Got MMmushroom Soup?

Chocho LUVSSSSS his cream of mushroom soup. We fed him that the other day and it gave him the Got Milk? moustache.



Here's Chocho doing the "Bollywood" dance with his moustache:

Catch up blog 6 - The Ball Pit

We bought Chocho a ballpit because we saw how much he enjoyed it both at Ikea and also at the CIBC kids party. The ballpit is so much fun that even daddy couldn't resist going into it. It's amazing how he managed to get in there & how they both can be in it together! They both were having so much fun and both had staticky hair!!! New hairdos!! You can't really see Mike's hair standing up, but you can see Chocho's very clearly!









Chocho doesn't seem to like to use the door either. He goes in and out of the ballpit truck through the side. He asked daddy to follow to go out from the side but...he didn't do it. :)

Catch up blog 5 - Fooling around with Legos

While we were trying to put up the tree, we got side tracked when I decided to open the box of Lego that Chocho got from his uncle Francis. I never introduced it to him all this time, thinking that they were the tiny small lego blocks. I had no idea that they were the bigger ones, the "duplos" as they called it.

When I opened it, I have forgotten how cool legos can be. So I started playing with them on my own. Meanwhile, Mike was taking Chocho's pictures. In most of these pictures, you can see me busy with the legos in the background. (ok, so in most of the pics, you can only see my feet and some legos...but really, I was playing with them!)













When I finished building my version of a Transformer, I gave it to Chocho. But unfortunately he says it wasn't good enough so he took it apart into pieces!!!

Catch up blog 4 - My birthday

I celebrated my 21st birthday last week and I got a small celebration. I can't believe another year's gone by and I've survived the last one with a little active dude to care for.

The celebration was a little late since we had to wait for daddy to finish baking the cake. Chocho got a little cranky waiting and asked for his bath first. So we gave him his bath and he went back to the party in his PJ's. The cake was great, and I love how it's pink. As for gift, they gave me a parfume. It's something that Chocho broke a couple of months ago. The whole house smelled like my parfume for a whole week! Thanks daddy & Chocho.

Catch up blog 3 - Putting up the Christmas Tree

Last week we put up the Christmas tree. It is Chocho's 2nd Christmas, but his first real one since last year he was such a puny little booger that he probably doesn't remember it at all. But then again, I'm not sure if he would remember this year's. At least he's participating alot with the festivities this year.

When we first put up the tree, Chocho was mesmerized by the christmas lights. He smiled and walked towards it. He then started blowing at them! It was so funny, he thought they were candles. I told him that he wouldn't be able to put them out, but he wouldn't stop. He blew until he drooled.

















He also found these red bows I like to put on the tree. He started to wear them on his head like a girl.. o boy. Not a good sign!

Catch up blog 2 - Walking with the walker

So ever since he learned how to walk without holding on to anything, he is more keen on using the walker. There was one night when he was doing laps back & forth from the kitchen to the living room and back. If only the walker has a built in vacuum in it. Hmmm....!!! Maybe Mike can whip out his soldering iron and some wires and turn that walker into a walkervac! There's gotta be a good market for that!

Catch up blog 1 - CIBC Kids Xmas Party 2006

On Sunday November 26th, CIBC held its annual Christmas party for employees' kids. I bought Chocho a ticket and we went down to the Metro Convention Center together. There was a Bob The Builder show starting at noon, and we made it just in time for it. We didn't get seats as we got there right about noon, so we had to stand at the back. Chocho was sitting on Mike's shoulders. He had fun only for a little bit because after Bob started talking too much, he got bored. He recognized Bob, though. He pointed at him when Bob showed up on stage.






The party was alot of fun for kids, but it's definitely more fun for bigger kids. There weren't too many things that was good for infants. Chocho was only able to play in the ball pit. That was the only he could play in. The others like jumping castles, & slides, etc., looked alot of fun but not for him.

When he was in the ballpit, he started sinking in. It got to the point where only his head was visible. His entire body was covered by balls. It was funny, but we got quite worried for a while. There were a bunch of coloured balls, and then there was this big (sort of baldy) head of his. Pretty funny. Then there was a little girl who came towards him. First they had their staring moments. They just sat there and looked at eachother. I can totally hear the love tunes playing. And then another girl came over to his other side. And they had a moment as well. After a while, one of the girl was passing balls to him, and he was throwing it to the other girl. It was hilarious.





Here's one of the staring moments:



He also got to see Santa, but he cried. He didn't want to be with Santa, maybe because Santa was too sweaty by that time. He cheered up once he got his gift, though. He also saw Scooby there, but didn't get to get a proper picture.

That night was when he started to walk by himself. We were so surprised when he did it the first time without holding on to anything. Usually we would hold his hands and help him out, but this time he actually pushed my hand away and went out on his own. He fell a couple of times and actually went back up on his own, without any help at all. It was funny to see him trying to balance himself back up. We think that it's because he saw the other kids that day who were able to walk and play and jump around on the jumping castle. Meanwhile he was stuck in his baby stroller the whole time. Either that or because he got scared of Santa so he figured he should learn to walk and maybe he can then run away next time he sees Santa...

Must blog more often

It's been a while since I last blogged. I didn't realize that my last posting was for Halloween. I've been so busy at work and so lazy at home that I haven't blogged for a while. So I've got some catch-up blogging work to do. Must blog more often. I should try to blog at least once a week.

Halloween 2006

This was Nick's second halloween. Last year we didn't dress him up since he was way too little. But this year, he dressed up as Mickey Mouse. He hates wearing the ears! I couldn't get him to keep it on. So instead he wore my witch hat. Though we didn't go out for candies, Nicholas helped out in giving candies out. Or at least, he stood by the door to watch the kids come in while Mike & I gave out candies.