When he's not running around

Since saturday, my little boy has been having fever on and off. He was still a bit hyper early saturday until my mom noticed he felt a bit warm.

I checked on him soon after and he was indeed having a fever. Come sunday night, his fever was higher than the normal fever we usually just wait out.

he also wasn't in the mood for jumping and running around. Here's how he was sunday night all the way til monday morning...

Talk about supermommy!

When we say super moms we usually associate it with moms balancing work, kids, husband and social life altogether in a well, graceful and maybe even elegant manner.



How about a 17 year old teenager with 7 kids?!? super mom in a different sense!



I read this here and was astounded! How can a 17 year old have 7 kids already?? As luck would have it (you decide wether it's good or bad luck), she had 2 sets of triplets! But Wait! there's more! all these births (can't say kids) are of different fathers.



Sheesh. Sometimes I don't know if I should be looking at her or the parents. She lives with her parents when she had her first child at the age of -- guess what? -- 14! That alone would've prompted the parents to do something. Then she had a set of triplets at age of 15, then another set at the age of 16!



The article talks about how contraceptives are not too easy to get by in Argentina, not enough government fundings. Somehow is the same here in the Philippines but not quite. I know condoms here are cheap and I'm pretty sure a lot of people are using them.



Furtheremore I'm pretty sure that after having one child, it often prompts the parents or the teenager herself to stop and learn from it...



Now I'm not up for abortion AT ALL, but I do support contraceptives no matter what the Philippine church says. It's preventive measures and it's just healthy and responsible.



It's disappointing and sometimes disheartening knowing that she's still a kid herself and her children are oh so cute but how will she ever be able to feed them after her parents or other relatives can't anymore. Sheesh, she looked like she's just their older sister!

A spoonful of Sugar doesn't work!!

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down... -- Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins said to help the kids down some disgusting tasting medicine -- a spoonful of sugar will do. Or maybe even honey or chocolate syrup. I've been trying that and more to get my son to drink his medicine and at least lower that rising temperature he has... but none of them work!

I used to just add the medicine to his milk, but he doesn't want to drink milk :( which is really alarming because he NEVER passes on his milk any time of the day.

Then I tried giving it to him with some chocolate drink, he threw up.

Tried giving it to him straight through that tiny measuring cup... he'd squirm and scream.

Lastly we tried using a medicine dropper to directly put it in his mouth. It worked... for about 5 minutes until he threw up again :(

Oh man. I know medicine isn't candy, but how oh how can I get him to drink his medicine?? He desperately needs it and I don't want to resort to a suppository. sheesh.. he's uncomfortable enough.

help!!

When Little Boys are Sick

My aunts would always tell me how my late grandmother would've enjoyed having Ziggy, my son, around. My grandmother always loved having little boys around, especially little boys as hyper and energetic as this one. Her only reason is that it's easy to know or detect when they're sick.


Well, true enough, it has proven helpful to me in detecting if Ziggy's feeling anything.


Today, he wasn't as hyper as he would usually be. He started lying down and watching TV around 9am and then when my mom hugged him, my mom told me he felt kinda warm. When I checked and he is HOT! He started lying down, his eyes started to droop and then he asked for his milk.


He was still a little playful for a few more minutes until he finally succomb to the bed and slept for a good 2 hours. Gave him paracetamol with his milk and his fever subsided.


Then he was Hyper again! How and why should you stop a kid wanting to play even if you know they just came from a fever?? *sigh*


We went to do the groceries and he was running around and he didn't feel warm at all, then we had dinner. Towards the end of the dinner he was starting to look different again and his eyes were getting droopy. When I felt him he was getting warm again. Until we got the bill and he said he wanted to sit on my lap. He was HOT again!


Good thing I had a bottle of milk with paracetamol for a just in case...


He's in bed now after drinking the milk and he's a bit irritable, he woke up a few minutes ago whining about his sweat, which was caused by the paracetamol (which is good!) and hopefully he gets a good night's sleep.


