Tootay supports Earth Hour!

Earlier today we watched a play at the RCBC Theater, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Enjoyable! And after the play we saw the actors come out in their street clothes, and all of them were nice enough to talk to the two Mokongs for awhile to ask them how they liked the play.

The other "event" today for the two Mokongs was participating wholeheartedly in Earth Hour, the World Wildlife Fund supported initiative in which you cut off electric consumption for one hour. This year's event started at 8:30pm. We talked to the two boys about Earth Hour, and they've been seeing the logo all over lately so they're pretty familiar with it. Leading up to it, Baz kept asking, "Is it 8:30 already?"

We turned everything off at the appointed hour, and from the condo balcony started shouting, "Earth Hour! Earth Hour!" There was a Jollibee in the ground floor of the building across from us, so when the boys saw that it still had its lights on, they began shouting, "Jollibee! Earth Hour!" A couple of minutes later the branch shut off its lights. I don't think they heard us, but then again it was a pretty quiet night, and our voices may have carried from the 9th floor.



It was also a pretty hot night, so with everything off initin boy Hadrien started to complain. But we reminded him about the importance of Earth Hour so he bided his time until we could turn on the air-conditioning again an hour later.

Anyway the plan was to get them to sleep by the end of Earth Hour - we have an early day tomorrow - but between the heat and their excitement about the event, no go. With the aircon on, though, the two little ones have drifted off to sleep comfortably. Maybe next year's Earth Hour can be done sometime in January instead of March!

Moving Up!

It's moving-up (aka graduation) season and we've been to 2 in 2 days. Next week, 2 PTC's in 2 days! Baz's pups class had a sports-themed moving up celebration. Hadrien's class was all about feelings.

I was excited to see Hadrien perform with his classmates. I shouldn't have allowed him to tote his new wrist band though as he was a bit distracted with it, choosing to sing "ka-ietly" during the first song - grr....

It was interesting to find out what Hadrien's classmates were happy, sad, scared or angry about. For those with older siblings, their feelings - whether positive or negative - had something to do with them. One was sad when his brother fought with him, one was angry when his brother chased him, my little mokong was scared whenever his Kuya refused to sleep beside him. Kudos to the seals' teachers for putting these sometimes rowdy 3-4 year olds in touch with their feelings. And who can forget the sight of these little ones singing their version of Feelings by Morris Albert.

Some pictures to remember those days by.

Baz's moving up day -



Hadrien's moving up day:

Baz is moving up!

It's been a long time since we last posted. Needless to say, there's a lot that is left undocumented which I will surely regret.

Just this week, we had 2 moving up days. One for Baz and one for Hadrien. As part of the program, Baz had to throw a hoop into the air and catch it. Since Baz abhors any kind of public performance, I was hopeful - but did not expect him to do the usual dance moves which his classmates so effortlessly did. But perform he did - at least in the hoops part - and we were so proud of him, knowing that it did not come easy to him.


Baz is moving up from Explorations! from malou.khan on Vimeo.

Congratulations, Baz, aka Lucas! You made Mommy, Daddy, Hadrien, Mama, Papa and yaya proud watching you.