby! Grow!

Feeding time for Yena is so much fun! She is so easy to feed.. Her favorite now is Cerelac Gold Rice with Juicy Apple and Cranberry but whatever you feed her it is such a joy to see. Almost ALL food are into her liking now.. Such a good appettite.

I know, she got it from her DAD! ;)

Yena's everyday music

Yena was 4 months old when i first introduced music in her life. I downloaded songs from free kids music and got a total of 48 songs. I separated sleeping time songs from playing time and sponge time songs. So far now, when i want her to sleep i just play her the songs and she will fall sleep right away.

her sleeping time songs include;
Bicycle built for two
Bingo
Clementine
Farmer in the dell
Freres Jacques
Home on the range
Joy joy joy
Kumbaya - on this song, she is already sleeping. i let the music play until the end just to be sure that when she wakes up again, she has no choice but to fall to sleep back
My Bonnie
Twinkle twinkle little star

her playing time songs are:
Alphabet song
Humpty dumpty
Do your ears hang low
Eensy weensy spider
Found a peanut
Great green gobs
If you're happy and you know it
Jesus love is bubbling
John Jacob Junglehimer Schmidt
London bridge
Merrily we roll along
Michael Finnegan
Please and thank you - she enjoys it a lot every morning upon waking up!
Old Mc Donald
One bottle of pop
The more we get together
and a lot more..

when its sponge time at night and she's so hyper active, i put on these music and she behaves well, its not that hard to change diapers anymore.. wink wink
Soap and towel
Row row your boat
Swing low sweet chariot
Round the mountain
Working on the railroad

Though hubby said all songs were like sleeping songs, im so happy yena know now what to do when she hear these songs. good girl! ;)

the first time i loved forever

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for."

And no matter how hard life is right now, i do not give a damn, i am inlove... and forever will be! To this little baby, my first child and and first love AND To my husband, the one i gave my hand in marriage and my life for a promise of forever. I am in love.. living in love.

the morning i wake up

mom: good morning baby! seems like a reaally good morning to you, is that a smile? or a laugh??


mom: you will not be smiling like that later.. it will be pedia time!! u have 2 shots of vaccine for today..

yena: just 2? that's chicken mom.. i can do it! :)


yena: breath in, breath out. it will just be 2 shots, its so easy. i can do it! i am a big girl now..

eya (yena's cousin): yeng yeng, kaya mo yan... jollibee tayo mamaya!! yeeeey :D

yena: jollibee who??


yena: these dogs are cool mom! can you please tell daddy to buy one for me?? look they dont bite!! and jollibee?? can you please tell me if she/he/it.. uhmmm boy or girl??

eya: jollibee is a bee. :D

mom: i hope ate eya answered your question my baby.. :) coz if not, we will have to research for that! :)

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Yena weighs 7.4kgs and she just got her HIB and Flu vaccine today. Next month will be her Measles vaccine..

Yena @ 7 months

Yena's Milestones at 7 months:

1. Can do 'close-open', all the while looking at her hands and confused why her hands do such thing
2. Waves her hands to say bye bye, when on a good mood
3. Showing strong connection to Daddy and Mommy, Mamato my mother-in-law and to Lola my mother
4. Laughs and smiles a lot even to strangers, and interacts to every child she sees
5. Loves to be on her tummy all the time, swims through the bed, steals every space she can get, kicks a lot and sucks her feet any chances she can
6. Loves to take a bath, likes to play with the water, cries after taking her out of the bath tub.
7. Music is the best thing to calm her! She knows the songs for sleeping time and for playing time
8. Behaves every reading time.. likes to see pictures at the book.
9. Talkative, with lots of ohhhh ahhhh garrrlll mmmaaammaa ppaapaaa eeeeiiiii
10. Yet to know her weight tomorrow, but she is still a very voracious milk drinker upto this day. and i cannot complain! ;)


Happy 7 months my precious. Mom and Dad love you so so much!

Yena's first show on a wedding

August 9, was pre planned and already ticked on our calendar of big events for August. It was Daryl's wedding, and we couldnt miss it, not unless we want to say goodbye to the friendship we had for 14 long years. While hubby's favorite among my friends is Daryl, this big event was a big yes and so we packed our bag and off to Bulacan! Yena's longest travel so far..

After the ceremony and the pictorial session which took about an hour, i really think the photographers had a lot of frustrations in life, kasi naman all of the poses were so artistic and napakabusisi! Given a chance, on our church wedding, i will get them! :)

On our way home, it was much more convenient, thanks to ate mina for the free ride! :) And Yena still battery full and hyper active at MH with ate binx and the rest of our alumni friends, smiling to everyone she meets along the way kaya naman at 11pm when we arrived home, and even after turning off the light, buhay na buhay pa siya and still was looking for a play time!

Came 1am, she wailed so loud, and cried for more even after comforting her... and then she threw up! That's the sign.. nausog ang Yena! Hayun, she cried until the wee hours of the morning.. :(

But she was still her bubbly self at 9am at the church! Yan ang spirit! :) Attend pa tayo ng wedding baby?? sa Bulacan??!! :)

Yena's Pedia Visit

Unlike two week ago's visit to her Pedia, Yena was so much better last saturday, thank God! While waiting for her Doctor, she kept on gobbling her biscuits and was wailing everytime she couldnt hold it up on her mouth and will only be her usual jolly self when she took hold of another cracker! :)


And when it was her turn on the weighing scale (she felt it was like a bed, she's readying to fall sleep! :D ) , it was a remarkable 7.3kgs already! I know now where was those 6 bottles of 6 0z a day had gone into, and i am not complaining, i would love her to feed more if she would like to! :)


Amused, her Pedia was playing with her all the time. It was just almost a week since her last checkup, she was sick then and weighing 6.8kgs.. I cannot be more thankful that she got well now! Still her Pedia prescribed 2 more vitamins - polyviflor and ferlin, an addition to her current vitamins ceelin and tikitiki. :)


And that day would not be complete without the picture of us. My officemates commented Yena really looks like her dad. They said, i look like her Yaya in this picture! :) LOLzz

After the visit, we went to mall and buy her outfit stuff for my friend's wedding next saturday. Stuff importantly includes, this headband!! :)

And because music can calm Yena before she sleeps at night, i now tried to read her a book. Hope it will still calm her, with this narrative voice of mine? Good luck baby! :D

How much is your first baby picture on a magazine?

From the biological children of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Nicole Richie and Jenifer Lopez to my very own daughter. See how much is their worth on a magazine's first ever official photo..


Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt - Year 2006, People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million.



Harlow Winter Kate - Year 2008, Nicole Richie's daughter to Joel Madden, whose first picture was reported to be worth P1 million paid by People



Emme Marbiel and Maximillian David - Year 2008, The twins of Jenifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were introduced in the March 11, 2008 issue of People magazine for which the magazine paid $6 million.


Max Liron - son of Cristina Aguilera-Bratman. Year 2008, Aguilera was reportedly paid $1.5 million USD by People magazine for her baby pictures


Knox Leon and Viviene Marcheline - Year 2008, the rights for the first images were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million - the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken


Yelena Hayden - PRICELESS! :) and not FOR SALE. LOLz



*Pictures courtesy of People magazine and additional information from Wikipedia.