I really am praying this is nothing serious because it's been a long time since he got sick and he has been hospitalized twice already before -- both before his birthday (2nd and 3rd). I'm also a bit scared because it's Dengue Fever season. Definitely one of the most traumatic experiences my family has had -- 2 youngest sisters on ICU for this virus and one almost died.


Of course I'm praying hard that's not his case.. or anything else serious.


Do pray with me that this is just a regular fever growing kids go through... :) The house is not the same without his hyper-active, hyper-drive self.

Journal for him

A good friend of mine gave me a nice journal she hand made with her dad. It's very beautiful, you would think it's one of those manufactured and sold in bookstores.

She gave me that about 3 weeks ago and I didn't really know what to do with it. It's been a long time since I last had a journal and it's been a much longer time since I've written on a journal and actually finished a year or a notebook until I stopped.



The other day while I was just lying in bed, observing my little one and his dad, I saw the journal. Then I had the urge to write on it, since it's divided into 4 sections, I decided to write or create a journal for my husband and my son.

It's more of random letters, things I would love to tell my husband and my son, but right now I couldn't.

If you must know, my husband and I are kind of on a rocky marriage at the moment so the things I want to tell him aren't always welcome. This journal has become very useful in letting out what I feel without having a heated argument again on the smallest of things.

Then I also started a journal for my son. Things I want him to know when he grows up, probably when he turns either 16... or 18... or maybe even when he gets married. Some of the things I've written there were about things I'm going through with his dad which can be helpful to him when he's married.

I feel wonderful being able to write this. For if (God Forbid), anything at all happens to me, there's something there he can read when he grows older for him to know how much I love him.

I sometimes wish my parents would have something like this for me. My parents especially are not very vocal about anything at all to their children. I grew up fearing them and fearing talking to them about anything at all. Sometimes even up to now. I'm having hesitations about talking to them about my marriage now for fear of being judged or hearing the "i told you so" from them.

I know I shouldn't be thinking this way, but you know how historically this has always been the case, why bother?

Nevertheless, I'm doing this journal and hopefully get to put in things I would be wanting to tell my son when he grows up, in case I forget. I wouldn't want the situation to happen to him before I tell him my story...

I initially did this by creating an email address for him and literally emailing him things I had in mind. Later on, I forgot again and the email account was closed :(

At least writing it down is more personal and has that vintage and dramatic feel when he gets to read it in 15 years or so. hahaha PLUS this time I won't worry about closed email accounts :p

Help Needed!! -- child missing

Any parent will surely feel this is heartwrenching.

I logged in on my multiply site today and saw this post re-posted on different other sites. An online contact posted about her nephew who's missing. They believe he was abducted two days ago while they were at an entertainment center.

Now I know this is in the Philippines and if you're not here it's impossible you'd have any idea where the child is. I'm still posting this here because you can still help with prayers. Maybe forwarding this to anyone you think can help is still worth a shot.

here's a copy of their post:

Name: Matthew" Chu-chu" David Samudio
Age: 3 Years Old, Can barely speak straight.
Address: 16 guyabano st umali rd. summitville subdivision putatan muntinlupa city 1770

He was last seen at Tom's World Arcade in Festival Mall Alabang, around 8pm yesterday July 22, 2008 wearing Green Checkered Polo, Denim pants and Green Mr. Bean Slippers.

When we reviewed the surveillance camera in said mall, there was this chubby impoverished looking girl around 12-13 years old wearing a dirtied pink top with floral design and a reddish jogging pants who summoned my nephew and then whispered something to him, then my pamangkin who is very "bibo" readily took her hand as they went out of the said premises.

Guys, I need your help with this, if you know people in the media, police or government agency who might be able to HELP us locate my nephew, I'm begging you, please, please help us. Or at the very least, please pass this message to as many people as possible, who knows where the abductors might have taken him... Matthew is a very sickly kid, he rarely eats unless his yaya feeds him and he was about to have an operation for fluid in his right testis.

