The Gift of Life

This here is my second entry to MM, showcasing the little girl’s latest birthday photos.

The little girl’s second birthday is in March yet so I will be posting her party photo taken last year.

Erin celebrated her birthday with family and friends on Easter Monday, as her real birthday fell on a weekday. She loves Huckle Cat even when she was just an infant so we decided to use this character on her birthday cake which was done by a fellow Filipina based here in Canberra. This year though we may be joining the Dora bandwagon as she is totally smitten by this character. But we’re also torn in using Iggle Piggle of the In The Night Garden Series as she loves him as much too. We’ll see.

As her party was not really celebrated on her birthday, I am posting a photo (above) that was taken on the day itself. She turned one in this picture. We just ate out that day, bought a simple cake at Michel’s and posed for a few shots when we got home to blow the candles.

Posted on Mommyhood: 23 January 2009

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I’ve done really well in neglecting this poor blog. But as a make up of sorts, I am posting my entries to Chris’ Mommy Moments which I have originally published in my parenting blog. As it talks of Erin Chloe and Erin Chloe alone, it should rightfully be posted here as well as this blog is dedicated to her.

Righty-o! I’m reposting the first one here, then the others in separate posts. The first entry was on the theme ‘First Pictures’ so here goes…

This is my first entry to Chris’ Mommy Moments. This week’s theme was easy so I couldn’t pass up on this one. I hope you aren’t squeamish, but as the theme calls for first pictures of the little girl, then there is no other way to go but to be totally true to it, right?

Alright, here goes… I gave birth the natural way (see my foot?) — no drugs, no episiotomy, just 6 stitches! I had been in active labor since 10 PM. By around 2:30 AM the following morning I was already 8 cms dilated and began pushing soon after. At exactly 3:23 AM, this little bub, Erin Chloe, came out, screaming her lungs out within seconds. Click here to read my blow-by-blow account of Erin’s birth.

And here she is all cleaned up, in our room at the postnatal ward.

Gosh, she looks really different now as compared to the way she did before. Ah yes, definitely a Mommy Moment for me there!

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Gosh, I haven’t updated this in almost four months! There’s too much that has happened with the little girl that all I can manage for now is posting her progress in pictures.

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Our little girl Erin ain’t all that little anymore. Though her weight has been yoyo-ing during our stay here, she definitely has grown taller. I am sure you will notice the difference when you see this comparison of pictures.

taken a few days before we left for our holidays

taken just last weekend

She’s also grown very talkative and has been spewing out syllables and jargons all day long. Her vocabulary has increased and can assert her likes and dislikes.

Where did all the time go? Suddenly our baby is not a baby anymore and she is fast becoming to be a very independent toddler.

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Erin has been up to a lot of things now. Aside from being more stable as she walks independently, there is an emerging personality that we have observed for quite some time now. In a matter of weeks, she has learned the art of screaming extremely well and has proven this on our hour long plane ride from Melbourne. The other passengers were not so pleased by this, to say the least. And neither were we.

She’s very active too. As proof of that, she is now sporting a new wound on her nose. She fell down the bed earlier this week. Poor baby! She moves so fast these days, we have to be always on guard. On the bright side though, she’s been like a sponge and has been learning so many antics these past few days. I’ve managed to make her imitate me while we sing action songs (e.g. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star). She had so many tricks up her sleeve at yesterday’s lunch with our relatives, which was all she needed to win everybody’s heart.

Erin sporting her new boots

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