PART 1: Aki is playing

Kaye: What's that?
Aki: Kabayong bundat.
Kaye: Eh what's this?
...Aki: Kabayong bundat!

(ay missing si Kabayong Buntis)

Dumating si Kaye galing sa office.

Kaye: Hi anak! Mommy's home!
Aki: Telephone!
Kaye: Embrace muna kay mommy kasi kakadating ko lang

Aki: Telephone!
Kaye: (na-deadma ang nanay) You want to borrow my phone? Sige na nga. (Inabot ang cellphone)
Aki: (Hawak na ang cellphone) Telephone!
Kaye: Ayan na nga anak, hawak mo na telephone.

Aki: Telephone! Ka-kinda busy! Telephone!

"Ka-kinda busy!" :)

Mga hirit ni Aki kapag ayaw matulog

Kaye: Sleep na
Aki: Everybody's sleeping?
Kaye: Yes, everybody's sleeping. You sleep narin.
...Aki: Sabi ni Father (priest) sleep na?
Kaye: Yes, sabi ni Father sleep na.
Aki: Sabi ni Jesus sleep na?

toinks!

One windy day...

Kaye: Can you hear the leaves moving? Kasi sa wind.
Aki: Sa aircon?
Kaye: Not aircon, wind.
...Aki: Aircon?
Kaye: Not nga aircon, wind.
Aki: Sige na nga.

Tito Pangke's baby Part 2:

Kaye: You help take care of the baby ha. What will you do when the baby cries?
Aki: Turn off baby!ü

Kaye: We're gonna have a new baby in the house. Tito Pangke's baby will live with us soon.
Aki: Baby?
Kaye: Yes, Tito Pangke's baby. Then you'll become Kuya Aki.
...Aki: Si Mommy - Kuya Mommy? :)

I’m in the office and am currently listening to my phone playing sound clips of you singing, laughing, talking, etc.

I love you, Sweetheart. J

:(

Mommy’s feeling blue today. I feel like I’ve been making wrong decisions left and right. Just small decisions, like what bag to buy for daddy or what color of jacket to buy. Still, I keep making wrong choices and that makes me feel like I’m not good enough. L

Hug mommy when I get home ha. I love you.

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My Greatest Fears

• Die or be an invalid before I see you and your siblings able to provide for your own.
• See you or any of your siblings be miserable or selfish or unkind, especially to the less fortunate.
• See our family break apart.

My Last Will and Bilins

Sweethearts, I do not intend to sound morbid pero alam nyo na, we neither know the day nor the hour. Wag kayo mag-alala, nagrequest na ako kay Lord to at least make me stay long enough to see you succeed in life before He takes me. Still, don't forget my wishes pag nauna na ako sa inyo.

• Invest in stocks, Sweethearts. Read Bo Sanchez's book (My Maid Invests in the Stock Market). Soon, I'll start investing in our employer. And when I have extra, I'll invest in local companies naman. I entrust them all you, with the guidance of your dad ofcourse. Do not sell them all! Read on how to invest in stocks and hopefully, this will be your retirement fund. <Update: okay, I haven't been religious in investing in local companies. I'll try to be more consistent in putting in small, albeit regular, amounts in there. I have been investing in our employer, though. And I am hoping that it is a good buy>
• Invest also in real estate. Not sure if I can do this in my lifetime but I suggest you do. Buy then have them rented out. <Update: Dad and I have already started and bought one property to be rented out. We're also planning to convert Dad's old house in Antipolo to a three-door apartment, one for each of you perhaps.>
• Mommy is a member of our company's savings and loans group. Since I have my insurance for you, please give my savings to lolo and lola if they are still alive.
• Lastly, once the doctor pronounces me as "brain dead", donate all my viable organs to those who need them. ALL. As in lahat ng pwedeng kuhanin sa akin, ibigay mo na. Di ko na yan kakailanganin. And I want you to make this your mission too -- to promote organ donation. I read in an article once "Do not bring your organs to heaven; heaven knows we need them here". Tignan mo, if you donate at least 3 of my organs, those are 3 new persons whose lives were extended because of me; that's 3 more persons through whom I can channel my love to you through. 

I'll update this post, sweetheart, from time to time. I hope you get to read this. I love you so much.

Dad's Powers

You know Daddy has this special gift – when I am mad, he knows what to say or do to lessen my anger and to make me happy again. For that, I know God really paired the two of us together (mushy!)

I really hope you inherit that gift, especially during your teenage years.

I love you, son.

You may also want to read about me loving dad.

To my Jeshua Khalel

Do not forget that even Superman needs Jesus.

Here is an invitation from one of Tito Pangke’s Catholic group’s seminar. I really like the image on this. Jesus is shown hugging Superman. Near Superman, the text reads “O Lord, You are my source of strength (Ps 28:7)” and Jesus seems to say “With God, all things are possible (Mt 19:26)”

<to follow>

  Image courtesy of Hans Christian

Something to Ponder on

Sweetheart, if the possibility of failure were erased, what would you attempt to achieve?

Let me know when you read this. I love you.