its getting hot in here

My 1 year and 7 month old son gripped my hand and led me to the bath room because he wanted to have his 3rd shower for the day. Though he didn't verbalize directly that he felt uncomfortably warm, his action shown better than words. He kept on tugging the lower part of my shirt as I was standing by the kitchen sink, and just doesn't have any intentions of waiting for me to finish whatever it is that I am doing. I would normally allow him stay at the bath room for 5 minutes to play with his water toys after rinsing, but now the time extended up to 20 minutes! I would say "Come on Andy, let's go!" Then he'll say "No." And then 5 minutes more. The weather is terribly humid here in the Philippines and I noticed that it’s getting hotter every summer.


I remember March last year, we were able to break out the summer heat and we flew to the states for vacation. Though we experienced several strikes of heat waves in the Bay Area, they're nothing compared to ours during summer. AC's are real savers during this time. Andy can't have his afternoon nap without it turned on. The good thing is, the weather's cool at night. I even prepare my blanket at my side because it gets cold after midnight.


We are planning to buy an inflatable pool for Andy, and that will be his first time on it. I just hope that he will enjoy it this time. When we went to Laguna, where we spent the entirety of the Holy Week, my husband's uncle had their inflatable pool readied for the kids. Unfortunately, it wasn't that appealing to my son. The water was so cold and he sensed it was too huge for him so he got nervous. Hubby put out his teeny portable bath tub so he can in any way enjoy the fun his other cousins are having, but still, plan failed. I also tried dipping in the pool with him, still, no appeal. I just ended up getting wet and did the bother to shower and change clothes again.

tired

I went to school today and I’m finally through with my clearance. After paying, signing and everything... Clearance… DONE! I proceeded to EAMC to get my signed cases. Heck, it was so freaking hot! All taxis are occupied, and it seemed that everyone was out. Good thing, I had my good friend Ryan who shared with me the burning heat of the sun while we spotted and chased the taxi cabs. Finally, a new good looking Toyota Vios halted in front of us. God is so so good! For 100 bucks, we conserved a liter of our sweat from the fatal heat in riding a jeepney. And the manong driver was also nice to us.

When we got there, I fortunately bumped into Ma’am Burgos, my former clinical instructor in East Avenue Medical Center. She is busy as a bee that you can barely see her around. She carried out minimal tweaks on my minor cases, but it can be handled. Too bad, I have to go back again on Monday but this time I got her mobile number so I won’t have to leave my cases again in DR for her to sign… Gee, it takes like a lifetime there! After that, we took our chance in going to Sta. Monica in Marikina to see Ma’am Vane, but she hasn’t gone back yet from her week off. But I had the scrub nurse signed them. Cases… NOT YET.

I’m glad that I had a very productive day today and I’m giving myself a deadline until Wednesday for the cases to be signed and passed to the registrar. The deadline of PRC registration is on the 18th of April and I still have enough time to finish. I think I’m doing a pretty good job here.

I am dead beat but writing a journal about how my day has been, somehow unshackle my strain. Plus: Knowing that there are 2 gorgeous guys waiting for me to come home.. what more could make me feel better? Thank God for hubbies and babies.. Thank God for the people you call family! So I guess I’m done for tonight, I’ll see you guys tomorrow. I got to go dwell now with my hubby and kid and snooze.

ZzzZZ zZZzz zzZZZzz…..

PlayZone

Today is the death anniversary of my husband's grandmother. She was the one who reared my husband when he was a little boy back in Laguna since my mother in law is working and residing in Manila. I heard many great stories about her, too bad I wasn't given the chance to meet her personally. Hence, Mommy Lolit, Alvin, Andy, Stephen and I drove our way to Alaminos to visit her. As customary, we had our scrumptious lunch at the Tolentino’s house. The kind of meal that will make you erase the term diet in the dictionary. However, Andy had a hearty appetite again today which made my day really delightful. We hang about for a few minutes more after lunch to chat some more with Tita Weidy and Tito Marcel and for the children to play with Ghabo, and then we headed back to Manila. We already predicted the terrible traffic ahead of us because of the feast happening in the nearby town. Auspiciously, we reached our destination safe and sound ‘though we counter flew the traffic. Thanks to Alvin (my brother in law) also known as the speedy driver, who never gets tired of driving for us to and from. We arrived at Festival Mall at 3PM and then roam around while we wait for Ayet and Gerard’s off from work.
Playtime at Playzone is the highlight of Andy and

Stephen's day. They played for an hour and a half; it’s like a place of innocent bliss for the boys. The ruddiness on their faces is just indescribable and their chuckles are unspeakable! Every toy they hanker after is there. Andy had his first slide alone and I am so full of pride of him because he wasn’t frightened at all! My little boy is really growing and there’s no way I can stop it. Gerard came a quarter to 6 then we met Ayet at KFC, and then we had dinner there. Then we went home at 7PM. Did I tell you already that I am a forgetful freak?? Shoot, I left Andy’s bonnet at the playhouse… Dang!