If there are any news or lead that can locate my nephew, please help us... Sobrang kawawa ang pamangkin ko, who knows how they are treating him...I dont want this thing happening to any kid so please help my nephew. PLEASE. You can contact my brother at +63923-638-4632.

Thank you so much and God Bless you!

I don't want to post the child's pictures here but here's the link to their multiply site.
At the very least, please keep this child in your prayers.

May God Bless You.

Like Father, like son

As the day goes by, my son is looking more and more like his dada. No, not just physically but in every small aspect.

From mannerisms to personality, oh they are so alike... sometimes painfully so!

-- He watches TV with his head hanging upside down at the edge of the bed.
-- His amazing imagination
-- He loves words..
-- He's so behave at school but such a rascal at home
-- His sweetness to me, his mommy :)
-- Weird mannerisms such as playing with his tounge to make silly sounds
-- And oh the endless silly things he thinks of!

There's barely anything I see in him that I would say comes from me.

Well... there IS one thing.

He's not too adventurous in the playground. He tends to measure the risk he's going to take before he undertakes them. Not a bad thing... but sometimes I wish he'd take on his dad's adventurous demeanor.

I hear stories from bruises and scrapes to broken arms. Not that I'm wishing my son would have them, but he's a boy and it's sometimes like the essence of being a little boy -- all those silly mishaps.

Well, he's only four anyway. Who knows how he'll be another 4 years from now.

So far, he's still so much like his father. Physically, emotionally and intellectually ... im not complaining. :)

A Little Too Much

Yesterday I woke up quite late...

It's our weekend off from work and it's been raining on and off so the weather's just perfect for sleeping.I could very well hear that my son's already up and entertaining himself with songs and more of his role-plays.

I also thought I heard a really hard downpour of rain. Too lazy to get up and check myself, I asked my son:

Me: Baby, is it raining?
kiddo: Hmm. Let me check for you mommy
Me: OK
Kiddo: (goes to the window and checks) Hmm.. It's a little too much.
Me: (making sure I'm awake) what?
Kiddo: It's a little too much rain.
Me: oh.. ok .. thank you baby.

I have no idea where he got "a little too much" and if he knows what it means. It was enough to wake me up though but only for a few minutes until the cool weather and the sound of rain filled my head and made fall into slumber again.

My son on the other hand continued playing by himself until he got too bored and started hearing people outside (my parents having breakfast) when he'd usually run outside to talk to other people in the house.

ahhh kids do say the darndest things. I love this stage!

Oh My Goodness...

He's been in pre-school for 3 weeks now and I'm glad he's enjoying it!

Last week, he even celebrated his 4th birthday with his 9 classmates and 2 teachers. We had fun-shaped pasta, mini-burgers with tootphick flags and chocolate cake.

One afternoon after school, I was napping and he was beside me just letting his imagination fly. I wasn't paying attention as he usually does this when bored but wants to stay beside me.

I started waking up when I was hearing him shouting:
"there's a monster!"
and then:"
Help! Help!"
and then a:
"Ina! I'll save you! -- go inside the classroom!"
after a few more role playings and monologues:
"Oh Thank you! You saved me!""Give me a hug!"

WHAT?!

I woke up obviously. How cute! he's saving a girl! He's being a hero to Ina. I have noticed however that since that day all he talks about is Ina!

The mommy-doesn't-want-to-let-go- yet in me was awakened! I didn't think I'd feel this THIS SOON! He's only 4!

I know it's just utter fondness for Ina whom he probably plays more often with than any other kid in his class... but still! aww man. I always thought some moms were over-reacting when they learn their sons start to date or have crushes, now I get it!

Just yesterday he told me: "Ina's pretty... like you mommy!"

Now that's exactly what sons do and say to their moms to assure them they're still number one in their hearts...

I love my little prince. :)