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Dylan turned eight months last August 5 and what a little explorer he is becoming. There’s the trash can to turn up side down, the drawer to empty, the toilet bowl to climb and my house plants to eat. My funny little scavenger who delicately picks up everything from the floor and so calmly confident to put it into his tiny mouth.

With our eldest son, Boogie and I were that cagey first time parents who are in to book tracking on what’s next to our son’s “baby development”. Thanks to my mother in law, Mama Becca, who sent us these English parenting books which are now gathering dust because of the ‘internet’.

For Baby “D”, the computer made it easier to fill us up with those forgotten “what to expect” weekly progress. When I was still pregnant with Dylan, I registered on this site PregnancyWeekly and from then on, every week I receive an e-mail from “BabyWeekly Newsletter”.

This weeks e-mail brought up that napping will be of lesser time. It says, Baby “D” will not retain his usual morning nap but he’ll  have longer time of sleep in the afternoon.

Here are other tips from the site:

The Thirty-Seventh Week In Your Baby’s Development

Hi! Does Dylan become very distressed when you leave him? He is still learning that even though he can’t see you, you still exist. The concept of time is still new to Dylan as well, and he’s uncertain when you’ll come back. Here are five suggestions to help make goodbyes easier:

1.    Establish a goodbye ritual. Follow through after saying goodbye and leave quickly. Returning or waiting for Dylan to stop crying may prolong the distress.

2.    Provide Dylan James with a favorite toy or object to hold or cuddle when you’re gone. Some children are comforted with a blanket or something that smells like you, such as your sweater.

3.    Gradually introduce new people and places. Allow time for Dylan James to become familiar with a new caregiver or place while you’re still there. Begin leaving him with a caregiver for just short periods of time and visit new places a few times together before leaving Dylan James there for longer periods of time.

4.    Try to avoid leaving Dylan James when he is tired, hungry or sick.

5.    Dylan James will take behavioral cues from you, so don’t act anxious or guilt-ridden about leaving. If you make a big production out of it, so will he.

A Tip from the Trenches

Watching you leave teaches your child an important coping mechanism and is an important developmental step. Don’t sneak out - this will leave your baby unsure of where you are and what has happened to you when you’re suddenly gone. Have Boogie or the sitter stand at the door with Dylan James and wave goodbye to you as you leave. If he sees you get into the car and drive away, he knows you’re gone and won’t spend any time looking for you in the house. It’s an honest approach and your child will respond to it better than if you sneak away. 

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Oh weihhh! Another tag from Tina TINA . Busted! Why? The first rule said post a picture of you that is not currently online. Oh well, my photos are all over the net. Yep, (with the background music of: “You’re So Vain”) I’m scrolling over those pics and I can’t find one! J 

               

PORTRAIT KANO

I admit, I can’t be behind the camera cause I’m a shaky photographer and all I know is shoot, shoot, shoot. Definitely no artistic mode on that field so I surrendered and said, “Come on, shoot me Papa!” Lucky am I to have a free “pix’y publicists” in tow hikikiki…

               33 years ago

Went over all my blog and I guess the only thing I wrote about “the real me” is my hair. Though my life is so transparent with all my writings - from my budding family to my ancestor’s story, this tag shouted, “Who are you?”

College years

Then I received a message thru ‘friendster’ from NIKKI of NY that I’ve been tagged: 7 Random

Facts/Habits About Themselves. I replied that I would be doing it soon but as I am working on Tina’s Tag, might as well incorporate the two. I too would be repelled reading 2 blogs of “ME ONE. ME TWO”.

I hope Tina and Nikki wouldn’t mind me doing it this way:

1. I AM GAY: Being carefree makes me lighter than my weight. You can easily make me laugh and get annoyed cause you’re not even being funny. That’s the story behind all my ‘hehehe’. Spirited smile is free and makes you young. Oh, so silly being gay. But, it could really make you happy!

2.  SPREAD THAT LOVE: Gave me two lovely boys with their father as the ‘yummy’ side dish. Extended say how to splash-splash LOVE: I am friendly and do not hold grudges even if people are hurting me. I always believe that there is goodness in everyone. I don’t know if it’s a virtue if not a curse but indifference makes me heavy. Ask Bill Bilig and Tina, I always go comment on their blogs like we are ‘bestfriends’.

3. TOO BLOGGISH: Emails, friendsters, blogging and communicating thru the web is my ME time. Writing here like I am to submit an article due the next day. To some reason, its all the while practicing my typing skills. Tina’s right and I’m so ‘makulit’, how therapeutic!

4. SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY: I am a stay home mom who once held 4 jobs. With ‘A LUKIE’ to take to school everyday and runs all the time for the boat to get him home in the afternoon. Mothering calls for everything so with the cooking that gathers the family of three for dinner. Then Dylan came and I slowed down. Its not all money and I don’t care anymore if financially its tight. Cars, houses here or there…whatever…I still hold my say that these material things won’t kiss and hug me back!

33 years after, most pics are with my kids

5. RUN WALK RUN: I jog twice or thrice a week. I started it again after a loooonngg time. Another ME hour - alone out there at the beach. I thank Boogie cause coming home after an 8 hour tiring work, he takes charge of the kids and encourages me to go RUN-RUN, WALK, RUN…

6. I’M A FAN: Thumbs up to working mothers who are able to do great jobs on their careers and successful home keepers at the same time. I’ve tried it once and I can’t do it for now. I hope when Dylan goes to kinder I still know what real job means.

7. PSSHHH: Enough, did I say I was tagged? Thought I am writing a book…my apology (but you’ve read it anyway)! Hehehe… WAIT!!! I forgot to say I’m a cry baby. I cried over the "THRILLER" of prisoners in Cebu. People are capable of being good touched me.

I too have ill sides but I’m saving it for tags such as: The Cruela Devil In You…Just in case.

This is TINA and click her site for the rules of this tag:

Now I’m tagging Nikki back with Tina’s tag. Miss Bugias again, Salome and Gandang Igorota.

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