Linggo ng Wika

Here's Tallulah wearing Filipiniana for their school's Linggo ng Wika program today. It's the same dress Sofia wore last year. Tipid, hehe. I am bringing the girls to school today. Stage Mom. :D

Sofia's School Play

Dress Rehearsal
05 March 2010

Sofia and her classmates, off-stage

Sofia's a shy girl so I was worried that she might have cold feet and not perform on stage if she sees all the parents watching and swarming the stage to take pictures/videos of their little ones, but she surprisingly came out on stage looking confident and pretty excited. She's a waling-waling, by the way. Sofia earlier told me that she wished she got the role of one of the main characters of the play. I even heard her several times at home reciting lines which, I learned during the rehearsal, were not even her lines. I told her, maybe next year, she might just get the lead role if she learns to speak straight Filipino - she's still bulol at times. :D But she still enjoys being a waling-waling. :)I am amazed at how these little children can pull off a two-hour super cute stage play! Kudos to the school's faculty and everyone else behind it! Can't wait to watch it again on Gala Night when everyone will be seated, thank God! :D During the rehearsal, I had to squeeze myself into a pool of parents (all grabbing their humongous DSLRs or the tiniest videocams) just to get a closer view of Sofia singing and dancing on stage. Stage Mom, haha!

Family Day

November 22 was Family Day at Sofia's school. Sofia and her classmates were required to wear 90's costume, hence, the plaid top/baby dress. I hope it looked 90's enough. :D The kids had a short (but very hoooot!) parade but the parents didn't mind the scorching heat and just kept clicking away with their cameras. :D

There were games and lots of activities for the kids to enjoy. The girls enjoyed the bump cars but we (the Dad and Mom) didn't. We were worried the whole time they were inside the 'track' because even though there were some guys assisting the kids, the girls and some other kids didn't know how to 'drive' and so they kept bumping the walls or each other's cars.

There was also the famous kalesa ride. I wonder why kids are so fascinated with horses...Anyway, I joined the kids and too bad, Danny was not able to take some decent photos of our kalesa experience. :D

Then there was the ceramic painting. This one Danny and I enjoyed because we were able to sit and rest for a while. :D Sofia's Pikachu was good enough. Tallulah's Winnie the Pooh was..uh..well..okaaay. :D

We went home tired (but happy, of course!) after six (6) hours of 'baby-sitting' two big girls, and with big tummies after having quesadillas and burritos and snowcones and hotdogs and ice monsters. :D

Happy Halloween!

We had our own halloween party at home yesterday and here are the girls' costumes:

Tallulah's a harlem dancer, while Sofia's a pink witch - scary versions (hehe) because we had "the most scariest costume" contest. They didn't win, however. :( Apparently, my make-up didn't look scary enough compared to this (I know I'm a bad make-up artist! hehe). Anyway, congrats to their cousin Sabel - she did her make-up herself! The girls and their cousins had fun, as usual.

Check out their cousins' costumes here. Happy Halloween again! :)

Sofia's 5!

Sofia turned 5 on September 04 and we had a simple celebration at home last Saturday (September 05). She is so crazy about Hannah Montana! - she wants a Hannah cake, Hannah's blonde hair?!, the clothes Hannah/Miley wears, and a guitar! The cake turned out to be easy to find - we bought one from Goldilocks. :D The blonde hair? We bought those washable hair colors/highlights available everywhere and applied just a little amount of color on Sofia's hair just to satisfy her, hehe. For the guitar, I tried to teach her how to play 'The Climb' using my guitar (which is, of course, way too big for her!) but...yeah, maybe next time (she's only 5, come on!). For the attire, well, as you can see in the picture, we weren't really able to pull off a perfect 'Hannah Montana' look for our little girl. I think here she looked more like a little in between Hannah and Miley. Not loud enough. Not simple enough. More like...Sofia. :)

Linggo ng Wika

This is Sofia's Filipiniana costume for her school's celebration of 'Linggo ng Wika' today. We bought this yesterday at a barong store in Farmers' Plaza, Cubao, for PhP350, plus PhP40 for the abaka slippers. Mahal ha! :D I took her photos last night because I have work today and there is no special program or anything at school for the parents, and so I really have no chance to see Sofia in her costume today.

Sofia was also asked to bring Filipino food that she has to share with a classmate, and so we bought a box (6 pcs.) of 'bibingka' at Bibingkabon in Shopwise Araneta for PhP120. By the way, you should try the bibingka, it's yummy! My daughters' favorite is Ube flavor!

So how much was the total damage? PhP510! That's exclusive of gas and stress from last minute shopping. :D Sofia's smiling face while she was trying on her costume, however, was priceless! :)

Rockstar!

Tallulah turned 3 yesterday and we celebrated it the 'rock star' way! I bought her a cheap toy guitar and I let her do her thing! Here are some of her photos:

Rock on! :P