Month: April 2013

Chloe Isabelle – 10 months

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Where did time go? I woke up this morning to her cry for breast milk and realized that she’s 10 months today. 10 months! I’ve been busy preparing for her birthday party back home (hopefully everything will work out!) and still trying to figure out where to celebrate Manila or Davao? Finally found time to bake her a cake -Vanilla Chiffon Cake with Carambar Caramel and Chocolate Ganache to mark this special day. She’s been keeping all of us busy and demanding our attention. LittleMiss milestones: -Crawling fast and walking around the house with the help of furniture a -Still no teeth. -Can spend a good 10 minutes just tearing papers -Cries and mumbles when we say “No” -She’s enjoying eating by herself and actually eats a lot more compared to me spoon feeding her. -Raise her hands and wave when she hears a music or when standing up she does the “Pocoyo Dance” -Sleeps longer for nap (reason why I managed to bake cake today) A daughter is the happy memories of the past, …

Rainforest Cafe

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Eat, watch fountain show, visit footlocker, and say “Hi” to the crocodile – sums’ up our visit to Dubai Mall. Crocodile! In the mall? Yes, a big one welcomes mall visitors as they pass by Rainforest Café. This is our second time dining in the café and on both visit we celebrated something special. First visit was to celebrate V’s 3rd birthday and this time to congratulate him for doing a good job in school. Thursday morning we told him that Dad and I had a surprise because he is a super big brother and for doing good in school. He immediately though of his SkyLander Giants collection and started talking about the characters he wants to buy. I told him it was not a toy but we are sure he’s going to love the surprise. V was obviously excited that even the bus nanny told us that he can’t stop talking about the special surprise gift we have for him, he played a guessing game with his bus friends. We walked our usual Dubai …

The Ultimate Blog Party 2013

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Maayong adlaw sa inyong tanan. Good day to all. A party wouldn’t be complete without cake don’t you think. Please grab a slice of this Ube Macapuno Cake and let’s get started. Hi! I am Abigail a stay at home expat Mama residing in sunny Dubai. This is my first Ultimate Blog Party and I’m excited to meet and read about you. First a big thank you to beautiful twin bloggers, Janice and Susan of 5 minutes for Mom for hosting this event. I first read about the party over at Grace of Sandier Pastures and I just think it’s a wonderful event to get to know people across the blog sphere. We have been a resident of Dubai for 4 years now. Deciding to move here and leave my 8 years of corporate life back in the Philippines was quite difficult I didn’t know if I was ready to live a life away from the comforts of a paying job and the help I get from my relatives in taking care of my son. …

What are you Mom?

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Conversation with V before afternoon nap V: “Mom, what are you?” M: “What do you mean?” V: “Mom like when my friend said that her Mommy is a dentist. How about you what are you?” M: “I’m your super Mommy. A stay at home Mom” V: “No! What do you like when you grow up?” (upset with my answer) M: “My work before was helping people in the office with computer and internet problems” V: “I mean now Mama! I want you to be something else like T’s Mama is a dentist. I want you to be something also.” (By this time he’s already crying while repeating “I want you to be something else too”) I too cried. I’m really not sure why I did but I imagined him having a chat with his classmates with most of them having working moms and he doesn’t have anything to say on what his Mum do. V gets upset when he doesn’t have anything to say about something. So I told him that being a SAHM is …