Grocery-ing with My Boy

One of the things I look forward to on weekends is grocery shopping.  More than my obsession with aisles upon aisles of household items (I swear I could spend a half day just browsing through the food and toiletries section!), it has also become my favorite bonding activity with the little dude.  I love how I am able to "control" (read: tantrum-free) him while he acts as my little gentleman.  We would communicate with each other over what to buy or where to go first.  He even pushes the cart for me and helps me unload the items from the cart to the cashier!

Baby, I hope you'd still want to spend Saturday mornings with me at the grocery even when you're much older.

The Husband's Birthday

I sooo like to blog about the recent events that have happened to me and our little family of three (like this super late birthday of the hubby) but work always seems to be sucking all the energy out of me.  I wouldn't want to not document it though, so I'm still going to write about it even if it's a tad bit too late. 

September is my one and only Jax's birth month.  We celebrated it twice.  First was in his office where we brought food - defined as tacos (made by, ehem, yours truly) and chicken care of BonChon.

Hubby was also surprised by his officemates with a birthday cake.

The second one, which was on the actual day of his birthday, was spent in and around the area.  The birthday boy said he wanted to do new things that day.  He was supposed to go to the fairway (would've been his first time) but decided against it when the skies started to turn dark.  We ended up at the driving range again.

Birthday swing!

Teaching the little dude

We then had a quick lunch at Recipes Solenad 2.  This is the hungry-hubby celebrant waiting for our orders:

Because the theme of the day was "new experiences", the second activity was a trip to the Republic Wakepark.  It was a quick drive (less than 10 minutes from Solenad 1) going to this new hangout.

View from the entrance

Rates

Love the "Cali-feel" of this area.  Sarap tumambay!

I think this is a drying area?

Boards and suits can be bought from this shop

Marcus had fun at the play area for kids!

There's quite a long line already, to think it was middle of the week!

Beginners' area

Jax wasn't able to try out wakeboarding anymore (he has now, but that's for a different post) because the line was too long for him.  We basically just people watched surfer dudes and chicks do their thing with their boards.

Overall, I would say the husband's birthday celebration was simple and spent with family (although I wished we had some alone/date time that day - hihi).  I guess as we grow older, the way we want our birthdays to be spent, if at all we'd like to make a fuss out of it, becomes more subdued and quiet.  Or is it just the not-a-good-planner me? Tsk tsk.  Let's see.

Happy 31st Birthday, Jax!
Love you. =)

Montessori Di Maria Bambinella

About a year ago, I saw a "coming soon" sign for a montessori school in Solenad 2, Nuvali - the Montessori Di Maria Bambinella.  Being fond of the montessori method of teaching (I'm a proud alumnus of OB Montessori), I got a little giddy and thought I'd enroll Marcus there.  However, when he turned two and we were seriously looking for a toddler school, we had to consider proximity.  Sure this is five minutes away from home by car, but nobody will drive him to and from school everyday since Jax and I both have work unless of course we teach yaya how to drive.  Hahaha!

Now, MDMB is finally open! 

I was in the area late in the evening already so photos (aside from being taken using my handy dandy camera phone) aren't so clear.  I only managed to get these information for the sake of those who are looking for a toddler school within Sta. Rosa.  I wasn't able to get hold of the fees though, but at least contact information are here. :)